Tag: Cloud

August 11, 2023

Vital for democracy, voting system integrity has come under increasing scrutiny of late, placing pressure on government IT leaders to ensure election systems are robust and uncompromised. Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, […]

May 18, 2023

A Government Accountability Office report examining the implementation of cloud security practices at four department-level agencies found that none of them have fully applied those practices to date. The report, released on Thursday, describes the efforts at the departments of […]

January 30, 2023

Nearly all organizations are struggling with how to stay in control as their data migrates to the cloud and users connect from anywhere. The answer, they’ve been told, is zero trust. Zero trust starts from the premise that an organization […]

October 21, 2022

When Curt Garner became Chipotle’s first CIO in 2015, the only technology used for online restaurant ordering was, “believe it or not,” a fax machine, he says. Seven years later, the Newport Beach, Calif.-based company is piloting a system with […]

September 27, 2022

Everything you read about infrastructure as code (IaC) is focused on how it works or why you want to make sure that it actually is building the way you want it to build. These are critical areas. But are we […]

August 12, 2022

Many security practitioners take their eye off cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) security based on the faulty assumption that the providers are inherently secure. While most providers are, the cloud is so flexible and customizable that every organization might open different […]

July 26, 2022

European firms are reaching a new scale of public cloud usage, with 92% of companies in the UK, France and Germany saying they have adopted cloud computing, with 78% reporting they use a hybrid cloud, and 75% using multiple public […]

July 6, 2022

Founded in 1784 by Alexander Hamilton, BNY Mellon is one of the oldest banks in the U.S. and is the world’s largest custodian bank and securities services company, with $2.4 trillion in assets under management, another $46 trillion in assets […]

April 22, 2022

Too many of the participants in the European cloud project Gaia-X are pursuing their own interests and diluting the concept, Volker Pfirsching told CIO.com’s sister publication Computerwoche in a recent interview. Pfirsching is a partner and member of the Central […]

March 15, 2022

IT has a long history of problems with budgets and money. Budget overruns for IT projects are more the rule than the exception. Typically, there are a few core culprits. First, many in IT, including myself until about 20 years […]

March 1, 2022

CIO Larry Jones has seen his share of change over more for than 30 years working in healthcare IT. But the group CIO of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies (JJMDC) believes recent IT advances are fueling digital transformations that […]

February 16, 2022

Logging can be the most useful tool in your security arsenal, but it’s something we all tend to overlook and not assign appropriate resources to, as it can use up hard drive storage. Proper logs can provide evidence as to […]

February 14, 2022

Software-defined WAN, better known today as SD-WAN, is not the same technology that it was when it first got started. In the beginning, SD-WAN was essentially a way to enable organizations to use inexpensive broadband connectivity to connect back to […]

February 2, 2022

There are always growing pains associated with new technology—and the cloud is no exception. Many companies have made big investments but have been disappointed with the results. But giving up is not really an option: the cloud could generate as […]

June 18, 2021

This summer, Montana is expected to retire a mainframe that has supported state agencies for decades. The state moved remaining applications to the cloud to finally discontinue use of the mainframe. Montana’s freedom from its ­mainframe is somewhat rare among […]

May 28, 2021

A study by Ponemon and IBM indicates that misconfigured cloud servers cause 19% of data breaches. This is an expensive problem with an average cost of half a million dollars per breach. This figure does not consider the potential PR […]

May 14, 2021

The cloud is typically a destination for systems needing to be modernized to take advantage of technologies such as AI, predictive analytics, or a hundred other cloud services. It’s typically cheaper, it can be allocated and changed in minutes, and […]

May 12, 2021

Open-source container technology has already disrupted traditional software development practices. Now, containers are poised to upend the way federal IT professionals secure those practices. Securing containers necessitates a “shift left” mentality, where security is fully integrated into the entire development […]

May 5, 2021

Each of the big cloud platforms has its own methodology for passing on security information to logging and security platforms, leaving it to the vendors to find proprietary ways to translate that into a format that works for their tool. […]

March 5, 2021

There’s no overstating it: 2020 was a hell of a year. When future generations learn about 2020, the pandemic, social tension and political unrest will take up most of the oxygen. But for those learning about the history of cybersecurity, […]