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DEI matters more than ever - in the IT industry and beyond

Liz Blackman, Chief Marketing Officer at Avantra, discusses the continuing importance of DEI, despite some recent ‘push back’, explaining the importance of women's perspectives in creating balanced leadership teams, how diverse viewpoints lead to better solutions and innovation in technology, the responsibility of current women leaders in challenging stereotypes for future generations and some practical approaches to creating more equitable environments in male-dominated industries.

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WOMEN IN IT – Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director at the Ten10 Academy

Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director at the Ten10 Academy, shares valuable insights on empowering women in tech and promoting inclusive workplaces – including building a career in tech without a traditional tech background; the importance of DEI representation in AI and tech leadership; AI in recruitment: the need for human oversight; empowering women and Gen Z in tech; and just why a well-crafted DEI strategy can bring so many benefits to an organisation when it comes to both employee and customer interactions.

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Better balancing of data security and business objectives

Nathan Parks, Sr Specialist, Research at Gartner, discusses the findings of its recent survey, which found that only 14% of security leaders successfully balance data security and business objectives. Nathan explores the reasons as to why this situation exists and shares Gartner’s five recommendations to help ensure that security and risks managers can help organisations successfully achieve both data protection and business enablement goals.

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Sectigo launches Certificates as a Service (CaaS) and PQC Labs to provide crypto agility

Jairo Fraile, vice president of global partner sales at Sectigo, discusses the company’s recently introduced cybersecurity innovations – the CaaS subscription-based certificate management solution, which revolutionises how partners manage and monetise digital certificates, empowering them to automate and future proof their customers’ businesses; and Sectigo PQC Labs, which addresses today's urgent need for a quantum-safe, practical and scalable platform to test, validate and support an organisation’s safe transition to quantum-resistant cryptography.

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The secure processing of data - as easy as FHE?

Jorge Myszne, Niobium’s Chief Product Officer, explains Fully Homomorphic Encryption, what it is, how it works and, importantly, why data encryption during computation matters in the world of AI, multi-site cloud computing and the threat of quantum hacking.

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Improved management is key to future security success

Dave Roche, Director of Product - Software Trust at DigiCert, explains how, all too often, people seem to treat keys - the most sensitive cryptographic assets an organisation possesses - as something to acquire and forget about - only looking for it when they’re actually required to sign code or decrypt something. That poses a huge security problem on its own, but on top of that, the direction of regulatory and technological change won’t let them do that for much longer, especially when we start thinking about Quantum threats, which will render most of the algorithms we use now completely vulnerable. Time to implement a comprehensive and futureproof key management and security certification strategy.

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Security is NOT the enemy of innovation

Sashi Jayeratnam, Senior Director of Product Management for Spirent, explains how an unfortunate reality of modern cybersecurity is that it is often put at odds with the wave of innovation that is now happening in enterprise IT – security testing is often reactive and manual and generally cannot keep up with the complexity or pace that innovation brings about. Sashi describes a new approach, where innovation within an organization needs to be managed differently, with security testing embedded and automated throughout the change process so that changes can be tested before they are rolled out. From there security can become an embedded part of the innovation process.

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Always-on resilience marks a shift in cybersecurity thinking

Ian Wood, Senior Director Sales Engineering, Northern Europe Commvault, talks through the highlights of the recent Commvault SHIFT event, which included the launch of Cloud Rewind, which gives cloud-first organisations a secret weapon to transform their cyber resilience capabilities, the availability of the Commvault Cloud cyber resilience platform on AWS and an expanded relationship with Google Cloud. Ian also discusses the findings of Commvault’s recent Cyber Recovery Readiness Report, contrasting the approaches of the most cyber-resilient organisations with those which are less well-prepared to deal with a security breach.

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The pill(a)r approach underpinning OpenText’s cybersecurity success

Steven Wood, Director, Solution Consulting (EMEA), OpenText Cybersecurity, discusses the results of the company’s recent Cybersecurity Global Managed Security survey, with AI, automation and integration very much in focus; before explaining how the company’s Pillr acquisition and its focus on key cyber resilience pillars is delivering a first class, composable cybersecurity platform for MSPs and MSSPs alike.

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Skills shortage threatens cybersecurity progress

Alain Sanchez, EMEA CISO, Fortinet, discusses the findings of the company’s recent Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report that highlights the critical need for a collaborative, multi-faceted approach to closing the skills gap. Alain explains how, to effectively mitigate risk and combat today’s complex threats, organisations must employ a strategic combination of leveraging the right security technology, upskilling existing security professionals through training and certifications, and fostering a cyber-aware workforce.

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The opportunity of cyber risk management

Gartner’s leading cybersecurity analysts, Michael Kranawetter and Jie Zhang, discuss the findings of two recent research reports – the Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management, 2024 and the Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2024. They share brilliant insights into some of the key topics and trends highlighted, including AI in cyber risk management, SaaS security posture management, Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), data security governance and Cybersecurity Program Performance Management (CPPM). Gie and Michael also discuss the increasing importance of aligning cybersecurity strategies with business objectives.

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By Mike Fry, Infrastructure Data & Security Solutions Director at Logicalis UK&I.