Stephanie Overby writes in ITProPortal, "Organizational psychologist Carol Dweck made a name for herself measuring the impact of mindset on human performance. Morea than a decade ago, she synthesized her research on the subject in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In that book, Dweck distinguished people with 'fixed mindsets', who believe that basic qualities like intelligence or talent are static, from those with 'growth mindsets,' who believe that they can develop talents and capabilities over time through effort. Those who fall in the latter group, Dweck found, thrive on challenge; as a result, they are better at problem solving and adapting to change..."

Curtis Simpson writes in threatpost, "Digital technologies have infused every aspect of a business, especially with the shutdown of the physical workplace. The increased interdependence between the physical, digital and cybersecurity worlds demand a leadership position that combines both the technical know-how and the ability to recognize security priorities from a business perspective. Paired with the slew of new threats impacting businesses amid a global pandemic, and the increased scope of what needs to be secured, the past year has propelled the evolution of the CISO.

Specifically: While CISOs were once known solely as the security risk managers, CISOs are now expected to be business enablers of an organization..."

"This is even more true in these times when the world is trying to recover from the pandemic. Cyber attackers are trying to make full use of this opportunity provided to them by the uncertainty of the future that companies face today.

Monetary Losses Due to Cyber Attacks in Numbers

Almost every cyber attack leads to financial losses for a company. Whether it is the money spent to pay ransom in case of a ransomware attack, money spent to recover data lost in a leak, or money lost to direct cyber frauds like BEC attacks, there's always a monetary loss involved in a cyber attack.

Mentioned below are some numbers for the global monetary losses due to cyber attacks:..."

"As companies consider what's next after the pandemic, experts have warned of a developing turnover tsunami on the horizon. With expanding 'work from anywhere' policies, location may no longer play a role in talent retention. Wise business and IT leaders are taking a proactive approach to ensure their best talent has plenty of reasons to stick around.

We caught up with CIOs who recently won the 2021 Chicago CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards to learn how they are retaining top IT talent today. The awards were presented by the Chicago CIO Leadership Association, a professional community that annually recognizes CIOs for their excellence in technology leadership..."

"Backup software companies like Veeam, Rubrik, and HYCU have been hard at work adding new capabilities, and backup storage targets need to change to keep pace. Features like de-dupe, continuous backup, managed replication, and instant recovery are now built-in to most software applications. The common practice of backup storage vendors charging a premium for similar features no longer makes sense. Backup storage targets need to change by eliminating features that are now redundant and adding capabilities that complement some of these new backup software capabilities..."

"Digital giants dominate the cloud and ecommerce markets, and part of the reason for their dominance is artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. The good news is that mainstream enterprises can learn from their experiences and employ cutting-edge technologies.

That's the word from R. "Ray" Wang who provides a roadmap for AI success in his latest book, Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Wang calls the capability needed to move forward 'AI Smart Services" that help automate precision decisions. "To fine-tune precision decisions at scale-that is, to develop decision velocity, [data-driven enterprises] must automate the process of turning signal intelligence into a decision or action. And the way to do this is by creating AI smart services-automated processes powered by AI' ..."

"Decentralized blockchains are not owned by a single entity - rather, all users have collective control. Let's take Bitcoin, for example.

Bitcoin's network consists of thousands of computers, called nodes, which are operated by individuals or groups of people in different geographic locations. Decentralized blockchains are immutable. This essentially means that data transactions are irreversible. Blockchain technology's decentralized nature makes it ideal for cybersecurity.

Blockchain technology automates data storage, provides data integrity and is transparent. Let's explore the potential use cases of blockchain technology for cybersecurity..."

"The past year wrought massive changes in the way people work. Before the pandemic, according to a recent Pew Research study, around 20% of employed adults worked from home. Today that number is 71%, and 54% of those want to keep doing it. The pandemic has accelerated what is starting to look like a massive shift of knowledge workers from offices to distributed, remote work settings. Every knowledge worker - 1.25 billion worldwide - has been impacted by this..."

"Exploits are often associated with zero-day attacks that take advantage of vulnerabilities not yet known to the software provider, which means there are no patches yet available. A study by Google revealed there were 24 zero-days vulnerabilities exploited by attackers in 2020.

At the same time, 80% of attacks exploit a vulnerability that was reported at least three years ago..."

"The survey found that 87% of respondents want to give their employees more IT Freedom. What does IT Freedom mean in this content? Respondents see it as giving their employees the freedom to do their jobs. The opposite of IT Freedom appears to be locked down devices, and this is where we see an interesting paradox. 79% of respondents believe that IT and Security need to add more IT restrictions to reduce risky employee behavior, and here we have a paradox. How can users get their jobs done, if security restrictions are getting in the way?..."

The end of the traditional perimeter

The traditional data center has gone through many fundamental changes over the years. There once was the concept of a self-contained data center and internal network that was protected at the external-facing boundaries by network and web application firewalls. In this scenario, within the physical building, corporate-owned endpoints were trusted so they could easily access data via the internal network.

With corporate data and applications moving to the cloud, the bring-your-own-devices (BYOD) paradigm, and growing adoption of remote work, the traditional security perimeter has disappeared. Organizations must now face the challenge of defining new security policies to mitigate the risks associated with a perimeter-less network: sensitive data leakage, and data privacy and regulatory compliance breaches.

"Microsoft has just announced the release of Windows 365 and Cloud PC. This new service, built on top of Azure Virtual Desktop, enables you to bring their Windows 10 and eventually Windows 11, desktop, apps, tools, data, and settings to your personal and work devices, including Windows PCs (naturally!) but Macs, iPads, Linux, and Android devices as well.

Let me repeat that: Windows 365 will enable you to run your Windows desktop, apps, data, etc., etc. on Linux. That's the Linux desktop they're talking about..."

"Cybersecurity tools aren't just for the enterprise anymore; they're essential for every type and size of organization.

Effective products, coupled with in-depth cybersecurity planning, are a must for all, since bad actors are no longer just going after the big fish. Whether businesses have an in-house security team or outsource these services, every entity needs cybersecurity pros to discover and fix any points of weakness in computer systems. This reality can tax the bottom line, but luckily there are an array of free cybersecurity tools available.

Here is a rundown of some of the free tools cybersecurity professionals use every day to identify vulnerabilities..."

"The worldwide edge computing market is exploding, expected to grow over 12 percent annually to $250 billion by 2024, according to IT research firm IDC.

The goal of edge computing is to reduce latency and network congestion, while boosting data security by putting storage, networking, software, security and servers where the data resides to be collected and processed locally. By deploying tailormade edge devices where the data is generated, edge computing environments can manage devices over a smaller and more efficient local network where bandwidth is used by local data-generating devices, thus making latency and congestion no longer an issue for businesses..."

"Dropbox saved nearly $75 million by repatriating workloads from the public cloud and building its own tech infrastructure, the company detailed in its S-1. That such a large company would move largely off public cloud, where startups often begin and established companies shed legacy systems to get to, seemed an anomaly.

But as cloud computing continues to mature, the costs of running such infrastructure is catching up creating a "trillion dollar paradox," according to a recent report from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), coauthored by Sarah Wang, a partner at a16z, and Martin Casado, general partner at a16z..."

"The future is edge to cloud" resonated like a politician's oft-repeated campaign slogan throughout the keynotes and customer presentations at the recent HPE Discover 2021 conference.

Antonio Neri, HPE president and CEO, said an edge-to-cloud architecture would be a "strategic imperative" for every enterprise that is exiting the "data-rich but insight-poor" information era and moving into the "age of insight" to extract greater business value from its ever-growing volumes of data...."

"The pandemic caused an abrupt shift to the way we work, and is expected to have implications for years to come. The biggest impact was on businesses that had to pivot to managing a remote workforce. Understandably, at first, many companies and their employees were concerned about moving fully online. Today, the majority of workers believe they are as effective when working remotely and, in many instances, want to ditch the office all together..."

"Mobile apps offer big opportunities for businesses in the digital age. According to research from Statista, international revenues from mobile apps will reach a staggering $935bn by 2023, up from $365bn in 2018.

However, the process of creating mobile apps is considerably different from the process of enterprise software development. For starters, mobile apps are usually cloud-native, designed for a range of different operating systems and devices, and dependent on Android and iOS back-end microservices..."