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The evolving landscape of network security in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

The distributed nature of todays work environments, fueled by cloud computing, remote work, and the Internet of Things (IoT), presents unprecedented security challenges. Continuous authentication and authorization will be enforced for every user and device, regardless of location, minimizing the impact of compromised credentials.

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Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives

CIO Business Intelligence

Leadership styles have traditionally centered their focus on profits, share prices, and productivity, but a new approach increasingly taken up by today’s leaders, known as “authentic leadership,” takes a different spin on the concept. But ultimately, authentic leadership can be viewed as the opposite of traditional leadership in many ways.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

Firewalls and VPNs create a dangerous illusion of security, presenting an attack surface that is reachable and breachable, meaning attackers can find and compromise the exact location where applications and private data reside.

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What is Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA)?

Network World

Everything must be authenticated, authorized, verified and continuously monitored. The weakness of this approach is that once someone was authenticated, they were considered trusted and could move laterally to access sensitive data and systems that should have been off-limits. To read this article in full, please click here

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81% of firms back a Zero Trust approach to cyber defense

Network World

Zscaler The state of Zero Trust Zero trust, a cybersecurity strategy wherein least-privilege access controls, microsegmentation, and strict user authentication help to minimize risk, is gaining traction with the companies covered in the survey. When asked, Do you take a zero trust approach to security in your organization?,

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Customer Passwords are a Target for Cybercriminals: How to Address the Threat

CIO Business Intelligence

However, cybercriminals commonly take the path of least resistance, and organizations’ reliance on password-based authentication provides numerous avenues of attack. Passwords are known to be a weak form of authentication, and the widespread use of weak and reused passwords puts companies and their customers at risk.

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The cyber pandemic: AI deepfakes and the future of security and identity verification

CIO Business Intelligence

In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026, nearly one-third of enterprises will consider identity verification and authentication solutions unreliable due to AI-generated deepfakes. Facial biometrics presentation attacks take many forms, using deepfake ID documents, “face-swaps,” and even hyper-realistic masks to impersonate someone.

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