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Open source software: Ways for CISOs to quell the fear

CIO Business Intelligence

For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. Developers tend to enjoy the ability to speed application development by borrowing open source code. CFOs like the fact that open source is often free or low in cost. The age-old question: How secure is open source software?

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

JavaScript JavaScript is a popular programming language used for everything for web security, designing front-end frameworks, game development, data visualizations, building software tools and applications, creating responsive designs, and much more. Job listings: 78,962 Year-over-year increase: -3% Total resumes: 64,977,221 5.

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Using Privileged Access Management to protect Active Directory

CIO Business Intelligence

Steal intellectual property: Controlling or subverting AD enables attackers to hop from system to system to find, extract, and then destroy product designs, source code, and other valuable, irreplaceable IP. Privileged accounts rely on secrets such as passwords, keys, and certificates to control access to critical systems.

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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career

CIO Business Intelligence

The follow-on Apple Deployment and Management course focuses on configuring, managing, and securing Apple products using mobile device management (MDM). The exam covers topics such as coding, designing cloud architecture, cloud security, troubleshooting, implementation, migration, load and performance testing, and business applications.

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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

The breakfast event focused on security for big data designs and featured the highly regarded security architect Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera , a leader in enterprise analytic data management. Combined with Cloudera technology, it becomes a secure and powerful enterprise architecture.

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Security researcher finds a way to run code on Apple, PayPal, and Microsoft’s systems

The Verge

Security researcher Alex Birsan has found a security vulnerability that allowed him to run code on servers owned by Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, and over 30 other companies ( via Bleeping Computer ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. For example, I’ve worked on websites that had to convert text files to webpages in real time.

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9 Must-Do Tips to Secure Ubuntu Server

Tech Republic

In today’s world, if you’re not constantly working to secure your servers, you’re already 10 steps behind every hacker on the planet. And if you happen to be a Linux systems administrator, you might think it doesn’t apply to you. Even though the Linux open source platform is considerably more secure than many.