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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

The main commercial model, from OpenAI, was quicker and easier to deploy and more accurate right out of the box, but the open source alternatives offered security, flexibility, lower costs, and, with additional training, even better accuracy. Finally, in addition to security and flexibility, cost is a key factor.

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Fortinet expands security lineup with sovereign SASE

Network World

The concept of the secure access service edge ( SASE ) is one that many organizations have embraced in recent years. A challenge for some enterprise adopters, however, is a lack of control, as some SASE technologies rely on a vendor managing data in the cloud. What is sovereign SASE and why is it needed?

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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

The research firm speculates that internal expertise in architecture, security, vendor management, and more would need to be involved to successfully migrate off the popular platform.

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The move toward enterprise security technology integration

Network World

82% of survey respondents “strongly agree” or “agree” with the statement: "My organization is actively building a security architecture that integrates multiple individual product." This is likely part of a SOAPA (security operations and analytics platform architecture) project. Here are the results: .

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

Several hospitals canceled surgeries as well, and banks, airports, public transit systems, 911 centers, and multiple government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security also suffered outages. What if theres an urgent security fix? The overall cost was estimated at $5.4 Trust, but verify.

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The importance of converging the Security Service Edge

CIO Business Intelligence

The pandemic also exposed the limitations of virtual private networks, which enable remote access to secure computing resources. Even more alarming was when frustrated users disconnected from the VPN entirely to log in to their SaaS applications, thus bypassing any of the security controls and increasing the overall threat surface.

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