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  • HMG Tech News Digest June 7

    Trending news on Bill Gates and Ubers Travis Kalanick and Dara Khosrowshahi invested in an AI Hardware startup, Apple and Google are upgrading their smart phones, and Amazon smart doorbells generating videos for local police departments.

  • Risk-Based Vulnerability Lifecycle - Prediction and Validation

    When an enterprise examines its cyber risk, an attack surface emerges. This is the set of entry points where vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious actors. Viewing cyber risk in this way results in the strategic objective to reduce that attack surface, generally through discovery of vulnerabilities, combined with purposeful action designed to reduce the risk of exploits to such weak points. Prediction and validation are key activities in this regard.

  • HMG Tech News Digest May 31

    Trending News on Apple's App Store Policies, Uber Denying Access to Riders with Low Ratings, and the World Economic Forum Considering Global Rules for AI

  • Cyber Purple Teaming

    As someone whose eyes cannot distinguish properly between colors, I always shudder at the thought of mixing up red and blue teams during a cyber exercise. And now, with the advent of purple teaming in the enterprise, I surrender all hope that my cones can keep up. That said, I heartily endorse this new purple strategy of evaluating cyber control effectiveness to detect intrusions, bot activity, malware actions, lateral movement, and data exfiltration.

  • Seeking the Intersection of Superior Technology and Operational Excellence Under the New CIO Mandate

    This is unquestionably the best time to be a technology executive. The spectacular rise of customer-centric business strategies has transformed the role of tech leaders and elevated technology from the back office to center stage. The incredible success of companies such as Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Google and Microsoft has proven conclusively that technology has the power to drive global markets and create value that would have been unimaginable in previous eras.

  • HMG Tech News Digest May 24

    Trending news on how is Tesla most likely not going to be recused by Apple, Amazon or another tech giants, Google's new service, Google Duplex, a chip designer suspending business with Hauwei due to U.S. ban, and Game of Thrones fans in China unable to watch the shows climactic episode.

  • Crowdsourced Security Testing

    Identifying exploitable vulnerabilities in enterprise environments is a difficult pursuit – one that CISOs and their security teams spend considerable time and effort trying to accomplish. An important resource that can be unleashed to drive progress in this area is the collective power of vetted and skilled security experts – sometimes referred to as ethical hackers or white hats – to identify problems before a malicious adversary can do so.

  • The CIO’s Role in Driving the Business Forward

    CIOs play an increasingly strategic role in driving innovation and business transformation initiatives. This helps explain why 79% of CIOs who were recently surveyed by Grant Thornton and the Technology Business Management Council say that IT has a voice in business strategy and business initiatives.

  • HMG Tech News Digest May 17

    Trending News on the Cybersecurity Battle with China, Apple's 5G iPhone Chip Timeline, and Microsoft’s New Platform Helps Developers Create Advanced Robotics and Autonomous Systems for the IoT

  • Roadmap to Zero Trust

    The first portable traffic monitors were introduced in 1936. Referred to as electronic eyes, these weatherproof road strips were laid across the pavement and connected to a battery-operated recorder. When your Hudson or Packard passed over the strip, the recorder would increment the car count by one. It also printed the results, along with the time, onto a roll of paper that lasted for about 24 days. The clock required winding every eight days. So cool.

  • HMG Tech News Digest May 10

    Trending News on China's Top Tech Firms Increase in Spending, Korn Ferry Showing Strong Focus on Digital Transformation and Microsoft Embracing Linux with Windows 10 Integration

  • CorpSec, Meet InfoSec. (And Vice Versa)

    I once had a neighbor whose dank little basement was finished entirely in particle board. I remember him bragging during a party that the low-density sheets of sawmill shavings were lifted from some poorly monitored warehouse at work. “No one ever goes in there,” he joked, “and these boards would have just been thrown out. So, I figured I’d put ‘em to good use.” Welcome to theft rationalization, New Jersey-style.