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The Critical Role of the CMDB in Security and Vulnerability Management

Effective security and vulnerability management is crucial to safeguard organizations from ever-evolving cyber threats. At the core of these practices lies the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), a powerful resource that offers a centralized view of an organization's IT infrastructure. The CMDB plays a pivotal role in upholding robust security and vulnerability management strategies – empowering organizations to proactively identify, evaluate and address risks to their IT systems and data.

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Cybersecurity through IT, Security, and Business Alignment

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Cybersecurity through IT, Security, and Business Alignment The discussion explores the role of IT and security teams in technology and the challenge of translating these efforts into business understanding for resource allocation. It emphasizes the need to reinvent approaches to bridge gaps between IT, security, and business understanding. The importance of breaking down organizational silos, adopting the Secure by Design standard, and aligning with the CIO and CISO to enhance security is highlighted.

Voice Picking: The Evolution of Mobile Productivity in the Warehouse

Voice-directed picking is an established method for hands-free order fulfillment in warehouses around the world. If you haven’t explored it to boost productivity, now's the time. As it has evolved, voice-based data entry – both text-to-speech and speech-to-text – can be installed into warehouse workflows quickly and economically, without changing your existing warehouse management or other enterprise systems.

Secure by Design Principles Are More Important Than Ever

The concept of Secure by Design, which means designing software with security built in before it leaves the drawing board, is fundamentally changing how software is developed. Software has often been designed with what’s known as “bolt-on security,” added after products are developed. But that means security is not inherent within the solution. Where there's a conjunction between the core product and a bolt-on, that’s an inflection point for an attack.

Introducing Ivanti's 3 New Secure UEM Solution Packages

Ivanti has launched three new secure UEM solution packages designed to enhance device management, IT efficiency and security. These cloud-based packages let you discover, manage, secure and heal all your devices. Engineered to be ideal for organizations managing a thousand or more users or devices, these solutions bridge the gap between IT operations and security teams and are secure by design. Ivanti's three new Secure UEM solution packages – Secure UEM Professional, Secure UEM Professional Plus and Secure UEM Premium – offer unique features that aim to minimize security risks, boost IT and user productivity and cut operational costs.

Bridging the Security Confidence Gap: A Guide for IT Leaders

July Risk Comms Report - Sterling Parker IT executives and security leaders often face a misalignment in investments, leading to a security confidence gap. To bridge this gap, CEOs and CISOs must collaborate and communicate effectively, fostering a strong security culture. Organizations should adopt a proactive security posture, regularly reassessing their guardrails. CISOs play a crucial role in conveying risk management concepts to the board and demonstrating the security strategy for organizational support.

What's the Difference Between a Help Desk and a Service Desk?

The differences between a help desk and a service desk might have once seemed clear. But over the years, plenty of things have changed – especially with the arrival of new technologies that have impacted how users and customers receive support. Let's compare help desk vs. service desk models and examine how this ongoing evolution has played out. One area where the distinctions between a help desk and a service desk are apparent comes when discussing IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions.

The Ultimate Guide to Intune Migrations to Ivanti UEM

If you have purchased Ivanti UEM and are migrating to it from Microsoft Intune, you as an IT administrator must understand and execute several critical steps to make that transition smoothly. In this series of blogs, I will be looking from an Intune admin’s perspective at what it takes to migrate from Intune to Ivanti UEM. I will cover practical elements and best practices, translating terminology used across both products to pave the way for a seamless and successful transition.