In the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, alignment between business priorities, IT, and cybersecurity strategies is crucial for organizational resilience. However, the 2024 LevelBlue Executive Accelerator, based on the 2024 LevelBlue Futures Report, reveals a significant disconnect among technology-related C-suite executives—CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs. This disconnect highlights how their divergent roles and priorities can lead to misalignment with broader business objectives.

In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, dealing with cyberattacks has become a daunting challenge for organizations across the globe. The aftermath of such attacks can be catastrophic, leaving organizations stymied for weeks or even months as they scramble to determine the true scope of an attack through recovering their data and systems.

Running tests against your security controls and other systems is a critical aspect of protecting your organization from a potential data breach and ensuring that you maintain compliance. Vanta’s platform has automated tests with continuous monitoring that run on an hourly basis against your controls as well as customized tests that you can adapt to your organization's needs.

Level up to Elastic’s AI-driven security analytics, now with incentives to ease and accelerate your SIEM migration The SIEM is evolving again. Traditional SIEM solutions will be displaced in modern security operations centers (SOCs) by AI-driven security analytics, which uses the power of Search AI to replace largely manual SOC processes with automation.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), introduced by the European Union in 2018, has not only set a new benchmark for data privacy but has also significantly impacted global data protection frameworks. Its comprehensive and stringent requirements have prompted countries worldwide, such as India, to reevaluate and enhance their data protection laws. In recent years, India has been actively working on enhancing its data protection regulations, drawing considerable influence from the GDPR.

Data fuels decision-making, drives innovation, and underpins customer relationships. But data is also vulnerable—to cyberattacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, and even simple human error. That’s where data resiliency comes in. Data resiliency is about more than just having backups: It’s a holistic approach to ensuring that your data remains available, accurate, and secure even in the face of unexpected disruptions.

In today’s rapidly changing and evolving cloud-native environments, security and infrastructure teams face challenges ranging from managing complex deployments to ensuring capability across their entirety of their diverse infrastructure. EDR and XDR tools cannot provide comprehensive coverage of cloud workloads, making them fundamentally unsuited for cloud security.

Bring Your Own Device, better known as BYOD, is when employees can use their personal devices on a company’s network to complete their work tasks. Companies sometimes prefer their employees to use their own devices because they save money on providing technology and resources. Despite this financial benefit, companies should recognize the security risks BYOD can bring to their employees and organizations.

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