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Digital Transformation News for the week of March 10, 2024, including news from the Mobile World Congress, Cyber security, and cloud computing. Check out movements in AI to the edge, NIST 2.0 cybersecurity framework and cloud egress charges are a thing of the past. Blog: https://embracingdigital.org/brief-EDW58-en Video: 

Embracing Digital brings you the latest news in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data management for the week of March 3, 2024. This week's highlights include stories on ransomware payouts, technical failures at Gemini, and LinkedIn's new opensource data platforms. Stay informed with Embracing Digital. Blog: https://embracingdigital.org/brief-EDW57-en Video: 

Abrazando lo Digital te trae las últimas noticias en ciberseguridad, inteligencia artificial y gestión de datos para la semana del 3 de marzo de 2024. Los destacados de esta semana incluyen historias sobre pagos de rescate por ransomware, fallos técnicos en Gemini y las nuevas plataformas de datos de código abierto de LinkedIn. Mantente informado con Abrazando lo Digital. Blog: https://embracingdigital.org/brief-EDW57-es Video: 

Abbracciando il Digitale ti porta le ultime notizie su cybersecurity, intelligenza artificiale e gestione dei dati per la settimana del 3 Marzo 2024. I punti salienti di questa settimana includono storie su pagamenti di ransomware, guasti tecnici a Gemini e le nuove piattaforme dati open source di LinkedIn. Rimanete informati con Abbracciando il Digitale. Blog: https://embracingdigital.org/brief-EDW57-it Video: 

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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Andrea sits down with Fiber Support Specialist Jaden Moneyhun to discuss how Kosciusko Connect subscribers and the community as a whole can spot threats and protect themselves from increasingly advanced cyber attacks and scammers. 

Along with major technological advances come major security threats. Here, the Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, Anne Neuberger, reveals some of America’s most serious threats and some of the steps we’re taking to counter them. There’s good reason to feel both worried and secure.

Albert E. Whale is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity and risk management. He is the Founder and CEO of IT Security Solutions, which helps businesses secure their environments using ITS Safe™, an appliance that delivers real-time continuous protection of networks, printers, servers, clouds, modems and routers, and other equipment. Albert is a Global Ambassador at the Napoleon Hill Institute where he supports other professionals in their personal development. He also is a Startup Mentor at the Founder Institute, guiding entrepreneurs as they build their businesses. He is the author and coauthor of two award-winning books: #HACKED and #HACKED2.

In this Kitecast episode, Albert asserts that organizations must be more vigilant about third-party risk. He also argues that compliance regulations aren’t the panacea many believe them to be when it comes to thwarting cyber threats and minimizing cyber risk. Going against the grain, he argues that overemphasis on compliance regulations may leave organizations more vulnerable to cyber threats. Point-in-time security measures, which are reflective of compliance regulations, need to be replaced with continuous monitoring and scanning. Finally, Albert recommends that CISOs and CSOs abandon their efforts to adopt business speak when articulating cyber risk to executives and boards of directors. Instead, Albert contends they need to retain their specialist language to ensure conveyance of cyber risk. 

LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/albertwhale 

IT Security Solutions: http://www.it-security-solutions.com/ 

Published Books:

#HACKED: 10 Practice Cybersecurity Tips to Help Protect Personal or Business Information

#HACKED2: Practice Guidance for Dealing with Threats to Your Business and Privacy

Check out video versions of Kitecast episodes at https://www.kiteworks.com/kitecast or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/KiteworksCGCP.

In this Kitecast episode, Michael Redman, who is a Knowledge & Learning Management Instructor at Schellman and is a subject-matter expert in various cybersecurity and compliance standards, spoke at length about Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF), and other topics that are pressing concerns for the Defense Industrial base (DIB). Redman asserts that businesses must approach cybersecurity as a risk management issue, just like any other business risk. Organizations must take proactive measures to mitigate cybersecurity risks and ensure they have a robust cybersecurity program in place.

Part of the podcast discussion with Redman involved the role of Certified Third Party Assessor Organizations (C3PAOs) and CMMC compliance. He explains that C3PAOs are an interesting entity and are being asked to shoulder a whole lot of responsibility with not a lot of reward. C3PAOs are swimming in murky water and need to be patient. As we proceed closer to CMMC implementation, the good, better, and best 3CPAOs will rise to the top, and the ones that aren’t fully invested will focus their energies elsewhere.

Midway through the podcast, Redman spoke about the CMMC Standards Council, of which he is a part. He explains that the Standards Council is working to create an objective matrix that can be used to rate C3PAOs objectively. He believes this will help organizations choose the right C3PAO based on their needs and budget. The alpha version of the objective matrix was just completed and is circulating among subject-matter experts for feedback.

Redman also talks about the importance of having a risk-based approach to cybersecurity. He suggests that organizations need to identify their high-value assets and focus on protecting them. He believes a risk-based approach is more effective than a compliance-based approach, as it helps organizations focus on what really matters. He emphasizes the importance of having a cybersecurity program aligned with the business objectives of the organization and one that accounts for third-party risk management (TPRM).\

Digital transformation is driving dramatic changes in cybersecurity. The confluence of cybersecurity and compliance demands a risk management model, and one focused on keeping private data private. Organizations can no longer view cybersecurity and compliance in separate silos but rather as intertwined and predictors of risk. Kiteworks’ content-defined zero-trust approach, which relies on the Kiteworks Private Content Network, is used by thousands of organizations around the world to unify security and compliance approaches to sensitive content communications while wrapping them in a hardened virtual appliance.

For more on Schellman, visit www.schellman.com/.

Check out video versions of Kitecast episodes at https://www.kiteworks.com/kitecast or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/KiteworksCGCP.

Vertosoft's CTO Chet Hayes is a technologist at heart and has kept his finger on the pulse of the public sector for much of his career. Early on in his career, he cut his teeth in technical software architecture roles in organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Hughes Information Technology, and BEA Systems. Based in Virginia, much of his customer-facing work was with the federal government. For the past 15 years, Hayes has worked in various senior leadership positions serving the public sector.

While government organizations face many of the same technology challenges as private sector organizations, they also have unique requirements. Federal government agencies and their supply chains, in particular, tend to be ahead of the private sector when it comes to the use of cybersecurity frameworks. In this Kitecast episode, Hayes discusses how the NIST CSF, CMMC 2.0, FedRAMP Authorization, and other federal cybersecurity standards are driving the adoption of zero trust and other security best practices. Discover what he thinks are some of the biggest security opportunities and challenges facing the government sector today and how data privacy exposure risks play into both components by listening to this podcast.

For more on Vertosoft, visit www.vertosoft.com.

For more on Chet Hayes, visit www.linkedin.com/in/chetdhayes.

Check out video versions of Kitecast episodes at https://www.kiteworks.com/kitecast or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/KiteworksCGCP.

Gavin Curtis, Head of IT at Town Legal LLP joins the show to discuss application integration and the importance of user expereince, cyber security and change management. 

View the show notes: https://cts.co.uk/hub/videos/podcast-gavin-curtis-town-legal-llp/

“The first thing to do is understand the user, what the user wants to achieve, understand their work methodology, and what their workflow process is.”  

Intro (00:00)
User Experience and Application Integration (01:05)  
Cyber Security (06:44) 
Change Management (09:38)
Town Legal’s plans for 2023 (10:52) 

Within the Shaped for Law podcast, we have started rolling out a new and different form of episodes. These engaging and insightful webinars dives deeper into a specific topic related to Legal Tech. In the first episode of this series within Shaped for Law, we are joined by Caroline Hill, Editor-in-Chief at Legal IT Insider and James Temple, COO at Seddons, who discusses digitisation, IT innovation, and IT vendors within the legal sector.

View the show notes: https://hubs.ly/Q01f-9PF0

“With a lot of firms, there is still a long way to go. They have loads of potential that is not being realised. People are overwhelmed with technology solutions and not getting to grips with them. There’s lots of untapped potential where people could be using technology more to make themselves more efficient, but they are not.”

Contact CTS today to find out how we can help your firm reach its full potential: https://hubs.ly/Q019X0Hk0

Our Pre-Sales Solutions Architect, Stacey McDonald, joins us in the second episode of The Brief, a series within the Shaped for Law podcast. In this episode, Stacey examines the current state of technology, as well as technologies we can expect to see in the near future.

In addition to, he examines his role and why it is so important to both CTS and our clients. 

"Essentially what my role is supporting the commercial team with technical  advice, and also supporting the delivery team and giving them them the information that was agreed with the client commercially. [...] I see myself as the glue between the commercial and the technical."

Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Kf6UT6Pdy8I

Christian Toon, Chief Information Security Officer at Pinsent Masons joins the show to discusses security in the legal sector from the perspective of a CISO, including firms’ response time to cyber-attacks, availability of funds, and the need for cyber leadership for the continued protection and survival of the firm. 

View the show notes: https://hubs.ly/Q01cj6vJ0

"Security, as we are seeing now more than ever, especially from our clients, is becoming one of the single biggest things they want to talk to us about. So, why would you not have that elevated to the right level within your organisation?"

We are rolling out a new series within our Shaped for Law podcast called The Brief, where we focus on the people within a legal tech service provider. Short, sweet and loaded with insights. The first episode of this series features CTS’ Head of Client Success, Fiona Hamilton. Fiona explores her role at CTS, including the importance of helping client reach their goals and the challenges that arose as a result of merging three businesses – CTS, CBS, and Sprout IT - during the pandemic. 

"We are doing a lot of end-user support for our clients. We are working, on occasion, with IT teams. So, ultimately, the goal there is to drive that excellence, to make sure that the user experience with us, the end-user or our users of clients' clients are seeing and experiencing IT as a facility or for their business."

Patrick Hurley is the Vice President of Global Speciality Support at Thomson Reuters and joins us to discuss a range of topics including digitisation within the legal industry, future strategy, what it is that lawyers want and cloud technology. 

View the show notes: https://hubs.ly/Q01b5Jft0

“The other is the concept of open platforms and the ability to connect with a partner ecosystem, with your clients’ clients. […] Just the systems talking to each other in an open and easy to configure manner, I think that’s the way of the future.” 

 Scott Bozinis is the CEO of InfoTrack UK and joins us to chat about a range of topics including COVID-19 and its effects on the legal industry, the importance of IT vendors in the legal space and client expectations of law firms in this digital era. 

“Where we stand today, if you are a firm and you are not able to fully transact with your clients virtually, you are probably not going to get the referral business and you are probably not going to give your clients the experience that they are getting in every other industry. And we know what happens to the industries that don’t sort of, you know, move on and digitise.”

https://cts.co.uk/hub/blog/shaped-for-law-scott-bozinis

Mark Parr joins the show to discuss data, insights, lawyers, and collaboration on a global scale.

He discusses how data may be maintained, reused, and analysed. He also emphasises why lawyers need to understand data and be able to reuse it for their clients' needs.

 “The journey we are going on is one to understand data we have, where it is, how we use it, manipulate it, store it, make it available. But also, how we can draw the insight from that, how we can learn from it, how we can find market trends. [...] And how we can make that data useful for our clients." 

https://cts.co.uk/hub/blog/shaped-for-law-mark-parr