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ISG Executive Insights helps users manage their complex supplier ecosystems

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Information Services Group (ISG) launched ISG Executive Insights, a market intelligence and data analytics platform that addresses the challenges of managing increasingly complex supplier ecosystems.

ISG Executive Insights

With ISG Executive Insights, organizations can now gather insights in one platform to optimize provider relationships, risk and compliance. The new data-analytics-as-a-solution offering is powered by ISG’s data repository, a comprehensive, curated database of global IT, business process and engineering outsourcing contracts—paired with ISG’s patented IT price benchmarking, market cost intelligence and other analytical tools.

Leveraging data from more than 180,000 sourcing contracts, 5,600 unique assessments and 1.3 million deliverables and obligations, ISG Executive Insights delivers market trends and forecasts; information on provider capabilities, pricing and commercial terms; real-time analytics, risk mitigation and ongoing, post-deal value realization.

Enterprise leaders can quickly access intelligence on which suppliers have created value for the business, how spending compares with the market, how provider projects are performing and what governance and operational best practices need to be adopted.

“No other technology research and advisory firm can offer the same level of actionable data and insights as ISG,” said Todd Lavieri, vice chairman and president, ISG Americas and Asia Pacific.

“To make the best decisions, enterprises increasingly need current and meaningful data from the market, their organizations, and their ecosystems of partners and relationships,” Lavieri said. “ISG Executive Insights turns the data we gather and analyze in the course of advising on more than $18 billion of annual contract value every year into actionable intelligence for global clients and all ecosystem participants across all sectors of the marketplace. There is no other platform like it.”

Enterprises can use the platform to manage performance and spending, mitigate risk and foster innovation with data-powered profiles of provider capabilities and risk, intuitive dashboards, price intelligence, mobile network maps, on-demand assessments, continuous monitoring,…

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DVIDS – News – NAVWAR Executive Director Speaks at SDMAC Economic Impact Study Event

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Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) Executive Director John Pope joined government, military, and industry leaders from across the region in a panel to discuss the San Diego Military Advisory Council’s (SDMAC) newly released economic impact study, Oct. 20, at the Admiral Kidd Conference Center in San Diego.

SDMAC commissions an annual economic impact study to demonstrate the significant benefits of defense-related spending and military presence in the San Diego region. During the event, Pope highlighted NAVWAR as one of the Navy’s major acquisition commands with an expertise in information warfare technology and its substantial economic impact during fiscal year (FY) 2020.

NAVWAR influences San Diego’s economy through seven channels including: contracts awarded to regional businesses, command employees, operations and maintenance spending, command-related tourism, patents, government purchase card payments, and contributions in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

In FY 2020, NAVWAR contributed more than 29,000 jobs throughout the San Diego region and directly employed more than 5,600 people, with about 270 military workers and 5,300 civilian employees. Their combined compensation, including wages and benefits, totaled more than $900 million. Of these employees, many are highly educated with more than four-fifths of them holding at least a four-year college degree, and about two-fifths holding Master’s or Doctorate degrees.

“We have a long history with San Diego, as the region has been a strong partner in executing our mission of delivering and sustaining information warfare capabilities for the fleet and our partners around the world,” said Pope. “This relationship is ideal for both the region and the command. With nearly half of our workforce positioned in the San Diego area, we are able to leverage many of the region’s unique advantages including its close proximity to operational forces, training ranges, high-tech industry and world-class universities.”

This mutually beneficial relationship can be…

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Cybersecurity Defense: Recommendations for Companies Impacted by the Biden Administration Executive Order | Lighthouse

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Thus, while on its face, many of the new requirements within the Order are aimed at federal agencies and government subcontractors, the ultimate goal appears to be to create a more unified national cybersecurity defense across all sectors. In this installment of our blog series, I will outline recommended steps for private sector organizations to prepare for compliance with the Order, as well as general best-practice tips for adopting a more preemptive approach to cybersecurity.

1. Conduct a Third-Party Assessment

First and foremost, organizations must understand their current cybersecurity posture. Given the severity and volume of recent cyberattacks, third-party in-depth or red-team assessments should be done that would include not only the organization’s IT assets, but also include solutions providers, vendors, and suppliers. Red teaming is the process of providing a fact-driven adversary perspective as an input to solving or addressing a problem. In the cybersecurity space, it has become a best practice wherein the cyber resilience of an organization is challenged by an adversary or a threat actor’s perspective.[1] Red-team testing is very useful to test organizational policies, procedures, and reactions against defined, intended standards.

A third-party assessment must include a comprehensive remote network scan and a comprehensive internal scan with internal access provided or gained with the intent to detect and expose potential vulnerabilities, exploits, and attack vectors for red-team testing. Internal comprehensive discovery includes scanning and running tools with the intent to detect deeper levels of vulnerabilities and areas of compromise. Physical intrusion tests during red-team testing should be conducted on the facility, networks, and systems to test readiness, defined policies, and procedures.

The assessment will evaluate the ability to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information maintained and used by the organization and will test the use of security controls and procedures used to secure sensitive data.

2. Integrate Solution Providers and IT Service Companies into Plans to Address Above Executive Order Steps

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Barracuda Networks to acquire SKOUT Cybersecurity. SentinelOne IPO updates. Executive moves at IBM.

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Marketplace

Deloitte Australia launches AI Institute in Melbourne (ARN) Deloitte has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) institute in Melbourne as part of a larger global initiative dating back to last year.

Report: Growing San Diego Cybersecurity Cluster Using AI to Fight Hacking Threats (Times of San Diego) San Diego’s cyber cluster accounts for 24,349 local jobs across 874 firms, has an annual economic impact of $3.5 billion, and is growing rapidly thanks to defense-related projects.

How to get a lucrative job in cybersecurity (BBC News) There’s a serious shortage of IT security workers, so recruiters are fishing in a bigger pool.

WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten to Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws (WSJ) A letter sent by an industry group that includes Facebook, Twitter and Google said the companies are concerned that planned rules to address doxing could put their staff at risk of criminal investigation or prosecution.

Darktrace has extreme growth potential, says Berenberg (Proactiveinvestors UK) The broker said a rampant increase in cybercrime so far this year meant the outlook for the company is “only improving”

Israel cybersecurity firms raise record $3.4b, 41% of global sector investment (The Times of Israel) The half-year figure exceeds the record-breaking $2.9 billion in investments for all of 2020; seven out of Israel’s 13 cybersecurity unicorns were created in first half of 2021

ESET joins ranks as a CVE Numbering Authority (Intelligent CIO Middle East) Working in concert with Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Programme, ESET, a Europe-based endpoint protection platform vendor, has announced it is authorised by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). Organisations designated as CNAs are responsible for the assignment of CVE IDs to vulnerabilities and for creating and publishing information about the vulnerability […]

Despite CrowdStrike, 3 Reasons To Buy SentinelOne After Record Cybersecurity IPO (Forbes) SentinelOne just had the most successful cybersecurity IPO ever. Can it beat triple digit top-line growth expectations in its first quarterly report?

Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2021 |…

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