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D. BlumRational Cybersecurity for Businesshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5952-8_7

7. Simplify and Rationalize IT and Security

Dan Blum1 
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Silver Spring, MD, USA
 

What you cannot manage, you cannot secure, and a control baseline can’t be fully or efficiently implemented across a chaotic IT environment. Although CISOs, or other security leaders, don’t own the IT strategy, they have an interest in making it as simple and well defined as possible.

Too many IT environments are aging and dysfunctional. Cloud computing and modern development practices promise transformation to the powerful, seamless IT systems digital businesses need, but often just disrupt, disappoint, and add to the complexity. Amid these challenges, the security ...

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