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Leadership Brief

KuppingerCole’s Leadership Brief provides condensed research and advice for executives and decision makers in organizations. These two-page documents cover business challenges and advise on how to address them, focusing on the key issues and allowing decision makers to quickly identify the right solutions.
5G Impact on Organizations and Security
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5G Impact on Organizations and Security
5G is the next generation of cellular mobile communications. It will provide the capacity and connectivity required to industrialize IoT, Smart Cities and Smart Manufacturing. This report explains...
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Advanced IT security solutions for OT environments
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Advanced IT security solutions for OT environments
Industrial Control Systems operators are increasingly targeted by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors and cybercriminals as digital transformation accelerates. Many hitherto isolated systems...
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Mitigating Availability & Security Risks in Centralized Digital Workplace Delivery
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Mitigating Availability & Security Risks in Centralized Digital Workplace Delivery
Centralizing delivery of digital workplaces can bring cost, efficiency and productivity rewards but security and risk management must be baked in if availability is not compromised by cyber attacks...
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Prepare and Protect against Software Vulnerabilities
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Prepare and Protect against Software Vulnerabilities
All software contains vulnerabilities that can be exploited by adversaries to attack the IT systems and data that organizations depend upon. It is essential that organizations have a vulnerability...
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EU NIS2 Directive
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EU NIS2 Directive
Every organization needs to take steps to ensure their cyber resilience and this updated directive provides a useful framework for this. This report provides a summary of the technical obligations...
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Cyber Hygiene: The Foundation for Cyber Resilience
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Cyber Hygiene: The Foundation for Cyber Resilience
Most cyber incidents result from poor cyber hygiene. To avoid these, organizations must make sure that all the routine tasks needed to keep their systems, data, and applications safe are performed...
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Hype vs. Reality in AI & ML: Where are the Concrete Business Benefits?
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Hype vs. Reality in AI & ML: Where are the Concrete Business Benefits?
The conversation on artificial intelligence and machine learning is still largely driven by hype. But concrete business benefits exist for narrow AI solutions, and it is time to separate hype from...
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Cybersecurity Trends & Challenges 2020
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Cybersecurity Trends & Challenges 2020
2019 already has been a challenging year in cybersecurity. There have (again) been many severe cyberattacks and breaches, and there is no hope that this might change in 2020. Cyberattacks will...
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Working for the Business, not the Auditors
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Working for the Business, not the Auditors
Forward-thinking companies no longer see cybersecurity, governance, compliance and privacy as something they are just forced to do. Instead, a comprehensive alignment with applicable policies,...
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Enterprise Information Protection
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Enterprise Information Protection
The perimeter of the corporation has transformed into a much more fluid and permeable boundary than it once was. Sensitive information is now routinely accessed with personal and business devices...
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Join the dots: Operational Technology and Informational Technology
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Join the dots: Operational Technology and Informational Technology
One area of information technology that is typically ignored by IT departments and consultants is industrial control systems. This is unfortunate because these “operational technology” systems have...
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