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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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Netflix Hack: Key Lessons In The Economics Of Ransomware And Managing 3rd Party Risk

Forrester IT

The data lost is Season 5 of Orange is the New Black, which is original Netflix content. If you do an impact analysis, you see that it has a medium reputational risk, a low financial risk and no regulatory risk. With that kind of risk analysis, you don't pay a ransom. Enterprise Risk Management. third party data.

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Software vendors offer AI sales boost for retail at NRF show

CIO Business Intelligence

Its Dynamics 365 Customer Insights marketing analytics tool is also getting a generative AI makeover, with a new Copilot to help staff build and manage marketing campaigns. On a more positive note, it’s using AI-powered computer vision analysis to power Store Guest Behaviors, a tool to optimize store layouts through heat map analysis.

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New York Takes Bold Stance Against Hospital Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

Expansion of cybersecurity resources: The strategy expands the New York State Police's Cyber Analysis Unit, Computer Crimes Unit, and Internet Crimes Against Children Center. These regulations aim to safeguard sensitive patient data, protect critical healthcare infrastructure, and ensure the continuity of essential medical services.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Create a framework to guide decisions Michael Bradshaw, who has held the CIO position at Kyndryl since the IT service management company spun off from IBM in 2021, developed a framework around five core guiding principles to facilitate key IT decisions. But as a CIO, I don’t need an IT organization that’s writing apps.

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4 ways Swedish CIOs strengthen defenses against bombarding AI sales

CIO Business Intelligence

It can be about anything from classic data analysis and advanced data analysis, to robotics or machine learning. One way to distinguish the more serious players, he adds, could be that instead of speaking broadly about AI, to be more specific and talk about image analysis, natural language, or deep learning.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Understanding the price differentials between reserve and regular pricing is key to performing that analysis. McMasters takes full advantage of the analytical tools Microsoft provides with Azure Cloud Computing Services to assist with cost optimization analysis, but he doesn’t stop there. “We

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