CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

When they announced my name on stage at CIO Summit and Awards 2024 as the winner for Emerging ICT Leader of the Year award, my profound disbelief and shock flared up my impostor syndrome one more time as I walked up the stage. While walking up the stairs of that prestigious stage, I realized the immense responsibility I carried on my shoulders representing several women in tech who are walking their paths on their leadership journey while navigating their own complex inner worlds.

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Information Week

JANUARY 22, 2025

Unlike past tech shifts that required specific teams or experts to adapt, AI is a horizontal skill demanding universal competency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3 times compared to 2023 but forecasts lower increases over the next two to five years.

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Information Week

JANUARY 21, 2025

Black sky thinking takes a company from a safe trajectory to one that breaks barriers and drives innovation.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 21, 2025

Artificial intelligence announcements have become almost daily occurrences. Yet, Telstra’s recent joint venture with Accenture stands out as particularly noteworthy. This partnership signals a significant shift in how large enterprises are approaching AI adoption to create an AI advantage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

Businesses have always struggled with IT skills shortages, but the accelerating arrival of new technologies such as AI has widened the shortage gap even further, resulting in business delays, lower customer satisfaction, and loss of revenue, according to a recent report from research firm IDC. The arrival of emerging technologies like AI puts organizations under new pressure.

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Information Week

JANUARY 24, 2025

Tools like AutoML and no-code platforms are reducing barriers to AI adoption. Businesses can now innovate without needing deep technical expertise.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 23, 2025

The number of phishing emails received by Australians surged by 30% last year, according to new research by Abnormal Security.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 23, 2025

Researchers from Abnormal Security discovered an advert for the chatbot on a cybercrime forum and tested its capabilities by asking it to create a DocuSign phishing email.

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Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow. Uptime Institute details the major challenges and opportunities the data center industry will encounter this year in its report, Five Data Centers Predictions for 2025.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Questionable outcomes and a lack of confidence in generative AIs promised benefits are proving to be key barriers to enterprise adoption of the technology. But according to a recent survey from IDC, cost concerns are another top gen AI roadblock, with 46% of 1,000-plus IT pros surveyed saying the lack of predictability in pricing is a primary obstacle to implementing gen AI at their organizations.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 23, 2025

After over 12 years of leading Forresters research on agile and, from 2011, publishing a biennial Forrester report on the global state of agile adoption, we have just published The State Of Agile Development, 2025: Its Still Relevant, With Benefits And Challenges.

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Information Week

JANUARY 23, 2025

Enterprises have invested a lot of money in AI. Now, CEOs and boards want to understand the ROI.

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Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Integrating traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a new technology from IBMs Red Hat business unit thats aimed at simplifying how enterprises manage application connectivity across distributed cloud environments. The technology is based on the open-source Kuadrant project, which combines traffic routing, security controls, and policy management capabilities that organizations typically handle through separate tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

AI, and gen AI in particular, are continuing to bombard the enterprise, but the gains to date havent been as big, nor come as quickly, as many business leaders hoped. Thats according to the fourth quarterly edition of Deloitte AI Institutes State of Generative AI in the Enterprise report released on Tuesday. Were seeing more of a focus on the pragmatic, says Jim Rowan, applied AI leader and principal at Deloitte Consulting.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 21, 2025

Let me tell you about my first time using an AI coding assistant. Picture this: I enter a prompt and sit at my desk watching in slack-jawed amazement as my digital partner spins up hundreds of lines of perfectly-formatted code faster than I can brew my morning coffee. “Add authentication!” POOF! “Create a data visualization!

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Information Week

JANUARY 23, 2025

With another big outage caused by a third-party vendor, there may be lessons enterprise leaders can learn.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

Researchers have discovered that next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks contain years-old known vulnerabilities in their UEFI firmware a finding that provides yet more evidence of a broader issue with specialized devices today. Increasingly built on commodity hardware , specialty devices share the same UEFI vulnerabilities as general-purpose PCs and laptops, inheriting similarly slow firmware patching cycles.

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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

Nearly all tech surprises last year were related to gen AI, which was so hyped in 2023 that every organization had to try it in one or more projects in 2024. IT departments ran proofs-of-concept (PoCs), but some business leaders outside IT with P&L to manage also ran their own experiments without necessarily informing IT when they did so. Sometimes its as easy as subscribing to an AI-driven service.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 24, 2025

In advance of its annual meeting in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its 2025 Global Risks Report. The report, based on the WEFs Global Risk Perception Survey 2024-2025, identifies geopolitical risks as a top immediate concern for global risk officers and the broader risk community.

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Information Week

JANUARY 22, 2025

IT pros can secure raises by aligning contributions with company goals by showcasing measurable impact through KPIs -- including cost savings and productivity.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

Due to a partner disclosure, AMD has found itself in the unenviable position of having to confirm the existence of a major cybersecurity problem in its chip microcode before it could post a fix. But that headache is mild compared to those of their customers CISOs. Microcode often loads during startup and it can change chip capabilities. Security specialists are recommending that CISOs consider extreme protective measures, including network isolation, possible air gapping, and ideally blocking al

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2025

Nearly a third of IT leaders who hold chief data officer and similar roles at Fortune 1000 companies dont believe in the long-term future of the CDO position. Just over 29% of CDOs, chief AI officers, and people with similar jobs surveyed by the Data & AI Leadership Exchange believe the CDO role is a transitional one that will eventually disappear.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 23, 2025

Creator marketing programs have become a cornerstone of the social media marketing strategy across industries. As such, Forrester recommends an evolved set of metrics for measurement to optimize and show overall impact on the organization.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 22, 2025

Discover how to create a unique and secure username for your online accounts, and find out why its just as important as having a strong password.

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. In recent years, organizations have increasingly moved workloads to the cloud, where they have not had the same network visibility. Sysdig, the lead commercial sponsor behind Wireshark, wants to change that with the new Stratoshark tool.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2025

CorporateOneFederal Credit Union, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is a non-profit thats provided investment, funding, and payment solutions to their members for nearly 75 years. During this time, its adapted to a lot of changes in the industry, and has always worked to ensure members dont get left behind. So it was around 2017 when there were several brainstorming sessions about how to innovate, and they realized there was a need to better orchestrate and enable the flow of messages from one fi

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 23, 2025

Last week, my dentist invited me to join their loyalty program. Its official: the loyalty program is the go-to customer relationships marketing tactic. Most global consumers belong to at least one loyalty program, including 90% of online adults in the US, in Europe-5 88%, and in Australia 93%.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 21, 2025

The phishing-as-a-service kit from Sneaky Log creates fake authentication pages to farm account information, including two-factor security codes.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

Wi-Fi 7 gear began to emerge in 2024, but it looks like 2025 will be the big year for rollouts. Wi-Fi 7 is currently the leading edge of wireless internet standards, providing more bandwidth, lower latency and more resiliency than prior standards. A year ago, there was some speculation that 2024 would be the breakout year for Wi-Fi 7. Whether or not that actually occurred is a matter of perspective.

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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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