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An Actual Complete List Of SOC Metrics (And Your Path To DIY) 

Forrester IT

I take a lot of inquiry questions from Forrester’s security and risk clients about security operations (SecOps). A common question I get is, “What core metrics does SecOps need to track?

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Women Leading the Way – 6 AI Innovators Who Changed the Game

IT Toolbox

Women are making groundbreaking contributions to the future of artificial intelligence (AI). Discover how Joy Buolamwini, Rana el Kaliouby, Fei-Fei Li, and others have contributed to the field. The post Women Leading the Way – 6 AI Innovators Who Changed the Game appeared first on Spiceworks.

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A 4-Step Framework for Implementing High-Performance Tech Architecture

Information Week

A truly high-performing IT organization must embrace three key principles: alignment, trust, and adaptivity. Getting there requires revisiting outdated practices for your architecture and operating model.

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Microsoft: 87% of UK Businesses Are Unprepared for Cyberattacks

Tech Republic Security

Microsoft has called on UK business leaders to "fight fire with fire" by adopting AI cybersecurity tools to defend themselves from cyberattacks.

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How AI Is Transforming IT in 2025: A Playbook for Smarter IT Ops

IT teams are under pressure to do more with less. AI isn’t just hype—it’s already helping lean IT teams cut support volume by up to 60%, reduce cloud waste, and eliminate risk from their stack. In this executive playbook, you'll learn how mid-sized companies are deploying AI to automate tier-1 tickets, predict outages, optimize SaaS spend, and secure infrastructure without hiring a bigger team.

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The State Of Consumer Usage Of Generative AI, 2024

Forrester IT

As is often the case with poorly understood tech that promises to change the world, consumers worry about its ethics and human impact. Yet a vast majority of these skeptics will use (and love) genAI during 2024, whether they know it or not.

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Think you can ignore quantum computing? Think again.

CIO Business Intelligence

“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed quantum algorithms to factor integers and solve the discrete logarithm problem.

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6 Best Authenticator Apps for 2024

Tech Republic Security

Authenticator apps provide an extra layer of security. Learn about the best authenticator apps to secure your online accounts and protect your privacy.

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Welcome To The Future Of Marketing Technology

Forrester IT

To meet customers in their moments, marketers must design, execute, and optimize interactions across the full range of devices, channels, and touchpoints where consumers engage with a brand. Meanwhile, the marketing landscape continues to evolve with new technologies, data deprecation, and sophisticated consumers.

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Rocket Mortgage lays foundation for generative AI success

CIO Business Intelligence

To succeed in the mortgage industry, efficiency and accuracy are paramount. So too is keeping your options open. That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. The Detroit-headquartered retail mortgage lender has been deploying machine learning and AI for more than a decade and is among the few pioneers that hav

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Demystifying Quantum Computing: Separating Fact from Fiction

Information Week

Understand the realities and misconceptions about quantum computing. Now is the time to prepare to embrace the quantum shift.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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Protect Your Business With This Seamless Firewall — Now $150 Off

Tech Republic Security

DNS FireWall is an intuitive security app built to protect you and your business from malware, phishing, botnets and more security threats.

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Wasm Today, AI Tomorrow: KubeCon Expands Its Reach 

Forrester IT

Kubecon is the place where big tech and large enterprise cloud users converge with open-source communities and startups to collaborate on the latest trends in cloud-native. Generally, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the epicenter of platform engineering innovation with that trend continues this year.

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Meet digital transformation experts making waves with Value Stream Management

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve all heard the saying about the journey of a thousand miles starting with a single step. For enterprise leaders, what’s key is making that first step, and every step thereafter, the best one possible. When you’re guiding a large enterprise on a complex, long-term digital transformation journey, it can be very difficult to know which near-term steps will get you most rapidly to your desired destination.

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Get Ready for Software 2.0

Information Week

Meet Software 2.0, a method of using AI and machine learning models to solve classification and recognition problems without any human input.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Top ITSM Certifications for 2024

Tech Republic Security

Learn about ITSM certifications and which ones are most important for various roles within the technology sector.

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Younger Generations Are Shaking Up B2B Buying — Are You Prepared?

Forrester IT

Millennials and Gen Zers now comprise nearly three-quarters of B2B buyers. To succeed, B2B marketing, sales, and product teams must understand these buyers’ preferences.

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Women IT leaders take center stage

CIO Business Intelligence

Judy Balaban has seen firsthand how stepping into the professional spotlight, even on a small stage, pays dividends. Early in her career as a program management specialist at AT&T, Balaban became an active member with the Project Management Institute’s New Jersey chapter, which put her front and center at plenty of events. She considered her commitments to PMI as a way to give back to her professional community.

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Using Cloud for Competitive Advantage

Information Week

Organizations are moving deeper into the cloud to harness its power, but it requires time and patience to achieve strategic goals.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Hiring Kit: Security Analyst

Tech Republic Security

In general, security analysts are tasked with identifying weaknesses in current security systems and developing solutions to close security vulnerabilities. To perform this task well, ideal candidates will have highly advanced technical skills, a proven ability to communicate with all levels of an organization and experience applying both skillsets to solve real problems.

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Forrester’s Not-So-TayTay Southeast Asia Cybersecurity Trends Roundtable Tour

Forrester IT

In this blog, Forrester's VP, Principal Analyst, Jinan Budge, shares her learnings of the cybersecurity trends, key challenges and opportunities for CISOs in Southeast Asia.

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Don’t Let This Happen to You: Cautionary Tales of Data Loss for World Backup Day 2024

IT Toolbox

The World Backup Day is observed on March 31, serving as a reminder of the possibility or certainty of data loss from human error, system failure, or threat actors’ malicious intent. As World Backup Day 2024 approaches, read about some of the data loss horror stories members of the Spiceworks Community witnessed and how they could have been prevented.

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OpenAI Tests New Voice Clone Model

Information Week

The ChatGPT parent company is testing dramatically improved text-to-speech technology with select developers. Experts warn that realistic voice generation raises serious safety questions.

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Turn Your Contact Center Into a Profit Machine with AI

Every year, $75 billion is lost to bad customer service — and your business could be bleeding loyalty without realizing it. AI is rewriting the rules. Imagine instant answers, 24/7 self-service, faster resolutions, and skyrocketing satisfaction scores. Companies like Amazon are already cashing in, and the technology is easier than you think — plug, play, and profit.

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Women in tech increasingly dissatisfied, job search rates surge

CIO Business Intelligence

A troubling trend within the tech industry is coming into sharp focus: women are significantly more likely to be actively seeking new employment than their male counterparts. A new study from the tech job search platform Dice reveals that 38% of women in tech are currently engaged in a job search, compared to 30% of men. The primary drivers of this dissatisfaction are a persistent pay gap and workplace culture issues that often leave women feeling marginalized.

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These Six Marketing Priorities Are Different In Growing B2B Companies

Forrester IT

My recent analysis of Forrester’s Marketing Survey, 2024, reveals that growing organizations face many of the same challenges as organizations with no growth, but they order their marketing priorities differently.

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Evolving C-Suite: How To Lead in the Era of Gen AI?

IT Toolbox

Discover how visionary leaders and strategic partnerships drive success in the age of GenAI. The post Evolving C-Suite: How To Lead in the Era of Gen AI? appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Why CTOs Must Become Better Storytellers

Information Week

With chief technology officers increasingly involved in the sales cycle, their ability to craft and communicate compelling narratives is crucial.

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How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform

Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. “Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Ever

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Your Employees Aren’t Ready For AI — Prepare Them With AIQ

Forrester IT

Employees improving their AIQ through intentional training efforts. Source. Employee readiness – or lack thereof – will make or break your generative AI strategy. Most leaders focus more on deploying genAI tools than on upskilling employees to be successful using them. That’s a potentially costly mistake.

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Dell Trims Workforce by Approximately 6,000 Employees

IT Toolbox

Dell offloaded a significant number of employees in the past 12 months, a filing by the company reveals. The company resorted to parting ways with a minor chunk of its workforce to help its financial bottom line. The post Dell Trims Workforce by Approximately 6,000 Employees appeared first on Spiceworks.

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How AI Bias Is Impacting Healthcare

Information Week

AI bias seeps into algorithms and models that affect clinical and health insurance decisions as well as clinical trials. InformationWeek speaks to experts that discuss how to avoid these discriminatory errors.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.