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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

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Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Paulen will continue to lead West Monroe’s Seattle office.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Managing software projects might not be at the top of CIOs’ priority lists , but it is something that IT leaders will have to master.

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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO Business Intelligence

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case.

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

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Pradyut Paul (left), CEO, and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO) of Bild. Founders: Pradyut Paul (CEO) and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO). Renato Vieira da Costa (left), CTO, Dmitry Litvinov, CEO, of Brite. Founders: Dmitry Litvinov (CEO) and Renato Vieira da Costa (CTO). Nick Chua (left), CEO, and Kevin Arifin (CTO) of Edith Labs.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

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Tim McGuffin, Director of Adversarial Engineering at LARES Consulting, discusses the benefits to manual ransomware: "This is still fairly rare, however, it's a good method to bypass modern Endpoint Protection and Canary files that would alert and kill automated, system-wide ransomware.

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10 tips for getting started with decision intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

We are in the spectrum of making many decisions across a huge dataset that are not life-threatening if we get them wrong,” says Matthias Baumhof, CTO at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. But solving this issue isn’t about technology, Tripathy says. The software already knows it’s Christmas. The costs are not equal.

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