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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

Budget constraints Barrier: IT modernization requires substantial investment, and budget constraints are a common hurdle. Solution: To address budget constraints, organizations should adopt a strategic approach to funding IT modernization.

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What’s holding back CIO’s AI strategies? Their own AI learning curve for one

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A huge part of the problem is that generative AI is so new that little expertise exists, says Seth Blank, CTO at Valimail, an email authentication provider. “I believe if you don’t enhance every business process with it, you will simply get left behind.” The technology is too novel and evolving,” he says. “As Blank says.

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Political engineering 101: The biz-savvy IT leader’s survival guide

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Worse, shortly after yet another companys data breach made headlines not long ago, the CEO asked you whether all your companys systems were backed by the multi-factor authentication controls shes been reading about. Its too late to wish youd asked George what, exactly, multi-factor authentication is before you blithely reassured the CEO.

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How Authenticity Can Provide Key to Success in Leadership

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Authenticity is the most powerful way of adding […]. The post How Authenticity Can Provide Key to Success in Leadership appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. All rights reserved.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

At the current stage, if you are setting up a new application, we have a simple launch site and [after] entering in the details, you can have something up and running with a code repository and secret store connected to multifactor authentication running on our cluster in 20 minutes,” Beswick says.

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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

TechCrunch

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital (a $10 billion hedge fund) co-led the round, which also included participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Authentic Ventures and others. . Stripe and Index Ventures co-led Pilot’s $40 million Series B in April 2019.

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For startups, trustworthy security means going above and beyond compliance standards

TechCrunch

So an e-commerce company must be PCI-DSS compliant to accept credit card payments, but it may also leverage multiple APIs that have weak authentication or business logic flaws. It is difficult for any company to be both compliant and secure, and for startups with limited budget, time or security know-how, it’s especially challenging.

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