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Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

TechCrunch

Take Descope , for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. So why launch Descope now?

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When voice deepfakes come calling

CIO

And if they werent, multi-factor authentication (MFA), answers to security questions, and verbal passwords would solve the issue. A recent survey showed that 86% of call centers surveyed are concerned about the risk of deepfakes, with 66% lacking confidence that their organization could identify them.

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Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives

CIO

Leadership styles have traditionally centered their focus on profits, share prices, and productivity, but a new approach increasingly taken up by today’s leaders, known as “authentic leadership,” takes a different spin on the concept. But ultimately, authentic leadership can be viewed as the opposite of traditional leadership in many ways.

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

CIO

More than three in five CIOs surveyed by Salesforce say they’re expected to know more about AI than they do, potentially leading to massive and costly deployment mistakes. 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.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. 47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement.

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7 signs you may not be a transformational CIO

CIO

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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Chief AI officers in demand as IT leaders expect gen AI productivity boost, survey finds

CIO

For its AI Priorities Study 2023 , Foundry surveyed IT decision-makers who have either implemented AI and generative AI technologies in their organizations, have plans to, or are actively researching them. Top of those AI priorities for now is generative AI, with 56% of respondents eager to learn more about it.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.