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AI as a catalyst for ESG: Empowering CIOs to drive sustainable innovation

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In today’s fast-evolving business landscape, environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria have become fundamental to corporate responsibility and long-term success. Critical roles of the CIO in driving ESG As organizations prioritize sustainability and governance, the CIO’s role now includes driving ESG initiatives.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

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A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?

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2025 Middle East tech trends: How CIOs will drive innovation with AI

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AI and machine learning are poised to drive innovation across multiple sectors, particularly government, healthcare, and finance. Governments will prioritize investments in technology to enhance public sector services, focusing on improving citizen engagement, e-governance, and digital education.

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How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks

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According to Salesforces Perez, even though AI brings much opportunity, it also introduces complexity for CIOs, including security, governance, and compliance considerations. This can assist CIOs in tackling data governance issues , he adds. Investment in resilience is an investment in business continuity.

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Delivering better business outcomes for CIOs

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The rise of AI, particularly generative AI and AI/ML, adds further complexity with challenges around data privacy, sovereignty, and governance. Effective workload management in a hybrid cloud environment provides a competitive edge, ensuring optimal business continuity, governance, performance, security, and cost management.

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How DPDP Act will define data privacy in the digital-first world

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Kiran Belsekar, Executive VP CISO and IT Governance, Bandhan Life reveals that ensuring protection and encryption of user data involves defence in depth with multiple layers of security. Using Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), we rely on continuous authentication, least privilege access, and micro-segmentation to limit data exposure.

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Zenity raises $5M to help secure low-code/no-code applications

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. “We empower CIOs and CISOs to seamlessly govern their low-code/no-code applications and prevent unintentional data leaks, disturbance to business continuity, compliance risks or malicious breaches.”

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