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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

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That means IT veterans are now expected to support their organization’s strategies to embrace artificial intelligence, advanced cybersecurity methods, and automation to get ahead and stay ahead in their careers. Hafez recommends connecting with mentors who are from a different team or division.

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

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This process includes establishing core principles such as agility, scalability, security, and customer centricity. For example, a company aiming for market expansion might focus on developing scalable infrastructure, enabling application localization, and enhancing security measures to support operations in new regions.

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CEO of Salesforce AI Clara Shih has left

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The news of Shih’s departure was broken by investment analyst Patrick Walravens of JMP Securities. Before that, she ran the AI company she co-founded, Hearsay Systems, a company that uses AI to help investment advisors. She has also worked at Microsoft, Google — and also at Salesforce, much earlier in her career.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

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Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. And a Red Hat survey of IT managers in several European countries and the UAE found that 71% reported a shortage of AI skills, making it the most significant skill gap today, ahead of cybersecurity, cloud, and Agile.

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The new calling of CIOs: Be the moral arbiter of change

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From fostering an over-reliance on hallucinations produced by knowledge-poor bots, to enabling new cybersecurity threats, AI can create significant problems if not implemented carefully and effectively. Many factors, including governance, security, ethics, and funding, are important, and it’s hard to establish ground rules.

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The evolving role of security and IT in DR and incident response

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However, as ecommerce has proliferated, security threats have increased, elevating cybersecurity to a board-level concern. Early cybersecurity threats were limited in their scope and damage, but current threats can ruin a business. Worldwide responses show that attackers are increasingly able to extract more sensitive data.”

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

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As more companies adopt low-code/no-code tools to build their line-of-business applications, it’s maybe no surprise that we are now seeing a new crop of services in this ecosystem that focus on keeping these tools secure. The round was led by Vertex Ventures and UpWest. Image Credits: Zenity.

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