CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As more AI innovations come to market, financial institutions can leverage the technology for enhanced services, increased efficiency, and new ways to deliver and manage products. Ed McLaughlin is the president and chief technology officer of Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

To capitalize on the enormous potential of artificial intelligence (AI) enterprises need systems purpose-built for industry-specific workflows. Enterprise technology leaders discussed these issues and more while sharing real-world examples during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Many large enterprises now rely on hundreds of third-party SaaS applications to do business, but their security organizations can barely keep pace. Right now, the state of the art for SaaS enterprise security are cloud access security brokers (CASBs) that act as intermediaries between users and the actual service.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. As a result, for IT consultants, keeping the pulse of the technology market is essential. The IT function within organizations has become far more complex in recent years.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“There are multiple examples of organizations driving home a first-mover advantage by adopting and embracing technology modernization when the opportunity presents itself early.” On the other hand, there are also many cases of enterprises hanging onto obsolete systems that have long-since exceeded their original ROI.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Security was another constant challenge. In response, traders formed alliances, hired guards and even developed new paths to bypass high-risk areas just as modern enterprises must invest in cybersecurity strategies, encryption and redundancy to protect their valuable data from breaches and cyberattacks.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Such a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) could deliver a devastating impact to global cybersecurity protocols. To prepare for this worst-case scenario, Mastercard launched its Quantum Security and Communications project, which earned the company a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

Its not surprising to see the differences when C-level executives tend to receive PowerPoint-level snapshots of IT problems, including data quality, says Timothy Bates, a professor in the College of Innovation and Technology at the University of Michigan Executives see dashboards clean, aggregated, polished, Bates says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. The main commercial model, from OpenAI, was quicker and easier to deploy and more accurate right out of the box, but the open source alternatives offered security, flexibility, lower costs, and, with additional training, even better accuracy.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses — and VCs. While a decline from the previous year, venture capital funding in the cybersecurity sector totaled $18.5 PitchBook data shows a decline in cybersecurity valuations at the seed and Series A stages in particular.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its an offshoot of enterprise architecture that comprises the models, policies, rules, and standards that govern the collection, storage, arrangement, integration, and use of data in organizations. Ensure security and access controls. An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. DAMA-DMBOK 2.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

CommandK , a startup offering a dedicated platform to manage enterprise security, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed. Companies accumulate a lot of sensitive data and store secrets, such as API tokens, SSH keys and personally identifiable information.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Seemplicity is a portmanteau of “see” and “simplicity”, and that is effectively what it is doing: helping DevOps and SecOps teams see a more complete picture of the state of an organization’s security, by simplifying how to view it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Now, cybersecurity startup Nudge Security is emerging from stealth to help organizations tackle what they think is the biggest cybersecurity weakness: people. We also provide supply chain information,” added Blasco, Nudge’s co-founder and chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that they have contended with a cloud-related security breach in the last 18 months.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. The sponsor’s primary responsibility is to secure funding and justify the business value of the investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. “The idea that we started the company was a realization that when I was CISO and CTO I had no metrics at my disposal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Eureka , a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides enterprises with tools to manage security risks across their various data stores, today announced that it has raised an $8 million seed round led by YL Ventures. “Security leaders are especially excited about Eureka’s policy translation engine,” Hayun explained.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals remain in high demand. An example of the new reality comes from Salesforce.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In our inaugural episode, Michael “Siko” Sikorski, CTO and VP of Engineering and Threat Intelligence at Unit 42 answers that question and speaks to the profound influence of artificial intelligence in an interview with David Moulton, Director of thought leadership for Unit 42. Threat Vector is your compass in the world of cybersecurity.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2025

Many IT leaders scoffed when they heard that Elon Musks US Department of Government Efficiency wants to rip out millions of lines COBOL code at the Social Security Administration and replace it within a matter of months. Social Security is not something to fail fast on.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, CIOs must still demonstrate measurable outcomes and communicate these imperatives to senior leadership to secure investment. Why risk management is vital Risks in enterprise IT have significantly evolved in the past year, demanding an emphasis on short- and long-term resilience plans spanning multiple areas.

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Infinidat

APRIL 17, 2025

Infinidat Recognizes GSI and Tech Alliance Partners for Extending the Value of Infinidats Enterprise Storage Solutions Adriana Andronescu Thu, 04/17/2025 - 08:14 Infinidat works together with an impressive array of GSI and Tech Alliance Partners the biggest names in the tech industry. Its rock-solid for high-end enterprise deployments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. That’s what we’re doing in the API world,” Corsha co-founder and CTO Anusha Iyer told TechCrunch. government doesn’t stop there, as Corsha secured the U.S

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Most CIOs and CTOs are bullish on agentic AI, believing the emerging technology will soon become essential to their enterprises, but lower-level IT pros who will be tasked with implementing agents have serious doubts. They should also welcome regular feedback from IT employees.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

To ensure every IT initiative directly contributes to measurable business outcomes, CIOs must move from operational managers to strategic partners, collaborating with business leaders to align IT decisions with enterprise goals. Risk management is equally vital, particularly as organizations adopt modern technologies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In addition, the company today officially launched its Cilium platform (which was in stealth until now) to help enterprises connect, observe and secure their applications. Isovalent is following what is now the standard model for commercializing open-source projects by launching an enterprise version. Image Credits: Cilium.

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 1, 2025

Security and technology teams are under increasing pressure to strengthen their organizations cybersecurity posture. According to the National Cybersecurity Alliance , ransomware attacks, identity theft, assaults on critical infrastructure and AI-powered scams are all expected to escalate in 2025.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Talk may be cheap, but when it comes to IT security, strategic conversations with colleagues, business partners, and other relevant parties can be priceless. Such discussions ensure the integration of cybersecurity initiatives and resource requirements in the enterprise’s business goals and objectives,” he adds.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the hype , AI is three to five years away from becoming a reality for most firms. Is our AI strategy enterprise-wide?

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

According to Salt Labs, the research division of Salt Security (which sells API cybersecurity products, granted), API attacks from March 2021 to March 2022 increased nearly 681%. Bansal saw the writing on the wall four years ago, he said, when he cofounded San Francisco-based Traceable with CTO Sanjay Nagaraj.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Adding vaults is needed to secure secrets.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

Protecting these ever-increasing volumes of data is a high priority, and while there are many different types of cybersecurity threats to enterprise data, ransomware dominates the field. Claus Torp Jensen , formerly CTO and Head of Architecture at CVS Health and Aetna, agreed that ransomware is a top concern. “At To watch 12.8

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