TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Traditionally, cybersecurity has always focused on what can be hacked and not so much on who might be most at risk. Sunday Security , which is launching today and announcing a $4 million seed funding round, is trying to switch this up by offering cyber-risk protection for senior executives and other key personnel.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Because technology is continuously changing, IT consultants can provide clients with the latest information about new technologies as they become available, recommending implementation strategies based on their clients needs. As a result, for IT consultants, keeping the pulse of the technology market is essential.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With this information, IT can craft an IT strategy that gives the company an edge over its competitors. Understanding the company’s competitive position allows IT leaders to mindfully act to implement technology for competitive advantage.

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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

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. Miller agrees.

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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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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. As these big names demonstrate, these kinds of attacks can be hard for even the most well-resourced organizations to protect against.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The survey points to a fundamental misunderstanding among many business leaders regarding the data work needed to deploy most AI tools, says John Armstrong, CTO of Worldly, a supply chain sustainability data insights platform. It starts to inform the art of the possible. Innovation often involves a lot of misfires, he adds.

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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. According to Salesforces Perez, even though AI brings much opportunity, it also introduces complexity for CIOs, including security, governance, and compliance considerations.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Still, other CIOs are the top choice for getting more information about AI, followed by analyst reports, IT vendors, conferences, and IT media. 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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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

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In one case, this oversight led to a fragmented IT landscape and security vulnerabilities.” The CIO is really worried about cybersecurity and the risk of data exfiltration,” says Fernandes. Imagine you’re a client technologist of the athletics department, and you’re looking for financial information for athletics,” he says.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Gem Security , a New York- and Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a cloud threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) platform, is coming out of stealth today and announced an $11 million seed funding round led by Team8. The company was co-founded by CEO Arie Zilberstein, CTO Ron Konigsberg and VP of Product Ofir Brukner.

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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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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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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. S Capital led its seed round.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Sean Duca, vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks Some economists predict that we could soon face a global recession. This can be a challenge to cyber budgets in organizations where security is viewed primarily as a cost center.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Security weaknesses arise Security and risk vulnerabilities are important signs that modernization is immediately necessary. He notes that recent surveys by Gartner and Forrester show that over 50% of organizations cite security and efficiency as their main reasons for modernizing their legacy systems and data applications.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

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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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

As Jyothirlatha, CTO of Godrej Capital tells us, Being a pandemic-born NBFC (non-banking financial company), a technology-first approach helps us drive business growth. Since technology evolves rapidly, ensuring seamless adoption while keeping business teams aligned requires continuous change management.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company. No, I love my job.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

At Gitex Global 2024, a panel of top cybersecurity leaders delivered a clear message: cybersecurity is no longer just the responsibility of the cybersecurity team or the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Cybersecurity must be at the core of every organization.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

IT departments ran proofs-of-concept (PoCs), but some business leaders outside IT with P&L to manage also ran their own experiments without necessarily informing IT when they did so. You expect a certain amount of shadow IT, but there was much more of it last year, says Krishna Prasad, CIO of technology services business at UST.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For instance, CIOs in industries like financial services need to monitor how competitors leverage AI for fraud detection or offer personalized services to inform their IT strategies. CIOs can ensure that IT supports and drives key business outcomes by translating business strategies into clear technology roadmaps.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Security operations teams face a daunting task these days, fending off malicious hackers and their increasingly sophisticated approaches to cracking into networks. That also represents a gap in the market: building tools to help those security teams do their jobs. It’s time for security teams to embrace security data lakes.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

Software architecture: Designing applications and services that integrate seamlessly with other systems, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable and secure and leveraging the established and emerging patterns, libraries and languages. They need to ensure that AI systems are scalable, secure and aligned with business goals.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With these paid versions, our data remains secure within our own tenant, he says. The tools are used to extract information from large documents, to help create presentations, and to summarize lengthy reports and compared documents to find discrepancies. using RAG to provide the model with relevant information.

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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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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

Cybersecurity The February ransomware attack on UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit reinforced cybersecurity as a pressing concern for executives across the country, and the continuing fallout that includes a federal investigation keeping the issue in the spotlight. Foundry / CIO.com 3. Risk management came in at No.

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