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. I think well come to the realization that AI is a great tool, but its not a replacement, Doughty says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

CTO and founder of Reposify , Yaron Tal is a tech entrepreneur and cybersecurity expert with nearly two decades of experience developing cybersecurity software solutions. A deep dive into these deficiencies points to clear solutions all industries – cybersecurity or otherwise – can embrace to protect themselves.

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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. Gen AI uses huge amounts of energy compared to some other AI tools, he notes.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They can’t fall into typical traps like overlooking transparent communication, failing to address the needs of remote or less-engaged stakeholders, or underestimating the influence of non-traditional stakeholders, such as employees using unapproved technology tools.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

These tools still struggle with that bigger picture kind of level, and they also struggle with leveraging functionality that you already have on hand,” he says. “A Gen AI tools are advancing quickly, he says. New code review tools will be needed to help dev teams understand all this code written by AI, Dennison adds.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

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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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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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 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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“It’s essential to analyze the tools available before you decide on a cloud infrastructure provider to keep application maturity and running costs in check,” according to Sashank Purighalla, founder and CEO of BOS Framework. Cybersecurity teams, beware: The defender’s dilemma is a lie Image Credits: A.

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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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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

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

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs and CISOs must stay hyper-vigilant and aggressive in adopting new frameworks and tools. However, CIOs must still demonstrate measurable outcomes and communicate these imperatives to senior leadership to secure investment. Of these, AI is at the top of many CIOs minds. AI assessments will follow suit.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Rather than view this situation as a hindrance, it can be framed as an opportunity to reassess the value of existing tools, with an eye toward potentially squeezing more value out of them prior to modernizing them. A first step, Rasmussen says, is ensuring that existing tools are delivering maximum value.

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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In many cases, using an LLM for simple AI tasks, such as transcribing and translating, can be expensive when cheaper tools are available, LeHong said during a recent webcast. BlackLine has deployed its own AI tools by focusing on projects that affect most employees and customers, Johar says.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Cloud security is one of the big drivers among enterprises making IT investments this year, according to a recent report from Gartner , which estimated that some $4.4 ” Gavish saw this problem first-hand: he worked on privacy and security at Google Cloud prior to founding DoControl. trillion in IT spend overall in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

To start off, it appears that no-code/low-code tools hasn’t had much impact on the number of people working in IT. We believe that IT needs to spend more time thinking about how technology impacts people. We spoke to: Patrick Jean , CTO, OutSystems. Patrick Jean, CTO, OutSystems. Deb Gildersleeve , CIO, Quickbase.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Jit , a startup that helps developers automate product security by codifying their security plans and workflows as code that can then be managed in a code repository like GitHub, today announced that it has raised a $38.5 “Creating a security plan or program is too time-consuming for high-velocity dev and product teams. .

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding their attack surface and exposing themselves to greater cybersecurity threats. Given that threat actors exploit critical vulnerabilities within mere hours of publication, this poses a serious security risk for companies.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Skepticism from IT practitioners is natural, given they will have to work out how to deploy and maintain AI agents, says Tim Armandpour, CTO at PagerDuty. True AI agents will have the freedom to decide on the processes they run and on tool usage and learn from these decisions, she adds.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Spera , a Palo Alto-based security startup that provides businesses with the tools to proactively protect themselves from identity-driven threats, today said it has raised a $10 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures, with participation from a number of prominent angel investors and serial entrepreneurs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The right tools and technologies can keep a project on track, avoiding any gap between expected and realized benefits. Clearing business strategy hurdles Choosing the right technologies to meet an organization’s unique AI goals is usually not straightforward. But this scenario is avoidable.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture principles According to David Mariani , founder and CTO of semantic layer platform AtScale, six principles form the foundation of modern data architecture: View data as a shared asset. Ensure security and access controls. Choose the right tools and technologies. Scalable data pipelines.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

So Greenwald, Shoshan and Sarid, the former CTO of MuleSoft, founded Otterize , which aims to allow developers to securely connect different software services to each other and infrastructure by automatically configuring existing security controls. Otterize today raised $11.5 ” Otterize raises $11.5M

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The engineering ecosystem has undergone a massive paradigm shift – more languages, more frameworks, and minimal technical or procedural barriers to adopt new technologies or implement third-party tools and frameworks. Speed is great, but not when it comes at the expense of security.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hypernative , a crypto security-focused startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth, co-founder and CEO Gal Sagie exclusively told TechCrunch. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. It’s for speed to market,” says CTO Vikram Ramani.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Structured frameworks such as the Stakeholder Value Model provide a method for evaluating how IT projects impact different stakeholders, while tools like the Business Model Canvas help map out how technology investments enhance value propositions, streamline operations, and improve financial performance.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

IT leaders should be under-hypers rather than over-hypers, and promote technology only in the context of business cases. According to Ron Guerrier, CTO of Save the Children Foundation, one way of helping business leaders learn whats really possible is to recommend books to read on AI. This is going to be critical, he says.

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