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Grand Bank's Success Story: Enhancing Vendor Management with Ivanti's External Attack Surface Management Solution

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"As we moved to the cloud, it became evident that this approach was necessary for our cloud assets and vendors as well. Evaluating vendor security proved especially difficult. We required a method to assess our vendors' security stance," said Robert Hanson, CTO of Grand Bank.

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Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Cited in BizTechReports

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Hockenberry is a proven technologist and business executive with over 20 years of experience working with all aspects of IT to assist enterprises in better utilizing technology to create, deploy and operate unique and innovative solutions and provide mission and competitive advantage.

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Mitigating cyber risks: the essential role of collaboration for Middle East organizations

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The panelists identified three high-risk functions that organizations in the Middle East must prioritize—credential management, vendor management, and patch management. These areas, often neglected or poorly managed, can expose businesses to serious vulnerabilities.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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Last summer, a faulty CrowdStrike software update took down millions of computers, caused billions in damages, and underscored that companies are still not able to manage third-party risks, or respond quickly and efficiently to disruptions. It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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But things are going to get really interesting when agents start talking to each other, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. Multi-agent systems Sure, AI agents are interesting. It wont happen overnight, of course, and companies will need to be careful that these agentic systems dont go off the rails.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

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Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. They encourage seamless communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization and in some cases playing mediator.