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Unauthorized AI is eating your company data, thanks to your employees

CIO

Legal documents, HR data, source code, and other sensitive corporate information is being fed into unlicensed, publicly available AIs at a swift rate, leaving IT leaders with a mounting shadow AI mess.

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Decision-Making and Deep Tech with Laura Thomas: Insights from a Former CIA Officer

Ooda Loop

In this episode of OODAcast, Bob Gourley interviews Laura Thomas, a deep tech consultant and former CIA officer. Laura discusses her journey from a small town in North Carolina to a career in the CIA, where she served as a case officer. She emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and decision-making under uncertainty, and how these skills have translated to her work in deep tech.

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These Services Shall Not Pass: Abusing Service Tags to Bypass Azure Firewall Rules (Customer Action Required)

Tenable

Azure customers whose firewall rules rely on Azure Service Tags, pay attention: You could be at risk due to a vulnerability detected by Tenable Research. Here’s what you need to know to determine if you’re affected, and if so, what you should do right away to protect your Azure environment from attackers. Tenable Research has discovered a vulnerability in Azure that allows an attacker to bypass firewall rules based on Azure Service Tags by forging requests from trusted services.

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Testing server calls in generated HTML

Martin Fowler

Matteo Vaccari completes his article on testing template-generated HTML, by looking at how to use TDD with pages that make calls to the server.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Onboarding New Employees in a Hybrid Workplace

Harvard Business Review

As you’re navigating hybrid work, it’s a good moment to assess how your onboarding processes enable or empower your new hires to thrive. Researchers at Microsoft have conducted and identified studies that suggest that onboarding to a new role, team, or company is a key moment for building connections with the new manager and team and doing so a few days in person provides unique benefits.

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Commercial Leadership in the C-Suite: N2Growth’s Expertise

N2Growth Blog

The C-Suite Executives Role in Business Strategy The C-Suite executive team comprises the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), and other high-ranking ‘chief’ executives. This top-level team holds significant decision-making power and deeply influences the company’s trajectory by formulating, implementing, and overseeing long-term strategy to establish sustainable growth for the organization.

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GitHub – On-Prem Server Connectivity Using Self-Hosted Runners

Perficient

Various deployment methods, including cloud-based (e.g., CloudHub) and on-premises, are available to meet diverse infrastructure needs. GitHub, among other tools, supports versioning and code backup, while CI/CD practices automate integration and deployment processes, enhancing code quality and speeding up software delivery. GitHub Actions, an automation platform by GitHub, streamlines building, testing, and deploying software workflows directly from repositories.

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Why Is Kubernetes Debugging So Problematic?

Dzone - DevOps

Debugging application issues in a Kubernetes cluster can often feel like navigating a labyrinth. Containers are ephemeral by design and intended to be immutable once deployed. This presents a unique challenge when something goes wrong and we need to dig into the issue. Before diving into the debugging tools and techniques, it's essential to grasp the core problem: why modifying container instances directly is a bad idea.

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Is your data ready for AI? CIOs lack answers

CIO

As CIOs and other tech leaders face pressure to adopt AI, many organizations are still skipping a crucial first step for successful deployments: putting their data house in order. Despite warnings going back at least six years , many CIOs fail to collect and organize the vast amount of data their organizations continuously generate, according to some data management vendors.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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How AI Can Make Make Us Better Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Humans are good at inventing tools, but not as good at adapting to the change these tools can cause. While there has been much focus on the technical impacts and potential dark side of AI, the authors’ research has shown that AI can enhance and empower leadership, actually helping make leaders more human. To do this, we need to invest just as much in the development of our human potential as we do in harnessing the power of AI.

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Cisco Adds Generative AI and Deeper Splunk Integrations to AppDynamics

DevOps.com

Several Cisco platforms will gradually be integrated into a single data platform, including Cisco AppDynamics, the Cisco ThousandEyes networking monitor service and the Splunk platform.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST Program Assesses How AI Systems Will Behave in the Real World, While FBI Has Troves of Decryption Keys for LockBit Victims

Tenable

Check out the new ARIA program from NIST, designed to evaluate if an AI system will be safe and fair once it’s launched. Plus, the FBI offers to help LockBit victims with thousands of decryption keys. In addition, Deloitte finds that boosting cybersecurity is key for generative AI deployment success. And why identity security is getting harder. And much more!

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Complaints in EU challenge Meta’s plans to utilize personal data for AI

CIO

Meta is facing renewed scrutiny over privacy concerns as the privacy advocacy group NOYB has lodged complaints in 11 countries against the company’s plans to use personal data for training its AI models. NOYB has called on national regulators to take immediate action against Meta in 10 European Union member states and in Norway, arguing that changes to the company’s privacy policy due to enter effect on June 26 would permit the use of extensive personal data, including posts, private images, and

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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GenAI Is Leveling the Playing Field for Smaller Businesses

Harvard Business Review

Typically, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) don’t have the resources to hunker down at an annual strategy retreat or to stop everything they’re doing to respond to unexpected emergencies or events that threaten the bottom line. This puts them at a disadvantage compared to their larger competitors. This article shows how AI is proving to be a transformative force for small and medium enterprises.

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Building A New Toolkit to Ensure Accurate AI Predictions

DevOps.com

Meta created an internal toolkit to help improve the accuracy of AI predictions. Its engineers say it has a hefty set of features that makes a big difference.

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CVE-2024-4577: Proof of Concept Available for PHP-CGI Argument Injection Vulnerability

Tenable

Researchers disclose a critical severity vulnerability affecting PHP installations and provide proof-of-concept exploit code, which could lead to remote code execution. Background On June 6, maintainers of PHP released updates to address a critical vulnerability affecting installations where PHP is used in CGI mode. As part of a coordinated release, researchers at DEVCORE published a blog post with their analysis of the vulnerability and its impact.

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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

CIO

Facts, it has been said, are stubborn things. For generative AI, a stubborn fact is that it consumes very large quantities of compute cycles, data storage, network bandwidth, electrical power, and air conditioning. As CIOs respond to corporate mandates to “just do something” with genAI, many are launching cloud-based or on-premises initiatives. But while the payback promised by many genAI projects is nebulous, the costs of the infrastructure to run them is finite, and too often, unacceptably hi

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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5 Signs Your One-on-Ones Aren’t Working

Harvard Business Review

Despite all that one-on-one meetings can offer, they can be challenging to navigate, whether you’re new to management or have spent several years in a leadership role. Here some signs that your one-on-ones have gone stale, are unproductive, or are falling short of their potential: you don’t want to go to the meeting, you always go over time, you can’t fill the time, you leave every meeting feeling deflated, or you and your direct report are both on second screens.

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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of evolving into learning organizations to remain competitive and adapt to continuous market changes. A learning organization fosters ongoing learning, innovation, and improvement among its members. Continual improvement is essential for staying competitive.

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Crossing The Series A Chasm

Crunchbase News

As we get deeper into 2024, there is increasing concern about the state of Series A fundraising. The bar for investment appears much higher , and fewer startups are reaching it. This is a problem for founders, and investors like Jenny Fielding , managing partner of Everywhere Ventures , who said, “Every Seed investor’s dilemma: All my Series A buddies want to meet my companies early!

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IT leaders’ AI talent needs hinge on reskilling

CIO

CIOs and HR managers are changing their equations on hiring and training, with a bigger focus on reskilling current employees to make good on the promise of AI technologies. That shift is in no small part due to an AI talent market increasingly stacked against them. With AI talent in high demand, the shortage of AI technicians available will only get worse, some hiring experts say, as job postings for workers with AI expertise are growing 3.5 times faster than for all jobs, according to a recent

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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How to Work for an Overly Critical Boss

Harvard Business Review

Your boss points out what’s going wrong more often than what’s going right. They nitpick your work, highlighting every possibility for improvement. Meetings sometimes feel like inquisitions. While a generally difficult boss might be challenging due to their mood swings, lack of clarity, or unpredictability, a highly critical boss consistently focuses on “the gap,” not the gain.

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The Next Wave of Digital Transformation: What Leaders Need to Know

N2Growth Blog

The Current Digital Landscape Today’s digital landscape is constantly changing, revolutionizing how businesses and industries operate. Extensive networks, data streams, and state-of-the-art digital technologies are increasingly becoming the foundation of modern operational strategies. The rapid development and widespread adoption of new technologies present both opportunities and challenges for leaders to manage.

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A Pacific Island With Ties to Taiwan Was Hacked. Was It Political? 

Ooda Loop

The U.S. recently finalized plans to give Palau, a group of about 350 small islands in the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of millions of dollars in aid over two decades. Immediately afterwards, the island nation was hit by a cyberattack where over 20,000 documents were stolen from the government.

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Responsible AI Institute offers new AI policy template

CIO

The Responsible AI Institute has launched an AI policy template designed to help enterprises develop their own company-wide responsible AI policies. Some enterprises struggle with executing a critical step in their AI journeys: developing and establishing AI guardrails and ethical policies within their organization, according to the Texas-based non-profit, whose members include Amazon Web Services, Boston Consulting Group, ATB Financial, and Shell.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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The Importance of Setting Boundaries with Your Mentor

Harvard Business Review

In a mentorship, having clear boundaries — along with responses to share when those limits are transgressed — is important for safeguarding your mental health, your privacy, and your productivity. To establish them, have a conversation with your mentor, preferably at the start of the relationship. You can start by flipping the script and asking your mentor about their boundaries first: “Since this is all new, though, I wanted to ask: What boundaries do you want to have around our mentoring relat

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GenAI Marks a Shift to Intelligent Experience Orchestration

IDC

GenAI is revolutionizing enterprises with hyper-personalization, like predicting grocery orders and offering tailored promos, enhancing customer experiences and value.

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Beyond Compliance: How the SEC’s Materiality Rules Should Transform Cybersecurity Oversight

Ooda Loop

Assessing materiality of a breach sounds easy. But in reality it will require many corporations to re-think the governance processes they have in place. This post provides insights which can help accelerate improvement of the quality and compliance of materiality decisions. It is based on decades of work in cybersecurity governance and a deep understanding of the new SEC regulations.