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Why 81% of organizations plan to adopt zero trust by 2026

CIO

Overall, 65% of organizations plan to replace VPN services within the year, a 23% jump from last years findings. Meanwhile, 96% of organizations favor a zero trust approach, and 81% plan to implement zero trust strategies within the next 12 months. But as cyber threats evolve, VPNs have shifted from trusted tools to major liabilities.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Operator Panda, which seems to be CrowdStrikes name for the group known as Salt Typhoon, specializes in exploiting internet-facing appliances such as Cisco switches.

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Gen AI in 2025: Playtime is over, time to get practical

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Generative AI playtime may be over, as organizations cut down on experimentation and pivot toward achieving business value, with a focus on fewer, more targeted use cases. In some cases, pilot failure rates of 50% or more have forced organizations to rethink the number of pilots they spin up, Wells says.

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OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets

TechCrunch

and Western-centric, partly because Western images dominated the internet when the data sets were compiled. It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- All rights reserved.

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record.

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6 IT leadership organizations CIOs should consider joining

CIO

Joining an IT leadership organization CIOs not only establish friendly relationships with other tech leaders but also gain valuable insights on the latest IT, business, and leadership trends. By making connections, CIOs can continuously add value to their organization and their career by learning from colleagues and peers.”

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The dawn of agentic AI: Are we ready for autonomous technology?

CIO

Organizations could use agentic AI to try to defeat themselves, much like a red team exercise. The internet did the same thing. Before ecommerce, people didnt trust buying things on the internet, and they wouldnt put their credit card information online. It gets kind of scary. But there are defenses. Its a different world now.