CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta. The firm had seen continuous patterns of activity that showed that bad actors tried to get passwords to privileged user accounts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In the rush to build, test and deploy AI systems, businesses often lack the resources and time to fully validate their systems and ensure they’re bug-free. In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

AI may someday eliminate the IT department, but as Mark Twain once quipped, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” The key to maintaining high-performing IT teams is to motivate them through challenging and interesting work — and, at the same time, assure they are rewarded and recognized for their achievements.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Are agile teams overly stressed with too many priorities? Mounting technical debt from mission-critical systems CIOs have good reason to stress out over rising technical debt and the impact of supporting legacy systems past their end-of-life dates. Is the organization transforming fast enough?

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CO2 Business Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is Bad Leadership? Bad leadership encompasses a range of behaviors, qualities, and styles that negatively impact an organization , its employees, and its goals. Here are some key aspects that define bad leadership: Poor Communication : Bad leaders often fail to communicate effectively with their team.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Of those, nearly half (49%) said that leader will be part of the C-suite executive team. Both Wiedenbeck and the new CIO report to the executive office, consisting of the CEO and the president/COO. Both Wiedenbeck and the new CIO report to the executive office, consisting of the CEO and the president/COO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Now it has shifted back to its roots as a self-reporting tracker for personal nutrition and has a healthy $30 million chunk of change (and a $303 million valuation) under its belt to onboard over 250,000 people who have been patiently waiting for this moment, Ingrid reports. Startups and VC. Where’s your plans, friends?

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

The proper use of unstructured data will become of increasing importance to IT leaders,” says Kevin Miller, CTO of enterprise software developer IFS. “It When different departments, business units, or groups keep data stored in systems not available to others, it diminishes the value of the data.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Barely a year after the release of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, 75% of surveyed companies have already put them to work, according to a VentureBeat report. Hallucinations occur when the data being used to train LLMs is of poor quality or incomplete. Continually upgrade data quality. Security guardrails.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This exec loved my client and compared him quite favorably to his predecessor who, the exec said, regularly “inspired his team to underperformance.”. The essence of his answer was that the predecessor leader didn’t set high enough expectations for his team and failed to even follow through on the low bar that he did set.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Some of these things are related to cost/benefit tradeoffs, but most are about weak telemetry, instrumentation, and tooling. Latency is often unpredictable.

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Tenable

AUGUST 2, 2024

IBM’s latest “Cost of a Data Breach Report” finds these data-theft incidents getting more expensive. Plus, the IT-ISAC says that ransomware attacks fell in Q2 due to law-enforcement disruptions of ransomware groups. Meanwhile, check out a Carnegie Mellon comp sci professor’s take on AI system security. Business runs on data.

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OverOps

MARCH 26, 2019

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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Ivanti

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Legacy cybersecurity systems – many designed over a decade ago – fail to account for the new breed of attacker capabilities and vulnerabilities – nor for the reliance on human configuration that is the Achilles heel of so much software. Secure by Design principles stress embedded security throughout software design and development.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

Threats have evolved from malware and denial-of-service attacks in the early days of ecommerce bad actors, to ransomware attacks that threaten the ability of a business to operate. In another, “Over half of organizations report cybersecurity posture to the board of directors at least quarterly.” ( IDC Worldwide CEO Survey , February 2024).

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Prisma Clud

JUNE 11, 2024

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks provide a set of comprehensive guidelines designed to safeguard systems against prevalent cyber risks. Understanding CIS Benchmarks CIS independently develops and promotes best practices to secure IT systems and data against cyberthreats.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

IT complexity, seen in spiraling IT infrastructure costs, multi-cloud frameworks that require larger teams of software engineers, the proliferation of data capture and analytics, and overlapping cybersecurity applications, is the hallmark—and also the bane—of the modern enterprise. 81% believe that reducing it creates a competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

As of 2020, the clothing sector lost about $27 billion in annual sales due to counterfeits, an illicit trade that results in huge losses to both brands and buyers. Clothes, accessories and luxury goods are the most popular product items for counterfeiting, according to the 2022 intellectual property crime threat assessment report.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

Leading CIOs are empowering their teams to make the digital estate as accessible as the physical buildings of the business, and they’re right to do so. Nguyen has been at the forefront of accessibility at the U of M with the support of the institution’s CIO and leadership team. billion in lost revenue. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

. “Coming from engineering and machine learning backgrounds, [Heartex’s founding team] knew what value machine learning and AI can bring to the organization,” Malyuk told TechCrunch via email. ” Software developers Malyuk, Maxim Tkachenko, and Nikolay Lyubimov co-founded Heartex in 2019.

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2024

Plus, how to cut cyber risk when migrating SCADA systems to the cloud. Treasury Department has issued a report aimed at helping banks and other financial institutions address this emerging AI threat. Develop and implement an AI risk management framework tailored specifically for your organization and its use cases.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The Tenable Cloud Risk Report 2024 reveals that nearly four in 10 organizations have workloads that are publicly exposed, contain a critical vulnerability and have excessive permissions. To determine the most exploitable vulnerabilities the team applied Tenable’s Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) to common cloud CVEs.

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Tenable

JULY 14, 2023

Plus, check out the 25 most dangerous software weaknesses. Also, what developers like about AI tools – and what they don’t. National Cyber Security Centre) “ Four critical steps for CI/CD security ” (SC Magazine) 2 – MITRE ranks nastiest software weaknesses MITRE’s annual list of the most dangerous software weaknesses is out.

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OverOps

MARCH 18, 2019

We hop on a war-room conference call that includes developers, Ops and executives, all trying to figure out what happened and how to handle the situation. The right person from the right team can be aware of what happened and how much they spent in regarding to this single issue, but what about the elements that lay beneath the surface?

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Team members who work remotely face communication challenges every day. Regular communication between teams can lead to higher job satisfaction, which reduces absenteeism, sick days, and turnover. Communication can be tricky to master in remote teams, but it is not impossible. Remote teams have unique communication needs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While it addresses a broad spectrum of objectives for the AI ecosystem and builds upon previous directives related to AI, it is not without its challenges, notably a lack of accountability and specific timelines alongside potentially over-reaching reporting requirements. AI must be regulated.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Developing generative AI implementation strategies will be imperative for technology leaders, prioritizing key areas such as business model building, internal operational improvements, risk mitigation, and overall organizational efficiency. This year, GenAI and Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, are positioned as vectors of change.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

LLMs are nondeterministic black boxes that people use in ways you can’t possibly predict while still in development. Developing apps around LLMs creates an entire host of challenges that can’t be debugged in local development. These systems are powerful and they play a role similar to unit testing.

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found. Knowing these values allows management and team members across the company to take action in ensuring high quality at a lower cost.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Frustrated by the lack of generative AI tools, he discovers a free online tool that analyzes his data and generates the report he needs in a fraction of the usual time. The generated code could contain undetected malicious code that further risks the severe consequences of a data breach and system downtime.

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CIO

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizations have been transitioning away from legacy, monolithic platforms as these decades-old IT systems bog down management, flexibility, and agility with their tightly entangled components. Independently developing, testing, deploying, and scaling your infrastructure requires expertise, agility, and a shift in team responsibilities.

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Prisma Clud

MARCH 7, 2023

Change also cycles rapidly, particularly with cloud-native application development, where everything from IP addresses to containers is ephemeral. Our goal in this report remains the same, to provide you with empirical insights and inform your cloud-native security decisions in 2023 and beyond.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And, perhaps most importantly, they are less likely to have time to foster talent by assisting their reports with upskilling, a crucial part of any IT department. Part of the problem, Clark says, is that middle managers in IT need to get up to speed quickly on new technology and integrate it into existing systems.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Assess the personality strengths and weaknesses of the candidate to understand whether they can execute responsibilities in the long run or not. For example, a front-end developer should have good knowledge of Python and front-end languages such as HTML/ CSS, Javascript, XML, etc. It’s time to break the old patterns of tech interviews.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2024

“We like to make the distinction that it’s about fixing systems, not fixing women,” says Ashcraft. NCWIT’s Workforce Alliance is for professionals and organizations who want to learn more about retaining employees, inclusive leadership, and creating systemic organizational change.

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