TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Saket Modi is the co-founder and CEO of Safe Security, a cybersecurity and digital business risk quantification platform company. Today’s cybersecurity landscape requires an agile and data-driven risk management strategy to deal with the ever-expanding third-party attack surface. Saket Modi. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 26, 2024

However, these advancements come with heightened security risks. This expanded attack surface has made OT systems a prime target for cyber threats, underscoring the need for a robust security framework tailored to remote OT environments. However, visibility alone is not enough.

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MARCH 13, 2025

Hes seeing the need for professionals who can not only navigate the technology itself, but also manage increasing complexities around its surrounding architectures, data sets, infrastructure, applications, and overall security. Other surveys found a similar gap. Weve been innovating with AI, ML, and LLMs for years, he says.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy. Other key uses include fraud detection, cybersecurity, and image/speech recognition. Data security, data quality, and data governance still raise warning bells Data security remains a top concern.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Intro: Time was, a call center agent could be relatively secure in knowing who was at the other end of the line. And if they werent, multi-factor authentication (MFA), answers to security questions, and verbal passwords would solve the issue. How fraudsters use audio deepfakes 1. Often, bots are involved in this process.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

According to IDCs July 2024 CIO Sentiment Survey , 26% of CIOs identify recruiting, retaining, and upskilling talent as their biggest challenge to success. Take cybersecurity, for example. Only 8% of organizations have a relatively easy time finding qualified cybersecurity experts.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Unsurprisingly, this is leading to staff frustration and burnout, dissatisfied end users and persistent security vulnerabilities. As many as 56% of IT workers 1 say the help desk ticket volume is up, according to a recent survey by software vendor Ivanti. High quality data is essential for effective AI. Click here to find out more.

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CIO

MAY 5, 2025

CIO.coms 24th annual 2025 State of the CIO research , which surveyed 906 IT leaders and 250 LOB professionals, confirms IT leaders are ramping up their strategic focus this year, in part to convert early AI experimentation into initiatives that deliver measurable business results.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

In fact, a recent Cloudera survey found that 88% of IT leaders said their organization is currently using AI in some way. Cloudera’s survey revealed that 39% of IT leaders who have already implemented AI in some way said that only some or almost none of their employees currently use any kind of AI tools.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

Deloitte surveyed 2,773 director- to C-suite-level respondents experienced with AI, piloting, or implementing gen AI for the Q4 survey between July and September 2024. In the Q1 survey, 28% of respondents cited it as a barrier, but in this Q4 survey, that figure climbed 10 percentage points to 38%.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

Launched in 2022, its the most-used gen AI tool in the enterprise, with 62% of respondents to the recent Wharton survey saying they currently use it and 28% saying they dont currently use it but are evaluating or testing it. Wharton found 40% of respondents to its survey are currently using Gemini, and 39% are evaluating or testing it.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In the latest McKinsey Global Survey on AI, 65% of participants said their companies regularly used AI, a dramatic increase in a very short period. However, it is also becoming a powerful tool for cybercriminals, raising the stakes for OT security. OT environments, however, face unique challenges.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses — and VCs. While a decline from the previous year, venture capital funding in the cybersecurity sector totaled $18.5 PitchBook data shows a decline in cybersecurity valuations at the seed and Series A stages in particular.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

While the 60-year-old mainframe platform wasn’t created to run AI workloads, 86% of business and IT leaders surveyed by Kyndryl say they are deploying, or plan to deploy, AI tools or applications on their mainframes. The survey is cementing the fact that the IT world is hybrid,” she says. “The

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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. Finally, in addition to security and flexibility, cost is a key factor.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Cybersecurity and systemic risk are two sides of the same coin. Although it was not a security event, the symptoms and responses all fall into the various categories of the cybersecurity program for any company. Systemic risk and overall cybersecurity posture require board involvement and oversight.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In fact, EY’s 202 4 Work Reimagined Survey found that Generative AI (GenAI) adoption skyrocketed from 22% in 2023 to 75% in 2024. According to a recent Cloudera survey , just over a quarter (26%) of IT decision-makers said trusted data was a challenge to implementing AI within their organizations.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To dig deeper into what those challenges are, Rocket Software and Forrester Consulting surveyed 309 IT decision-makers worldwide and asked them about their modernization journeys. Just over half of IT decision-makers (51%) surveyed said they attempted at least six app re-write projects due to multiple failures, according to the survey.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

CIOs rank AI as a top priority alongside cybersecurity for IT departments. However, barriers such as adoption speed and security concerns hinder rapid AI integration, according to a new survey. There is a sense of urgency to leverage AI effectively, but adoption speed and security challenges are hindering efforts.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Nearly nine in 10 business leaders say their organizations data ecosystems are ready to build and deploy AI at scale, according to a recent Capital One AI readiness survey. But 84% of the IT practitioners surveyed, including data scientists, data architects, and data analysts, spend at least one hour a day fixing data problems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cybersecurity teams, beware: The defender’s dilemma is a lie Image Credits: A. Martin UW Photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images The Defender’s Dilemma is one of cybersecurity’s touchstones: “Defenders have to be right every time. What’s wrong with the way they are currently solving this problem?

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2025

UIPaths 2025 Agentic AI Report surveyed US IT execs from companies with $1 billion or more in revenue and found that 93% are highly interested in agentic AI for their business. Similarly, software provider Akamai is prioritizing agentic AI where processes are already highly matured and supported by high-quality data and security controls.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

In a survey of 451 senior technology executives conducted by Gartner in mid-2024, a striking 57% of CIOs reported being tasked with leading AI strategies. While some of the surveyed employees in the US, the UK, Australia, India, and China reported saving an average of 3.6

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In a survey of 2,300 IT decision makers that IBM released in December, 47% say theyre already seeing ROI from their AI investments, and 33% say theyre breaking even on AI. According to experts and other survey findings, in addition to sales and marketing, other top use cases include productivity, software development, and customer service.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Nine of 10 CIOs surveyed by Gartner late last year expressed concerns that managing AI costs was limiting their ability to get value from AI. Over 90% of those surveyed said investments in AI and data were top priorities. The company used the sale to reduce debt and to focus on innovation in cloud, security, and AI markets, it said.

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Tenable

MARCH 7, 2025

Check out best practices for shoring up data security and reducing cyber risk. And get the latest on cyber scams; zero-day vulnerabilities; and critical infrastructure security. 1 - CSA: How to boost data security and reduce cyber risk Risk assessment gaps. Plus, get tips on how to improve job satisfaction among tech staff.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Check out a new framework for better securing open source projects. 1 - New cybersecurity framework for open source projects Heres the latest industry effort aimed at boosting open-source software security. OpenSSF created the OSPS Baseline after concluding that open-source project leaders often need help with cybersecurity.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

The firms survey of IT leaders from North America, Asia, and Europe found that a shortage of IT skills has caused delays in product development at 54% of organizations, with 58% reporting product or service quality issues as well. The impacts are huge here, Smith adds.

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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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CIO

MAY 6, 2025

However, managing security on disparate and unmanaged devices is an uphill battle. This challenging new reality requires companies to rethink their security architectures that have not traditionally focused on the browser. There are challenges facing security visibility and controls, too. What can resolve this dilemma?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And get the latest on cloud security, SMBs' MFA use and the CIS Benchmarks. Document the secure baseline configurations for all IT/OT systems. Secure internet-facing devices. Plus, a new guide says AI system audits must go beyond check-box compliance. Meanwhile, a report foresees stronger AI use by defenders and hackers in 2025.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

According to recent data from IDC’s CIO Sentiment Survey (Figure 1), only 38% of organizations have reached a high level of maturity in their digital transformation efforts (with only about 13% claiming full transformation). And yet, these types of metrics are the limpets of IT measurement — encrusted, intractable, and creating drag.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Changing consumer behavior and expectations, competition from major e-retailers, evolving cybersecurity challenges, inflationary pressures, sustainability and environmental concerns, and the pressure to take advantage of AI are all very real concerns for retailers today.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

A Gartner survey of over 300 CIOs found that on average, only 35% of their AI capabilities will be built by their IT teams. In a second quarter 2024 Gartner survey of over 5,000 digital workers in the U.S., In fact, Gartner believes that cost is as big an AI risk as security or hallucinations. hours per week by using GenAI.

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MAY 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Unsurprisingly, AI and machine learning top the list of initiatives CIOs expect their involvement to increase in the coming year, with 80% of respondents to the State of the CIO survey saying so. Other surveys offer similar findings. 1 priority among its respondents as well.

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