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CIOs eager to scale AI despite difficulty demonstrating ROI, survey finds

CIO

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 promising surge in the use of AI technologies across various industries.

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Digital addiction detox: Streamline tech to maximize impact, minimize risks

CIO

] Forty-one percent of organizations adopted and used digital platforms for all or most functions in 2024, compared with just 26% in 2023, according to IDC’s May 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 5. These technologies often do not undergo a complete vetting process, are not inventoried, and stay under the radar.

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10 projects top of mind for IT leaders today

CIO

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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The evolving role of security and IT in DR and incident response

CIO

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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IP and cybersecurity disputes are top legal concerns for tech companies

TechCrunch

head of Technology and the U.S. head of eDiscovery and Information Governance. No industry is a stranger to litigation, but for the tech sector, it appears intellectual property (IP) and patent disputes, followed by cybersecurity and data protection issues, are among the top legal matters that keep tech company managers up at night.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO

A member of your organization’s security team reads about a new kind of security tool and brings it to the CISO’s attention, who decides that it’s a good investment. The CISO sees a new kind of security threat that requires a different security tool. A colleague recommends a security tool she says is indispensable.

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German firms shed light on CrowdStrike disaster’s fallout

CIO

A recent survey of 331 German companies provides a look at the business and IT consequences of the CrowdStrike outage on July 19, 2024. Businesses rendered inoperable for 10 hours Almost two thirds of those surveyed (62%) felt the effects of the CrowdStrike outage directly.

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