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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

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More than half of users surveyed initially take stock of their existing IT infrastructure. Two thirds of those surveyed see the consolidation and standardization of their application landscape and platforms as prerequisite for being able to successfully outsource workloads to the cloud. The motives for this approach are also revealing.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. But despite such challenges, CIOs say they’re meeting them head on. Here’s how.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. According to G2’s latest state of software report, AI is the fastest-growing software category in G2 history. Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Then there’s housekeeping.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

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No review of 2023 would be complete without mentioning the explosion of AI into the public eye, like ChatGPT and Copilot. How it happened: The exact attack vector remains unclear, but experts speculate social engineering or a software vulnerability could be responsible. The company estimated total damages at $356 million.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CIS Guide Outlines How To Attain an Affordable Cyber Hygiene Foundation

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Plus, the Cyber Safety Review Board issues urgent security recommendations on its Lapsus$ report – and announces it’ll next delve into cloud security. When completed, the review will offer recommendations aimed at arming cloud computing customers and providers with cybersecurity best practices. Check out what a study found.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Log4j Anniversary, CI/CD Risks, Infostealers, Email Attacks, OT Security

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Cyber Safety Review Board published a 50-plus page report on the Log4j event, and a key takeaway was that Log4Shell is an “endemic vulnerability” that’ll be around for a decade — or perhaps longer. . 4 - Cybersecurity looms large in SMB software purchases. have made cybersecurity a key factor in their software purchasing decisions.