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How CISOs can work with business leaders to harness the power of AI
Enterprises are poised to pour $227 billion into AI in 2025 – two-thirds of it on embedded, mission-critical deployments, according to IDC’s FutureScape 2025 forecast. That ambition is colliding with a sharp rise in risk, however: Gigamon’s 2025 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey finds 91 % of CISOs are already re-calibrating hybrid-cloud defences after AI-linked system compromise rates jumped 17 %…
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Application security risk: How leaders can protect their businesses
The increasingly complex nature of software combined with pressure to develop and rollout new features quickly makes application security a growing challenge. Application development infrastructure is full of significant security risks, according to research by Legit Security. The issue is widespread – the researchers found high or critical risks in the developer environments of every company it examined. And there…
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Great teams make the difference in tech – not great leaders
There’s a way of viewing the past called the ‘Great Man’ theory. Born two centuries ago, but with its tendrils throughout western culture up to our current political moment, the idea is that history is shaped by a select, chosen few who leave their mark on the world. The names may change. For some it might be Churchill versus Roosevelt,…
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Software sprawl is getting out of control: 86% of IT leaders say disparate tools are creating financial strain and security risks – but consolidation is now a ‘high priority’
Software sprawl is killing business growth, according to new research, with tools meant to simplify operations actually making them much more complex. With more than three-quarters of UK mid-market firms planning to boost their software spend this year, a report from Nintex shows this sharpened focus on rapid adoption means interoperability is being neglected. Three-in-ten IT leaders said they were…
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Reliance on US tech providers is making IT leaders skittish
UK IT leaders have voiced serious concerns about the influence of big US cloud providers in the wake of tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. A survey of over 1,000 UK IT leaders from Civo shows more than 60% of respondents believe the UK government should cut its use of US cloud services. Key concerns highlighted in the report include…
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The edge devices security risk: What leaders can do
In today’s complex IT environment, an abundance of legacy infrastructure combined with a lack of visibility and patching make network edge devices a major security risk. It’s therefore no surprise that compromised network edge devices have rapidly emerged as one of the biggest attack points for small and medium sized businesses. That’s according to statistics from Sophos’ Annual Threat Report,…
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The UK government hopes AI will supercharge public sector digital transformation – IT leaders aren’t so sure
Virtually all UK public sector organizations are still working through digital transformation projects, according to research from SolarWinds, but just 6% say they’ve fully completed the job. While six-in-ten public sector IT decision makers told SolarWinds that advancing digital transformation is a top future priority, only 42% say their efforts are well underway. “These findings show that while digital transformation…
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More than a third of UK tech leaders admit they’ve cut staff in favor of AI – but now they regret making hasty redundancies
With the threat of AI-related job losses growing, a significant portion of tech leaders fear they may have created longer-term problems by cutting staff in favor of the technology, new research shows. Analysis from Orgvue found that 39% of business leaders in the UK made employees redundant as a result of AI adoption last year, but of those more than…
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Lessons for IT leaders from Monday’s massive European blackout – Computerworld
There is, he said, “some speculation that the cause may have been an ‘extremely rare atmospheric phenomenon’ or a fire on a French transmission line, but it seems officials have also not ruled out anything cyber so far. This is interesting, because the first two potential causes are physical, and the third one is digital. Our modern grids today live…
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Business leaders are having a crisis of confidence over data literacy
Business leaders are under immense pressure to back up their decisions with data, but data skills and literacy issues are creating a crisis of confidence. Research from Salesforce, released as part of a new product launch, found that more than three-quarters of business leaders think the growth in AI increases their need to be data-driven. Unfortunately, though, many are struggling.…
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