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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

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To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going. “If He didn’t realize his job was not just to suggest a bunch of new security capabilities, but business enablement.

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Customer centricity: How Mashreq Bank is placing its customers at the forefront of its operations.

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How did these changes help improve your business performance last year? Over the last fiscal year, these efforts have yielded notable improvements in business performance, with increased customer satisfaction, more efficient processes, and higher overall productivity.

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Is your print environment secure? Here’s why it should be your 2024 priority

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The adversaries, at least for now, have the upper hand on many global organisations,” the report concluded. Quocirca acknowledged many instances of data loss through unsecured printing were simply the result of printed output falling into the wrong hands. Its conclusions were less than optimal.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO

The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. And with the number of extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and geopolitical conflicts continuing to rise, business leaders are bracing for the possibility of increasingly more frequent impactful incidents their organizations will need to respond to.

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Aligning security and business strategies

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By Sean Duca, vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks Some economists predict that we could soon face a global recession. During the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent recession, researchers noted that cybercrime rates increased dramatically.

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IT leaders grapple with shadow AI

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Result: dramatic productivity gains and potentially game-changing business advantage. Consequently, Parsons settled on the use of data-loss prevention (DLP) tools to prevent data exfiltration via generative AI. Employees are going to use this. Michele Goetz, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, agrees.

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The new CIO mandate: Selling AI to employees

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As organizations roll out AI applications and AI-enabled smartphones and devices, IT leaders may need to sell the benefits to employees or risk those investments falling short of business expectations. CIOs are company executives and change agents first, and technologists second,” he says. With gen AI, there’s more enthusiasm.

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