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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. Capitalizing on technology budgets presents a viable solution. Tracy came along with Atlantic Aviation after that transaction.

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CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise

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Organizations are seeing a dramatic rise in informal adoption of gen AI – tools and platforms used without official sanctioning. A CISO at a major marketing software firm worried about this explicitly, stating, “The real risk is that you have unintentional data leakage of confidential information. Privacy leaks?

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LayerX Security Raises $24M for its Browser Security Platform, Enabling Employees to Work Securely from Any Browser, Anywhere

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LayerX , pioneer of the LayerX Browser Security platform, today announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Glilot+, the early-growth fund of Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital and other investors. LayerX has Fortune 100 clients worldwide.

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Why IT projects still fail

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IT organizations have worked hard to get away from the problems that had plagued their past project delivery processes. They have replaced expansive scopes, the waterfall methodology, and long timelines with iterative development, the agile approach, and multiweek sprints, hoping to avert the big failures that have littered IT’s history.

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Government, Energy, and IT sectors identified as primary targets for cyber threat actors in the UAE

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Cybersecurity in UAE’s companies is one of the top priorities; new work models and growing cyber threats have caused companies to dedicate more staff and capital to mitigating these types of risks. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cyber Security for the UAE Government.

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7 steps for turning shadow IT into a competitive edge

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Ask IT leaders about their challenges with shadow IT, and most will cite the kinds of security, operational, and integration risks that give shadow IT its bad rep. That’s not to downplay the inherent risks of shadow IT. There are ample reasons why 77% of IT professionals are concerned about shadow IT, according to a report from Entrust.

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Why all IT talent should be irreplaceable

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And so far as its financial performance is concerned, Apple’s Return on Invested Capital has diminished dramatically under Cook , from an astronomical 443% under Steve Jobs to a “mere” — which is to say superior — 183%. “The graveyards,” General De Gaulle once ironically observed, “are full of indispensable men.” Take, for example, Apple.

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