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MAY 21, 2024

CIOs and CISOs operate in high-stress environments that can at times place additional strain on their relationship, further distracting them from achieving beneficial outcomes. In my own career, I’ve been a CIO and a CISO, so I have firsthand experience with this issue from both perspectives. Defusing the situation so that the relationship is workable, healthy, and respectful for both parties can be challenging, especially for CISOs, who often reportto the CIO.

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FedSavvy

MAY 21, 2024

On June 5 we start a four part series to explore and explain a true intelligence analysis process and how you can use it to improve your GOVCON competitive intelligence game. We built this webinar series to bring to you an interactive and educational experience using lessons and techniques from our team of analysts. The webinar series is delivered by Brian Lindholm and Bryant Kimball.

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MAY 21, 2024

Business sectors using artificial intelligence are seeing significant gains in productivity while AI skills are commanding higher wages, according to a new PwC report. Industries such as financial services, information technology, and professional services are seeing labor productivity growth nearly five times greater than industries with less AI integration, the consulting firm said in a statement.

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Dataversity

MAY 21, 2024

Technology audit processes have become increasingly important, as they tie directly to adherence to an ever-growing list of compliance frameworks and mandates such as NIST, CIS, SOC 2 ISO 27001, and others. A component of all these regulations pertains to the integrity of enterprise technology management and requires an up-to-date and accurate inventory of all […] The post Technology Audit Processes Are Broken, but Attention and Automation Can Fix Them appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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MAY 21, 2024

With the generative AI gold rush in full swing, some IT leaders are finding generative AI’s first-wave darlings — large language models (LLMs) — may not be up to snuff for their more promising use cases. LLMs, with their advanced ability to comprehend and generate text, have become a near stand-in for generative AI in the collective mindshare. Along with code-generating copilots and text-to-image generators, which leverage a combination of LLMs and diffusion processing, LLMs are at the core of m

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CIO

MAY 21, 2024

ERP vendor Epicor is introducing integrated artificial intelligence (AI) and business intelligence (BI) capabilities it calls the Grow portfolio. Grow will reimagine how AI-powered ERP software can and should serve the supply chain industries and their workers, delivering more than 200 adaptive industry use cases, it said at its Insights 2024 user conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Domo

MAY 21, 2024

Troy Draper is a data guy. So when he joined the leading tile brand, Dal-Tile, as senior vice president of operations and customer experience, he was surprised to learn that data was lacking. Instead, opinions and stories from the field drove their decision-making. With a background that includes business intelligence (BI), Draper needed more than stories—he needed facts.

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CIO

MAY 21, 2024

In the annual Porsche Carrera Cup Brasil, data is essential to keep drivers safe and sustain optimal performance of race cars. Until recently, getting at and analyzing that essential data was a laborious affair that could take hours, and only once the race was over. Today, with the help of Microsoft Fabric, Enzo Morrone, director of operations for Porsche Cup Brasil (pictured), says he and his team of engineers can access that data in real-time during races, transforming everything.

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

Total individual life insurance new annualized premium slipped 1% year over year to $3.76 billion in the first quarter, according to LIMRA’s preliminary U.S. Life Insurance Sales Survey. The total number of policies sold also dropped 1% in the first quarter. The decline doesn’t mean a lack of positive news within the numbers, said John Carroll senior vice president, head of Life & Annuities, LIMRA and LOMA.

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MAY 21, 2024

La C omunidad de Madrid busca, a través del protocolo de colaboración firmado con Microsoft, impulsar la modernización de los servicios públicos, mejorar la personalización de la atención al ciudadano y optimizar los procesos administrativos gracias a la aplicación de la inteligencia artificial (IA). El acuerdo, rubricado por Miguel López-Valverde, consejero de Digitalización del Ejecutivo regional, y Alberto Granados, presidente de Microsoft España, contempla el trabajo conjunto en la definició

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

Integrity’s robust Suite of Solutions will empower the fast-growing agency to bolster its focus on helping agents better protect the life, health and wealth of the clients they serve DALLAS , May 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced it has partnered with Northern Ohio Health and Wellness Benefits , an

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CIO

MAY 21, 2024

Customers around the world have seamlessly migrated their enterprise applications to VMware Cloud on AWS to combine the scale and agility benefits of public cloud with the security, resiliency, and performance benefits of private cloud. VMware first launched this offering with AWS almost seven years ago and it continues to serve customers’ needs today.

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

A direct-sales marketing veteran and executive coach wants to help annuity agents pump their sales up. Brett Blake, the former managing director of Team Beachbody, has acquired Annuity.com Inc. from Bill Broich. He has announced plans to spend $15.7 million to build a platform that agents can use to educate and connect with retirement savers. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post Former Beachbody Exec Buys Annuity.com, Plans $16M Revamp appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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MAY 21, 2024

In today’s digital economy, networks are the backbone of digital productivity. They are crucial in enabling the intelligent transformation of industries by facilitating high-quality digital services. These networks cover all the scenarios of enterprise services, including the access network, the transport network in the wide area, and the data center network.

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

Greg Lindberg, troubled financier and former owner of Colorado Bankers Life Insurance Co., was found guilty Wednesday for a second time of bribing the North Carolina insurance commissioner. The jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts for Lindberg, 53, and consultant John Gray on the two counts they were charged with: bribery and conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, according to court documents.

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CIO

MAY 21, 2024

IBM has showcased its new generative AI -driven Concert offering that is designed to help enterprises monitor and manage their applications. Showcased at the ongoing annual Think conference, IBM Concert will be generally available in June and is underpinned by the watsonx platform. It will serve as the “nerve center” of an enterprise’s IT operation, the company said, adding that the offering will generate insights across an enterprise’s folio of applications to help reduce risk and compliance pr

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

An attorney for embattled financier Greg Lindberg hinted at an appeal two days after his client was convicted for a second time of bribing North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey. “We were genuinely surprised by the verdict. We will continue to fight,” said Brandon McCarthy, partner at Katten, Muchin, Rosenman. Click HERE to read the full story via INN The post We’ll continue to fight’: Greg Lindberg attorney says bribery case isn’t over appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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MAY 21, 2024

Memcyco Inc., provider of digital trust technology designed to protect companies and their customers from digital impersonation fraud, released its inaugural 2024 State of Website Impersonation Scams report. Notably, Memcyco’s research indicates that the majority of companies do not have adequate solutions to counter digital impersonation fraud, and that most only learn about attacks from their customers.

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

With data drawing on 266 million cases, white paper suggests the rule of thumb can cause retirement plans to massively overshoot clients’ actual needs. A new white paper from HealthView Services, a leading provider of retirement cost data and planning tools for the financial industry, is challenging the industry practice of planning for clients to live to age 95.

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

The tax benefits of private placement variable annuities for wealthy clients are drawing scrutiny and calls for a federal crackdown — but they’re not going away anytime soon. Deferral or the outright avoidance of taxes on income, capital gains and estates has drawn billions of dollars to private placement life insurance and annuities. The growth of the life insurance product — a similar but more complicated strategy with higher potential savings for clients — amounts to contracts totaling

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

DES MOINES, May 13, 2024 – F&G Annuities & Life announced the appointment of John Currier to the position of President, continuing to report to Chris Blunt, Chief Executive Officer. In addition to his role as President of F&G, Mr. Currier will continue to have responsibility for the Retail Markets business unit. Chris Blunt, Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Over the past nine years, John has been an invaluable member of our team having demonstrated exceptional leadership, s

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

Associations for life insurers and financial advisors laud the move, renews call for “sensible protections” around guaranteed lifetime income products. The cross-country movement of states embracing the best interest annuity rule for consumers has just gained more ground in the South. Click HERE to read the full story via InvestmentNews The post Louisiana adopts annuity best-interest standard appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Pacific Life has been named a national 2024 Civic 50 honoree by Points of Light, acknowledging it as one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States. The Civic 50 sets the standard for corporate citizenship and showcases how leading companies are moving social impact and community to the core of their businesses.

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

LANSING, Mich.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Jackson National Life Insurance Company (Jackson®), the main operating subsidiary of Jackson Financial Inc. 1 (NYSE: JXN), today released key findings from its study on how consumers and financial professionals perceive inflation risk and the associated impacts on retirement income planning. The study is the second installment of Jackson’s Security in Retirement Series conducted in partnership with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston

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Wink Intel

MAY 21, 2024

OLDWICK, N.J.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a+” (Excellent) of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. (Lincoln, NE) and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York (New York, NY). These insurance entities comprise the life/health operations of Ameritas Mutual Holding Company (all companies are collectively referred to as Ameritas).

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