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Six technical security trends CISOs need to know in 2023

Organizations face countless potential cybersecurity threats as they pursue digital transformation and criminals evolve their attack techniques. Even the most well-funded enterprises cannot address every one of these threats. Responding effectively is about validating and prioritizing the risks that are most impactful for the business. Security and risk management leaders must refine their strategy to ...

Blink Copilot shows how generative AI can supercharge cloud security operations

No-code security automation platform Blink Ops today announced the launch of Blink Copilot, a generative artificial intelligence assistant designed to generate cloud security operations workflows on-demand.  The solution, based on LLMs provided by Microsoft Corp., Google LLC’s Bard and OpenAI LP, has been trained on thousands of security workflows so that it can automatically generate no-code ...
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IBM doubles down on generative AI and hybrid cloud

Returning to live in-person events, our overriding impression from IBM Corp.’s annual Think event a couple weeks back was that the company showed unusual discipline by confining the focus to a couple of core themes: generative AI and hybrid cloud. Given the hype around generative AI with the public preview of ChatGPT and the central ...

CIOs’ relationship with AI is complicated, but they have hopes for a promising future

Artificial intelligence — its value, risks and utility in enterprise scenarios — not surprisingly dominated the discussion at this week’s MIT CIO Symposium, one of the year’s biggest gatherings of senior information technology executives. Although the agenda revolved around tried-and-true topics such as digital transformation and the business value of IT, discussions invariably turned to ...
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Dear CEO: Your employees are already using AI to do their work. What’s your AI plan?

Employees are already using AI tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and Midjourney to do some of their work.  They are using it at work (on your network), on their phones and at home. Although AI is not yet fully integrated into every piece of software used within the workplace, one should be under no illusion that ...
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How technology service providers can raise their relevance in 2023

Economic challenges that include inflation and the looming possibility of a recession continue to create uncertainty in technology markets. Yet despite recent turbulence, a recent Gartner Inc. survey found that 72% of high-tech leaders have plans to grow revenue in 2023, and nearly half of those leaders believe they will be able to outperform their ...
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Searching for gold in enterprise AI

The artificial intelligence gold rush is on. The paths to monetization are seemingly endless but the most obvious converge on making humans more productive or supercharging existing business models such as search advertising or subscription licenses. Much of AI adoption in enterprise information technology is hidden. Our research shows a very high overlap (around 40% ...

Isovalent’s Cilium Mesh bridges gap between Kubernetes and legacy workloads

Open-sourced platform Cilium was created by Isovalent Inc. to help address the rising security and networking challenges emerging as cloud-native environments, including Kubernetes, grow in scale and complexity. Recently, Isovalent introduced Cilium Service Mesh, which goes even further by enabling users to now connect workloads and systems across multiple clouds and on-premise locations. “This week ...

Reflections on Kubecon + CloudNativeCon EU

In the run-up to Open Source Summit NA in Vancouver next week, I wanted to reflect on what happened a week ago in Amsterdam. A sold-out event with more than 10,500 people showed up in real life at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in the Netherlands. Of those, 58% had never been to a KubeCon themselves, including ...
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Innovation targets hard problems at RSA Conference

The RSA Conference 2023 is now in the books, hosting more than 40,000 attendees and hundreds of exhibitors at San Francisco’s Moscone Center and giving chief information security officers and other cybersecurity professionals a mind-numbing shopping list of must-have security gear. My mission: Narrow down the throngs of vendors to a handful of innovative standouts – ...