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Wednesday’s Briefing · August 7

CIO, Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Solving The Tech Debt Problem While Staying Competitive And Secure

While CIOs recognize that tech debt is a big barrier to key strategic initiatives, they often deprioritize it. Here's guidance to navigate management of tech debt while investing in innovative technologies and protecting the organization from cybersecurity threats. more →

Solving The Tech Debt Problem While Staying Competitive And Secure

HelpNet Security, Thursday, August 1st, 2024

Threat Intelligence: A Blessing And A Curse?

Access to timely and accurate threat intelligence is now core to security operations for many organizations. Today, it seems that security teams are blessed with an abundance of data and intelligence feeds to choose from. more →

Threat Intelligence: A Blessing And A Curse?

HelpNet Security, Wednesday, July 31st, 2024

What CISOs Need To Keep CEOs (And Themselves) Out Of Jail

Former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan, who was convicted for attempting to cover up a data breach Uber suffered in 2016, recently posited that in the very near future, CEOs might find themselves held directly responsible for cybersecurity breaches. more →

What CISOs Need To Keep CEOs (And Themselves) Out Of Jail

Data Science Central, Monday, July 29th, 2024

ESG: The 'Vital Signs' For Responsible And Ethical AI Outcomes

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) models can potentially transform our personal and professional lives, they pose significant challenges and risks for our society. To ensure that AI models produce relevant, meaningful, responsible, and ethical outcomes, we need to consider the impact of those outcomes on the environment, society, and its constituents. This is the role of ESG. more →

ESG: The 'Vital Signs' For Responsible And Ethical AI Outcomes

Gestalt IT, Wednesday, July 31st, 2024

Microsoft's Resiliency Notice And Path Forward

Microsoft has released an accountability notice after the big Crowdstrike outage. According to the release, Microsoft is going to change and innovate in the area of end-to-end resilience. more →

Microsoft's Resiliency Notice And Path Forward

Gestalt IT, Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

The Mainframe Is Still Going Strong

Despite the hype about modern applications, the mainframe remains central to enterprise IT and is rapidly adopting new technologies. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Steven Dickens, Geoffrey Decker, and Jon Hildebrand talking to Stephen Foskett about the modern mainframe prior to the SHARE conference. more →

The Mainframe Is Still Going Strong

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Is Your MFA Broken?

Multifactor authentication (MFA) has formally been around for more than two decades, gaining the most traction in the mid-2000s. At the most basic level, MFA is 'something you know (a password),' 'something you are (a unique biometric or behavioral characteristic),' and 'something you have' (a token or security key) to verify an identity. more →

Is Your MFA Broken?

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 1 · 1:00pm

Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault

This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →

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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Oct. 1st)

Upcoming Event · Thu, Sep 24 · 1:00pm

Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes

In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes (Sept. 24th)

InformationWeek, Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

10 Hottest AI Jobs

The artificial intelligence boom has led to a hiring explosion for these 10 types of roles. more →

10 Hottest AI Jobs

Ask The Headhunter, Monday, July 29th, 2024

Finding A Job In A Career Desert

"You often discuss the importance of using networking and connections to get a new job. Here indeed lies the problem. Who is best qualified doesn't matter anymore, in favor of those networked and connected." more →

Finding A Job In A Career Desert

Upcoming Event · Wed, Sep 30 · 11:00am

The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO

This webinar explores what CEOs expect AI to deliver across technology, finance, HR, operations, and other functions, where confidence gaps remain, and how success is being measured. Attendees will gain practical insights into how CxOs can translate AI investments into business outcomes, operate in a distributed leadership model, and meet rising CEO expectations. more →

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The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO (Sept. 30th)

Citrix Blogs, Monday, July 29th, 2024

Onboarding Google Cloud Just Got A Lot Easier!

For over a decade, Citrix and Google have been helping organizations make work more accessible, flexible, and secure, and the integration between Google Cloud and Citrix DaaS or Virtual Apps and Desktops has been a tenet of this partnership. more →

Onboarding Google Cloud Just Got A Lot Easier!

Upcoming Event · Tue, Sep 22 · 1:00pm

Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System

This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →

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Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System (Sept. 22nd)