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The NIS2 Directive: why cyber-resilience is the new normal for European organisations

CIO Business Intelligence

While the original NIS1 Directive of 2016 was viewed as a major evolution in cybersecurity regulation, a lot has changed since then, particularly assumptions about the risk posed by an expanding range of cyberattacks. At that time, cybersecurity was seen primarily as a problem faced by individual organizations.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Since launching its Marketplace advertising business in 2016, Amazon has chosen to become a “pay to play” platform where the top results are those that are most profitable for the company. The next generation will shape human cognition, creativity, and interaction even more profoundly. I think not.

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What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

CIO Business Intelligence

From 2016 to 2022, the company went from processing a payments volume of $354 billion to $1.36 User data is also housed in this layer, including profile, behavior, transactions, and risk. This allows us greater productivity and creativity on the part of developers,” he says. trillion last year.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

The company has been a supporter of OpenAI’s quest to build an artificial general intelligence since its early days, beginning with its hosting of OpenAI experiments on specialized Azure servers in 2016. And, of course, they can check out ChatGPT, the interactive text generator that has been making waves since its release in November 2022.

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CIO Diane Schwarz on the power of professional ecosystems

CIO Business Intelligence

To do that, you should interact with three key stakeholder groups: customers, suppliers, and venture capital. VC firms can expose you and your teams to new ways of working that “challenge unconscious biases on risk tolerance, speed, and financial decisions” — and that shed light on the trends shaping the tech landscape. “I

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO Business Intelligence

This was the case for Murray & Roberts’ CIO Hilton Currie in 2016, when the cloud services market in South Africa was booming. This brings its own risks to the table. Honestly, in 2016, cloud wasn’t really affordable. We sold them the cloud journey back in 2016 and they backed us and jumped on board.

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Paul Martin: CIOs don’t retire, they go work on boards

CIO Business Intelligence

Two years of pandemic uncertainty and escalating business risk have sharpened the focus of corporate boards on a technology trend once dismissed as just another IT buzzword. It’s giving companies an opportunity to rethink how they interact with customers, connect with supply chains, and drive internal operational efficiencies.