CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

For some that means getting a head start in filling this year’s most in-demand roles, which range from data-focused to security-related positions, according to Robert Half Technology’s 2023 IT salary report. Recruiting in the tech industry remains strong, according to the report. The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023.

Software 143

Software Big Data Testing Management 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 3, 2024

For its 2023 Security Priorities report, Foundry surveyed 790 IT security workers to understand their projects and priorities. The adversaries, at least for now, have the upper hand on many global organisations,” the report concluded. Doing penetration testing. Its conclusions were less than optimal.

IT 110

IT Measurement Risk Testing 110

DataKitchen

MARCH 12, 2024

We kept adding tests over time; it has been several years since we’ve had any major glitches. Our vision was to create a flexible, state-of-the-art data infrastructure that would allow our analysts to transform the data rapidly with a very low risk of error. Data errors can cause compliance risks. That was amazing for the team.”

Metrics 117

Metrics Software Cost-Benefit Testing 117

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

is designed to help to defend against the three most common attack vectors identified in Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Researchers for the 2023 DBIR identified system intrusion, social engineering and basic web application attacks as the most common attack patterns that led to breaches and data theft.

Gap analysis 128

Gap analysis Consulting Risk Measurement 128

Laminar Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Using a risk-based approach to deal with policy violations and continuous compliance monitoring will help avoid data exposures and fines. billion on cloud infrastructure and services in 2023, up 20.7% Organizations risk significantly increasing public cloud data risks if they don’t take necessary steps to improve its security.

Risk 52

Risk Big Data Testing Management 52

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

These teams are given the impossible task of driving down risk by patching software across their organization, with the hope that their efforts will help to prevent a cybersecurity breach. Does reducing the number of critical CVEs significantly reduce the risk of a breach?

Risk 71

Risk Testing Reporting Software 71

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2024

ChatGPT caused quite a stir after it launched in late 2022, with people clamoring to put the new tech to the test. The October 2023 CEO Outlook Pulse from professional services firm EY reported that 99% of chief executives were planning to invest in generative AI. But are those CEOs making the right investments?

IT 136

IT Risk Cost-Benefit Enterprise 136

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

Risk 140

Risk Manufacturing Enterprise Technology 140

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 19, 2024

Last year, companies spent USD 219 billion on cybersecurity and solutions alone, a 12% increase from 2022, according to a recent report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) (link resides outside ibm.com). Reducing costs: According to IBM’s recent Cost of Data Breach Report , the average cost of a data breach in 2023 was USD 4.45

Strategy 94

Strategy Cost-Benefit Testing Risk 94

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

Just look at the stats:Some 45% of 2,500 executives polled for a May 2023 report from research firm Gartner said the publicity around ChatGPT prompted them to increase their AI investments, 70% said their organization is already exploring gen AI, and 19% are in actual pilot or production mode.

Strategy 98

Strategy Risk Enterprise Risk Management 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

Cloud infrastructure is especially sensitive, as many critical applications are at risk, such as customer-facing applications. According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the majority of cyber attacks are led by organized criminals looking to disrupt business and steal data to sell.

Management 98

Management Data Processing Risk Digital Transformation 98

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For the first wave of companies affected, sustainability reports will be required as soon as fiscal year 2024. These requirements will likely mandate publicly traded companies to disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions footprint, climate-related goals, and progress, as well as climate-risk related financial impact and expenditures.

Risk 75

Risk Reporting Data-driven Publishing 75

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

This article explores how CIOs can address each of their CFO’s key concerns when moving away from project-based teams to persistent funding, including the need to better track ROI, reduce risk, and reduce cost. How does persistent funding reduce risk? We set up a persistent pilot team at Rest in 2023 to test out the concept.

Modeling 124

Modeling Cost-Benefit IT ROI 124

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In January 2023, Oracle changed its licensing and/or pricing for Java for the fourth time in four years. According to State of Java Survey and Report 2023 , an independently run study of more than 2,000 Java users, Java users have taken notice. Are your JVM/JDK binaries Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) tested?

ROI 52

ROI Cost-Benefit Testing Risk 52

DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On 24 January 2023, Gartner released the article “ 5 Ways to Enhance Your Data Engineering Practices.” Release New Data Engineering Work Often With Low Risk: “Testing and release processes are heavily manual tasks… automate these processes.” Learn, improve, and iterate quickly (with feedback from the customer) with low risk.

Data-driven 130

Data-driven Testing Risk Cost-Benefit 130

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The cyberthreat landscape is evolving and countries such as India are facing an alarming rate of increase in cyberattacks ( Q2 of 2023 saw a 90% increase ). Today, these attacks exhibit an unprecedented level of frequency, ingenuity and speed. This is creating more attack opportunities and vulnerabilities for businesses than ever before.

Cost-Benefit 69

Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Data-driven Strategy 69

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 28, 2024

According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach , the global average cost to remediate a data breach in 2023 was USD 4.45 In May 2023, Ireland’s data protection authority imposed a USD 1.3 Data risk management To protect their data, organizations first need to know their risks.

Strategy 45

Strategy Measurement Risk Cost-Benefit 45

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source. According to Synopsys’ open source security and risk analysis released in February, 96% of all commercial code bases contained open source components.

Modeling 136

Modeling Risk Software Enterprise 136

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

According to The 2023 IBM Cost of Data Breach Report , the average cost of a data breach last year was USD 4.45 Common elements of cyber recovery plans include data backup, theft prevention and mitigation and communication strategies that help effectively respond to stakeholders—including customers whose data is at risk.

Cost-Benefit 92

Cost-Benefit Testing Risk Strategy 92

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 9, 2023

A phishing simulation is a cybersecurity exercise that tests an organization’s ability to recognize and respond to a phishing attack. Since 2019, the number of phishing attacks has grown by 150% percent per year— with the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reporting an all-time high for phishing in 2022 , logging more than 4.7

Testing 77

Testing Measurement Behavioral Analytics Reporting 77

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Digital Operational Resilience Act , or DORA, is a European Union (EU) regulation that created a binding, comprehensive information and communication technology (ICT) risk-management framework for the EU financial sector. It also reported organizations taking an average of 277 days (about 9 months) to identify and contain a breach.

Cost-Benefit 78

Cost-Benefit Testing Strategy Risk Management 78

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Everest Group, which monitors 8,500 captive centers around the world, counted 452 new setups in 2023. Eroding customer satisfaction with outsourcing relationships — per some reports, at an all-time low — has caused some companies to opt to ‘do it themselves,’” says Dave Borowski, senior partner, operations excellence, at West Monroe.

Cost-Benefit 115

Cost-Benefit Risk Modeling Strategy 115

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In a May 2023 survey carried out by IBM and Momentive.ai , 67% of CMOs reported that they plan on implementing generative AI in the next 12 months and 86% plan to do so within 24 months. Understanding the benefit and risk of each use case will help to create a step-by-step path that prioritizes the model training process.

Marketing 117

Marketing Strategy B2B Cost-Benefit 117

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To prepare for this worst-case scenario, Mastercard launched its Quantum Security and Communications project, which earned the company a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership. Mastercard’s Maddaloni reports that the team tested the quantum key distribution solution over a dark fiber network.

Testing 138

Testing Enterprise Technology Risk 138

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

It was when Nvidia reported strong results for the three months to April 30, 2023, and forecast that its sales could jump by 50% in the following fiscal quarter, that its stock market valuation soared, catapulting it into the exclusive trillion-dollar club alongside well-known tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Forecasting Software Marketing 98

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Inadequate services spend visibility also increased exposure to local legal and regulatory risks. As it faced its latest challenge, Accenture chose SAP Fieldglass , a vendor management system for services procurement and external workforce organization, to provide reporting and analytics.

Management 96

Management Digital Transformation Consulting Reporting 96

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. And according to the latest 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report , you don’t need to reach for an executive career in IT to earn a six-figure salary. as of January. increase from 2021.

IT 116

IT Software Risk Management 116

DataKitchen

MARCH 16, 2023

All you had to do was to write a few bullet points every week in the text for your report for last your boss. Where is your metrics report? What should be in that report about your data team? Automated data test tools can help identify data entry errors or processing errors. What should I track? But what are errors?

Metrics 130

Metrics Data Analytics Analytics Measurement 130

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

In December 2023, Gartner named Oracle a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services , joining the “big three.” Traditionally, OCI has leveraged Oracle’s leadership in the database and ERP markets to grow its market share through existing Oracle customers,” the report notes. The inherent risk is trust.

Enterprise 124

Enterprise IT Data Processing Strategy 124

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

For organizations looking to move beyond stale reports, decision intelligence holds promise, giving them the ability to process large amounts of data with a sophisticated mix of tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms.

Machine Learning 144

Machine Learning Testing Risk Data-driven 144

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

Consulting 129

Consulting Software Business Objectives Optimization 129

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 29, 2024

Business continuity and disaster recovery plans are risk management strategies that businesses rely on to prepare for unexpected incidents. When deployed effectively, a good DR plan can help stakeholders better understand the risks to regular business functions that a particular threat may pose.

Cost-Benefit 89

Cost-Benefit Risk Enterprise Advertising 89

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% Last year saw a 1.2%

IT 128

IT Consulting Technology Strategy 128

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 17, 2023

You also need to ensure that the new target data warehouse is consistent with upstream data changes so that business reporting can continue uninterrupted when you cut over to the new platform. Both of these options require manual effort to implement and increase the cost and risk of the migration project. _cdc_unit" t2 WHERE t2.deletexid_

Data Warehouse 89

Data Warehouse Data Processing Data Lake Management 89

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Christian Mate, CIO, Elara Caring Elara Caring CIOs have more tactical aspirations right now, especially with regard to digital initiatives, according to Gartner’s 2023 CIO and Technology Executive Agenda. But while the report found that growth was important, it was outranked by improving the customer experience and operational excellence.

Strategy 137

Strategy Technology Experimentation Testing 137

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. Salaries vary by location, with the technologists reporting the highest average salaries of $144,962 per year in Silicon Valley, the original tech hub. Salaries increased 2.3%

IT 134

IT Digital Transformation Testing Marketing 134

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Andreessen Horowitz (link resides outside IBM.com ) , in 2023, the average spend on foundation model application programming interfaces (APIs), self-hosting and fine-tuning models across surveyed companies reached USD 7 million. Code (62%) : Gen AI helps developers write code more efficiently and with fewer errors.

Cost-Benefit 93

Cost-Benefit Modeling Manufacturing Interactive 93