Network automation challenges are dampening success rates

Network automation challenges are dampening success rates

Improved capacity management: 22.9% Network/application resiliency: 22.6% Accelerated incident response (e.g., mean time to insight, mean time to repair): 21.5% Increased/improved collaboration: 21.2% Agility (responsiveness to change and business needs): 18.1% Reduced regulatory compliance risk: 17.8% Empowering lower-skilled personnel to do more: 16.7% Capital expense avoidance (e.g., extending life of hardware, maximizing use of installed equipment): 16.7% Reduced configuration drift/improved design compliance: 16.7% Accelerated time to market for new applications/services: 16.7% “At the scale we…

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Half of British SMEs Have Lost Data in Past Five Years

Half of British SMEs Have Lost Data in Past Five Years

Nearly half (48%) of the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have lost access to data since 2019, potentially costing them billions, according to a new study from Beaming. The business ISP polled 504 UK-based business leaders about their data backup and cybersecurity strategies, as well as any incidents of data loss they experienced between 2019 and 2023. It then extrapolated its findings to a national level, taking the median cost of incidents it investigated…

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7 tips for leading without authority

7 tips for leading without authority

1. Create a shared vision Rob Rogers is a data scientist and the CEO of Oii.ai, an AI company that automates supply chain design. He is also the chief scientific advisor at BeeKeeperAI, a healthcare AI collaboration platform he co-founded. Rogers has built his career, he says, by being a poster child for leading without authority. “This is my whole career,” he says. “It starts with creating a shared ownership of vision. In practice, for…

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Prepping for the post-CIO chapter of a storied career

Prepping for the post-CIO chapter of a storied career

It seems every week I’m on the phone with a CIO or other technology executive who’s either contemplating, on the verge of, or has recently gone through the process of retiring. Most struggle with it. They’ve been so heads-down doing the work that they’ve failed to properly and intentionally prepare themselves for this next chapter.  On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast, I sat down with two former technology executives who’ve transitioned to…

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Calls to Incident Response Helpline Double in a Year

Calls to Incident Response Helpline Double in a Year

Calls to a Scottish non-profit incident response center have more than doubled over the past year, indicating a potentially sharp rise in fraud and cybercrime in the region. The Cyber and Fraud Centre Incident Response Helpline is a collaborative effort between the Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland, Police Scotland and the Scottish government. It’s designed to offer expert technical and legal help to organizations struggling in the aftermath of a security breach or fraud incident. The number of calls it received grew from 123 in…

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SD-WAN, SASE outpace MPLS investments: survey

SD-WAN, SASE outpace MPLS investments: survey

“SASE converges network and security solutions into an integrated architecture, so it makes sense that these groups would come together to implement and operationalize it. Multicloud adds significant complexity to networking and security at a time when both these groups are fighting to regain influence and control over cloud strategy,” wrote Shamus McGillicuddy, research director for the network management practice at Enterprise Management Associates, in a Network World article. “EMA believes that strong collaboration between…

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ChatGPT: le nuove sfide della strategia sui dati nell’era dell’IA generativa

ChatGPT: le nuove sfide della strategia sui dati nell’era dell’IA generativa

Come misurare la maturità della data strategy Il Data Strategy Index del Politecnico di Milano valuta la maturità delle aziende misurando tre ambiti: data management & architecture (mezzi, competenze e processi per la gestione tecnologica, integrazione dei dati e governance del patrimonio informativo); business intelligence e descriptive analytics (strumenti e competenze di base per una BI pervasiva); e data science (analisi predittive e di ottimizzazione partendo dall’analisi dei dati). Nella Pubblica amministrazione c’è un ulteriore parametro…

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Breaking down DE&I barriers: Practical tips for security leaders

Breaking down DE&I barriers: Practical tips for security leaders

March is Women’s History Month — an important time to acknowledge the women who are paving the way for innovation within organizations across all industries, specifically within science, technology engineering and math (STEM) fields such as cybersecurity, computer sciences and beyond. The crossroads of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and cybersecurity is a powerful reminder that diversity is at the heart of innovation. The more varied the experiences and thinking of employees, the better the…

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Why CIOs need to pay attention to the most significant overhaul of Australian privacy law in 40 years

Why CIOs need to pay attention to the most significant overhaul of Australian privacy law in 40 years

Michael Fagan, former chief transformation officer at Village Roadshow, examines the proposed changes to the Privacy Act and what CIOs in Australia need to be aware of. I received 7 unsolicited CVs and resumes in the last 12 months, from well-educated and qualified people, seeking to join the organisation where I was working.  Unbeknownst to the senders, they put me at risk of breaching one of the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APP), despite me not…

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Turbocharging business processes

Turbocharging business processes

One of the few certainties in this world is that customers will always expect more from their service providers, and that whether they remain customers depends greatly on whether that expectation is met. And it isn’t just customers whose expectations are rising. Employees have witnessed what modern technology can do to enhance internal services and processes and may be quietly asking why these innovations haven’t been brought into their own workplaces. For service-based organisations –…

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