New research by cybersecurity firm Panaseer has found that US companies paid out a total of $155m in class action lawsuits related to data breaches over the last six months. In an examination of all data breach class action filings from ClassActions.org and settlements from Top Class Actions between August 2024 and February 2025, the company found that 43 lawsuits were filed, and 73 settlements were reached. Settlements averaged around $3m, with the largest reaching…

Gopalkrishnan, who is the CIO of six of the bank’s eight lines of business, says Bank of America operates a hybrid “hosting strategy” based on a virtual private cloud the bank has operated for years and public clouds as needed. BofA has relationships with Microsoft, AWS, Google, and other clouds, but like many bank CIOs, Gopalkrishnan prefers to keep workloads close for cost and security reasons. “We have been very effective at scaling it, which…

Tech companies still hold a competitive edge when it comes to salaries, despite mass layoffs across the industry in recent years. Despite reductions in staff, there are tech skills that continue to demand a premium salary, driving industry competition to hire talent with the right skills. The average annual salary for tech professionals inside the tech industry is $114,861, while those outside it earn about $108,674, according to the Dice 2025 Tech Salary Report. For…

Some of the world’s most popular large language models (LLMs) are producing insecure code by default, according to a new analysis by Backslash Security. The findings demonstrate the security risks relating to software developers using generative AI tools to create code, particularly using simple, “naïve” prompts. Even prompts that specify general or specific security requirements often result in code containing common vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities include command injection, XSS backend and frontend, insecure file upload and…

La inteligencia artificial (IA) agéntica parece haberse consolidado a una velocidad vertiginosa como una de las prioridades clave de inversión para las organizaciones empresariales. Lo corrobora el Índice de Tendencias Laborales 2025 de Microsoft, un estudio que abre camino a un nuevo modelo de compañía bautizado como ‘empresa frontera’, donde la adopción y el uso de la IA conforman la espina dorsal. En este escenario, España sobresale por su impulso decidido hacia este nuevo paradigma…

Asegúrese de que sus datos tienen un valor útil Los tipos de datos más monetizables proporcionan información que no se puede encontrar en ningún otro lugar, afirma Rudy, de ISG. “Esto incluye datos de referencia para comparar con la competencia y ayudar a impulsar cambios viables, inteligencia competitiva específica, análisis predictivos que ayudan a tomar decisiones basadas en hechos e información impulsada por la IA que se extrae de múltiples fuentes de datos que suelen…

회사 데이터를 새로운 수익원으로 전환하고자 하는 IT 리더라면, 데이터 전문가가 알려주는 몇 가지 핵심 조언과 인사이트를 참고할 만하다. 제품 개발의 기본이 중요 AI 기반 콘텐츠 제작사 어질리티 라이터(Agility Writer)의 설립자 아담 용은 “데이터 수익화는 다른 제품을 만들고 파는 것과 크게 다르지 않다. 아이디어 구상, 시장 조사, 가격 분석, 시장 진출 계획이 모두 필요하다”라고 말했다. 그는 먼저 체계적인 제품 개발 프로세스를 만들 것을 제안했다. ISG의 루디도 이에 동의하며 “만들고자 하는 데이터 제품이나 서비스가 무엇인지, 시장이 왜…