TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

As TechCrunch reported earlier today , Carta is suing its former CTO, Jerry Talton, who was fired “for cause” almost three weeks ago, on December 23, according to the company. Current and former Carta employees can reach out to Natasha Mascarenhas on Signal, a secure encrypted messaging app, at 925 271 0912.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

Emerging cybersecurity initiatives generate lots of buzz but aren’t likely to shift the focus of IT and business leaders away from fundamental issues such as cost and best-of-breed solutions. The survey by Comcast Business and CIO included 146 respondents, more than 60% of them in C-level roles (CIO, CISO/CSO, CTO, or COO).

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

CIOs rank AI as a top priority alongside cybersecurity for IT departments. However, barriers such as adoption speed and security concerns hinder rapid AI integration, according to a new survey. There is a promising surge in the use of AI technologies across various industries. Today’s CIOs are working in a tornado of innovation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

Often considered a tech guru of the company or the smartest programmer in the room, the title of CTO alone indicates that the company is doing something big with technology. With this article, we’ll dip a toe into the field of the multiple responsibilities of an average CTO. The role of CTO.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Security — on a budget Security is a challenge that makes the list of top CIO worries perennially, but Grant McCormick, CIO of cybersecurity company Exabeam, notes a rising need for increased collaboration between IT and security teams to address the issue. “Waiting is a losing strategy.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The most pressing responsibilities for CIOs in 2024 will include security, cost containment, and cultivating a data-first mindset.” Consequently, CIOs must keep cybersecurity and implementation of zero-trust principles as key priorities. Here, we detail those and others that comprise eight of the top priorities for CIOs in 2024.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. It’s just a question of choice.”

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% as of January. increase from 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. The company reports it has now raised $290 million. 12 top cybersecurity VCs discuss investing, valuations and no-go zones.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As we bid adieu to 2023, we highlight major trends that impacted cybersecurity professionals in the past 12 months. Learn how the cyber world changed in areas including artificial intelligence, CNAPP, IAM security, government oversight and OT security. Cybersecurity teams were no exception.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2014

Our site CISOtech.com is a repository of articles and information of interest to enterprise security professionals. Any reporting we do here at CTOvision that has relevance for the CISO is archived at that site, plus evaluations on cyber security technologies of interest. Please sign up for this report here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of all enterprises in a recent survey reporting that they have contended with a cloud-related security breach in the last 18 months.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But while the cloud provides more flexible and scalable IT services, it’s also introducing new and vexing challenges around cyber security. The recent attacks on NFPs would seem to highlight many of the security risks being posed by the migration to the cloud.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The State of the CIO 2024 survey published by CIO, states that 85% of CIOs are becoming a changemaker, increasingly leading business and technology initiatives. With CIOs now often reporting directly to the CEO instead of the CFO, the emphasis has shifted from technical proficiency to business acumen.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

According to Salt Labs, the research division of Salt Security (which sells API cybersecurity products, granted), API attacks from March 2021 to March 2022 increased nearly 681%. Bansal saw the writing on the wall four years ago, he said, when he cofounded San Francisco-based Traceable with CTO Sanjay Nagaraj.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hypernative , a crypto security-focused startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth, co-founder and CEO Gal Sagie exclusively told TechCrunch. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO. The company was started by Sagie and Dan Caspi, who’s also Hypernative’s CTO.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

News broke this morning that Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners are purchasing Seattle-based network security startup ExtraHop. Network security startup ExtraHop skips and jumps to $900M exit. Securities and Exchange Commission last week announcing its intent to become a public company. Walter Thompson.

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Lacework

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With easy access to chat functionality like ChatGPT and natural language processing (NLP), people now have the power to generate anything from recipes and poems to research reports and code — all in a matter of seconds. Now, it’s clear that cybersecurity leaders need help addressing the skills gap and better ways to simplify cloud security.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a PwC report , one in three consumers (32%) say they will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience. Leveraging the right set of technologies will be a key success criterion for such apps. Security should be incorporated from the earliest stages of app development to minimize risk, time, and costs.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

This demand for skilled IT workers is reflected in the rising average salaries of certain job titles as companies compete for top talent, according to data from the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. As demand for this role has grown, salaries for MIS managers have increased by 11% since 2021, according to Dice.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Depending upon which research report you read, we have a shortage of somewhere around 3.4 4 The cybersecurity industry, however, is in a fortunate position because we have the opportunity to mitigate the impact of the talent shortage through actions, we take both as a community and as individual organizations. million or 3.5

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The security of your software supply chain is vital to ensuring application security. For nine straight years, Sonatype’s State of Software Supply Chain Security Report has analyzed the challenges associated with protecting your software supply chain from attack and has provided advice and guidance on improving it.

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

It’s not uncommon for CIOs, CISOs, and sometimes their direct reports to be called on to participate in board meetings or to present IT strategies and plans to their boards of directors. No one can guarantee total security, right? So identify one of the board members as your champion.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

When asked which challenges most often force IT to redirect time and focus away from strategy and innovation tasks, CIOs most commonly cited staff and skills shortages, changing business conditions, and addressing security threats. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1%

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They collected their findings in a report titled The Sustainable CTO. And four out of five of those surveyed pointed to innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) as specific technologies that could help. Read the research report. IT Leadership

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CIO

MAY 19, 2023

Recent research from IDC report Enterprise Automation to Mitigate the Digital Skills Shortage found that up to 80% of organizations in the APAC region, excluding Japan, find it difficult or extremely difficult to fill vacancies in IT roles. Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals.

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CIO

APRIL 13, 2023

Organizations need to plan for generalized standards for reporting on the users they’re serving through AI-driven experiences and what the impact is. It is essential to consider the impact of generative AI on the business and individual audiences while planning for generalized reporting standards.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Conscious of the recent history of disruption to financial services, the sector’s technology leaders are already looking for opportunities in AI. Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re.

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TechEmpower CTO

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What about reporting and moderation? Reporting What needs to be reported? Reporting can be endless! Are they dismissable?

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

According to a 2020 O’Reilly survey , 77% of organizations had adopted microservices as of then, with 29% reporting that they were migrating or implementing a majority of their systems using microservices. The widespread microservices adoption has spawned new problems in app development, however. million in VC money to date.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 4, 2016

On 1 December The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity issued their key deliverable, the report on Securing and Growing The Digital Economy. That is a good report. For policy-makers new to cybersecurity the introduction recaps issues the nation has been dealing with for quite some time now. Bob Gourley.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A number of vendors are tackling the issue of open source security, offering tools that scan the metadata and descriptors of packages to find known exploits. Meanwhile, security teams lack true visibility … While the issue appears technical, in this app-driven era, it affects every facet of operations.”

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