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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1% in June, 2022, to 3.7% Here’s how.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. That helps me plan.”

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Outsourced IT: Is It Right for Your Company?

Kaseya

According to Kaseya’s annual 2021 MSP Benchmark Survey , the top five IT services provided by MSPs are antivirus/antimalware, endpoint management , server backup, OS patching and updates, and email security, in that order. You don’t need to spend time and money on training in-house technicians to make them more technically sound.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

Coveros

As the attack surface expanded with emerging technologies and interconnected systems, so did the sophistication and frequency of cyber threats. No review of 2023 would be complete without mentioning the explosion of AI into the public eye, like ChatGPT and Copilot. Enable the use of passkeys for more advanced or tech-savvy users.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. Putting aside the fact this is an astronomically high adoption rate for a brand new technology, it’s also an indicator of how risky this space is. Entire businesses have been built on top of OpenAI and its APIs.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Log4j Anniversary, CI/CD Risks, Infostealers, Email Attacks, OT Security

Tenable

Cyber Safety Review Board published a 50-plus page report on the Log4j event, and a key takeaway was that Log4Shell is an “endemic vulnerability” that’ll be around for a decade — or perhaps longer. . The report’s recommendations for evaluating the security of a software product include: Don’t take vendors’ words at face value.

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO

As the tech economy has adjusted to the current economic environment, there has been a great deal of debate in both the vendor and investor communities about vendor consolidation. At this point in time, it needs to be asked whether such a rapid increase in the number of vendors is sustainable.