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Generative AI & data: Potential in cybersecurity if the risks can be curtailed

CIO

Back in 2001, as I was just entering the venture industry, I remember the typical VC reaction to a start-up pitch was, “Can’t Microsoft replicate your product with 20 people and a few months of effort, given the resources they have?” Artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 feels a bit like déjà vu to me.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 11 PLG tactics, addressing copycat stigma, ‘unicorn glut’ theory

TechCrunch

The right coaching and a strong network can help many entrepreneurs land a sizable seed round, but that money reflects investor confidence, not market demand. “We’ve seen that all before … what’s new-ish (at least since 2001) is the massive overhang of growth investments that will take startups years to grow into,” he wrote.

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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

Xebia

We all know that the hardening of a system or implementing 2FA does not magically improves the security of an organisation. Also for the successful improvement of security in your organisation, a holistic approach is needed. Implementing and improving security demands your approach to cover both people, process and technology.

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Cybersecurity 2030

Haft of the Spear

Discussions about cybersecurity overwhelmingly focus on the recent, which are our responses to the design and engineering decisions of the past. Yet in cybersecurity [1] the path towards a brighter future is rarely discussed. To parahprase William Gibson, this cybersecurity future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed.

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Pakistan’s growing tech ecosystem is finally taking off

TechCrunch

Mikal is an early-stage investor at Wavemaker Partners investing in startups across North America, MENA and Asia and author of the newsletter Emergent , analyzing one fast-growing startup in an emerging market every week. Pakistan, the world’s fifth most populous country, has been slow to adapt to the internet economy.

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IT pros say tech budgets to stay strong, but mainly for big companies

CIO

Our research revealed improvements across performance, reliability, security and even reduced overall IT costs among organizations that modernized their infrastructure â??even Companies that did so in 2001 and 2008 were frequently punished for it by the market. even if that was initially out of necessity.â??. t spur IT cutbacks.

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Egypt’s e-commerce platform Wasla nabs $9 million from retail finance provider Contact

TechCrunch

Contact has been in the business of consumer finance since 2001, while Wasla was founded in 2018 by former Serag Meneassy and Taymour Sabry , both ex-Rocket Internet entrepreneurs, and investment banker Mahmoud El Said. “It’s In the checkout phase, we plan to introduce a very secure payment method…limited by time or value.

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