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What are the main challenges CISOs are facing in the Middle East?

CIO

From a cybersecurity perspective, how has been 2023? The year has been marked by a general increase in state-sponsored attacks due to geopolitical conflicts. According to Statista, the number of IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023. Ransomware attacks have also increased in 2023 probably due to their perceived profitability.

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“If organisations are hacked, they should stay calm and act quickly by instantly activating their incident response plan”

CIO

From a cybersecurity perspective, how has 2023 been? The year has been marked by a general increase in state-sponsored attacks due to geopolitical conflicts. According to Statista, the number of IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023. Ransomware attacks have also increased in 2023 probably due to their perceived profitability.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

CIO

While 2023 brought on many changes to IT departments around the world, by far the biggest surprise was generative AI. Many technology leaders already worked with AI for over a decade for things like predictive maintenance and supply chain planning. Cloud was also high on CIO agendas.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Say How AI Is Changing Their Work, While the FBI Reports Ransomware Hit Critical Infrastructure Hard in 2023

Tenable

And why you need a custom compensation strategy to recruit cyber pros. 1 - FBI: Critical infrastructure walloped by ransomware attacks in 2023 The number of U.S. ransomware incidents grew 18% in 2023 to 2,825, and 42% of those attacks impacted critical infrastructure organizations. And much more!

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

CIO

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. Recent job postings [at TreviPay] have attracted dozens of qualified applicants without using recruiting firms,” Zimmerman says.

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Deep Agency shows the perils of applying AI to the fashion industry

TechCrunch

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.”

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What it takes to land a CIO gig in 2024

CIO

Recruiting activity on the rise A case in point is Thomas Licciardello, CIO and consultant at Northeast CIO’s. Sometimes I gauge that with how often I’m contacted by recruiters, and I have to say the last month it has been picking up. These traits go a long way in achieving that.”