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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Following are some actions IT leaders can take now to secure those funds for the future.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Cybersecurity risks This one is no surprise, given the scary statistics on the growing number of cyberattacks, the rate of successful attacks, and the increasingly high consequences of being breached. The September Monthly Threat Intelligence Report from cybersecurity firm NCC Group delivers plenty of reasons to worry. “It

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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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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

There can then be a project director to manage the project on a day-to-day basis and the CIO can intervene only when there is budget or strategy involved,” says Babu. . With the aim of adding value to their customers, implementation partners are increasingly realizing the importance of building technological expertise.

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Once I saw the alignment to being CIO, I ramped up on emerging technologies, novel product development and solutioning systems. What are some unique data and cybersecurity challenges when helming such a vast locomotion technology company? India’s Vande Bharat trains are powered by WABTEC’s technology.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. Their tactics range from formal presentations, customized classes, hands-on demonstrations, and immersive experiences, to informal, periodic conversations.

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

If you are a technologist you no doubt have thoughts about security and how to improve your approach to enterprise-wide defense. In this educational presentation, CTOvision’s Bob Gourley will provide actionable information that will help you review your security architecture and enhance your level of automation.

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Battery Ventures

MARCH 4, 2020

Cybersecurity remains a huge pain point for many organizations: Last year, a study by incumbent security provider Palo Alto Networks found security teams at large enterprises use more than 130 separate security solutions, on average. Early companies in the sector.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2024

The most adept solopreneurs even craft custom GPTs and intelligent tools tailored to their unique business needs, sidestepping the security risks of public AI software. It’s a time-saver and budget-friendly way to enhance business operations, keeping the focus on core activities.

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2014

If you are a technologist you no doubt have thoughts about security and how to improve your approach to enterprise-wide defense. In this educational presentation, CTOvision’s Bob Gourley will provide actionable information that will help you review your security architecture and enhance your level of automation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Financial apps are proliferating across Southeast Asia, making things like bookkeeping or securing an online loan easier. But this means fintechs need access to large amounts of data that they can use to verify customer identity, creditworthiness or aggregate information from online accounts.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. You’re fixing problems instead of delivering results A department that lives in conflict typically struggles to efficiently execute strategies and tasks, observes Eric Lefebvre, CTO at Sovos, a tax compliance and regulatory reporting software provider.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer. Internet2® is a member-owned, advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. The CCSO reports to the Vice President for Network Services and will have responsibility for security across all Internet2 infrastructure programs.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

That goes for all high tech, but Virginia has also had very virtuous qualities when it comes to cyber security firms. The nation’s premier market-centric cybersecurity accelerator, Mach37 , is now bringing focus and strong support to the nation’s cybersecurity needs by accelerating continuous cohorts of high tech firms.

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

Arthur Hu ranks among the few IT leaders who wear the hats of both CIO and CTO. Lenovo has built one of the most complete technology portfolios in the industry — from client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence solutions. Every technology has its downsides. What’s your guidance for IT leaders on this?

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

For the next two days in DC over 1000 key leaders from the national security community will be converging in a dynamic examination of intelligence and national security issues at the Intelligence and National Security Summit. Director, Technology Directorate. National Security Agency. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. “It It can also help to focus some time, money, and people on intentionally expanding that network.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Get the most from all your data assets, analytics, and teams to enable your mission, efficiently and on budget. Mike Olson – Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Eli Collins – Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Adjourn/ Networking Social. Adjourn/Networking Social.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

By Bob Gourley We often highlight the importance of applying security controls to your enterprise. As a review, they are: 20 Critical Security Controls – Version 4.1. Secure Configurations for Hardware and Software on Mobile Devices, Laptops, Workstations, and Servers. Application Software Security.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. degrees Celsius, businesses will feel further impacts to their bottom line, including increased supply-chain issues on a network already overstretched and fragile.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At this time, Pillay, Cuthbert — who was the CTO at Root — and Priyen were playing around building a Venmo style wallet for Africa as a side project. ” This set the team up to work on Stitch — Pillay as CEO, Cuthbert as CTO and Priyen as CPO. The Stitch team.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

By Deepak Kumar Editor’s note: This guest post is by Deepak Kumar, Founder and CTO of Adaptiva. Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. Securing these devices is nearly impossible because they are not corporate controlled. – bg.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Plus, approximately two thirds of the CBF network interviewed felt they faced more barriers to entry than women from other ethnicities, with 21% saying that diversity and inclusion (D&I) polices have a negative effect on their ability to progress into more senior roles. Jessie Auguste, software engineer at Cybsafe.

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CTOvision

MAY 22, 2014

Organizations are giving more priority to development of information security policies, as protecting their assets is one of the prominent things that needs to be considered. So an organization makes different strategies in implementing a security policy successfully. Security policies are tailored to the specific mission goals.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits. I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. A very underappreciated tech shift is how much faster networks got around that time.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A managed live streaming service to create interactive video experiences and a content delivery network service to deliver content and applications with low latency and high transfer speed has helped it improve agility, scalability, and savings. What are your security, regulatory & data privacy requirements?

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Infinidat

MAY 4, 2023

However, innovation has a price, and as any CTO will tell you, you’re trying to balance the leveraging of new technological innovation in support of the company’s mission with keeping the lights on, which naturally requires cost control. Dave Nicholson Dave Nicholson is the Field CTO for the Americas at Infinidat.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But as I aged, had project successes, earned budget and decision-making authority, and gained more confidence, power, etc., Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. Beasley’s father was in the US Air Force, and so as a youth, Beasley moved worldwide.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

While the most important driver in today’s business atmosphere may be increased technology innovation, a new study indicates that IT professionals worry leadership is not doing enough to adopt … Read more on Midsize Insider. “If you’re not already spending a lot of capital in … Read more on NewsFactor Network.

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Jeremiah Grossman

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

A recent study published by 7Safe, UK Security Breach Investigations Report , analyzed 62 cybercrime breach investigation and states that in “86% of all attacks, a weakness in a web interface was exploited ” (vs 14% infrastructure) and the attackers were predominately external (80%). It’s a Web security world. Total: $98.5B (USD).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Spera , a Palo Alto-based security startup that provides businesses with the tools to proactively protect themselves from identity-driven threats, today said it has raised a $10 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures, with participation from a number of prominent angel investors and serial entrepreneurs.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2016

In the second article of how CTO’s can create a framework for enterprises to adopt mobile for growth we look at one of the early decisions to be made - that is choosing to build native apps or adopt the responsive web. How powerful are the devices and networks in use? This may drive you to choose native over responsive or vice versa.

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Infinidat

MAY 10, 2018

Eran Brown, INFINIDAT CTO for EMEA, has posited in a recent customer presentation that implementing application level data encryption is both an emerging critical requirement to combat security threats, while at the same time a huge problem in the face of the realities of modern data storage. Information Risk is Increasing.

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

or “What about security?”. However, if we optimise our architecture for change (evolvability), when we discover a performance issue or a security vulnerability we can change our system to help address it. You can use projects to manage budgets but always think about the product or platform when choosing what to implement.

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