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Zendesk report: IT leaders to prioritize these 3 areas in 2024 and beyond

CIO

Remote work, the introduction of ChatGPT, ever-increasing security threats — it’s all had a profound impact on IT. The push to personalize customer and employee interactions along with the increase in remote work has increased the already large volume of sensitive data that companies must securely and properly manage.

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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO

By Sean Duca, vice president and regional chief security officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks Some economists predict that we could soon face a global recession. Their report focused exclusively on financial cybercrime, including identity theft. Looking at history, this does not bode well for levels of cybercrime.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). CIOs anticipate an increased focus on cybersecurity (70%), data analysis (55%), data privacy (55%), AI/machine learning (55%), and customer experience (53%).

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: SANS Offers Tips for Maximizing Smaller OT Security Budgets

Tenable

A SANS Institute survey found that budgets for ICS/OT security have shrunk, and advises on how to do more with less. In addition, CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign challenges tech vendors to build safer products. Essentially, budgets are down in just about every category we analyzed,” the SANS Institute report reads.

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Cybersecurity Funding Shows Resilience In Q1

Crunchbase News

Venture funding overall was still sluggish , but cybersecurity startups saw some love from investors in the first quarter of 2024. To be sure, this is not the salad days of 2021 — cybersecurity funding was still down year to year — but the sector saw its best funding quarter in three quarters. billion valuation.

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Read the room

TechCrunch

This week, I look into cybersecurity sales, developer content marketing, and fundraising pitches through a common lens: The importance of understanding your audience and putting it first. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. ” Simplicity, however, doesn’t mean pitching one tool to replace them all.

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

CIO

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. The role of the CIO has recently seen a massive convergence with cybersecurity,” says McCormick. “The

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