Sat.Sep 14, 2024 - Fri.Sep 20, 2024

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It’s time for CIOs to think about post-quantum cryptography

CIO

With the threat that quantum computers will break current encryption methods “looming on the horizon,” the adoption of post-quantum cryptography is now a critical priority, particularly for those industries that handle sensitive data, a report released Tuesday revealed. The current and future state of quantum are among six trends contained in Info-Tech Research Group’s Tech Trends 2025 report, based on responses from an estimated 1,000 IT decision-makers in the US, Canada, Asia Pacific (APAC), a

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Stochastic Terrorism: The “Most Complex, Dynamic, and Dangerous Threat Environment” in Fifty Years

Ooda Loop

As a pre-read in the run-up to the OODA Network monthly meeting this Friday, September 20, 2024, we have compiled OODA Loop research related to and inspired by the "early warning" statement from the forward of "Addressing the Threat of Political Violence in the 2024 Elections" voicing concern "that the country’s deep divisions and dark mood could propel even minor incidents of violence during the election cycle into a dangerous national crisis.

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Startup Buying Power — VC-Backed Companies Are Hunting For More Startups

Crunchbase News

It’s not exactly a shopping spree, but with overall M&A down, more startups are hunting for other VC-backed companies in the U.S. In fact, startups buying other startups is on pace to make up the largest slice of the M&A pie in years when it comes to overall VC-backed, U.S.-based startup dealmaking. This is a noteworthy development in the current environment where venture capitalists and their limited partners are thirsting for liquidity amid a frozen IPO pipeline and quiet M&A marke

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Top Press Release Distribution Platforms to Consider

CEO Insider

Cutting through the noise to bring attention to your latest company announcement or news event isn’t easy in today’s crowded media landscape. Yet, making a big splash online and in publications can provide a huge visibility boost for your brand when done right. The key is finding the ideal press release distribution platform for sharing […] The post Top Press Release Distribution Platforms to Consider appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Embarking on Growth: The Transformative Power of Entrepreneurial Coaching

N2Growth Blog

Entrepreneur coaching can be a transformative experience for both emerging and seasoned business leaders. As the business world continues to evolve, having the right tools and insights is essential for growth. This is where the true value of entrepreneurial coaching shines. Through the guidance of experienced professionals who have successfully built and scaled businesses, entrepreneurs gain access to invaluable knowledge that can reshape how they approach challenges and make decisions.

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5 best iPhone 16 Pro features that will make enthusiasts jump for joy

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Apple just announced its iPhone 16 series, and there are some pretty big updates for both software and hardware. Here are the features that pro users will care about.

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Legacy Modernization meets GenAI

Martin Fowler

Most of the talk about the impact of GenAI on software development is about its ability to write (messy) code. But many of us think it's going to be much more useful to help us understand existing messy code, as part of a modernization effort. My colleagues Alessio Ferri , Tom Coggrave , and Shodhan Sheth have been considering how GenAI can do this , including building an internal tool to help explore the possibilities.

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Navigating the COO Search: A Comprehensive Guide

N2Growth Blog

The Chief Operating Officer is an organization’s powerhouse, ensuring every process and experience in your business runs like a well-oiled machine. This key executive monitors daily operations, ensuring efficient and effective methods. Depending on a company’s structure, a COO’s tasks can vary, but their core mission remains the same: to constantly fine-tune business operations, boost productivity, cut costs, and fuel growth.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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CloudImposer: Executing Code on Millions of Google Servers with a Single Malicious Package

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and that we dubbed CloudImposer. The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to hijack an internal software dependency that Google pre-installs on each Google Cloud Composer pipeline-orchestration tool. Tenable Research also found risky guidance in GCP documentation that customers should be aware of.

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Using GenAI to extract low-level details and high-level explanations from legacy systems

Martin Fowler

Alessio Ferri , Tom Coggrave , and Shodhan Sheth use their combination of an AST-fueled knowledge graph and LLMs to gain understanding of legacy systems. They have found it aids them both in extracting the low-level details of the code and can provide high-level explanations to support human-centered approaches such as event storming.

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Key Traits of a Successful Chief Innovation Officer

N2Growth Blog

The Chief Innovation Officer is the spark that drives a company’s creative momentum. This role extends beyond generating new ideas; it involves transforming these concepts into strategies to revolutionize the organization and spur its growth. As businesses increasingly focus on innovation , having a dedicated leader championing this mission is more crucial than ever.

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Deepfakes break through as business threat

CIO

Deepfakes targeting enterprise financial data used to be a hypothetical concern, but that’s no longer the case, as criminal deepfakers now target more than a quarter of all companies, according to a recent survey. About 15% of executives say cybercriminals have targeted their companies’ financial or accounting data using deepfakes at least once in the past year, while another 11% say they’ve seen multiple deepfake scams.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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CortexClick Leverages Generative AI to Automate Software Documentation

DevOps.com

CortexClick today launched a content generation platform based on large language models (LLMs) that have been specifically trained to create documentation, tutorials and technical blog posts, including screenshots, for organizations building software.

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Attacker VS Defender.  Who Will Win the Race to Best Operationalize and AI?

Ooda Loop

The arrival and continued emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has made a huge impact on the cyber ecosystem. With any new technology, the possibilities seem endless for its capabilities and uses.

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How to Hire an Effective Chief Marketing Officer

N2Growth Blog

Foremost, the responsibilities of the Chief Marketing Officer have transformed significantly. Today’s CMOs aren’t just the masterminds behind ad campaigns or marketing projects—they’re key players in driving business innovation , focusing on customer needs, and harnessing technology. A CMO wears many hats in the boardroom. They align marketing strategies with the company’s vision, maintain the brand’s image, and build crucial relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

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Do boards understand their new role in cybersecurity?

CIO

Julie Ragland was CIO of vehicle manufacturing company Navistar, and has held IT leadership roles at Adient and Johnson Controls. To Ragland, who also sits on several state agency and non-profit boards, one of the greatest responsibilities for today’s boards is in governing cyber security risk. And while board members are generally tuned in to the importance of cyber governance, they don’t always understand the true risks with cyber and their own governing role.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Study Finds No DevOps Productivity Gains from Generative AI

DevOps.com

A study of 800 software developers working on large engineering teams that have adopted the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool finds limited gains in productivity are being achieved.

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Secondary Financings Offer Lifeline In A Slow Exit Market

Crunchbase News

In a slow exit market, investors have had to become more creative in finding ways to bring cash back to their pockets and those of their limited partners. Secondary financings have become one way to solve the liquidity crunch facing the venture markets and its backers. “For so long it was taboo,” said Larry Aschebrook , managing partner at G Squared — an investor in growth stage companies in primary and secondary financings — on the newfound popularity of secondary financings.

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Abuse CDK functionality in CloudFormation

Xebia

Each “Infrastructure as Code” framework has pros and cons. My go-to framework is CloudFormation, but I like CDK’s tree view, so I started thinking about borrowing this. What is the tree view? AWS announced this functionality on September the 14th, 2022. Customers using CDK want a simple way to map the resources synthesized in a CloudFormation template back to the source CDK Construct.

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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say

CIO

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year, but it has a warning for companies focused on adopting them: Don’t go it alone.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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F5 Delivers on NGINX One Platform Promise

DevOps.com

F5 this week made generally available an integrated application networking platform that centralizes the management of load balancing, web and application servers, application programming interface (API) gateways and cybersecurity.

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Revolutionize logo design creation with Amazon Bedrock: Embracing generative art, dynamic logos, and AI collaboration

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In the field of technology and creative design, logo design and creation has adapted and evolved at a rapid pace. From the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt to the sleek minimalism of today’s tech giants, the visual identities that define our favorite brands have undergone a remarkable transformation. Today, the world of creative design is once again being transformed by the emergence of generative AI.

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Enterprise-Level Azure DevOps Permissions From The Trenches

Xebia

Or how to implement role-based access control (RBAC) in Azure DevOps in enterprise environments and still keep it maintainable. 4 Antipatterns and an approach on how to implement this yourself! Introduction and key values Assigning permissions to users and groups of users in Azure DevOps in small companies, maybe up to about 25-50 employees is easy and straightforward.

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AI could be taken over by a few multinationals, warns UN

CIO

The United Nations’ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, created last year to address AI governance issues, has made seven recommendations to address the risks with this technology in its first report, just published. The document, entitled Governing AI for humanity , highlights the importance of creating a global dialogue — the European Union is one of the few to have acted with its EU AI Act — by building a global fund that addresses differences in capacity and collaboration an

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Accelerate AI Innovation with RHEL AI on Dell PowerEdge Servers

Dell EMC

Dell and Red Hat boost AI innovation industry's first solution optimized for RHEL AI.

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Leading the Charge: C-Suite’s Role in Cultivating DevOps and DevSecOps Culture

DevOps.com

As the digital frontier evolves, it is becoming imperative for C-suite executives to cultivate a robust DevOps and DevSecOps culture.

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Startups Are Art, Valuation Is Science, Price Is Both

Crunchbase News

Have you watched an episode of “Antiques Roadshow?” If so, you already know how to correctly price a funding round. I can see you’re confused, allow me to explain. Picture the scene: A prospective seller has brought in a vintage watch for appraisal. They take it to a recognized expert who offers a well-informed (and neutral) perspective on what price it should fetch at auction.

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