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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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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Research: Flat Hierarchies Can Discourage Women Applicants

Harvard Business Review

An experiment with over 8,000 job seekers found that women often worry these organizations will present them with frustrating challenges.

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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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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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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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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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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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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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Research: How Anxiety Shapes Men’s and Women’s Leadership Differently

Harvard Business Review

A study of 137 leaders and their direct reports during the early stages of Covid-19 shows that men were more likely to resort to abusive behavior during stressful moments.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Dependencies & Creep : Project Estimating (Part 2)

Perficient

This post is the second in a series of four about estimating project hours. Part 1: Sandbagging & Lowballing Part 2: Dependencies & Creep Coming Soon: Part 3: Assumptions & Uncertainty Part 4: The Emotional Conclusion Continuing our dive into project estimating, let’s talk about two more problem areas: dependencies and project creep. These two can turn your pristine project plan into a tangled mess.

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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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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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It’s Time to Unbundle ESG

Harvard Business Review

ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to incorporate into their business strategies and operations – and their political advocacy – and how they will communicate this to their stakeholders.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Entrepreneurship Reimagined: What Type of Entrepreneur Are You?

CEO Insider

Before starting my current business, I owned a company called Dominic’s of New York. It was a chain of food trucks way before food trucks were a thing. The concept was simple, we sold Northern American style subs out of a trailer located in front of Lowes Home Centers. Our specialty was an Italian Sausage […] The post Entrepreneurship Reimagined: What Type of Entrepreneur Are You?

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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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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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What 570 Experts Predict the Future of Work Will Look Like

Harvard Business Review

No one knows exactly what the future of work will look like, but many people have opinions. Research involving Belgian newspaper articles and experts shows that public commentators on the topic tend to fall into three buckets: optimists (largely tech entrepreneurs), skeptics (largely economists) , and pessimists (authors and journalists). So, who’s right — should the future involve accelerated progress, degrowth, or something in between?

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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How Covid Changed Leadership Forever

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leadership is entering a new phase. Covid changed everything. If there were divisions before, now they are wider than ever before. The resulting world is now in recovery. Today’s post is by Chris Lewis, author of The Silent Rebellion. Leadership is entering a new phase. Covid changed everything. If there were divisions before, now they are wider than ever before.

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Gearset Acquires Clayton to Add Salesforce Code Analytics to DevOps Workflows

DevOps.com

Gearset this week revealed it has acquired Clayton, a provider of a code analysis platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications running on the Salesforce cloud service.

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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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How Venture Capitalists Can Become Effective Board Members

Harvard Business Review

Serving on boards is a vital part of what venture capitalists do. VCs who succeed at this will enjoy advantages, including building their own brand, increasing deal flow, and helping the companies they invest in perform better. To navigate board rooms more successfully, follow these seven tips.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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CodeSOD: A Clever Base

The Daily WTF

Mark worked with the kind of programmer who understood the nuances and flexibility of PHP on a level like none other. This programmer also wanted to use all of those features. This resulted in the Base class, from which all other classes descend. Mark, for example, was trying to understand how the status field on a Widget got set. So, he pulled up the Widget code: class Widget extends Base { public function getOtherWidgets ( ) { return $this ->widgetPart->otherWidgets;} public function get

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Copado Adds AI Agents to Automate DevOps Workflows for Salesforce Apps

DevOps.com

Copado today revealed it has developed a series of generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents capable of automating specific tasks that DevOps teams routinely encounter when building and deploying applications on top of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platform from Salesforce.

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The IT sector is bringing down Europe all on its own

CIO

On Monday of last week, former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi presented his “long-awaited” report on the EU’s competitiveness, which the Commission tapped him to produce a year ago. The report will form the basis of the policy work going forward for the new commission that will soon take office. I put long-awaited in quotation marks because, although it is described as such, it takes a certain masochistic disposition to look forward to a slap in the face like this.