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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

CIO

After Google’s cooperation with T-Systems and the “ Delos ” offer from Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato, AWS now follows suit. Across the globe, customers should not wait any longer for a magical one size fits all solution or ever trust that their due diligence of regulatory requirements can be delegated to any vendor.

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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

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It just crossed $100M in revenue and is approaching a major liquidity event, such as an IPO. But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. You see the systems that must be repaired (or built) if the firm is to comply with SOX.

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Twitter exposes secrets, FTC clamps down on review hijackers and Android 14 arrives

TechCrunch

It’s Week in Review (WiR) , the (more or less) regular newsletter that recaps the top stories from the past few days written by the talented TC team. Elsewhere in events land, don’t forget that Disrupt, TechCrunch’s annual flagship conference, kicks off September 19. Hijacked reviews: The U.S. Hello, friends.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

CIO

And those massive platforms sharply limit how far they will allow one enterprise’s IT due diligence to go. When performing whatever minimal due diligence the cloud platform permits — SOC reports, GDPR compliance, PCI ROC, etc. it’s critical to remember that it is only a snapshot at that moment of evaluation. Levine says.

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This week in AI: Experiments, retirements, and extinction events

TechCrunch

Microsoft kills Cortana: Echoing the events of the Halo series of games from which the name was plucked, Cortana has been destroyed. This literature review at Nature is as comprehensive an accounting of areas and methods where AI is taking effect as you’re likely to find anywhere, as well as the advances that have made them possible.

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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

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Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. Both events showed a consistent pattern of using an employee’s identity and using social engineering to fool the IT helpdesk into providing access. Déjà vu can suck sometimes.