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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. World Insurance’s Corrigan advises asking what skillsets, certifications, and personality types they look for when hiring. It’s also critical to bring people into the fold at an individual level.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale. Pick vanity metrics with little or no correlation with business value and high amount of noise.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

CIO

Evolving regulations related to data privacy, data sovereignty, and responsible AI further complicate matters as customers and vendors work out the responsibility and costs of meeting increasingly stringent requirements. Deals done by business users alone may be technically unsound. The group of stakeholders keeps growing.”

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Savvy CIOs step up to support business hypergrowth

CIO

Delivering for growth Today, McCullen is creating new technical foundations to ensure that adaptability, and further support ongoing business growth. To better support business growth, Baymiller advises IT leaders to build connections with the heads of their business units and become part of their teams.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

A lot of people focus on the metrics of diversity, but when you really look at it, inclusion is that sense of belonging, that trust in wanting to work at a place. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says. It’s death by 1,000 paper cuts. That’s the real issue.”.

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The Power of AI Assistants and Advanced Threat Detection

Palo Alto Networks

We recently interviewed Mike Spisak, technical managing director with the Proactive Services Creation Team at Unit 42. AI and its associated security are rapidly evolving and require an on-going commitment to learning and research that results in regularly updating security controls in order to meet continuously changing threats.”