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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

CIO

A fractional CIO is typically an experienced IT leader who is external to the enterprise yet acts as an accountable leader and extension of the executive team, says Dave Hartman, president of IT management consulting firm Hartman Executive Advisors. “A What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs?

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. It will be impossible to find a partner that has ten years of experience and references for it,” says AWS’s Chen. “In

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10 most difficult-to-fill IT roles — and how to address the gap

CIO

CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey recently zeroed in on the technology roles that IT leaders find the most difficult to fill, with cybersecurity, data science and analytics, and AI topping the list. The 2022 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study calculated a cybersecurity workforce gap of 3.4 The net result?

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

When possible, refer all matters to committees for “further study and consideration” Attempt to make committees as large as possible — never less than five. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

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8 secrets of successful IT freelancers

CIO

That’s how you get the work done, and that’s how you secure clients for life.” There are so many opportunities out there, so choose what you want to do and dedicate yourself 100% to it,” Zilberman advises. Your best friend is your network and references, Kiefer says. Still, it’s important to be realistic when searching for work.

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Moxie on Murder

Crafty CTO

Moxie’s a legend in tech as creator of the Signal secure messaging app —and more importantly to cryptographers, the Signal Protocol and Double Ratchet Algorithm —and when I saw his name I immediately was looking for “technical advisor” credits. And there, listed first: Moxie Marlinspike.

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Architect defense-in-depth security for generative AI applications using the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Many customers are looking for guidance on how to manage security, privacy, and compliance as they develop generative AI applications. We first delve into the vulnerabilities, threats, and risks that arise from the implementation, deployment, and use of LLM solutions, and provide guidance on how to start innovating with security in mind.