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Need a security road map? Ditch the ad hoc measurement

CIO Business Intelligence

CISOs can only know the performance and maturity of their security program by actively measuring it themselves; after all, to measure is to know. However, CISOs aren’t typically measuring their security program proactively or methodically to understand their current security program.

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CIOs must reassess cloud concentration risk post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

It also highlights the downsides of concentration risk. What is concentration risk? Looking to the future, IT leaders must bring stronger focus on “concentration risk”and how these supply chain risks can be better managed. Unfortunately, the complexity of multiple vendors can lead to incidents and new risks.

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Digital addiction detox: Streamline tech to maximize impact, minimize risks

CIO Business Intelligence

While tech debt refers to shortcuts taken in implementation that need to be addressed later, digital addiction results in the accumulation of poorly vetted, misused, or unnecessary technologies that generate costs and risks. million machines worldwide, serves as a stark reminder of these risks. Assume unknown unknowns.

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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. There are, for example, those in leadership roles who, while promoting the value of risk-taking, also insist on “holding people accountable.” You can’t lose.

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Report: AI giants grow impatient with UK safety tests

CIO Business Intelligence

Key AI companies have told the UK government to speed up its safety testing for their systems, raising questions about future government initiatives that too may hinge on technology providers opening up generative AI models to tests before new releases hit the public.

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AI agents will transform business processes — and magnify risks

CIO Business Intelligence

It wasn’t just a single measurement of particulates,” says Chris Mattmann, NASA JPL’s former chief technology and innovation officer. “It It was many measurements the agents collectively decided was either too many contaminants or not.” They also had extreme measurement sensitivity. Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO Business Intelligence

This has spurred interest around understanding and measuring developer productivity, says Keith Mann, senior director, analyst, at Gartner. Therefore, engineering leadership should measure software developer productivity, says Mann, but also understand how to do so effectively and be wary of pitfalls.