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1. Speeding Towards Zero Trust
Key Points:
- Chris DeRusha, who was appointed federal CISO in the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) in 2021 used his keynote talk on Wednesday during
Forrester
’s Security & Risk event in Washington, D.C., to give an overview of the government’s daunting cybersecurity efforts and how that strategy could be used in other organizations.
- Government technology security leaders are racing to meet zero-trust requirements by 2024.
- An important step for any organization, no matter the size, is to define what zero-trust means to that organization.
2. Beware of the AI Agents
Key Points:
- Here we’re talking about the often anonymous, autonomous AI agents that tend to work largely unobtrusively and unnoticed until OpenAI widened the spotlight with its recent announcement of a store full of micro GPTs.
- Soon, an army of autonomous AI agents will be all up in your business, literally, and your life.
- That being the case, this story take a look at what these truly are and whether they are friend, foe, or frenemy. Dive into the slideshow above for more.
3. Great Hires Deliver Better Products
Key Points:
-
David Politis
,
BetterCloud
’s founder, had a substantial part of his reflections focused on hiring, as well as letting go, key personnel, along with the importance of delivering a solid product.
- He shared such insight in a fireside chat Tuesday night at the last New York Enterprise Tech Meetup (NYETM) for 2023.
Jessica Lin
, co-founder and managing partner with venture capital firm
Work-Bench
, which runs NYETM, conducted the chat.
- When
BetterCloud
turned things around and started to deliver and hit its targets, David saw it as vindication for himself and the investors and customers who continued to have faith in the company.
4. Is AI Coming for Your Job... Again?
Key Points:
- With AI’s growing capabilities, there is concern that the answer to that question is lost jobs. Why pay a person when an AI system could do the same job faster and for far less money?
- That fear is not entirely unfounded. In May, AI was credited with cutting 3,900 jobs, according to a report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
- The IT workforce can ready itself as that demand for resources accelerates. Right now, many employers are asking their current IT workers to upskill.
5. Regulation Navigation
Key Points:
- The keynote, “Too Fast, Too Furious: Managing the Speed of Cybersecurity Regulatory Change,” featured a discussion with
Gene Sun
, corporate vice president and CISO at
FedEx
, and
Stephanie Franklin-Thomas PhD, MBA, BA, CISA, NACD.DC
, senior vice president and CISO with
ABM Industries
.
- One cybersecurity regulation driver, Sun said, is national security. And compliance gets trickier if you run a multinational business. Because
FedEx
operates in more than 200 countries, keeping up with regulations can be a nightmare.
- Franklin-Thomas said regulations are coming at a furious pace because in many ways, the US was behind in creating a regulatory framework.
Latest Major Tech Layoff Announcements
Original Story by Jessica C. Davis, Updated by Brandon Taylor
Key Points:
- As COVID drove everyone online, tech companies hired like crazy. Now we are hitting the COVID tech bust as tech giants shed jobs by the thousands.
- Updated Friday, November 17, 2023 with layoff announcements from
Amazon
,
Beamery
, and
Chewy
.
- Check back regularly for updates to our IT job layoffs tracker.
Virtual Events from the Archives...
"DevSecOps Essentials" Recaps
These segments were part of our live “DevSecOps Essentials that Enable Efficient Security” virtual event. The event was presented by InformationWeek and ITPro Today on October 19, 2023.
1. What Does Agile Really Mean in the Age of IT Automation?
In this archived keynote session, Eve Logunova-Parker, CEO of Evenness, discusses various aspects of agile methodology in the context of modern IT and its relevance in the face of automation and changing landscapes in IT operations. Logunova-Parker highlights the transition from traditional IT operations to various methodologies, including DevOps, NoOps, CloudOps, AIOps, and BizOps.
2. How to Rescue a Struggling DevSecOps Program
There are many historic and cultural differences between dev and security teams that persist today – fast vs. slow, risk-hungry vs. risk-averse, focused on profits vs. focused on cost avoidance, and more.
In this archived keynote session, Larry Maccherone, Dev[Sec]Ops Transformation Architect at Contrast Security, explains how to rescue a struggling DevSecOps program.
Treasures from the Archives...
Key Points:
- According to the report, Digital Health Technology Vision 2018, 81% of healthcare executives said they are not yet prepared to face the societal and liability issues needed to explain their AI systems' decisions.
- Additionally, while 86% of respondents said that their organizations are using data to drive automated decision-making, the same proportion (86%) report they have not invested in the capabilities needed to verify data sources across their most critical systems.
-
Kaveh Safavi
, head of
Accenture
’s health practice, observed that the current lack of AI data verification investment activity is exposing healthcare organizations to inaccurate, manipulated and biased data that can lead to corrupted insights and skewed results.
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