Total collaboration market to rise in 2019; Cisco still on top: Study
The total collaboration market will grow by 9% in 2019 to reach over USD 45 billion, driven by a group of high-growth hosted & cloud collaboration market segments, according to a Synergy Research Group study. TeamWork Apps will be the highest growth market, up by almost 60% in 2019, while CPaaS and VaaS will each grow by around 30%, with UCaaS and CCaaS being the next highest growth markets.... By CIO&Leader
Cyberattacks rise in 2018: Study
There is significant rise in the volume of new vulnerabilities in 2018, according to Skybox Security’s Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report. The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) assigned 16,412 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), a 12% increase over the previous year. That may seem like a small climb, but the 2017 figure was already an all-time high, and... By CIO&Leader
Organizations mostly affected by cryptominers in 2018: Study
37% organizations have been affected by cryptominers globally, followed by mobile malware (33%), botnet malware (18%), banking malware (13%) and ransomware (4%), according to Checkpoint’s Cyber Attack Trends Analysis Security Report 2019. The report indicates although there is rise in cryptomining attacks, there is a sharp decline in the ransomware attacks. (See Figure 1) Figure 1: Top cyber... By CIO&Leader
India among top nations leading GDPR readiness: Study
India finds its place amongst the leading nations globally in their preparedness towards the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to Cisco’s 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study. According to the study, organizations worldwide that invested in maturing their data privacy practices are now realizing tangible business benefits from these investments. The study validates the link... By CIO&Leader
Worldwide IT spending to rise in 2019: Gartner
Worldwide IT spending will total USD 3.76 trillion in 2019, an increase of 3.2% from 2018, according to Gartner. “Despite uncertainty fueled by recession rumors, Brexit, and trade wars and tariffs, the likely scenario for IT spending in 2019 is growth,” said John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner. “However, there are a lot of dynamic changes happening in regards to... By CIO&Leader
Majority of organizations will integrate AI to aid employees' productivity by 2021: Gartner
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly making its way into the workplace, with virtual personal assistants (VPAs) and other forms of chatbots now augmenting human performance in many organizations. According to Gartner, by 2021, 70% of organizations will assist their employees’ productivity by integrating AI in the workplace. This development will prompt 10% of organizations to... By CIO&Leader
Being a CISO…and after
We, at ITNEXT, have been running the NEXT100 program for ten years now. Every year, a batch of 100 winners—dubbed as future CIOs—are identified. Many of them have already become CIOs. This is the only program of its kind, which goes beyond the existing set of CIOs to identify the next generation who have the potential to be CIOs. From executives who are below one level of the CIO to who are below... By Shyamanuja Das
CISO: In search of an identity
A few weeks after the white paper on data protection framework in India was published, I wanted to know what the CISOs thought about it. In an event, I posed this informally to more than 20 CISOs, many of them from B2C businesses. Only three knew that such a paper existed. Only one of the three—from the telecom industry—had actually seen the whitepaper. By the way, GDPR was already a buzzword by... By Shyamanuja Das
Qlik acquires CrunchBot to augment conversational analytics capabilities
Qlik today announced it has acquired the CrunchBot AI-powered analytics bot along with Crunch Data’s experienced team of AI and solution development professionals. Users can now interact with and understand their data using natural language through Qlik Sense and within leading collaboration tools, such as Slack, Skype, Salesforce Chat and Microsoft Teams. This expands Qlik’s existing augmented... By CIO&Leader
Key cybersecurity threats that will impact APAC organizations in 2019
2018 has been another transformative time for security teams in APAC regions. The imposition of new regulations like Australia’s Notifiable Data Breaches scheme and the Indian government’s push to be GDPR compliant due to recent global breaches, have been influential on cybersecurity investment and strategy. Along with a rise in the number of incidents of data theft and cyberattacks in... By CIO&Leader
Data lakes: Steering through the deluge of data
Businesses across the world are collecting massive amounts of data on a daily basis from different kinds of data sources, including telemetry and IoT devices, consumer and business data and even social media. As data becomes increasingly integrated into the way we run our lives and businesses, it is extremely critical how enterprises handle the rapid data growth and manage diverse data to extract... By Deepak Visweswaraiah