Information sharing key to ward off cyber threats: Report
Sharing information is an important factor in helping to defend against cyber threats, according to Akamai Technologies’ State of the Internet/Security: Carrier Insights Report for Spring 2018. The report analyzes data from more than 14 trillion DNS queries collected by Akamai between September 2017 and February 2018 from communications service provider (CSP) networks around the world. For more... By CIO&Leader
Majority of organizations not ready for EU GDPR legislation: Study
With just one month until the new EU General Data Protection Regulation Legislation (GDPR) comes into force, data security company, WinMagic, has released the findings of research that suggests many companies will not be ready when it takes effect on May 25th, 2018. The research of 482 IT Decision Makers was conducted during March 2018 in the UK, Germany, India and the US by Viga. The... By CIO&Leader
One in four Indian IT managers globally cannot identify 70% of their network traffic: Study
Majority of Indian IT managers have legal liabilities when it comes to unidentified traffic in their organizations, according to India findings of Sophos survey, The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls. In fact, nearly one in four globally cannot identify 70% of their network traffic. The lack of visibility creates significant security challenges for today’s businesses and impacts effective... By CIO&Leader
Global AI business value to rise in 2018: Gartner
Global business value derived from artificial intelligence (AI) will total USD 1.2 trillion in 2018, a rise of 70% from 2017, according to Gartner. AI-derived business value will reach USD 3.9 trillion in 2022. The three different sources of AI business value are: Customer experience: The positive or negative effects on indirect cost. Customer experience is a necessary... By CIO&Leader
Atos, Siemens expand cloud partnership
European IT services provider Atos expanded its partnership with German manufacturing conglomerate Siemens to include delivery of the "MindSphere" on-premise services. "MindSphere" is the cloud-based, open IoT (Internet of Things) operating system from Siemens. New Siemens "MindSphere" on-premise will allow customers to deploy digital-driven business applications in a secure, managed... By IANS
Tableau launches new subscription offerings
Tableau Software has launched new offerings, Tableau Creator, Explorer and Viewer, which combine new and current analytical capabilities into packages, tailor-made for everyone in the organization, notwithstanding the skill level. This is a new way for organizations to buy and scale Tableau’s best-in-class analytics platform. Moreover, organizations now can cost-effectively achieve a key... By CIO&Leader
Rise in global semiconductor revenue in 2017; Samsung tops: Gartner
The global semiconductor revenue totalled USD 420.4 billion in 2017, a 21.6% increase from 2016 revenue of USD 345.9 billion, according to Gartner. This is as a result of strong growth in the memory market. “2017 saw two semiconductor industry milestones — revenue surpassed USD 400 billion, and Intel, the No. 1 vendor for the last 25 years, was pushed into second place by Samsung Electronics,”... By CIO&Leader
From the Editor: CDOs are from Mars...
This issue’s cover story is mostly (not fully) based on my research on digital transformation journey in selected companies within some of the largest groups in India—Tata, Mahindra & Mahindra and Vedanta/Sterlite. When I spoke with people leading transformation as well as with some other CXOs, I realized what they talked about digital transformation and what I had heard till then, largely... By Shyamanuja Das
Leading Digital
By this time, you are probably more than convinced that digital is not another flavor of the season. It is here to stay and it is changing the business for real. But have you felt that while your organization is going all out for digital, there is something missing for you? You are involved, but not quite in charge. Your apprehensions are not quite baseless. By the end of 2017, Corporate... By Shyamanuja Das
Decoding digital transformation in India
What the digital journeys of selected companies from three of India’s largest groups – Tata, Mahindra & Mahindra and Vedanta/Sterlite — tell us about digital transformation in India. Presenting here the study in five parts: 1: Decoding Digital Transformation: The Imperatives 2: Decoding Digital Transformation: The Outcomes 3: Decoding Digital... By Shyamanuja Das
Prevention of focused cyberattacks rise in 2018: Study
With ransomware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the rise, the average number of focused cyberattacks per organization has more than doubled this year compared to the previous 12 months (232 through January 2018 versus 106 through January 2017). In the face of these growing cyber threats, organizations are demonstrating far more success in detecting and blocking them,... By CIO&Leader