Ten years!
I joined NEXT100 journey when it was exactly halfway through—in 2015—which means I missed the excitement and uncertainties of the early days. With that the thought process that went behind the awards, the conceptualization, the iterations and all that. I surely missed a lot of good things. Let me make one confession. While as the then editor of a well-established IT publication, I never... By Shyamanuja Das
Phishing now a year-round 'sport'
Phishing attacks have been a leading cause for breaches globally, with 83% of information security (infosec) professionals reported having experienced phishing attacks in 2018, up from 76% in 2017, according to Proofpoint. This upward trajectory is due to the ease with which threat actors can launch these attacks. As opposed to hacking through a firewall, deciphering encryption or finding a... By Santosh Matam
Lack of IT-OT collaboration leaving Industrial Control Systems at risk: Study
Industrial firms, due to increased digitalization, are more exposed to cyberthreats than ever before, according to a Fortinet-Forrester Consulting joint survey. In addition, the lack of collaboration between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) teams represents another cybersecurity barrier for organizations that want to take full advantage of IT/OT convergence to increase... By CIO&Leader
Using AI as an adaptive immune system for networks against cyberthreats
Imagine what you would have done differently in your network if you could have just seen a few years into the future. Would you have been quicker to embrace the cloud? What about the time and money spent on technologies that you now don’t really use? Every wiring closet has a number of expensive boat anchors sitting on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. Of course, if your organization has ever... By Rajesh Maurya
2020 FORECAST: Customer connections to explode
2020 is all about executing on enterprise digital transformation. Early digital adopters are now beginning to show real traction and gains – particularly when it comes to customer, and more specifically, human experience technology. Those who haven’t opted in, and who chose to focus on cost efficiencies at the expense of network and technology investment, are now or will soon be suffering from... By Prashant Gupta
Flexibility, elasticity high on corporate agenda
Flexibility and elasticity are top priority to corporates in the age of digital transformation with IT being no exception. From the perspective of IT, virtualization and cloud computing have become the de facto standard for deployment models. They provide the infrastructure elasticity to make business more agile and higher performing and are the reason why the majority of organizations today are... By Nikhil Taneja
Cyber The Top Peril For Asia-Pacific Organizations For The First Time: Study
For the first time ever, Cyber incidents (35% of responses) ranks as the most important business risk in Asia-Pacific in the ninth Allianz Risk Barometer 2020, relegating perennial top peril Business interruption (BI) (34% of responses) to second place. The region’s results mirror a global trend that has seen awareness of the cyber threat growing rapidly in recent years, driven by companies... By CIO&Leader
Accenture to acquire Symantec’s cyber security services business from Broadcom
Accenture has agreed to acquire Symantec’s Cyber Security Services business from Broadcom. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition will make Accenture Security one of the leading providers of managed security services, further enhancing its ability to help companies rapidly anticipate, detect and respond to cyber threats. Symantec’s portfolio of Cyber... By CIO&Leader
Cloud decides enterprise IT success of large vendors in last decade
As many as six technology companies increased their enterprise IT revenues by more than USD 10 billion in the last decade. Top eight vendors collectively grew their annual enterprise IT revenues by over USD 200 billion during the decade, according to a research by Synergy Research Group. Microsoft was the table topper with its revenue growth in enterprise technology touching almost USD 50... By CIO&Leader
A realistic aSaaSement
In the initial days of Software as a Service (SaaS), one of its biggest attraction was that it allowed the non-IT functional executives to invest in the solutions that solved their problems well—and without involving the IT department. It provided three great value propositions. One, it changed software from a capital expenditure to operational expenditure. That meant the decision could be... By Shyamanuja Das
2020 Forecast: Cloud computing to become the center of IT tech innovation
From the emerge of cognitive intelligence, in-memory-computing, fault-tolerant quantum computing, new materials-based semiconductor devices, to faster growth of industrial IoT, large-scale collaboration between machines, production-grade blockchain applications, modular chip design, and AI technologies to protect data privacy… more technology advancements and breakthroughs are expected to gain... By CIO&Leader