Capabilities of attackers outpacing security leaders' ability to defend their organization: Study
84% of CISOs believe the risks of cyber attacks will increase and almost a quarter believe the capabilities of attackers are outpacing their ability to defend their organization, according to a Forbes Insights survey, titled Making Tough Choices: How CISOs Manage Escalating Threats and Limited Resources, commissioned by Fortinet. This issue is compounded with limited resources, including... By CIO&Leader
NEXT100 Winner Priya Dar joins Amway as Head of Digital Strategy & Innovation
Priya Dar has joined Amway as Head of Digital Strategy & Innovation. She is NEXT100 Winner 2016. Earlier, she was associated with Godfrey Phillips India as CIO. She has also worked in different leadership and managerial capacities in companies like Indus Towers, IDT, Random Walk Computing, Capgemini, AT&T, Times of India and Nicot Systems. Dar had completed a Certificate course in... By CIO&Leader
Tech skills gap a critical cybersecurity concern for organizations: Study
Malicious insiders (30%) and employee error (25%) pose the greatest cybersecurity threats in the workplace, according to Canon’s second annual Office of the Future survey. More than 1,000 IT executives across a range of vertical markets participated in the survey. The executives all work at businesses and government agencies that “experienced a cyber threat in the past year,” according... By CIO&Leader
Human errors leading to more and more cybersecurity incidents: Study
Despite automation, the human factor can still put industrial processes at risk: Employee errors or unintentional actions were behind 52% of incidents affecting operational technology and industrial control system (OT/ICS) networks last year. According to a new Kaspersky report, titled State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2019, this issue is part of a wider, more complicated context. The growing... By CIO&Leader
Two in three organizations to deploy AI in their cyber security system by 2020: Study
Businesses are increasing the pace of investment in AI systems to defend against the next generation of cyberattacks, according to Capgemini Research Institute’s Reinventing Cybersecurity with Artificial Intelligence: The New Frontier in Digital Security study. Two thirds (69%) of organizations acknowledge that they will not be able to respond to critical threats without AI. With the number... By CIO&Leader
AI in cyber security market to grow by 2025: Study
The global artificial intelligence (AI) in cyber security market was USD 7.1 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach approximately USD 30.9 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of slightly above 23.4% between 2019 and 2025, according to Zion market research report. The worldwide adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly emerging and the AI penetration rate is accelerating... By CIO&Leader
Cloud services spending grows in Q2, 2019; Amazon leads the pack
Q2 spend on cloud infrastructure services jumped 39% from the second quarter of 2018, according to new data from Synergy Research Group. In line with expectations this growth rate is nudging down each quarter, reflecting the increasingly massive scale of the market. However, in terms of actual dollars spent on cloud services, the market grew by over USD 1.6 billion from the previous quarter,... By CIO&Leader
Walking the Middle Path
“I am essentially a man inclined to compromise because I am never sure of possessing the truth in its pristine form” – Mahatma Gandhi Just about three-four years back, shadow IT seemed to bother CIOs a lot—to the extent that many considered it one of the top five challenges. Now, as the cover story of this issue tells you, there has been significant change in... By Shyamanuja Das
Emerging from the Shadow
Half a decade ago, shadow IT—as the phenomenon of adopting systems and applications in an organization brought in without explicit approval of the IT is described as—became one of the biggest challenges for CIOs. While enterprise IT managers rued that it would bring in a lot of security and integration challenges, there was also a sense of loss of control. That sense... By Sohini Bagchi
Regular patching your IT assets - Increases cyber immunity
Patch management seems to be an endless and thankless bucket of jobs that only get done when there is nothing else to do (thus almost never “on time”) or when something is about to break in a big way (or just broken!). It just puts off most of the time, leaving vulnerabilities and functional gaps all over the place. The three biggest challenges for an IT professional are security, reliability and... By Prakash Kumar Ranjan
