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    Technology disTrumption: How 45 has impacted the tech sector

    One year after Donald Trump won the election, the technology enterprise has not significantly changed under his hands-off approach. AI may change that.

    Alex Hickey • Nov. 8, 2017
  • 10 CIOs and CTOs to follow on Twitter

    From old faces to new, here are some key IT executives changing and leading modern tech implementations across the enterprise.

    Alex Hickey • Nov. 6, 2017
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    The great hunt for Amazon HQ2: 3 cities on our short list

    While Amazon is sifting through its several hundred proposals, with a result expected in 2018, the CIO Dive Editorial Team predicts three contenders. 

    Naomi Eide, Samantha Schwartz and Alex Hickey • Nov. 3, 2017
  • 5 fresh business technology startups making a splash

    With so many startups crowding the enterprise technology space, it can be difficult to tell the promising from the not. Sometimes $100 million in funding is seen as a metric of success, but other times success is filling a niche role for a critical technology.

    Alex Hickey • Nov. 1, 2017
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    Here's what you need to know from National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

    This year was haunted by cyberattacks, breaches and threats. Hackers only need to get an attack right once, then the rest of the work is done for them.

    Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 31, 2017
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    Healthy dose of skepticism and reality will carry companies through next cyberthreat

    Patching is a fundamental of cybersecurity, yet IT departments are more inclined to invest in "chasing security threats" rather than reexamining what is already available and fixable.

    Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 31, 2017
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    5 surefire tech costumes to win Halloween

    From spooky to iconic, here are five costumes to throw together in a pinch. 

    Naomi Eide • Oct. 27, 2017
  • The quantum revolution: Who, what, when, where, why and how?

    Quantum computing will annihilate modern encryption schemes, and the race to reach the technology first is heating up worldwide — a race the enterprise is staking a claim in.

    Alex Hickey • Oct. 26, 2017
  • The shifting state of federal CIOs

    While examining the state of federal IT leadership, CIO Dive created a scorecard. We soon realized the data would be valuable to our audience. Take a minute to look at the people behind technology for key agencies. 

    Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 25, 2017
  • Inside the federal law that promotes CIO authority

    FITARA was enacted in 2014 and declared the rightful authority of federal CIOs as prominent decision makers of agency IT strategy. 

    Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 25, 2017
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    Security, breaches and threats, oh my! 5 takeaways from CyberTalks 2017

    Data security sounds like an easy end, but tech leaders acknowledge front and backend factors at play in today's dangerous cybersecurity environment.

    Alex Hickey • Oct. 24, 2017
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    Amazon's time has come: What you need to know about the HQ2 bids

    The company has said HQ2 will be a "full equal" to its existing Seattle headquarters, with plans to invest more than $5 billion in construction and create 50,000 new high-paying jobs.

    Mary Tyler March • Oct. 23, 2017
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    One year after the Dyn DDoS attack broke the internet, what's changed?

    In response to the attack, security experts were quick to extol the virtues of redundancy measures — a best practice that experts have recommended for nearly two decades. But a year later, not much has changed.

    Naomi Eide • Oct. 20, 2017
  • Inside Starbuck's push to brew technology reinvention

    Surely it takes a unified tech stack for a worldwide enterprise with more than 26,000 stores? Think again. 

    Naomi Eide • Oct. 19, 2017
  • H-1B by the numbers: 3 data points illustrating the last decade of the visa program

    While the program could face changes, understanding how it has contributed to the American workforce over the last decade is important. 

    Alex Hickey • Oct. 17, 2017
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    5 of the largest data breaches in recent history — and 4 more you forgot

    As the country mulls the impact of an increasing number of breaches, here is a look at some particularly bad incidents people might have forgotten about and companies may not have learned a lesson from.

    Alex Hickey • Oct. 12, 2017
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    Expectation, meet reality: The 4 biggest takeaways from Gartner Symposium 2017

    While no predictions are resolute, the research firm has made one thing clear to IT decisions makers: Modernize technology approaches or face irrelevance.

    Naomi Eide • Oct. 11, 2017
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    Pitney Bowes turns to data democratization to meet digital demands of e-commerce

    When the king of mailing and shipping wants to modernize, it comes down to data. Why? Because the company says it improves customer service, especially in "areas where we may be more physical today than digital."

    Naomi Eide • Oct. 10, 2017
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    How the National Science Foundation cut its data center in half

    The only time NSF networks were offline was over the July 4 weekend when the remaining hardware was physically forklifted to the new location.

    Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 10, 2017
  • 10 cybersecurity experts to follow on Twitter

    Twitter feeds should be equal parts self-indulgent thoughts and best cybersecurty practices. How does your feed measure up? 

    Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 9, 2017
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    As companies struggle to discern the scope of cyberattacks, attention shifts to better detection

    Yahoo disclosed an additional two billion compromised user accounts Tuesday, highlighting just how long it took for the company to understand the full scope of the 2013 data breach. 

    Naomi Eide • Oct. 5, 2017
  • Mr. Smith goes to Washington: Former Equifax CEO testifies before House committee

    Committee members and Smith hashed out events surrounding the breach, which can be viewed in this feature, and raised concerns over the amount of sensitive consumer data collected and stored by large corporations. See story for timeline.

    Alex Hickey • Oct. 4, 2017
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    With emerging technologies top of mind, CIOs must focus on talent

    Though technology is at the center of Gartner's predicted business disruption, companies have to also upend cultures to ensure long-term relevance. Without talent, organizations will become irrelevant.

    Naomi Eide • Oct. 3, 2017
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    On the chopping blockchain: Where does the ledger technology go from here?

    A handful of high-profile use cases exist in the financial services, but experts maintain in coming years blockchain will hit its stride in supply chains, data management and cybersecurity.

    Alex Hickey • Oct. 2, 2017
  • 5 technologies Microsoft 'Ignited' this week

    The business technology giant announced updates and improvements across its products and services at Ignite this week in Orlando. Cloud storage functionalities took precedence, but Microsoft did not cast off its software foundation. 

    Samantha Schwartz and Alex Hickey • Sept. 28, 2017