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    What California’s new AI law means for CIOs

    Tech leaders will need to adapt multiple processes to ensure providers are meeting the new standards, according to analysts.

    By • Sept. 30, 2025
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    AWS taps BCG executive for EU sovereign cloud unit

    Stéphane Israël will serve as managing director for the division, which is set to launch by the end of the year.

    By • Sept. 29, 2025
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    Many material cybersecurity breaches go unreported: VikingCloud

    Attacks have escalated in frequency and severity in the past year, with AI serving as a primary driver, according to the firm.

    By Alexei Alexis • Sept. 25, 2025
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    Meta launches lobbying effort to target state AI laws

    The company created a super PAC to back candidates who align with the company on AI oversight. It’s the latest sign of industry displeasure toward state AI laws.

    By • Sept. 24, 2025
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    AI SREs: Separating hype from reality

    “AI SRE” should not mean a chatbot guessing its way through your telemetry.

    By Yotam Yemini, CEO, Causely • Sept. 8, 2025
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    Data security gaps stymy enterprise AI plans

    Nearly three-quarters of CIOs and CISOs see information complexity as an adoption roadblock, according to a Ponemon Institute study commissioned by OpenText.

    By • Sept. 3, 2025
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    Why cyber risks lurk in legacy technology

    No matter why older IT systems are still around, companies need to protect stacks and devices before they become a vector for attacks.

    By • Sept. 3, 2025
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    How Tampa General Hospital worked to quantify cyber risk

    The medical center's CIO and CISO teamed up to translate security decisions into dollars and cents.

    By • Aug. 26, 2025
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    Businesses focus on AI, cloud, despite cyber defense oversights

    Enterprises are enthusiastically adopting AI, even as they neglect basic cybersecurity measures.

    By Eric Geller • Aug. 25, 2025
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    IT, business leaders clash over cloud, data security

    Executives plan to increase IT spend despite disappointing returns on tech investments, according to Unisys.

    By • Aug. 22, 2025
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    Why Morgan Stanley open-sourced its app development tool

    A software validation framework helps the bank accelerate compliance and security reviews. Last week, it released the tool through FINOS.

    By • Aug. 22, 2025
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    Cyber, AI drive software spending to double-digit growth through 2029

    Cloud security and identity and access management tool purchases insulated the market from tariff-induced economic shocks, according to Forrester.

    By • Aug. 19, 2025
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    The new frontline: Reinventing browser security for the modern workforce

    Workforce security's new frontier: the browser. Don't let it become your biggest vulnerability.

    By Ohad Bobrov • Aug. 18, 2025
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    Research shows AI agents are highly vulnerable to hijacking attacks

    Attackers could exploit widely deployed AI technologies for data theft and manipulation, experts from Zenity Labs found.

    By David Jones • Aug. 12, 2025
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    The humble printer highlights overlooked security flaws

    “You cannot ignore the print infrastructure and expect that malicious bad actors are going to ignore it as well,” HP Chief Technologist for Security Research and Innovation Boris Balacheff said.

    By • Aug. 7, 2025
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    Cybersecurity budgets tighten as economic anxiety rises

    Uncertain tariff policies and fluctuating inflation rates are leading to stagnant or reduced budgets, according to an IANS Research report.

    By Alexei Alexis • Aug. 6, 2025
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    Wells Fargo taps Google Cloud for agentic AI push

    The tools will give employees real-time market insights, help navigate extensive documentation and improve customer service.

    By • Aug. 5, 2025
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    Why Capital One’s software division created its own data security tool

    When the bank couldn’t find a commercially available tokenization software tool, it tapped its engineering team to build one.

    By • Aug. 4, 2025
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    Research shows LLMs can conduct sophisticated attacks without humans

    The project, launched by Carnegie Mellon in collaboration with Anthropic, simulated the 2017 Equifax data breach.

    By David Jones • July 30, 2025
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    Bank of America taps next tech chief

    Aditya Bhasin, chief technology and information officer since 2021, is leaving the bank and will be replaced by Hari Gopalkrishnan, who’s been at BofA since 2011.

    By Caitlin Mullen • July 29, 2025
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    What we know about the Microsoft SharePoint attacks

    State-linked hackers and ransomware groups are targeting SharePoint customers across the globe.

    By David Jones • July 25, 2025
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    Businesses tighten IT spending plans amid Trump tariff threats

    Shifts in U.S. trade policy pushed companies into a wait-and-see mode, S&P Global Market Intelligence Research Analyst Malav Parekh said.

    By • July 23, 2025
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    Microsoft, CISA warn of cyberattacks targeting on-premises SharePoint servers

    The flaw can let threat actors access SharePoint content, including file systems, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

    By David Jones • July 21, 2025
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    AI-powered attacks rise as CISOs gauge security risks

    Security chiefs are concerned about flaws in agents but also eager to see them replace humans in some roles, according to a report.

    By Eric Geller • July 21, 2025
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    Amazon’s director of security on locking down enterprise AI

     "We've seen hype cycles before, but this one is a little different," Mark Ryland, director of security at Amazon, told CIO Dive.

    By • July 18, 2025