Large enterprises have always relied on mainframe computing but with the rise of technologies like the cloud and AI many have predicted that those days are numbered.

Software solutions company BMC has released the results of its 20th annual BMC mainframe survey, which finds that in fact positive perception of the mainframe has reached an all-time high of 97 percent, highlighting that the mainframe remains a vibrant and growing platform.

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To mark today’s IT Pro Day today, SolarWinds, has released some new global survey data looking at what winds up IT professionals. Plus, what the IT team want in return for keeping our lives running smoothly.

Based on a survey of over 400 global IT professionals it shows that the biggest triggers, cited by 19 percent are hearing the dread phrases, “I didn’t touch anything” or “You’re good with computers, right?” These are closely followed by the classic, “The Wi-Fi’s broken” (18 percent).

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Today’s enterprises are often stuck with legacy code that hampers attempts at modernization, maintenance and more.

To address this CoreStory is launching an AI-driven code intelligence platform that uncovers the fundamental insights in code to accelerate software modernization efforts quickly, efficiently and with greater confidence.

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Organizations are sitting on troves of information yet struggle to leverage this data for quick decision-making. The challenge isn't just about having data, but working with it in its natural state -- which often includes ‘dirty data' not cleaned of typos or errors.

We spoke to CEO of analytics company WisdomAI, Soham Mazumdar, to find out more about this challenge and how businesses can deal with it.

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A growing cybersecurity skills crisis is forcing 64 percent of the organizations across Europe the Middle East and Africa to take risky shortcuts and temporary fixes to meet security demands.

Research from Insight Enterprises shows only 24 percent of IT decision-makers across EMEA say they have sufficient in-house cyber skills to keep pace with evolving threats. These shortages are delaying key initiatives (57 percent) and leaving more than half (57 percent) struggling to meet compliance requirements.

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Artificial intelligence is finding its way into more and more areas of our lives. But while there are concerns around the use of the technology itself, there are much greater ones over how we secure it.

We spoke to Anand Kashyap, CEO and founder of Fortanix, to discuss confidential computing, a technology backed by Microsoft, Intel, Arm, AMD and Nvidia, which encrypts data while it's being processed, even by AI systems.

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Workers are increasingly using shadow AI to draft emails, analyze data, or summarize meetings, but are pretending they haven’t.

New data from marketing agency OutreachX finds 52 percent of US workers are worried about how AI will be used in their workplace in the future and that 48 percent of desk workers say they would be uncomfortable telling a manager they used AI for common tasks.

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A new study from Liquid Web shows IT professionals spend an average of 77 minutes per day checking dashboards, which equals about 468 hours per year or nearly 20 full workdays.

This is leading to stress and a risk of burnout as one in three say they can’t relax unless they check their server dashboard at least once an hour. 51 percent say they check dashboards during the night, at weekends, or on vacations, blurring the line between work and personal time.

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A new survey of 2,000 UK consumers shows that 64 percent agree the Online Safety Act protects children, with support higher among parents of young children and lower among ‘empty nest’ parents.

However, the data from verification and anti-fraud platform Sumsub also shows 48 percent concerned it will lead to censorship.

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Helpdesks are bogged down by repetitive, time-consuming tasks (34 percent), long resolution times (34 percent) and limited resources (31 percent).

This is among the findings of the latest digital employee experience (DEX) report from Ivanti. It shows that while many businesses are automating certain operations, like security patch management (72 percent) and IT ticket routing (67 percent), but nearly 40 percent still haven't automated password resets -- missing an easy win that could eliminate countless routine support tickets.

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We know that the UK’s Online Safety Act has had a number of consequences including a surge in interest in the use of VPNs. But VPNs aren’t the only things that have seen greater interest.

New research from Comparitech shows more people are searching for fake IDs, how to access the dark web, and torrenting services. The company has recorded a 56 percent increase in impressions for blog posts related to the law and guides to using VPNs as a means of accessing restricted content.

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As we do more and more on our mobile devices it’s clear that the front line of cyber defense isn't the corporate server it's the employee's phone.

As AI boosts social engineering, hackers are bypassing traditional firewalls to target people directly with smishing and phishing, making every employee a critical, and often vulnerable, defender against highly convincing threats.

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Recent advancements in publicly available AI models have made it incredibly easy to generate deepfakes -- so much so that attackers don’t need to be technical experts to pull off convincing deception campaigns.

Attackers can scrape public content to recreate someone's voice or face, and inject that fake identity into virtual meetings, phone calls, or even training videos.

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As cyber adversaries increasingly use AI to move faster and exploit blind spots, security, network, and application teams face mounting challenges, not helped by a global shortage of skilled professionals.

Observability specialist Gigamon is launching a new agentic AI application purpose-built for network-derived telemetry to deliver immediate guidance for security and IT operations teams.

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While crowdsourcing testing is increasingly popular the market has long struggled with lengthy setup times, inconsistent tester quality, poor signal-to-noise ratios.

Testing platform Testilo is seeking to address this with the launch of two new AI technologies, LeoAI Engine and LeoMatch. LeoAI Engine is a proprietary intelligence layer, while LeoMatch seeks to match the right testers to projects in real-time.

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