Using gen AI to ease the IT workload [Q&A]
The IT industry has been experiencing major turnover and burnout issues for years, and skilled workers are a rare commodity nowadays.
We spoke with Ariel Gesto, CEO and founder of InvGate, to find out how IT workers can automate tasks or make some tasks much easier to solve with gen AI.
AI and dataset poisoning -- are organizations prepared for the latest cyberthreats? [Q&A]
Although governments are issuing new guidelines for businesses to toughen up their cyber protection, cyberattacks remain a major risk, only growing in sophistication with advancements in AI.
With the continued integration of AI into systems, recognizing the threat that dataset poisoning presents is also an emerging concern. We spoke to Andy Swift, cyber security assurance technical director at Six Degrees to discuss the latest threats and how businesses can respond.
Enterprises plan to increase AI investment
Enterprise IT and operations leaders are planning to significantly increase their AI investments over the next 18 months, according to an independent global survey announced today by Celigo.
The survey of 1,200 people finds businesses are realizing positive results from early AI deployments, including greater productivity and efficiency, enhanced customer experience and reduced costs. Consequently 97 percent say they will increase their AI expenditure through 2025 to accelerate AI transformations across corporate departments.
Enterprises struggle to detect hybrid cloud breaches
A new survey of over 1,000 Security and IT leaders across Australia, France, Germany, Singapore, UK, and the USA, shows a decline in detection and response capabilities year-on-year.
The Hybrid Cloud Security Report from Gigamon shows that as hybrid cloud environments grow in complexity and threat actors launch a barrage of concealed attacks, 65 percent of respondents believe their existing security tooling cannot effectively detect breaches.
Adapting service and consultancy businesses to the boom in AI use [Q&A]
As more companies look to embrace AI technology, professional services and consultancy providers must make sure they're ready to help their customers respond to the opportunities that it presents. Indeed, professional services teams also need to look at how using AI in their own organizations can help them to adapt as well.
But how can they ensure that they take full advantage of what is on offer, and not just fall foul of the latest hyped technology trend? We spoke to Andy Campbell, director, solutions marketing at Certinia, to find out.
AI-generated code could increase developer workload and add to risk
Artificial intelligence is supposed to make things easier, right? Not for developers it seems as AI-generated code is set to triple developer work within the next 12 months according to software delivery platform Harness.
This could also mean that organizations are exposed to a bigger 'blast radius' from software flaws that escape to production systems.
How collaborative learning and conversational intelligence are changing AIOps [Q&A]
Artificial intelligence is changing the way that we work with computers and in particular collaborative learning (CL) and conversational intelligence (CI) are set to reshape AI-powered operations.
We talked to Dr. Maitreya Natu, chief data scientist at Digitate, to discover more about what this means both for businesses and for the role of operations professionals.
Lack of tech understanding at executive level hinders enterprise transformation
Aging, monolithic systems, and a lack of technological understanding at the executive level are limiting organizational agility and responsiveness to disruptions according to a new report.
The IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by IFS and Boomi polled over 1,000 C-level respondents across 12 countries and finds that legacy technology platforms and unfamiliarity with the essential role APIs and composability play in unlocking business data are combining to hamper insights and transformation.
Enterprises become less confident in their network investments
A new report shows that 87 percent of enterprise decision-makers are a little or a lot less confident in the network investment decisions that they make.
The study from Arelion reveals that confidence levels have been significantly impacted for 40 percent of US decision-makers. 44 percent of enterprise network decision-makers cite technological change as the most disruptive force on networking decisions, followed closely by rising costs (41 percent) and climate change (37 percent).
CISOs lack insight into AI training data
The rapid rise of AI across industries has created a critical data blind spot, a lack of insight into the data powering these systems. Training data for AI models can harbor hidden risks, including leaking sensitive information, personal data, and intellectual property.
A new survey of 168 members of the CISO Society carried out by BigID and Lorem Advisory Group looks at the challenges CISOs face in governing, securing, and safeguarding data in today's AI-driven landscape.
How the rise of large graphical models can give enterprises a crystal ball [Q&A]
A new AI technology is emerging alongside LLMs -- Large graphical models (LGMs). An LGM is a probabilistic model that uses a graph to represent the conditional dependence structure between a set of random variables.
Organizations can use LGMs to model the likelihood of different outcomes based on many internal and external variables.
UK tech execs want more government oversight of AI
Research from IT consultancy Zartis shows 72 percent of UK tech executives want more AI regulation, and almost a third (29 percent) want 'a lot more'.
The study, carried out by Censuswide, surveyed 100 senior technology executives in the UK and finds around 80 percent claim global government coordination of AI regulation is important to their company and 41 percent say it’s very important.
Executives keen to adopt AI coding tools -- developers less so
A new report reveals a disconnect between those in the C-suite and their eagerness to adopt AI coding tools compared to those actually using them who are cautious of AI.
The research from Snyk shows CTOs and CISOs are five times more likely than developers to believe AI coding tools pose no risk and twice as likely than developers to believe they are 'extremely ready' to adopt AI coding tools.
97 percent of organizations worried about AI security threats
A new report from Deep Instinct shows that 97 percent of security professionals are concerned that their organization will suffer an AI-generated security incident.
In addition 75 percent have had to change their cybersecurity strategy in the last year due to the rise in AI-powered cyber threats, with 73 percent expressing a greater focus on prevention capabilities.
AI's impact on the startup and innovation ecosystem [Q&A]
Early stage businesses face many challenges. Not least of these is selecting the right technology solutions, something made even more difficult by the emergence of new technologies.
We spoke to Paul Pluschkell, founder and CEO of StartupOS, to find out about how AI and other technologies can impact on new businesses.
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