IT
Bug in Quality Control Process Led to Botched CrowdStrike Update
A CrowdStrike software update that crashed computers globally last week hitting services from aviation to banking and healthcare was caused by a bug in the U.S. cybersecurity firm's quality control ...
CrowdStrike Update Snafu Illustrates How SPoF Can Cause Widespread Disruption
Last week's global IT system outage, triggered by a faulty software update from CrowdStrike, caused widespread disruptions across various Windows operating system (OS) types. The faulty CrowdStrike ...
GenAI Investment to Grow 30%, High Adoption Firms Expect 3x Higher ROI Over Next 3 Years
With modest GDP growth and stagnant budgets, organizations globally will find it necessary to reallocate funds from mature areas to support IT investments, according to Boston Consulting Group's ...
Survey: Organizations Report 60% Increase in Security Budgets to Combat Cyber Breaches
Cyber budgets are set to increase 59 percent year-over-year, according to an independent Ponemon Institute survey of 650 IT and cybersecurity professionals. Optiv, a cyber advisory firm, published ...
Businesses Have Just 2 Years to Capitalize on Generative AI: Report
There's a mere two-year window to capitalize on the advantages of generative AI before competitive disadvantages emerge, according to a new joint research report titled "The Two-year Gen AI ...
Survey Finds More Employees Bringing Their Own AI to Work
According to new research from Microsoft Corp. and LinkedIn, the use of generative AI at work has nearly doubled in the past six months but employees aren't waiting for their employers to catch up to ...
Security Lags as 77% of Companies Report AI Breaches Within the Past Year
A new survey of security leaders shows that while artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is accelerating, proper security measures are not being undertaken much of the time, according to HiddenLayer, ...
Cyber Insurance Seeing Influx of Newcomers as Risk Awareness Grows
Arctic Wolf and Cyber Risk Alliance's 2023 Cyber Insurance Outlook Report found that while more than 70 percent of organizations surveyed in the report have a cyber insurance policy, nearly half of ...