Prior to the pandemic, remote and home networks were a relatively small concern from a risk perspective. During the pandemic, this risk skyrocketed as employees were required to rely on their home network as an extension of their corporate network.…
Read More Lumen Black Lotus Labs outlines Raptor Train bot network impacting SOHO and IoT devices
By now, most in IT have heard of the global impact from the CrowdStrike software bug. Essentially, a ‘content update’, not a change in software code caused Microsoft Windows based systems to crash. The impact was incredibly swift and widespread causing…
Read More Lessons learned from the CrowdStrike and Microsoft outage
As we start the second half of 2024, a number of items are on the minds of CIOs including AI PCs, VMware, AI and data. As if that wasn’t enough, there are incoming regulatory requirements alongside political and economic instability.…
Read More CIO In The Know – Mapping the CIOs second half of 2024
Google emphasizes enterprise business outcomes alongside innovation Executive Summary Google’s annual Google Cloud Next event marked an important shift in Google’s focus by their emphasis of business outcomes. Historically, Google has been a highly technical company which has been met…
January proved to be quite the month for changes in the tech space. Between industry events, acquisitions, tech shifts and cybersecurity breaches, there was no loss of things to keep track of. From a personal perspective, I ended up taking…
Read More CIO In The Know – Starting 2024 with a new focus on technology
Happy New Year! Kicking off the first of this year’s CIO In The Know newsletters talking about The CIO Playbook for 2024. Bottom line: The CIO’s remit is huge! And complicated. Simplification is the key word here. Any conversation in 2023…
Read More CIO In The Know – Starting 2024 with a new focus on technology
2023 was expected to be a bumpy ride as I mentioned in the CIO Playbook for 2023. It turned out much bumpier than expecting. Unfortunately, there is still a good bit of uncertainty going into 2024. The good news is that…
Whew! Typically the summer months are slower than the rest of the year, but this summer has been nothing but crazy busy! I attended plenty of great industry events this summer. In June, there was HPE Discover, Snowflake Summit and…
Read More CIO In The Know – AI Fatigue is coming and what’s next
Does Intel have the juice to carry them into the future and keep competition at bay? Intel just held their annual Intel Innovation conference to update customers, partners and analysts on their progress and latest technology. At their confab, Intel provided an update on…
Over the past several weeks, I’ve attended a few conferences where cybersecurity is making waves in new ways for enterprises. It is really refreshing to see, as cybersecurity is one place that enterprise vendors have needed to spend more time,…
Read More CIO In The Know – Is 2023 finally the start of a renaissance in cybersecurity?
