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RIP (finally) to the blockchain hype

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For example, blockchain may be able to give organizations a level of trust and security when they string multiple AI agents together to create a multi-step business or IT process, he says. A recent criticism of blockchain comes from Jim Fowler, CTO at insurance carrier Nationwide.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

The World Economic Forum shares some risks with AI agents , including improving transparency, establishing ethical guidelines, prioritizing data governance, improving security, and increasing education. Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms.

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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

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IT consultants are often hired to provide companies guidance on what technologies they should use to achieve their aims, according to career website Indeed. These include strategy consultants, systems consultants, and security consultants, among others, says Paul Farnsworth, CTO attechnology careers site Dice.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. We cant do that for security reasons, he says.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. Several hospitals canceled surgeries as well, and banks, airports, public transit systems, 911 centers, and multiple government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security also suffered outages. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4

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South Africa’s King Price Insurance moves to cloud as business grows

CIO Business Intelligence

Insurance companies are no longer only there for their customers in times of disaster. Modern approaches to insurance and changes in customer expectations mean that the insurance business model looks very different than it used to. For many insurers, this means investing in cloud.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. This adds additional context to our security layer and allows us to grant access to just what our users need — and no more — when they need it,’’ Vaithylingam says.

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