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5 practical tips for emerging IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

When they announced my name on stage at CIO Summit and Awards 2024 as the winner for Emerging ICT Leader of the Year award, my profound disbelief and shock flared up my impostor syndrome one more time as I walked up the stage. While walking up the stairs of that prestigious stage, I realized the immense responsibility I carried on my shoulders representing several women in tech who are walking their paths on their leadership journey while navigating their own complex inner worlds.

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Why Every Employee Will Need to Use AI in 2025

Information Week

Unlike past tech shifts that required specific teams or experts to adapt, AI is a horizontal skill demanding universal competency.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3 times compared to 2023 but forecasts lower increases over the next two to five years.

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How to Persuade an AI-Reluctant Board to Embrace Critical Change

Information Week

Black sky thinking takes a company from a safe trajectory to one that breaks barriers and drives innovation.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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Telstra Accelerates its AI Journey

Forrester IT

Artificial intelligence announcements have become almost daily occurrences. Yet, Telstra’s recent joint venture with Accenture stands out as particularly noteworthy. This partnership signals a significant shift in how large enterprises are approaching AI adoption to create an AI advantage.

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67% of digital transformations delayed due to skill shortages

CIO Business Intelligence

Businesses have always struggled with IT skills shortages, but the accelerating arrival of new technologies such as AI has widened the shortage gap even further, resulting in business delays, lower customer satisfaction, and loss of revenue, according to a recent report from research firm IDC. The arrival of emerging technologies like AI puts organizations under new pressure.

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Breaking Down Barriers to AI Accessibility

Information Week

Tools like AutoML and no-code platforms are reducing barriers to AI adoption. Businesses can now innovate without needing deep technical expertise.

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Phishing Emails Targeting Australian Firms Rise by 30% in 2024

Tech Republic Security

The number of phishing emails received by Australians surged by 30% last year, according to new research by Abnormal Security.

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GhostGPT: Uncensored Chatbot Used by Cyber Criminals for Malware Creation, Scams

Tech Republic Security

Researchers from Abnormal Security discovered an advert for the chatbot on a cybercrime forum and tested its capabilities by asking it to create a DocuSign phishing email.

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Amid The AI Hype, Agile Still Remains Relevant In 2025

Forrester IT

After over 12 years of leading Forresters research on agile and, from 2011, publishing a biennial Forrester report on the global state of agile adoption, we have just published The State Of Agile Development, 2025: Its Still Relevant, With Benefits And Challenges.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Why Enterprises Struggle to Drive Value with AI

Information Week

Enterprises have invested a lot of money in AI. Now, CEOs and boards want to understand the ROI.

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Red Hat unveils Kubernetes connectivity solution to tame multi-cloud chaos

Network World

Integrating traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a new technology from IBMs Red Hat business unit thats aimed at simplifying how enterprises manage application connectivity across distributed cloud environments. The technology is based on the open-source Kuadrant project, which combines traffic routing, security controls, and policy management capabilities that organizations typically handle through separate tools.

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How to Create a Secure Username

Tech Republic Security

Discover how to create a unique and secure username for your online accounts, and find out why its just as important as having a strong password.

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The AI Coding Honeymoon (And What Comes After)

Forrester IT

Let me tell you about my first time using an AI coding assistant. Picture this: I enter a prompt and sit at my desk watching in slack-jawed amazement as my digital partner spins up hundreds of lines of perfectly-formatted code faster than I can brew my morning coffee. “Add authentication!” POOF! “Create a data visualization!

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Capital One Outage Highlights Third-Party Risk

Information Week

With another big outage caused by a third-party vendor, there may be lessons enterprise leaders can learn.

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Sustainability, grid demands, AI workloads will challenge data center growth in 2025

Network World

Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow. Uptime Institute details the major challenges and opportunities the data center industry will encounter this year in its report, Five Data Centers Predictions for 2025.

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Easy Guide to Install Recast Right Click Tools Browser Extension for Microsoft Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Easy Guide to Install Recast Right Click Tools Browser Extension for Microsoft Intune appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Vaishnav K.

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How To Level-Up Your Creator Marketing Program

Forrester IT

Creator marketing programs have become a cornerstone of the social media marketing strategy across industries. As such, Forrester recommends an evolved set of metrics for measurement to optimize and show overall impact on the organization.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Securing a Better Salary: Tips for IT Pros

Information Week

IT pros can secure raises by aligning contributions with company goals by showcasing measurable impact through KPIs -- including cost savings and productivity.

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Stratoshark brings Wireshark-style analysis to cloud system calls

Network World

The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. In recent years, organizations have increasingly moved workloads to the cloud, where they have not had the same network visibility. Sysdig, the lead commercial sponsor behind Wireshark, wants to change that with the new Stratoshark tool.

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Cost concerns put CIOs’ AI strategies on edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Questionable outcomes and a lack of confidence in generative AIs promised benefits are proving to be key barriers to enterprise adoption of the technology. But according to a recent survey from IDC, cost concerns are another top gen AI roadblock, with 46% of 1,000-plus IT pros surveyed saying the lack of predictability in pricing is a primary obstacle to implementing gen AI at their organizations.

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Navigating Economic Waters: The New US Administration’s Spending Scenarios And Global Impact

Forrester IT

With a new US administration coming in, there is always economic uncertainty. Learn some of the factors that could be strong influencers of future US economic growth and how they could impact other global markets.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Sony to cease Blu-ray production, leaving physical media fans concerned

TechSpot

Sony recently announced plans to end Blu-ray media production in February, delivering yet another heavy blow to the future of physical media. The company will also cease manufacturing recording MiniDiscs, MD data, and MiniDV cassettes.

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Palo Alto Networks firewalls have UEFI flaws, Secure Boot bypasses

Network World

Researchers have discovered that next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks contain years-old known vulnerabilities in their UEFI firmware a finding that provides yet more evidence of a broader issue with specialized devices today. Increasingly built on commodity hardware , specialty devices share the same UEFI vulnerabilities as general-purpose PCs and laptops, inheriting similarly slow firmware patching cycles.

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Gen AI ROI falls short of expectations, but belief persists

CIO Business Intelligence

AI, and gen AI in particular, are continuing to bombard the enterprise, but the gains to date havent been as big, nor come as quickly, as many business leaders hoped. Thats according to the fourth quarterly edition of Deloitte AI Institutes State of Generative AI in the Enterprise report released on Tuesday. Were seeing more of a focus on the pragmatic, says Jim Rowan, applied AI leader and principal at Deloitte Consulting.

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Technological And Environmental Risks Take Top Two Spots In 2025 WEF Risk Report

Forrester IT

In advance of its annual meeting in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its 2025 Global Risks Report. The report, based on the WEFs Global Risk Perception Survey 2024-2025, identifies geopolitical risks as a top immediate concern for global risk officers and the broader risk community.

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.

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Former Google VP raises $10M for new startup building AI agents for retail businesses

GeekWire

The Polana AI co-founders, from left: CEO Maria Zhang, Chief Scientist Steve Liu, and CTO Tim Howes. (Polana Photos) A onetime Seattle startup founder who went on to lead engineering teams at Google, Meta, Yahoo, Tinder and LinkedIn, is heading up a new startup called Palona AI that builds customer-facing AI agents for retail businesses. Palona AI officially launched Thursday with $10 million in seed funding.

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FortiGate admins advised to run a compromise assessment

Network World

Network administrators with Fortinets FortiGate next generation firewall in their IT environments are being warned to thoroughly scrutinize systems for possible compromise, following last weeks dump of stolen configuration and VPN credentials by a threat actor. Patching is not enough, tweeted cybersecurity researcher Florian Roth on Thursday. If you take security seriously, you must run a compromise assessment to check whether the device and other systems in your network have already been breach

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3 promises every CIO should keep in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Nearly all tech surprises last year were related to gen AI, which was so hyped in 2023 that every organization had to try it in one or more projects in 2024. IT departments ran proofs-of-concept (PoCs), but some business leaders outside IT with P&L to manage also ran their own experiments without necessarily informing IT when they did so. Sometimes its as easy as subscribing to an AI-driven service.

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Consumers Crave More Than Discounts From Loyalty Programs

Forrester IT

Last week, my dentist invited me to join their loyalty program. Its official: the loyalty program is the go-to customer relationships marketing tactic. Most global consumers belong to at least one loyalty program, including 90% of online adults in the US, in Europe-5 88%, and in Australia 93%.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda