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US to Launch Cyber Trust Mark to Label Secure Smart Devices

Tech Republic Security

The Cyber Trust Mark will help consumers make more informed decisions about the cybersecurity of products, according to the White House.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs? In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester.

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The Biggest Cybersecurity Issues Heading into 2025

Information Week

A new year brings challenges, and opportunities, for defenders and aggressors alike in the cybersecurity realm.

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Key Insights From The Forrester Experience Optimization Solutions Wave, Q4 2024

Forrester IT

Key Insights From The Forrester Digital Customer Experience Optimization Solutions Wave,Q4 2024: trends, differentiators, opportunities

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyer's Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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More telecom firms were breached by Chinese hackers than previously reported

Network World

Chinese hackers linked to the Salt Typhoon cyberespionage operation have breached even more US telecommunications firms than initially reported. New victims Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream add to a growing list that already includes AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Lumen Technologies.

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Inspire Digital Storytelling and Enlighten AI Leaders With These Helpful Books

Social, Agile and Transformation

Isaac Sacolick shares insights on his favorite books from the past year, highlighting essential reads for digital storytellers and tech leaders. Key recommendations include "Storyworthy" by Matthew Dicks, "Building a Second Brain" by Tiago Forte, and Adam Grant's "Hidden Potential." Additional notable mentions cover AI and leadership books.

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VLC celebrates 6 billion downloads, teases AI-generated subtitles and translation

TechSpot

As President Jean-Baptiste Kempf demonstrated in a video shared on VideoLAN's X account, the tech will also be able to translate subtitles to your preferred language on the fly. According to Kempf, more than 100 languages will eventually be supported.

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Enhancing OAuth App Security and Governance with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

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 Enhancing OAuth App Security and Governance with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm

SecureWorld News

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has taken decisive action against Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated (Integrity Tech), a Beijing-based cybersecurity company, for its alleged involvement in malicious cyber activities targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. Announced on January 3, 2025, this move represents a significant escalation in the U.S. government's efforts to combat state-sponsored cyber threats.

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CompTIA bolsters penetration testing certification

Network World

CompTIA recently upgraded its PenTest+ certification program to educate professionals on cybersecurity penetration testing with training for artificial intelligence (AI), scanning and analysis, and vulnerability management, among other things. PenTest+ certification training now includes access to a hackable website that provides live targets and vulnerabilities for cybersecurity professionals to identify and mitigate real-world threats, according to CompTIA.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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9 IT resolutions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are an ambitious lot. Not the type to be satisfied with the status quo, they have set big goals for themselves in the upcoming year, according to countless surveys of IT execs. They want to expand their use of artificial intelligence, deliver more value from those AI investments, further boost employee productivity, drive more efficiencies, improve resiliency, expand their transformation efforts, and more.

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The Enterprise Architecture Tool Market Starts 2025 With A Notable Merger

Forrester IT

In the Forresters report in May 2024 we predicted that M&A activity would continue to change and disrupt the Enterprise Architecture Management Suites (EAMS) market.

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Get Going With GitOps

Information Week

GitOps applies DevOps best practices to infrastructure automation. Here's why you may want to bring this concept to your development team.

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Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update

Network World

The new version of Oracles Exadata platform, X11M, is now generally available, and promises improved performance on generative AI tasks such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the same price as the old version. Exadata is Oracles hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Unlocking the full potential of enterprise AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite the huge promise surrounding AI, many organizations are finding their implementations are not delivering as hoped. Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] The limits of siloed AI implementations According to SS&C Blue Prism , an expert on AI and automation, the chief issue

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Meta’s Content Moderation Pivot Reflects A New Political Climate

Forrester IT

This morning, Meta announced a “pull back” in its content moderation policies, just in time for a new administration to enter the White House.

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How AI Can Speed Disaster Recovery

Information Week

When IT disaster strikes, AI is ready to help through preparation, detection, and response.

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Examining disk space on Linux

Network World

There are many ways to evaluate disk space usage on Linux, and this post examines a number of commands that allow you to view used and available disk space. Using the df (disk free) command The df command stands for disk free and, as that name suggests, it focuses on how much free disk space is used and how much is available. By default, the command reports disk usage in kilobytes. # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4096 0 4096 0% /dev tmpfs 1937768 0 1937768 0% /d

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

CIO Business Intelligence

IT may be central to modern existence, but the people and processes of IT remain a mystery to most business executives and colleagues. Its time to change this. I asked a group of business executives to take out a blank sheet of paper, draw a big circle, and label it IT People and Processes. I then asked them to draw a circle inside that circle representing the degree to which they understood IT people and processes.

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Australian IT Sector Maintains Strong Employment Outlook for 2025

Tech Republic Security

ManpowerGroups Employment Outlook Survey for Q1 2025 found the Australian IT sector has the strongest net employment outlook of any sector at the beginning of 2025.

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In Global Contest for Tech Talent, US Skills Draw Top Pay

Information Week

US talent is once again attracting good pay in the global competition for tech skills. But gender disparity continues in many job categories.

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Nvidia launches blueprints to help jump start AI projects

Network World

Give Nvidia credit, its not just talking up big ideas, its helping its customers achieve them. The vendor recently issued designs for AI factories after hyping up the idea for several months. Now it has come out with AI blueprints, essentially pre-built templates that give developers a jump start on creating AI systems. The blueprints were announced at both Consumer Electronics Show, where CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote and discussed blueprints among many other announcements, and in a blog

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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Nueve propósitos de TI para 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Los CIO son ambiciosos. No son del tipo que se conforma con el statu quo y se han fijado grandes objetivos para el ao entrante , segn innumerables encuestas realizadas a ejecutivos de TI. Quieren ampliar su uso de inteligencia artificial (IA), obtener ms valor de esas inversiones en IA, aumentar an ms la productividad de los empleados, impulsar ms eficiencias, mejorar la resiliencia, expandir sus esfuerzos de transformacin y mucho ms.

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The 5 Fastest VPNs for 2025

Tech Republic Security

Explore the fastest VPNs for secure, high-speed browsing. Discover VPN services that protect your data and ensure smooth streaming and safe internet access.

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Tracking, Tackling, and Transforming Technical Debt: The New Challenge To AI

Information Week

Technical debt is the hidden roadblock to rapid innovation. Leaders who strategically balance debt remediation with future-focused investments in their digital core are more likely to grow revenue and profits.

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Mastering The Digital Seas: A Guide To E-Commerce Precision

Forrester IT

In the vast sea of digital routes to market, e-commerce stands as a beacon of modern B2B commerce, yet navigating this realm with outdated metrics is akin to venturing into battle blindfolded.

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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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Akeneo aims to transform the retail playbook with AI and data consistency

CIO Business Intelligence

Australian retailers have spent much of the last few years buffeted by economic challenges. In 2024, squeezed by the rising cost of living, inflationary impact, and interest rates, they are now grappling with declining consumer spending and confidence. But 2025 and 2026 will bear good news, according to Deloitte. A rebound is on the horizon, which means a substantial opportunity for growth for those retailers that can get ahead of the curve.

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IVPN Review: Pricing, Features, Pros, and Cons

Tech Republic Security

Read our IVPN review to uncover its strong security features and privacy-first approach. Discover what sets it apart but are there hidden drawbacks?

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Who Should Lead the AI Conversation in the C-Suite?

Information Week

Many executives have opinions on the technology and its use, but does that translate into understanding of the opportunities and capabilities of AI?

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Engineering Metrics Is The Elephant In The Room

Forrester IT

With the growth of generative AI, developer productivity is on everyone's mind these days. But measuring developer productivity is challenging. Learn how focusing on alignment can help eliminate the elephant in the room.

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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.