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Significant Forces Are Arrayed Against Cyber Threats. How Are They Aligned and Coordinated?
For its military defense, the United States has an Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force carrying out a clearly defined constitutional responsibility. For one of this era’s most clear and present dangers – cyberattacks – the forces are vast but diffused. Since cyber threats began escalating in the 20th century, and particularly in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, cybersecurity gained whole-of-government priority status.
IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights for Small Language Model Deployment
Content Table of Contents (14 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Abstract This IDC PeerScape examines practices that organizations have used and can use to transform SLM usage from experimental deployment to managed infrastructure.
Prescription for Quantum Security: A Cryptographic Bill of Materials
The adage “you can’t manage what you can’t measure” has a cybersecurity analog: You can’t secure what you can’t see. With advanced quantum computing on the horizon, a race is on to take inventory. At a theoretical but foreseeable moment called Q-Day, quantum systems will be able to break the public key cryptography that safeguards modern communications and commerce.
While Boards Are Catching Up to AI, the Technology Doesn’t Stop Accelerating
The artificial intelligence boom initially caught corporate boards off guard. Historically not particularly technology-literate, they struggled to define and seize control of the governance challenges bubbling up from below. By all accounts they have come a long way.
As Asset Tokenization Grows, Technical Hurdles Remain to Be Cleared
Much-anticipated blockchain ecosystems for institutional finance are gradually falling into place. While details and technicalities are still being worked out, William Ralston Saul has a clear vision of an end state.
AI Is Proliferating. So Are Questions About How It Is Working and Where It Is Heading
Artificial general intelligence and superintelligence “are going to change humanity and the human condition.” So says Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize winner and co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. While occupying that theoretical, futuristic dimension, AI is also a real, everyday business proposition, raising more immediate if not urgent questions about the nature of employment and eliciting pragmatic responses from major institutions and their leaders.
Anthropic's Mythos: Frontier AI Shakes Up Cybersecurity and Regulation
The April 7 introduction of Claude Mythos was no ordinary software release.
Managing the Risks of Agentic AI Requires a Lens of Its Own
As artificial intelligence takes the business and financial world by storm, agentic AI is causing a tsunami in its own right. The market for the autonomous technology is already bigger than $9 billion, with analysts expecting well into hundreds of billions by 2034. In day-to-day terms, the prospects are incredibly exciting or fraught with risks – or both – and disrupting strategies and processes in real time.
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Quantum Computing Governance
Content Table of Contents (13 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Abstract This IDC PeerScape explores how some forward-thinking organizations are preparing for this shift. They are developing quantum governance strategies that build on existing data and risk management practices.
As Quantum Risks Come Closer, Crypto Is on the Spot
Quantum computing exists beyond everyday comprehension, in an experimental if rapidly advancing phase that is particularly exciting for computer science and worrying for information security. It promises computational power on an almost unimaginable scale, along with the downside risk of neutralizing data encryption systems and exposing everything that they protect. By all accounts it will take several more years for quantum’s potential to be felt, but preparations for risk mitigation cannot wait.
How do digital signatures work?
Digital signatures vs. e-signatures Organizations must understand the difference between digital signatures and e-signatures so they can implement a level of security that meets their needs. An e-signature is a broad term that includes any signature a user sends electronically. Some e-signatures, such as those retail stores use for small transactions, don't require identity verification. However, other types, such as digital signatures, involve a strict authentication process.
Cyber Incident Reporting Rules: It’s Still a Journey
Cybersecurity risks are constant and, if anything, escalating. Yet rules for incident reporting, prioritized by regulators and largely endorsed in the private sector, remain contentious in their application.
6 types of AI content moderation and how they work
Disinformation and inappropriate content abound in digital environments, and users might struggle to determine the source of such content or how to filter it out. Content moderation is commonly used as a social media screening practice. It enables the approval or rejection of comments and content that users create and post. The task involves removing rule-violating content to ensure published posts adhere to community guidelines and terms of service. AI can aid in that process.
IDC PeerScape: Intuitive AI Practices for Information Management
Content Table of Contents (12 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Abstract This IDC PeerScape explores how some early adopters of intuitive AI decided to pursue this strategy and how they used the technology to overcome challenges from traditional methods.
Prediction Markets: How Sure Is the Bet?
A strategic partnership last October connected the biggest name in financial market infrastructure with the prediction market sensation Polymarket. Intercontinental Exchange committed to invest up to $2 billion in a company then valued at $8 billion and now well above $10 billion, as is the valuation of competing prediction platform Kalshi.
What Steps Are IT Organizations Taking to Ensure Innovation Despite Staffing Challenges?
Content 3 slides Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Abstract This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight explores the steps IT organizations are taking to ensure innovation despite staffing challenges. CIOs are increasingly being measured on the success or failure of their innovation efforts.
MCP: A Common Denominator for AI Data Connections and Model Governance
Wherever data is aggregated and analyzed, for risk management and other decision support, models are omnipresent. Artificial intelligence only underscores their strategic and operational importance as well as the controls and governance that these tools require. This begins to explain why the Snowflake AI data cloud, the Securitize asset tokenization platform, and London Stock Exchange Group’s LSEG Everywhere AI offering – among many others – have the Model Context Protocol in common.
Full-Scale Quantum Computing May Be Years Away. Risk Mitigation Can’t Wait.
Artificial intelligence is that shiniest of objects, capturing the attention and imaginations not only of investors, governments and business leaders, but also of academicians, social scientists and even some technologists wary of its power to overwhelm regulatory and governance guardrails. Quantum computing, on a similar exponential track with perceived existential implications, and even seeing breakthroughs by the likes of Google and IBM, isn’t yet generating that level of urgency and alarm.
Superintelligence May Exacerbate Cybersecurity Weaknesses. Is CyberAGI the Solution?
Products of the artificial intelligence boom – from deep learning, large language models and generative AI to autonomous bots and agents – bring visions of artificial general intelligence (AGI) closer to reality.
AI and Governance Gaps, from the Boardroom on Down
Artificial intelligence’s evolving impacts and implications create conundrums not only for economists, policymakers and business strategists, but also for the occupants of corporate boardrooms. Taking seriously their oversight responsibilities, and following advice to become conversant with AI and other advanced technologies, many directors have worked to better understand and challenge their organizations’ approaches and strategies.
10 ways 5G is transforming manufacturing
Modern manufacturing is undergoing significant changes, and many manufacturers believe that fifth-generation, or 5G, cellular connectivity will be critically important to the future success of the industry. Indeed, adoption of 5G technology is now considered the key to the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), which focuses on improving efficiency and flexibility in manufacturing processes.
DePIN: Asset Tokenization’s ‘Physical’ Analog
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies run on blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that could retool or transform payment and market infrastructures and is lately being deployed to tokenize a wider array of real-world assets (RWAs). Now another “real world” crossover, with resemblances to decentralized finance (DeFi), is emerging: DePINs, or decentralized physical infrastructure networks.
Chatbots Can Go Awry. Is There an Insurance Hedge for That?
If artificial intelligence is prone to errors or hallucinations, what is to be done when they cause a medical misdiagnosis? A patient’s suffering aside, who bears – or covers – the potential liability of an errant chatbot? Diagnostic errors are a leading cause of “preventable harm” in primary and emergency healthcare settings, but as a risk case, it can be illustrative of any number of AI applications in finance or other business sectors.
In Deregulatory Climate, Critics of Cybersecurity Rules Get Heard
At a time of regulatory rollbacks and recalibrations, companies and industries are pushing back on cybersecurity rules, calling for changes to reduce costs and eliminate duplicative reporting requirements. Such complaints were aired before and since rulemakings by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and others including financial industry overseers that specified tight deadlines for reporting of cyber breaches.
Boston Think Tank Brings Ethical AI Principles into Governance, Finance, Banking and Blockchain
The technology of artificial intelligence, and debates over how much it should be regulated or reined in, have been hurtling forward on parallel tracks. The Boston Global Forum, founded in 2012 as a “hub for leaders, scholars, innovators and citizens committed to addressing the world’s most pressing challenges,” has taken its AI World Society initiative into high gear as a bridge between the two.
Building Your AI Center of Excellence Team
(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on AI centers of excellence. Part 1 covers the benefits of an AI COE and how to measure its performance.) Many organizations are racing to adopt artificial intelligence in the hope of creating new business efficiencies, gaining competitive advantages, and boosting the bottom line. But a recent survey finds that most organizations face a series of challenges before they can reap benefits from those investments.
AI Centers of Excellence - Part One
As organizations attempt to keep pace with the rapidly evolving landscapes of artificial intelligence and data analytics, many are developing AI centers of excellence (COEs). The goals are to harness the power of AI to create business value, to drive innovation, and to stay ahead of the competition. AI COEs follow the traditional COE model, though obviously focused on the role of AI in business strategies and in corporate culture.
Agentic AI: On the Frontier of Autonomy
Big questions continue to swirl around artificial intelligence: how the technology arms race will pan out; its effects on jobs and productivity; the tension between regulation and innovation; the returns on investment in business applications; the attainability of artificial general intelligence.
As Artificial Intelligence Gains Steam, the Power Grid Heats Up
The costs of artificial intelligence are rising. It’s not only the investments in business transformation and Big Tech companies’ capital spending, now climbing into trillions of dollars. AI is also power-hungry. For electricity, that is. Demand from all those hyperscale computing clusters and data centers is pushing the limits of power grids.
IDC PeerScape: Practices for AI Vendor Partnerships
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Apr 2025 - Document type: IDC PeerScape - Doc Document number: # US52932925 Content Table of Contents (14 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Do you have questions about this document or available subscriptions? Thank you for submitting the form. We will be in touch.
IDC PeerScape: Data Management and Governance Practices to Boost Modernization
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Mar 2025 - Document type: IDC PeerScape - Doc Document number: # US51833824 Content Table of Contents (14 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment.
IDC PeerScape：数据管理和治理现代化实践
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A Strong Security Technology Emerges Out of Crypto
If there is one certainty about information security, it is that there are no silver bullets. Any set of solutions – from access controls to firewalls to data encryption – can be highly effective. Because there are no airtight guarantees, the defenses must be deployed in proportion to the perceived risks. Now gaining prominence as part of the cybersecurity arsenal is secure multiparty computation, MPC for short.
IDC PeerScape: Best Practices for Reducing Total Cost of Ownership
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jan 2025 - Document type: IDC PeerScape - Doc Document number: # US52020824 Content Table of Contents (11 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment.
The Six-Letter Word That Unites AI Factions
If the stakes for effectively deploying artificial intelligence were not so high, then the technology would not be a front-burner strategic priority throughout the corporate world; the Big Tech sector would not be allocating billions of capital-expenditure dollars to it; and rivalries would not be breaking out over goals and principles like the one between Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
The business case for AI-driven network orchestration
Organizations that are considering AI-driven network orchestration will find it has many business cases -- chief among them are reduced Opex and efficient resource use. By David Weldon Published: 10 Dec 2024 Now that many networking vendors have included AI functionality in their products, many organizations have implemented AI within their network infrastructures. Most of the remaining few that haven't are considering it.
States of Confusion: Despite Much Discussion - and Hundreds of Legislative Proposals - AI Policy Lacks Clarity
On both the supply and demand sides of artificial intelligence, there is consensus that technology so powerful and transformative needs governing principles and ethics, operational guardrails and sound risk management. Yet corporate leaders must try to chart their courses while legal clarity and certainty are still lacking. The open regulatory and governance questions may be contributing to some mixed messaging in executive ranks.
IDC PeerScape: Modernization Practices for Talent and Learning Management Systems
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Oct 2024 - Document type: IDC PeerScape - Doc Document number: # US52021424 Content Table of Contents (11 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Do you have questions about this document or available subscriptions? Thank you for submitting the form. We will be in touch.
16 Top Data Governance Tools to Know About in 2024
As organizations continue to create and collect mountains of data, many are quick to discover that they have too much -- maybe much too much -- of a good thing. It's a big challenge to identify all of the data in their systems, decide which users should have access to what data, ensure that the data is used properly and figure out how to derive real business value from those data assets. That's why a strong data governance program is critical.
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Data Management and Governance Modernization
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Sep 2024 - Document type: IDC PeerScape - Doc Document number: # US51833724 Content Table of Contents (11 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment.
There Is More to Cyber Incident Reporting Than SEC Disclosure Requirements
The Securities and Exchange Commission has given regulated entities a steady stream of new rules to comply with and often complain about. Since last December, registrants’ cybersecurity challenges have been compounded by having to disclose material breaches within as few as four business days, and to include in annual reports details about such incidents and how cyber risks are being managed.
Neuf métiers IT qui résisteront à l’IA
4. Analyste de données (Data Analyst) En quoi consiste le poste Le Data Analyst interprète les données métiers, commerciales et produits. Il écrit des rapports, interprète correctement les résultats (les insights) et fait des prévisions et des recommandations pour le futur. En un mot, ils tirent des enseignements des données sur la manière de mieux résoudre les problèmes opérationnels – en particulier sur la manière d’engager les clients.
7 Top Skills and Traits of Successful Chief AI Officers
Artificial intelligence is consuming the attention of IT and business leaders. So much so that many organizations are racing to hire or promote individuals to the role of chief AI officer. Call it the rise of the CAIO. The rapid and widespread interest in this strategic job role has helped inspire the CAIO Summit, which will be held this October in Washington, D.C. This is the second such summit – the first was held earlier this spring.
Wi-Fi upgrades on the horizon as enterprises eye Wi-Fi 7
Despite Wi-Fi 7's availability, many organizations have yet to transition to this latest standard. Because Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 are still suitable for most organizations, enterprises continue to use older generations of wireless technology. Furthermore, the scarcity of Wi-Fi 6E devices, incompatibility and other challenges also prompted organizations to delay Wi-Fi 6E adoption. When Wi-Fi 6 was first released, many organizations decided not to deploy it and jump to Wi-Fi 7 upon its release instead.
Chief, Czar, or Committee: Who Rules Over AI?
If artificial intelligence ultimately fulfills analysts’ projections and proponents’ expectations, it’s not just the rank-and-file workforce that must evolve and likely have to be upskilled. Adjustments will be required all the way up to the top, an all-important one addressing senior-level oversight and governance of the burgeoning technology and its extensive organizational reach.
Pour ne pas être impacté négativement par l’IA… apprenez l’IA
Esprit « business » Adopter un état d’esprit « business » est tout aussi essentiel. « Il est essentiel d’avoir une compréhension approfondie d’une technologie d’IA donnée et de son application dans l’entreprise », confirme Bill Balint, DSI de l’Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Selon lui, la capacité à traduire les besoins de l’entreprise en un outil qui utilise l’IA est une compétence parmi les plus précieuses.
9 AI-proof IT jobs, plus how to be irreplaceable
How to stay relevant in the AI age Automation will create a number of changes across the technology career field, so staying relevant requires understanding trends. Technology support will become largely self-service, and call centers will be less applicable as more information becomes easily accessible, Oleson said. Productivity gains from automation will be at the heart of sweeping changes. "AI will help people to be more productive, and therefore, we won't need as many in that role," Welch said.
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Modernize IT Talent and Skills Development
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jul 2024 - Document type: IDC PeerScape - Doc Document number: # US51833624 Content Table of Contents (10 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Do you have questions about this document or available subscriptions? Thank you for submitting the form. We will be in touch.
A Big Tech Arms Race Is Fueling the AI Boom. Are Productivity Gains or Business Efficiencies in Sight?
Artificial intelligence is driving a bull market in stocks, a win for investors. For economists, however, the payoff will be measured longer-term, depending on how billions of dollars of technology investments filter down in terms of productivity and business efficiency. If they pan out, AI could prove to be more consequential than previous technology waves, and Big Techs are banking on it.
7 of the top tech and IT jobs in demand for the future
Some of tomorrow's hottest jobs will be in tech. Interest in AI is sweeping across the corporate landscape like few technologies have ever done. The result is that organizations are having to create new tech roles and redefine existing ones to manage the integration of AI and data into core business functions. Meanwhile, cybersecurity continues to be a top concern, as do digital transformation and cloud computing.
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