Security

Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

When a vendor you use gets bought by one you don’t, its new product roadmap may leave you stranded. Planning for such risks should be a key part of every CIO’s vendor management process.

The new CIO security priority: Your software supply chain

With so much unknown about what your developers and systems rely on to be productive — and what those tools and code bases rely on in turn — it’s time to get serious about securing your software supply chain.

4 methods to help CIOs manage cyber stress

As companies rushed to prepare for pandemic-driven lockdowns, IT and security teams, often already overextended with inadequate budgets and infrastructure, had to quickly pivot. Here’s what CIOs in South Africa do, and CIOs globally can do, to

How a new tech-based Swedish payments authority will fight grant fraud

Every year, around $1.8 billion (SEK18 billion) is incorrectly paid out of welfare systems in Sweden. But with the use of automation and data analytics, payments will be centralized and monitored at a new IT-based authority.

Oracle to launch two sovereign cloud regions for the European Union

Oracle to launch two sovereign cloud regions for the European Union

The first two Oracle sovereign cloud regions for the EU will be located in Germany and Spain, with operations and support restricted to EU residents and specific EU legal entities.

7 tips for improving IT resilience in the digital era

In today’s IT world, resiliency means having the ability to deal with disruption without business interruption — all while delivering the experience users have come to expect from their tech.

Unknown unknowns: CIOs prep for the next major business disruption

The pandemic has motivated IT leaders to rethink their approach to business continuity to ensure organizational resilience in the face of any future business existential event.

IT leaders rethink the people part of business continuity

In an era of increasingly dispersed workforces, CIOs are grappling with how to help IT staff in peril — and keep the business moving forward when events disrupt employees’ ability to work.

5 challenges for securing the future

Everyone has a role in cybersecurity today; working together to address these challenges will materially reduce risk.

Sandbox AQ CEO: Enterprises must prep for quantum threats

The Google spin-offu2019s CEO Jack Hidary talked with CIO.com about Sandbox AQu2019s plans for developing enterprise software based on AI and quantum tech and what CIOs should expect from a post-RSA future.