CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles
While it’s common for others in the C-suite to take on so-called plus-roles, the
CIO has historically worn multiple hats without the benefit or glory of a formal
title marking their expanded terrain. The successful shift to remote work
and accelerated digital transformation during the pandemic
years elevated CIOs’ stature, earning trust and recognition from business
leaders that was absent in the past. With technology now a pervasive enabler of
all aspects of the business, CIOs have the end-to-end visibility and
cross-functional insights that other executives lack, not to mention oversight
of key enterprise assets such as data and analytics. “We always had
business leaders take on other roles, but the CIO hasn’t been considered for one
of those pluses — they were always rolled up underneath another executive that
was,” says John Hill, senior vice president and chief digital information
officer at MSC Industrial Supply, where he heads up digital strategy, ecommerce,
marketing, vending solutions, metalworking innovation, and advanced
analytics.
ChatGPT Prompts for Agile Practitioners
“One important thing to keep in mind is that conflict is a natural part of any
team and should be viewed as an opportunity for growth and improvement. As a
Scrum Master, it's important to create an environment where team members feel
comfortable discussing and resolving conflicts in a constructive manner. It's
also important to be aware that conflicts can often be the result of deeper
underlying issues, such as lack of trust, poor communication, or unmet needs. As
a Scrum Master, it's important to be aware of these underlying issues and work
with the team to address them. Additionally, it's important to be aware of the
team's dynamics and to be mindful of the impact that conflicts can have on
individuals and the team as a whole. As a Scrum Master, it's important to be
aware of any team members who may be more affected by the conflict and to
provide them with additional support as needed. Finally, it is important to be
aware of the impact of external factors on the team, such as changes in the
organizational structure or market conditions, and to take them into account
when addressing conflicts and underlying issues.
3 predictions for open source in confidential computing
Confidential computing is the practice of isolating sensitive data and the
techniques used to process it. This is as important on your laptop, where
your data must be isolated from other applications, as it is on the cloud,
where your data must be isolated from thousands of other containers and user
accounts. As you can imagine, open source is a significant component for
ensuring that what you believe is confidential is actually confidential.
This is because security teams can audit the code of an open source project.
... In the past year, a lot of discovery and educational activities were
developed. Confidential computing is now better known, but it has yet to
become a mainstream technology. The security and developer communities are
gaining a better understanding of confidential computing and its benefits.
If this discovery trend continues this year, it can influence more outlets,
like conferences, magazines, and publications. This shows that these
entities recognize the value of confidential computing. In time, they may
start to offer more airtime for talks and articles on the subject.
Exploring Cloud-Native Acceleration of Data Governance
Any seasoned data governance practitioner knows that implementing data
management is only for those with extraordinary perseverance. Identifying
and documenting data applications and flows, measuring and remediating data
quality, and managing metadata — despite a flood of tools that attempt to
automate many data management activities, these typically remain manual and
time-consuming. They are also expensive. At leading organizations, data
governance and remediation programs can top $10 million per year; in some
cases, even $100 million. Data governance can be seen as a cost to the
organization and a blocker for business leaders with a transformation
mandate. So, here appears our “so-what.” If data governance could be
incorporated directly into the fibers of the data infrastructure while the
architectural blocks are being built and connected, it would dramatically
reduce the need for costly data governance programs later. We will review
three essential design features that, once incorporated, ensure that data
governance is embedded “by design” rather than by brute manual force.
Crossplane: A Package-Based Approach to Platform Building
While Crossplane allows users to install many packages alongside one
another, a common pattern has emerged of defining a single “root” package,
which is an ancestor node of every other package that gets installed in a
control plane. Doing so makes the entire API surface area reproducible by
installing that one package. As an organization grows and evolves over time,
that package can be expanded by defining new APIs or establishing new
dependencies. ... Furthermore, because using a root package is a convention
rather than a technical constraint, the property of composability is not
violated. Taking the previously mentioned MySQL Configuration package for
example, a user may install it as the root package of their MySQL database
control plane, while another user may depend on it as only one component of
a much larger API surface for use cases like internal cloud
platforms. Declaring a Vendor Dependency While the attributes of
Crossplane packages enable platform builders to quickly add functionality to
their control planes, they also present a unique distribution mechanism for
vendors.
The loneliness of leading a cybersecurity startup
When building something unprecedented and game-changing, the course and
rules are steeped in darkness and uncertainty, with naysayers, critics,
board members, competitors and time itself hurling criticisms every step of
the way. Why on earth would anyone subject themselves to that? Perhaps it
should be made clear that, for most of the aspiring CEOs I meet, their
career path is hardly a choice. Entrepreneurship often runs in their blood,
serving as a defining force for the people who pursue it. This all-consuming
nature has become a necessary qualifier for most investors; It’s an
important tool for survival, as well as for success. This is not to discount
the absolute necessity of vision, inspiration and faith in a good idea. But
on the long road to entrepreneurial success, these are often subject to so
much scrutiny and judgement that a different strength is necessary to stay
the course. These days, tightening budgets and dreaded potential layoffs
only add to the pressure they feel. However, during the toughest times, an
entrepreneur’s hunger to build can provide the critical momentum they need
to move forward.
IT hiring: How to find the right match
A strong company mission is not only crucial to attracting talent, but it
will also motivate existing employees to do their work well. I am motivated
to push through the complex problems I face in my work, for example, because
I know that my company is solving some of the most significant issues in the
healthcare industry. My work ultimately brings a better experience to
hospital staff and patients, which leads to improved patient outcomes. In
every organization, it is crucial for executives and board members to focus
on agreed-upon goals and to share with employees how the company is meeting
them regularly. Furthermore, employees seek a collaborative environment
where they work together toward a common goal. ... Intelligent, scrappy
workers are often attracted to startups, allowing ambitious employees to try
many hats and build new skills quickly. I am fascinated by the technical and
intellectual aspects of my job and find them highly rewarding. My teammates
and I don’t know all the answers as we work with new models, so we must test
our hypotheses and rethink our approach.
Pentagon must act now on quantum computing or be eclipsed by rivals
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Many experts, including Spirk, believe that military applications for
quantum computing could be less than 10 years away. Case in point: according
to the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power, China recently
designed and fabricated a quantum computer capable of outperforming a
classical high-performance computer for a specific problem. This is also why
DARPA announced the ‘Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum
Computing’ (US2QC) program to explore potentially overlooked methods by
which quantum computers could achieve practical levels of utilization much
faster than current predictions suggest. The White House recently signed the
Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act into law, signaling that it
regards quantum as a serious issue. The act addresses the migration of
executive agencies’ IT systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) -
encryption which is secure from attacks by quantum computers because of the
advanced mathematics underpinning it.
How Will the AI Bill of Rights Affect AI Development?
The AIBoR states that AI systems should be transparent and explainable, and
not discriminate against individuals based on various protected
characteristics. “This would require AI developers to design and build
transparent and fair systems and carefully consider their systems’ potential
impacts on individuals and society,” explains Bassel Haidar, artificial
intelligence and machine language practice lead at Guidehouse, a business
consulting firm. Creating transparent and fair AI systems could involve
using techniques, such as feature attribution, that can help identify the
factors that influenced a particular AI-driven decision or prediction,
Haidar says. “It could also involve using techniques such as local
interpretable model-agnostic explanations (LIME), which can help to explain
the decision-making process of a black-box AI model.” AI developers will
have to thoroughly test and validate AI systems to ensure that they function
properly and make accurate predictions, Haidar says. “Additionally, they
will need to employ bias detection and mitigation techniques to help
identify and reduce potential biases in the AI system.”
The metaverse brings a new breed of threats to challenge privacy and security gatekeepers
While security experts point to authentication and access controls to
protect against metaverse-based scams and attacks, the growing number of
platforms providing access to the metaverse may or may not have secure
mechanisms for recognizing frauds, says Paul Carlisle Kletchka, governance,
risk, and compliance (GRC) analyst with Lynx Technology Partners, a provider
of GRC services. “One of the major vulnerabilities is the lack of
standardized security protocols or mechanisms in place across the
platforms,” he says. “As a result, cybercriminals can use the metaverse for
a variety of purposes such as identity theft, fraud, or malicious attacks on
other users. Since people can download programs and files from within the
metaverse, there is also a risk that these files could contain malware that
could infect a user's computer or device and spread back into the
organization’s systems. Another threat is piracy: since the metaverse is
still in its early stages of development, there are no laws or regulations
written specifically for the metaverse to protect intellectual property
within this digital environment.
Quote for the day:
"A leader is judged not by the
length of his reign but by the decisions he makes." --
Klingon Proverb
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