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Fundamental issues – including shortage of high-quality data – threaten the AI boom

Published in AI Digital Business Tech & Trends

The ODI’s latest white paper, ‘Building a better future with data and AI’, is based on research carried out by the Institute in the first half of 2024. It identifies significant weaknesses in the UK’s tech infrastructure that threaten the predicted potential gains - for people, society, and the economy - from the AI boom. It also outlines the ODI’s recommendations for creating diverse, fair data-centric AI.

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Exponential increase in overall cyberattacks

Published in Security + Compliance Tech & Trends

At least 12.6% of an organization’s annual revenues were at risk to cyber threats.

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CISOs struggle to govern the use of AI in application development

Published in AI Apps + DevOps Digital Business Tech & Trends

Checkmarx has published its Seven Steps to Safely Use Generative AI in Application Security report, which analyses key concerns, usage patterns and buying behaviors relating to the use of AI in enterprise application development. The global study exposed the tension between the need to empower both development and application security (AppSec) teams with the productivity benefits of AI tools and the need to establish governance to mitigate emerging risks.

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Enterprises can expand use of emergent data sources

Published in Data Analytics Digital Business Tech & Trends

BMC has released findings and analysis from its survey and corresponding report, Putting the “Ops” in DataOps: success factors for operationalising data. This second annual survey of IT decision-makers provides insights into how enterprises can assess and enhance their data maturity strategy to use data for competitive advantage. A complementary data maturity assessment also allows companies to evaluate their status and provides suggested next steps.

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Eyes wide open

Published in Digital Business Security + Compliance Storage + Servers Tech & Trends

87% of IT leaders say security threats keep them awake at night.

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Less than half of employers have formal guidance in place for acceptable AI use

Published in AI Digital Business Tech & Trends

The majority of businesses acknowledge AI’s potential risks, yet only a small portion have established comprehensive controls surrounding its use.

Dangerous gap in cyber security confidence between employees and cyber risk owners

New research by Threat Detection & Response provider, e2e-assure, reveals a dangerous gap in...

WatchGuard expands managed detection and response services with Open MDR

WatchGuard has launched Open MDR, expanding its managed detection and response service to support...

Continued growth in AI and automation for data collection

The web intelligence industry has decisively turned to artificial intelligence as the main method...

AI skills gap must be addressed urgently

High workloads are preventing people from finding time to upskill, according to 44% of UK IT...

Public sector embraces GenAI

GenAI is expected to improve productivity, efficiency, and automation, with long-term ROI for ...

Gap between AI use and trust in its output continues to widen among coders

Stack Overflow has published the results of its 2024 Developer Survey, the definitive report on the...

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