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Global AI regulations: Beyond the U.S. and Europe

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Building on that perspective, this article describes examples of AI regulations in the rest of the world and provides a summary on global AI regulation trends. The complexity of varying global AI regulations is challenging for CIOs. The UAE provides a similar model to China, although less prescriptive regarding national security.

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Benchmarks without context are meaningless: The pitfalls of data without insight

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It was a typical conversation with a client when the question came up: “What’s the average security spend for organizations like ours?” Knowing this was coming, I responded, “On average, most organizations spend around 3-6% of their IT budget on security.” I’ve heard variations of this query countless times. Spoiler: No. Just a cycle.)

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CIO metrics are failing digital transformation; it’s time to radically rethink success

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The remaining five metrics, including uptime and availability, cost control, operational efficiency, compliance, and security, are deeply rooted in traditional IT priorities. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets.

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Can you have too many security tools?

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A member of your organization’s security team reads about a new kind of security tool and brings it to the CISO’s attention, who decides that it’s a good investment. The CISO sees a new kind of security threat that requires a different security tool. A colleague recommends a security tool she says is indispensable.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

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At the time, the best AIs couldnt pass the 5% mark on the SWE-bench, a challenging benchmark designed to see how well AI can solve real-world coding problems. We cant do that for security reasons, he says. Mitre has also tested dozens of commercial AI models in a secure Mitre-managed cloud environment with AWS Bedrock.

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Security team management: Top 4 findings from discussions with CISOs

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Most large businesses have a security team. But what, exactly, does that security team look like? And is it optimized in each of these respects to maximize the organization’s security posture? We learned, for example, that very few organizations have just a single security team. How is it structured? Most have several.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

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Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

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