U.S. Department of War Rolls Out 12‑Month Cyber Apprenticeship to Build Defense Talent
The U.S. Department of War unveiled the Cyber Registered Apprenticeship Program (Cyber RAP), a 12‑month, skills‑first training track announced by CIO Kirsten Davies on April 28. The initiative aims to fast‑track cyber‑defense analysts, infrastructure specialists and incident responders for the warfighter’s networks and weapon systems.
Datalink Taps Arctic Wolf for AI-Led Security Operations
Datalink Networks has teamed up with Arctic Wolf to embed the Aurora Superintelligence Platform and Aurora Agentic SOC into its managed‑service portfolio for U.S. and Canadian clients. The AI‑led security operations solution promises faster detection, investigation, response and recovery without requiring...
AI Agent Sprawl Is the Next Massive Challenge for IT Leaders
AI agents are proliferating across enterprises, but most IT leaders lack visibility into the growing ecosystem. A recent CIO poll shows 87% of leaders have agents embedded in critical systems while only 25% can map every production instance. This "agent...
Dyna Software Achieves ServiceNow Elite Partner Status as Governance Demand Rises
Dyna Software has been elevated to Elite Partner status in the ServiceNow Partner Program, recognizing its deep technical expertise and enterprise‑scale delivery capabilities. The designation comes as organizations expand ServiceNow beyond ITSM into broader workflow and transformation initiatives, heightening the...
What NIST’s CVE Shift Means for ERP Security Teams
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a shift to a prioritized CVE enrichment model, limiting detailed analysis to high‑impact and federal‑critical vulnerabilities. As a result, many CVE entries in the National Vulnerability Database will no longer include full...
Vernon Building Society Deploys AI Platform to Speed Mortgages While Preserving Human Underwriting
Vernon Building Society has rolled out an AI‑driven mortgage platform from FintechOS to accelerate loan origination, aiming to match the speed of larger banks while retaining human underwriting for complex cases. The 102‑year‑old mutual, with assets of about $678 million, expects...
How Can Organisations Ensure Cyber Resilience in Tense Times?
Geopolitical instability is driving a surge in state‑aligned, criminal and hacktivist cyber activity, with April alone seeing breaches at Dublin’s Healthdaq, OpenAI’s macOS certification process, and unauthorized access to Anthropic’s Mythos AI model. Matthew Lloyd Davies of Pluralsight warns that shared...
Sage X3 Helping Food, Beverage Manufacturers Tackle AI and Compliance Challenges
Food and beverage manufacturers are turning to Sage X3 to solve mounting inventory, compliance and AI adoption challenges. At Sage Future 2026, Yakima Chief Hops and Enzymedica highlighted how granular lot‑level tracking and location visibility slashed stockouts and cut procurement...
OYO Launches PRISM 2.0 AI‑Led Global Operating Layer for Real‑Time Finance
OYO announced PRISM 2.0, an AI‑led global operating layer that unifies pricing, demand, and finance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The upgrade brings near real‑time financial data to 35+ countries, aiming to eliminate siloed systems and accelerate decision‑making.
IDC Report Finds Only 9% of EMEA CIOs Deliver Measurable AI ROI
IDC reports that only nine percent of enterprises in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have produced measurable business results from AI projects, while 91% remain stuck in pilot mode. The study blames execution gaps and a lack of financial‑validation...
CIO‑CISO Misalignment Leaves Enterprise Risk Owner Undefined
The CIO CISO alignment issue is still one of the biggest gaps I hear about in my daily conversations with technology leaders. Who actually owns enterprise risk? And how are you managing alignment across your organization? Check out the latest...
Shift IT Metrics From Spend to Real Productivity Gains
RT IT is great at tracking spend, not so great at proving benefits. Time to move beyond inputs and measure "honest time savings, productivity gains, and market share." #CIO @Star_CIO https://t.co/qPKuOVY8TH
Microsoft AI Surge Exposes Data Center Capacity Gap
Microsoft reported a 40% year‑over‑year Azure revenue surge and a $37 billion AI run rate, while its commercial remaining performance obligations ballooned 99% to $627 billion. The rapid AI‑driven demand is outpacing the company’s ability to provision power, cooling and physical capacity,...
CIOs Must Prove SaaS, Cloud, AI ROI Now
#CIOChat Q1: Across SaaS, cloud, AI, and platforms, CIOs are being asked to justify spend with hard evidence now, not narratives. Where are you actually seeing provable ROI today, and where is it still mostly assumed? https://t.co/ytKIlCYMbG
AI Code Raises Critical Bugs 1.4×; QA Still Essential
AI-generated code comes with a hidden tax: 1.4x more critical issues in pull requests, including basic security flaws. You can't skip QA just because AI wrote the code. #DevSecOps #CIO https://t.co/p7yRF5nHjg
Federal Zero Trust Advisory Skips Healthcare — But Reads as a Hospital Medical Device Cybersecurity Roadmap
Federal agencies released a 28‑page zero‑trust advisory for operational technology that omits any reference to hospitals, patients, or medical devices. The guidance outlines four OT constraints—availability, legacy infrastructure, minimal logging, and cross‑functional workflows—that map directly onto the challenges of managing...
Future CIOs/CTOs Practice P&L Ownership Before Title
RT Future CIOs and CTOs practice the role before they get the title: owning P&L, influencing peers, and leading cross-functional change. #Leadership #CIO @Star_CIO https://t.co/XJxhEl8zHL
Wireless Investments Deliver ROI as Complexity and Security Risks Grow
Cisco’s State of Wireless 2026 report shows that more than three‑quarters of enterprises are already reaping measurable ROI from wireless upgrades, with 78% reporting operational efficiency gains, 75% seeing higher employee productivity and customer engagement, and nearly 70% noting revenue growth....
A Time for Metamorphosis
Anthony Guerra, founder of healthsystemCIO, recounts an 18‑month journey embedding AI into his personal and team workflows, highlighting the painstaking disassembly and reassembly required. He stresses that while individual workflow tweaks are hard, scaling AI across inter‑departmental processes in healthcare...
Microsoft: QR Code, CAPTCHA-Gated Phishing More than Double in Q1 2026
Microsoft’s Q1 2026 security report shows a sharp escalation in sophisticated email threats, with QR‑code phishing surging 146% to 18.7 million attacks and CAPTCHA‑gated phishing climbing 125% to 11.9 million in March. Overall, the firm recorded 8.3 million phishing attempts, 78% of which were...
AI Security Risks Force CIOs to Rethink Strategy
Michael Spisak of Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 warned that generative AI models such as Anthropic’s Mythos are turning into powerful threat‑actors, capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities at machine speed. While AI accelerates attack vectors, it also offers defenders new...
Forward‑Deployed Engineers Emerge as Essential Layer for Enterprise AI Rollout
Analysts say forward‑deployed engineers (FDEs) are the missing operational layer that will move 93% of enterprises out of AI pilot purgatory. By embedding AI into live systems, firms can create recurring revenue streams, a model exemplified by Palantir’s near‑10‑fold share...
McDonald’s Appoints Mustafa Husain as U.S. CIO to Accelerate Digital Overhaul
McDonald’s has named Mustafa Husain senior vice president and U.S. chief information officer, effective May 1. The veteran technologist will inherit a portfolio that includes AI‑enabled operations, point‑of‑sale standardization, and a multi‑year digital transformation agenda.
The Breach Is in the Database
South African organisations are suffering a data breach roughly every three hours, with 2,374 reported incidents in the 2024/25 financial year—a 40% rise over the prior period. In the financial sector, the average cost of a breach has climbed to...
Healthcare IT Leaders Gave Themselves a Perfect Breach Detection Score. 58% of Them Got Breached Anyway, Paubox Finds
A new Paubox study of 170 U.S. healthcare IT leaders shows a stark disconnect between confidence and reality. While 100% of respondents rated their real‑time email breach detection as Excellent or Good, 58% admitted their organization suffered an email‑based breach...
Nordic 2026 Survey: Epic Managed Services Transition From Staffing Support to Strategic IT Operating Model
Nordic Global’s 2026 survey shows 61% of healthcare IT leaders now treat Application Managed Services (AMS) as a core component of their IT strategy rather than a supplemental safety net. The study highlights a stark urban‑rural split: 70% of urban...
How Can Businesses Make Sovereign Cloud a Reality?
Businesses are increasingly forced to adopt sovereign cloud as regulators and geopolitics tighten data‑governance rules. A true sovereign‑by‑design model embeds control across data, operational and technology layers rather than treating location alone as compliance. Distributed cloud architectures enable firms to...
Identity Continuity for Epic EHR
Strata Maverics provides an identity‑orchestration layer that sits between Epic’s EHR and external identity providers, allowing Epic to remain unchanged while providers are swapped or fail. The orchestrator continuously health‑checks a primary IdP (Microsoft Entra ID) and a warm standby...
Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills: The New Math of AI Infrastructure
Enterprises are moving from experimental AI models to production‑grade, agentic workloads, shifting the primary cost driver from model training to the infrastructure that powers billions of inference requests. Although per‑token inference costs have dropped roughly tenfold in the past two...
Sponsored: Liquid Cooling for AI Data Centers: 3 Risks and How a Trusted Partner Ensures Success
AI‑driven data centers are confronting unprecedented power densities as Nvidia’s latest GPUs consume 1,000‑1,400 W each, pushing rack loads to roughly 142 kW and eyeing 1 MW in the near term. Traditional air cooling can’t dissipate that heat, prompting a shift to direct...
CIOs Must Translate AI Governance Into Actionable Risk Reporting
AI Governance Moves From Theory to Practice CIOs Face Growing Pressure on Risk, Data and Board Reporting https://t.co/prUK81kBWx https://t.co/PoHFxGwMqs
Cirrova Launches Platform for Azure Spend Management
Cirrova Systems, a Brisbane start‑up, unveiled a cloud‑cost platform that automates Azure spend management without requiring dedicated FinOps staff. The tool ingests Azure billing data multiple times daily, delivering near real‑time visibility, anomaly detection and optimisation insights. It adds budgeting,...
ERP Overspending Is Being Driven by Governance Gaps, Not Just Software Pricing
Enterprises are overspending on ERP not because of license prices but due to governance gaps. Over‑provisioned licenses, unchecked customizations, and uncontrolled cloud subscriptions cause spend to balloon after go‑live. Studies from KPMG, Statista, McKinsey and Capgemini show average cloud waste...
Adaptive Security Leadership in an Expanding Threat Surface
At the CISO Inspire Summit North, security leaders debated the expanding attack surface driven by SaaS, supply‑chain dependencies, and automated workflows. The panel argued that many cyber risks are old problems amplified by scale, shifting focus back to core fundamentals...
CIOs Should Leverage AI for Marketing, Not Just Efficiency
CIOs who only chase AI productivity gains are missing the bigger play. Marketing is where force-multiplier opportunities live - CX, lead gen, branding, growth. #CIO #AIStrategy #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/Vjv8aDlma4
Transformation Capability Management: Why ERP Programs Drift Even with Good Change Management
ERP programs often drift despite strong change‑management because leaders make weak structural decisions early on, leaving capital, capability and capacity constraints unmanaged. The article introduces Transformation Capability Management (TCM) as a governance layer that surfaces these constraints before they derail...
JPMorgan CIO Deploys $19.8 Billion for AI‑Powered Bank‑Wide Transformation
JPMorgan Chase’s global chief information officer, Lori Beer, has committed $19.8 billion to technology and artificial intelligence, aiming to embed AI agents across the bank’s 319,000‑person workforce. The budget, covering 65,000 technologists, signals a sweeping operational overhaul that balances rapid innovation...
Citi Appoints Former Google Executive Brian Saluzzo as Chief Information Officer
Citi announced that former Google executive Brian Saluzzo began his tenure as chief information officer in March, tasked with scaling AI initiatives and completing a multi‑year modernization effort. The hire underscores the bank’s push to leverage AI for revenue growth...
The Cloud Automation Trap
Nintex is promoting its on‑premise automation platform K2, now equipped with a built‑in AI engine, as a way to sidestep the high costs, lock‑in concerns, and data‑sovereignty questions that cloud‑based automation can raise. The solution keeps all workflow data inside...
Reallocating IT Budgets Around Unequal AI Outcomes
. @satyanadella today: “IT budgets get reshaped by business outcomes and reallocation from other line items on the income statement.” He is right, per seat breaks when two users consume AI completely differently. Consumption pricing is the easy part. Reorganizing enterprise...
Australia Post Focuses on Cyber Security with Alpha Level
Australia Post has partnered with US‑based AI security firm Alpha Level to enhance its cyber‑defence capabilities. The collaboration will apply machine‑learning models to the roughly four billion data points generated each month across the postal network, accelerating threat identification and reducing...
AWS Rakes $142B, Yet 85% Remain On‑Prem
$AMZN: AWS annual recurring rev at $142B and yet 85% of enterprises are still on prem. Something to think about about.
Enterprises Turn to Runtime Security to Close the Agentic AI Trust Gap
Enterprises are moving agentic AI from pilots to production, exposing a trust gap that traditional security models can’t close. F5 Inc. argues that AI runtime security—policy enforcement at the moment an agent acts—is essential for safe autonomous operations. At Google...
Wiz Finds AI Has Moved From Tool to Infrastructure, Broadening the Attack Surface
Wiz’s State of AI in the Cloud 2026 report shows AI has moved from a niche tool to a core layer of cloud infrastructure, with 81% of surveyed environments running managed AI services and 90% hosting self‑installed AI software. The...
The Hidden Tax on Security: How Data Costs Are Eating Your Controls Budget
Security leaders are confronting a hidden budget drain: the cost of moving, normalizing, and ingesting massive volumes of telemetry before any detection occurs. As data sources proliferate across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and IoT, ingestion expenses—both vendor fees and engineering labor—are...
UChicago Medicine Deploys Artisight’s Smart Hospital Platform in 1,800 Rooms
UChicago Medicine has signed an enterprise agreement with AI‑health firm Artisight to install its Smart Hospital Platform in more than 1,800 patient rooms, surgical suites and post‑anesthesia care units. The rollout aims to automate documentation, cut bedside nurses’ administrative workload...
Broadcom Accelerates Private‑Cloud Revival with VMware Cloud Foundation Roadmap
Broadcom is steering a private‑cloud comeback by expanding VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) into a Kubernetes‑centric, open‑source platform. The move follows a 106% jump in AI semiconductor revenue and growing enterprise concerns over data sovereignty, positioning Broadcom to challenge public‑cloud dominance.
BDO USA Names Jim Maza as New CIO as Russ Ahlers Retires Sept. 1
BDO USA announced that Jim Maza will take over as chief information officer on Sept. 1, 2026, as longtime CIO Russ Ahlers steps down after more than a decade. The transition is positioned to accelerate the firm’s technology modernization and AI...
Reverse Engineering With AI Unearths High-Severity GitHub Bug
GitHub disclosed CVE‑2026‑3854, an 8.7‑score remote‑code‑execution flaw in GitHub Enterprise Server that could be triggered by malicious git push options. The vulnerability also affected GitHub.com, Enterprise Cloud, and related hosted services, all of which were patched within hours. Cloud‑security firm...
What to Expect During the Dell and Intel ‘Securing the AI Factory’ Event: Join theCUBE May 7
Dell Technologies and Intel are hosting a "Securing the AI Factory" event on May 5, followed by a theCUBE livestream on May 7, to showcase how integrated hardware and security controls can protect enterprise‑scale generative AI workloads. The partnership leverages Intel’s Gaudi 3...