Cherokee Nation empowers its citizens with IT

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is the largest tribe in the US, with more than 460,000 citizens living across a 7,000-square-mile reservation in Oklahoma and around the world. As a widespread community, when COVID-19 struck, Cherokee Nation’s IT services department knew it needed a way to connect citizens digitally with government services, emergency relief, COVID-19…

The best of the best: Inside this year’s CSO50 Awards

Providing safe and secure elections is a critical function of local governments – and has been part of a fraught national conversation. What could be more important to a democracy? Taking a proactive approach to security, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk developed the Elections Cybersecurity Operations Center to monitor its elections infrastructure and business…

Rethinking data analytics as a digital-first driver at Dow

In today’s digital world, the ability to make data-driven decisions and develop strategies that are based on data analytics is critical to success in every industry. Beyond decision-making, accurate and relevant data analytics can provide greater insights into target markets, help improve operational efficiencies, and identify new products and service opportunities. When I assumed the…

Turkcell Cloud: Bringing sovereign cloud to Turkey’s regulated industries

To serve the 3,500 customers using its cloud services, Turkcell recently made significant investments in four massive, high-performance data centers – facilities that enable the telecommunications and IT services leader to provide a robust portfolio to complement its significant Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service solutions. Now Turkey’s largest cloud services and data center provider is working…

How IT does business at Eastman

When Aldo Noseda became CIO at chemical manufacturer Eastman five years ago, he immediately began working with other leaders in the company to bring a new category of services to the market that complemented its physical products. “Before Eastman, I worked for Monsanto, where I had a similar journey,” he says. “Monsanto sold agriculture products…

What executives should know about CNAPP

What does CNAPP (really) mean? First termed in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, 2021, a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) is, as the name implies, a platform approach for securing applications that are cloud-native across the span of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) of the applications. The need for CNAPP originates from the…

Oracle adds compute services to its Cloud@Customer offering

Oracle is adding a new managed offering to its Cloud@Customer platform that will allow enterprises to run applications on proprietary optimized infrastructure in their own data centers to address data residency and security regulations and solve low-latency requirements. Dubbed Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer, the new offering runs on the same optimized hardware as the company’s Exadata…