Mark Brooks is executive vice president and CIO of Centene Corporation, a Fortune 24 multi-national healthcare enterprise. With executive responsibility for information technology and systems for the $125 billion company, Brooks leads a team of more than 4,000 employees who develop and implement software and services focused on the organization’s health plan members. In November…
Getting natural language processing (NLP) models into production is a lot like buying a car. In both cases, you set your parameters for your desired outcome, test several approaches, likely retest them, and the minute you drive off the lot, value starts to plummet. Like having a car, having NLP or AI-enabled products has many…
Consumer security awareness is on the rise in America. We should be grateful for that because apathy has a habit of breeding bad outcomes — for businesses, governments, and individuals. But public engagement is still not where it should be. Only one-third of Americans said defending against cyberattacks should be a top priority for the…
There’s a simple reason why organizations have recently experienced so many new vulnerabilities and breaches. Over the past year, organizations transformed their endpoint environment, and yet they continue to manage and secure their new environments using legacy tools designed for legacy environments. What’s changed in the modern endpoint environment Historically, endpoint environments were relatively small,…
Every year has its twists and turns, but 2021 — like its predecessor — was filled with more than the usual number of memorable events and seismic changes, from inflation and supply chain issues to the Great Resignation and the ongoing effects of the pandemic. So, after another turbulent year, we asked a handful of…
If the word “disruption” sounds familiar, it’s because we’re living in one of the most volatile times in recent history. The COVID-19 pandemic created major challenges for supply chains and third-party relationships, which in turn has had a ripple effect on the market and an organization’s ability to provide products and services. Recently, two famous…
Indian IT spending will reach $101.8 billion in 2022, a rise of 7% from this year, according to Gartner’s latest forecast. “In 2022, CIOs in India will build on renewed interest in technology from the business to gain funding for new IT projects,” said Gartner’s research vice president, Arup Roy, who led the analysis for…
India’s data protection bill should be modified to cover more than just personal data, and impose strict deadlines on businesses to report data breaches, a parliamentary committee recommended in a long-awaited report published on 16 December, 2021. The Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, has spent two years examining the proposed legislation…