Business continuity & disaster recovery in finance: Endpoint resiliency in a high-stakes world

In financial services, “time is money” is more than a saying — it’s an unforgiving law. A few hours of downtime can mean millions lost, confidence shaken, and regulators knocking.  As firms invest heavily in data protection, disaster recovery, and infrastructure redundancy, one critical layer often remains underinvested: endpoint resilience. The devices that connect analysts,…

When the screens go down: Removing the blind spot in business continuity plans

When brands like Victoria’s Secret and Jaguar Land Rover suffer major business disruption due to targeted cyberattacks, the business world is reminded of an uncomfortable truth: Even the most sophisticated operations can grind to a halt in an instant.  These disruptions didn’t just affect systems, they silenced thousands of endpoints, locked out employees, and disrupted customer experiences…

Guardrails and governance: A CIO’s blueprint for responsible generative and agentic AI

The promise of generative AI (genAI) and agentic AI is electrifying. From automating complex tasks to unlocking unprecedented creativity, these technologies are poised to redefine your enterprise landscape. But as a CIO, you know that with great power comes great responsibility — and significant risk. The headlines are already filled with cautionary tales of data breaches,…

The incredible shrinking shelf life of IT skills

FinOps skills are in high demand today. With organizations fearful of AI initiatives ballooning their cloud costs, the ability to manage cloud environments in a financially efficient way is earning IT pros with FinOps skills a premium of late. But Ankur Anand, CIO of Harvey Nash, an IT recruitment and outsourcing services provider, wonders whether…

CIO Jeanine Charlton’s leadership lessons in resilience

Jeanine Charlton is a multi-award-winning technology executive on the forefront of IT and business integration. Currently serving as senior vice president and chief technology and digital officer at Merchants Fleet, Charlton has an extensive Fortune 100 technology leadership background, which includes leading a $2 billion P&L at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. When she joined me on…

Now or never for Europe’s IT sector (again)

After much fuss, speculation, and leaks, the European Commission presented its new proposals on simplifying regulations in the digital area last week. The package is a small buffet of measures, with the most notable ones being changes to the EU’s controversial AI regulation and amendments to the GDPR. The background is of course the strong concern that the…