For decades the face of Big Tobacco, Phillip Morris International (PMI) is leaning into IT to remain relevant in an industry undergoing disruption. With light shed on its dark history of concealing scientific evidence of the health impacts of smoking, cigarette smoking has reached its lowest levels among adults in decades, spurring the $80 billion…
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to help enterprises boost productivity, business agility, and customer satisfaction while shortening the time required to bring new products and services to market. Yet as more IT leaders plunge their organizations deep into AI science, many are finding disappointment rather than success. A 2020 IDC study, for instance, found that 28%…
Robinhood is an online trading platform that is on a mission to democratize finance and make it possible for everyone to participate in the financial system. The company has experienced explosive growth in the past year, the growing pains that go with it, and some important lessons along the way. Adam Wolff spent two years…
A pandemic makes CIOs and CISOs strange bedfellows, and this year they have had to work together more closely than ever under unprecedented circumstances. The result? The state of the relationship has generally improved. Organizations across the board have accelerated their digital initiatives and migrations to the cloud to support remote workers and customers in…
Jake Fritz is VP and CIO of Emerson, a global $18 billion company. Traditionally known as an electric products company that makes valves and other process control equipment, Emerson has an expansive footprint as a software and smart devices company. I spoke at length with Fritz about the critical role that he and his global…
SolarWinds is recommending that customers hit by the Trojan embedded in a version of its Orion network-monitoring platform update to a new release of the software as Microsoft, Cisco, others weigh in.
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A group believed to be Russia’s Cozy Bear gained access to government and other systems through a compromised update to SolarWinds’ Orion software. Most organizations aren’t prepared for this sort of software supply chain attack.
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As CIOs get ready to close the books on a year gripped by a global pandemic, many are looking to the future with great optimism. You read that right: Optimism. Because most CIOs are building on the momentum they facilitated in 2020 by leveraging digital technologies to augment employee and customer experiences. [ Learn from…
The pandemic has had a dramatic and adverse impact on companies of all sizes and geographic locations over the course of the past several months, including lost revenue, reduction of staff and cuts in IT budgets and spending. However, as we look back, there were some positive aspects as well, and more to come as…
Remote work will be a permanent scenario for many organizations, according to the CIO Pandemic Business Impact Survey 2020. This underscores the need for policies that secure remote data access without inhibiting user productivity. “Given the paradigm shift to remote work, companies must protect their IT infrastructure — including networks, application servers, and VPN access…