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Which of these digital skills are most in demand in your organization? (select all that apply)

Talent Management & Performance

Cloud computing development / operations

Software and solutions technical proficiency

Mobile computing development/operations

Experience in statistical analytics languages/platforms

User experience/design

Knowledge of machine learning

Social media engagement/analysis

Content development/management

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What will your IT team look like in 2024?

Financial Management

Increase headcount

Stay flat

Decrease headcount

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As a CIO, are you currently on the board of your organization?

People & Leadership

Yes

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Do you roll-out CASB deployment to all users or only selective more-sensitive users (eg VIPs)?

Cloud Security & GRC Threat & Vulnerability Management

Only senior management

All senior officers and above

Everyone

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What are organizations using for annual employee performance evaluations and tracking leadership development progress?

Human Resources (HRIS)

Commercial SaaS Offering - Please provide details if possible

Internally Developed

Other - Please provide details if possible

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Are you adopting any source code analysis tool for analysing code vulnerabilities against eg. OWASP top ten?

Security & GRC

No, not using any at all

Yes, but not checking OWASP

Yes, OWASP check, opensource

Yes, OWASP check, commercial

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How much do you expect your technology budget to go up next year?

Strategy & Architecture Financial Management Security Strategy & Roadmap+1 more

No change

<5%

5-10%

10-15%

>15%

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Enterprise, SME Data backups

Data & Analytics Business Intelligence Backup & Disaster Recovery

Rubrik

Cohesity

Commvault

DELL EMC

IBM

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As a technology executive, what keeps you up at night?

People & Leadership

Hiring / Retaining talent

Eng not moving fast enough

Marketing not moving fast enough

Sales not moving fast enough

Other (please comment)

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What do you do with unsolicited vendor gifts?

People & Leadership Financial Management Vendor Management

Keep it

I never accept them

Donate it

Depends on the dollar amount

Other (leave a comment)

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CrowdStrike outage: Any quick advice for orgs affected? What immediate actions are your IT and other teams taking to mitigate the effects of the outage?

Crowdstrike Outage 2024 IT Strategy & Roadmap Crisis Management+2 more

Jay FerroEVP, CIO & CTO2 months ago

Right now, communication is key!

We have invoked a passphrase protocol to protect our users from social engineering attempts to gain unauthorised access to our users computers or systems by claiming to be from IT support ...read more

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