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What will your IT team look like in 2024?

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What is the top area of investment for your IT team?

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What is your best cloud provider and why?

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What is your organization doing to support the creation of new products/services currently?

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Does the current market pullback, especially in tech stocks, lead to any IT budget revision discussions in your company?

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How has your company's 2022 IT budget changed recently?

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How important is it for a cloud FinOps tool to have cost allocation and data analysis capabilities?

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How often is the IT budget reassessed in your org?

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Agree or disagree: Business unit leaders typically oppose the SOC’s recommendations.

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CIOs: Do you expect your IT budget will increase incrementally during 2023?

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Yes

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Where is microservice the better move? Is it more the initiative of new-to-mid-stage SMB companies that see value in achieving a micro-oriented approach?

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What sorts of guardrails should be considered before making ChatGPT part of your org’s security compliance efforts?

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Ryan LindleyCISO at PeopleConnect in Softwarea year ago

The most important parameter would be - 1. what to share? 2. How to share ? 3. Which dept should use ?

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I have a couple of business partners (supply and trading, shipping) that leverage email heavily, mainly sharing documentation back and forth between themselves and third parties and some deals or agreements are also done over email. These partners would like a secondary communication in the event of email disruption: what other communication methods (email-esque) would you suggest? Also, cybersecurity is nixing other ideas because of concerns, but business is the number one concern, can assume all risk and override cyber though this could lead to consequences. Have any of you experienced this and how have you addressed their concerns?

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Ryan LindleyCISO at PeopleConnect in Softwarea year ago

Oh man, a lot to unpack here! First, I have to say I'm surprised that cybersecurity is nixing other ideas in FAVOR of sharing documentation over a standard email channel. Email is notoriously insecure, a primary vector ...read more

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Did anyone else catch this stat on Crunchbase: "M&A deal-making in the cybersecurity space continues to slow with only 13 deals announced for VC-backed startups in the first quarter of the year" Do you think the decrease in cybersecurity M&A is going to impact innovation or could it lead to consolidation in terms of vendor offerings (that is perhaps a needed change)?

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Ryan LindleyCISO at PeopleConnect in Softwarea year ago

Almost certainly both. The VCs I talk to are far more cautious about or are outright avoiding security startups right now. Tightened funding criteria can inspire innovation, and it can filter noise, hopefully both.

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What was the last technology, business or leadership book that you read?

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Ryan LindleyCISO at PeopleConnect in Software5 years ago

Quiet

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