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Gartner Unveils Top Eight Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023-2024

Fifty percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) will adopt human centric design to reduce cybersecurity operational friction; large enterprises will focus on implementing zero-trust programs; and half of cybersecurity leaders will have unsuccessfully tried to use cyber risk quantification to drive enterprise decision making, according to the top cybersecurity predictions revealed by Gartner, Inc.

Class action looms for Latitude data breach

Law firms Gordon Legal and Hayden Stephens and Associates have announced they are investigating a potential legal action against Latitude Financial, for the massive data breach that includes personal data for customers stretching back to 2005.

Continuous evolution key to organisational transformation: MIT

A new report by MIT Technology Review Insights seeks to understand how organisations approach transformation and the obstacles they encounter in adapting to a continually changing business and technology environment.

Only 15% of Companies Ready for Cybersecurity Threats: Cisco

A mere 15% of organizations globally have the ‘Mature’ level of readiness needed to be resilient against today’s modern cybersecurity risks, according to Cisco’s first-ever Cybersecurity Readiness Index.

Reactionary approach to security hindering businesses

Organisations follow a reactive approach to cyber security which is stifling their progress in demonstrating value and aligning with business outcomes, according to a new commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of WithSecure.

Watermarking ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AIs could help protect against fraud and misinformation

Generative AI, in the form of image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and text generators like Bard, ChatGPT, Chinchilla and LLaMA, has exploded in the public sphere. By combining clever machine-learning algorithms with billions of pieces of human-generated content, these systems can do anything from create an eerily realistic image from a caption, synthesize a speech in President Joe Biden’s voice, replace one person’s likeness with another in a video, or write a coherent 800-word op-ed from a title prompt.

Latitude Financial breach widens across ANZ

Anyone in Australia or New Zealand who has applied or received finance from Latitude Financial over the past seven years may have their identity documents compromised, according to an update on the major data breach revealed on March 16.

3 reasons companies shy away from automation

By now, we’re all familiar with the promises of automation: efficiency gains, relief from talent shortages, greater efficiency, and increased margins. Sounds like a no-brainer, but if that were true, there wouldn’t still be so many organizations that have not automated all or any of their processes. But why the ongoing hesitation?

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AI-Automated Clinical Documentation for Healthcare

Microsoft company Nuance Communications has announced Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express, a clinical documentation application that combines conversational and ambient AI with OpenAI's GPT-4.

Data analysis and cleanup for SharePoint and OneDrive

The developer of the Aparavi Data Intelligence and Automation Platform has launched new connectors to bring these data management tools directly to Microsoft SharePoint Server and OneDrive, helping organisations reduce costs, increase efficiency and reduce risk by analysing and optimizing unstructured data.

Ontotext unveils metadata management and tagging control solution

More than just an end-user UI for establishing a set of documents that represent a business’ own version of the Ground Truth for tagging, Ontotext Metadata Studio 3.2 makes it easy for users to quickly determine whether a use case could be automated or not across any third-party text mining service.

Security Copilot adds AI to Cyberdefence Arsenal

Microsoft has announced the launch of Security Copilot, a tool designed to quickly detect and respond to threats and better understand the threat landscape overall. Security Copilot will combine Microsoft’s threat intelligence footprint with an easy-to-use AI assistant.

Speech drives process with SnapGPT

SnapLogic has announced the release of SnapGPT, which leverages AI to quickly integrate and automate business processes using natural language prompts.

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