After sitting through a sizeable chunk of the WorldCom trial live, I am all in favor of anything that improves financial reporting and helps the Feds nab the bad guys. (See Ebbers Trial: The Jury Is Out, Ebbers Sentenced: See You in 2030, and WorldCom's Sullivan Gets Five Years.)
That said, efforts such as XBRL should be pushed forward very carefully at a pace that will not cause coronaries in boardrooms and data centers. After all, if more and more firms shift their data centers overseas, there may be no one left to regulate.
James Rogers, Senior Editor Byte and Switch
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
