The study comes at a time when parents and educators are struggling to understand how their children and students can use the Web to learn and interact with other Web users while at the same time keeping these children safe from sexual predators and pornographers. The Pew Internet & American Life Project and security vendor Webroot Software have each recently released reports that measure, among other things, how often children are contacted online by strangers or received sexually explicit e-mails.
IT managers likewise have a vested interest in keeping tabs on the content their users send and receive. In January, a jury found former Connecticut substitute teacher Julie Amero guilty of four counts of risk of injury to a minor after her classroom computer in October 2004 started displaying pornographic pop-up advertisements. Amero was later granted a new trial, but her ordeal sparked a controversy over the role that IT managers and executives should play in ensuring that PCs and other equipment are secured in such a way that only appropriate content is provided to end users.
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.
