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Eoin Higgins

Eoin Higgins is a reporter with IT Brew. His work focuses on cybersecurity, IT jobs, and government tech. Eoin’s work has appeared in outlets around the country and around the world, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Intercept, the Nation, MSNBC, and many others. His first book, on tech billionaires and the media, is available now. He lives in New England with his family.

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IT Strategy

Data management and AI implementation are two sides of the same coin

“You can’t just outspend the data problem anymore,” Nasuni executive says.

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Cybersecurity

Block the breach: a ransomware game

In this game, navigate a ransomware crisis and save your company from data theft and ruin.

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Software

AI is changing coding—and adding friction

“There is a software development life cycle that needs to be followed for any active software development,” CEO tells IT Brew. “We’re all relearning that.”

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Cybersecurity

World Cup threats present challenges for IT pros

For soccer players, the goal is the score; for threat actors, the score is the goal. That’s the concern as the US, Canada, and Mexico prepare to host the World Cup in June and July.

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Cybersecurity

Anthropic’s Glasswing spreads its wings

“There’s still a huge, open question on how much this will actually benefit organizations and people with fewer resources,” researcher says.

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IT Strategy

By design: the C-suite in May

Federal shift for one exec, while another gets a newly created role.

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Cybersecurity

State-run healthcare exchanges selling data is latest expansion of threat surface

“Any kind of attack that you can think of that relates to human psychology, trust, that kind of thing, can be formulated again with the help of AI,” DeleteMe CEO says.

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Cybersecurity

Research on AI jailbreakers reveals where they go to sell their wares

“We try to pay attention more to the fringe communities on fringe platforms,” Open Measures researcher tells IT Brew.

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IT Strategy

AI is a skills challenge—one that can be addressed

“The main gap that we’re seeing is a lack of adoption,” enterprise AI exec says.

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IT Strategy

Making AI work requires careful budgets

“What we’ve seen, over and over again, is ‘Let one thousand flowers bloom’ results in pilot purgatory,” McKinsey exec says.