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Eoin Higgins

Eoin Higgins is a senior reporter with IT Brew. His work focuses on AI, IT jobs, and hardware. 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

IT pros in AI implementation face challenges with legacy systems—and opportunity

“The legacy ecosystem might be very limited,” GFT CEO tells IT Brew.

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Cloud

AI agent data access has risk potential

“It’s only a matter of time that somebody comes to you and just takes it,” CEO says of data.

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Cybersecurity

How IT pros should approach certificate inventory management

“It’s a question of understanding and defining the risks attached to each certificate,” security exec tells IT Brew.

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IT Strategy

As AI continues to drive labor market, tech employment numbers are unsteady

“You want workers that are able to take on these new technologies and utilize them effectively,” Nexthink manager says.

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Cybersecurity

AI agents with access to internal systems are a security concern—Muse is the latest

“You will need to put controls on these agents, and it’s easier said than done,” CEO says.

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IT Strategy

Private, public, pumpkin spice: September in the C-suite

A combined role at DOT, and some shifts from public to private.

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AI Governance

1Password CTO Nancy Wang: Engineering is a process of beating constraints

Working with her engineer father as a kid taught Wang the “love of being able to build stuff, take stuff apart, and really understand how it all fit together.”

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Software

How to define an AI agent—and make sure it’s the real deal

“What does that agent have access to, how was it built?” asks CTO.

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Cybersecurity

AI cyber threats require oversight, guidance

“If you train your model on data, that data becomes fair game,” CTO tells IT Brew.

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IT Strategy

ROI from AI is still a work in progress

“The world is still learning to have the most optimal, well-architected approach towards delivering value with AI,” Skan CEO says.