Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024

This episode we are talking about the future of tech with the Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024. Also, Allen is looking into the crystal ball, Joe is getting lo, and Outlaw is getting into curling. The full show notes for this episode are available at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode224. News Thank you for the reviews! justsomedudewritingareview, Stephan You can find links to leave us reviews on the website (/reviews) Orlando Code Camp is coming up February 24th, woo! (orlandocodecamp.com)Make sure you read up on your next MacBook pro, if you want to maximize the performance then you are going to need to pay for it!Reminder: Don't install packages from the internet in your CICD pipeline!You can find links to leave us reviews on the website (/reviews) Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024 No surprise, AI is a big topic - it looks like Gartner is suggesting the technologies and processes companies must follow to be successful using and incorporating AI In this overview, Gartner has grouped these technologies into three different sections Protect Your InvestmentRise of the BuildersDeliver the Value Protect Your Investment Be deliberateEnsure that you've secured appropriate rights for deploying AI driven solutions AI Trism - AI Trust, Risk and Security Management AI model governance TrustworthinessFairnessReliabilityRobustnessTransparencyData protection Gartner Prediction - By 2026, companies that incorporate AI Trism controls will improve decision-making by reducing faulty and invalid information by 80% Why is AI Trism Trending? Largely, those who have AI Trism controls in place move more to production, achieve more value, and have higher precision in their modelingEnhance bias control decisionsModel explainability How to get started with AI Trism? Set up a task force to manage the effortsWork across the organization to share tools and best practicesDefine acceptable use policies and set up a system to review and approve access to AI models Continuous Threat Exposure Management - CTEM Systemic approach to continuously adjust cybersecurity prioritiesGartner prediction - By 2026, companies invested in CTEM will reduce security breaches by 2/3 (statista.com)Aligns exposure assessment with specific projects or critical threat vectors (fortinet.com)Both patchable and unpatchable exposures will be addressedBusiness can test the effectiveness of their security controls against the attacker's view "Expected outcomes from tactical and technical response are shifted to evidence-based security optimizations supported by improved cross-team mobilization." How to get started? Integrate CTEM with risk awareness and management programsImprove the prioritization of finding vulnerabilities through validation techniquesEmbrace cybersecurity validation technologies (cybersecurityvalidation.com) "security validation is a process or a technology that validates assumptions made about the actual security posture of a given environment, structure, or infrastructure"Sustainable Technology FrameworkSolutions for enabling social, environmental and governance outcomes for long term ecological balance and human rightsGartner prediction - by 2027, 25% of CIO's will have compensation that's linked to their sustainable technology impactWhy trending?Environmental technologies help deal with risks in the natural worldSocial technologies help with human rightsGovernance technologies strengthen business conductSustainable technologies provide insights for improving overall performanceHow to get started?Select technologies that help drive sustainabilityHave an ethics board involved when developing the roadmap (gartner.com)Use the Gartner "Hype Cycle for Sustainability 2023" - helps identify well-established vs leading-edge technologies for enterprise sustainability (gartner.com) Resources We Like "Where Online Returns Really End Up And What Amazon Is Doing About It" (YouTube) Tip of the Week Lofi Girl is a youtube channel that plays lo-fi hip hop beats, with a relaxing minimalistic animations. The people behind Lo-Fi Girl also released a new channel featuring a Synthwave (80's influenced mid-tempo electro music) Boy. Same type thing, but Synthwave music. (youtube.com)If you are interested in streaming technologies and/or Apache Pinot then you should check out the Real-Time Analytics podcast by Tim Berglund (rta.buzzsprout.com)Are you having runtime issues with your Docker container? Why not run it, and poke around? (curl.se)