As companies make challenging decisions on where they will allocate their tech investments, is quantum computing still part of your organization's landscape?

Eric Liebowitz, CISO for Thales, and Rob Kim, CTO for Presidio, share their perspectives on whether their organizations have shifted tech investments into other resources and needs that offer more near-term ROI, or if plans for quantum computing remain part of the strategy. Then they face off with the Questionable Ideas tabletop exercise.

When companies connect a partner or supplier to their IT ecosystem, a CIO or CISO may need to juggle permissions, security, and orchestration. The reach of outside AI can also bring concerns of third parties compromising sensitive data or offering bad actors a backdoor.

In this episode of the InformationWeek Podcast, Tony Garcia, CISO for Infineo, and Ghaleb El Masri, North American managing partner for Adaptovate, compare challenges and approaches faced when allowing third parties to be part of an IT ecosystem.

Larridin’s Ameya Kanitkar and NetSPI’s Eddie Taliaferro discuss policies to keep unsanctioned AI or mobile devices from compromising the IT environment.

Amol Ajgaonkar shares insights with Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, on what makes sense in deploying smaller AI models.

At the time of the episode recording, Ajgaonkar was CTO of product innovation at Insight Enterprises. He is no longer with the company.

Lee Rossey, CTO of SimSpace, joined Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, to talk about resources and methods to ensure continuity.

Cassandra Mack, CISO at TensorWave, and Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, discuss striking a balance to keep development secure.

Enterprises can feel pressured to at least say they keep pace with the latest IT innovations, even if there is no immediate internal gain. The board of directors, customers, and members of the C-suite might like to hear that a company is modernizing, but how does that effort translate into real returns?

What litmus tests do CTOs, CIOs and other tech leaders use to assess results from modernization plans? How do they convey to other stakeholders that the new, much-hyped tech they want might not lead to deliverable returns?

In this episode, Antoine Shagoury, CTO for Kyndryl, and Russell Levy, chief strategy and AI officer for ZoomInfo, discussed these issues. They also shared what tech leaders want the operations side of the business to communicate their needs regarding modernization and the impact they hope to see.

Levy and Shagoury also tackled the “Questionable Ideas ‘R’ Us” tabletop exercise, facing off with hobgoblins, kobolds, and gremlins with misguided ideas on how to realize ROI from modernization.

How tech leadership responds to mass outages can affect internal teams, as well as customer-facing operations.

Reliance on third-party hyperscalers can also mean C-suite tech leadership getting caught flatfooted when outages take down online resources. In late October, AWS and Microsoft Azure went dark temporarily, reminding many companies that they can be at the digital mercy of service providers.

In this week’s podcast, Sunil Peter, CISO and data privacy officer of Maveric Systems; and Pierre DeBois, CEO and founder of Zimana Analytics, discussed how they respond to such situations. They also tackled the latest “Questionable Ideas R Us” tabletop exercises.