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Getty Images AI governance is rapidly becoming part of the CISO’s job. Splunk’s The CISO Report found that 96% of surveyed security leaders oversee AI governance and risk across the enterprise. The Cybersecurity Insiders article also reports that 26% had seriously considered leaving their roles. Those figures point to a leadership problem: responsibility for AI risk is growing faster than many organizations’ decision processes. Consider how an AI tool often enters a business.

Getty Images Technology leaders are often asked to move faster, reduce risk, control costs, and improve the experience for customers and employees. Each request makes sense on its own. The difficulty comes when all of them compete for the same budget and people. A recent CIO article describes six strategic trade-offs: investing in the IT foundation versus growth; innovation versus operational resilience; innovation versus risk management; speed versus organizational readiness

Shutterstock A cyber incident rarely arrives with a complete set of facts. The security team is investigating, operations wants systems restored, legal is assessing obligations, and customers may already be asking questions. In that moment, a detailed technical response plan helps, but the organization also needs leaders who know how to make decisions together. An ISACA article by André Porsch offers three useful steps for testing that readiness: assess the leadership team, c

Getty Images AI is now involved on both sides of the hiring process. Candidates use it to polish applications. Employers use it to sort, summarize, and rank them. Each tool may seem helpful on its own, but the combined process deserves a closer look. An HR Executive article describes AI in hiring as “a risky game of telephone.” That is a useful way to frame the concern. A candidate’s experience is translated into application language, interpreted by a screening system, and of

Getty Images Many small businesses have invested in cybersecurity. They have backup services, endpoint protection, multifactor authentication, and a provider they can call when something breaks. Those are valuable pieces of the picture. But having them in place does not automatically mean the business is prepared for a cyber incident. The 2026 Small Business Cybersecurity Awareness & Practices Survey, released by the National Cybersecurity Alliance in partnership with CISA, p

Image Source Dell AI agents are moving from answering questions to taking action. They can retrieve data, write code, update records and connect to other systems. That makes them useful, but it also changes the risk discussion. Leaders need to understand what happens when an agent takes an unexpected action, reaches beyond its intended environment or cannot be stopped as planned. Recent reporting about security incidents under investigation at leading AI companies has brought

Courtesy - University of Waterloo Undergrad Students Association We honour the survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities, and we remain committed to fostering awareness, understanding, and reconciliation. September 30th marks both the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day in Canada. This day serves as a solemn reminder of the legacy of the residential school system - a system that forcibly separated Indigenous children from th

Getty Image AI is changing the cybersecurity landscape, but insurance coverage and business risk management aren't necessarily keeping pace. For Canadian businesses, that creates an important question: are you actually covered when AI is involved in a cyber incident? Cyber Insurance Is Entering the AI Era As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday business operations, insurers are beginning to clarify how their policies respond to AI-related incidents. A recent C

Getty Image AI is now a priority in almost every technology conversation. The harder question for business leaders is how to fund, govern and support it over time. Gartner’s 2027 CIO Agenda Preview highlights four gaps that will shape technology planning. Together, they make a case for treating AI as an operating decision, not simply a series of promising experiments. The first gap is financial. CIOs expect IT budgets to increase by an average of 3.7% in 2027, while funding f

Getty Image Buying enterprise software used to be relatively straightforward. Identify a business need, compare a few vendors, negotiate licensing, and sign a contract. Maybe it wasn't quite that simple, but at least you generally knew what you were paying for. Today, that predictability is disappearing. AI add-ons, consumption-based pricing, overlapping applications, and increasingly complicated licensing agreements are making enterprise software procurement more difficult.

AI may be dominating technology conversations, but for many midsized businesses, the bigger question isn't which AI platform to adopt. It's whether the technology underneath the business is ready for what comes next. As organizations look toward 2030, infrastructure decisions being made today will determine how easily they can adopt AI, modernize applications, strengthen cybersecurity and support continued growth. The challenge is doing that without creating an environment th

For many technology leaders, becoming a CIO feels like the natural next step in a career built around infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, data, service delivery and increasingly, AI. But there’s a catch. The skills that make someone an excellent technology leader aren't necessarily the same skills that make them an effective CIO. The CIO role requires a fundamental shift in perspective. Technology is still important, of course, but it becomes the enabler rather than

For the past couple of years, most business conversations about AI have focused on productivity: writing faster, analyzing information, automating repetitive work and helping employees make better decisions. But agentic AI changes that conversation. A recent Nextgov/FCW article examining an AI incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face provides a fascinating — and somewhat uncomfortable — example of why. Investigators found that an incident first reported in July was consider

Artificial intelligence continues to advance at an extraordinary pace. But some of the more concerning warnings are now coming from people working inside the companies developing the most advanced AI systems. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon recently resigned after three years of pretraining work at OpenAI and Anthropic, warning that AI companies are racing toward increasingly powerful, self-improving systems without adequate safeguards. Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger sub

Every business faces challenges when it comes to managing technology and aligning it with growth goals. Many companies struggle to keep up with rapid changes in IT without the resources to hire a full-time Chief Information Officer (CIO). This is where fractional CIOs come in. They provide expert leadership on a part-time basis, helping businesses use technology effectively to grow and compete. This post explains how fractional CIOs can drive business growth, what they do, an

In today’s fast-changing technology landscape, many organizations struggle to keep their IT strategies aligned with business goals. Hiring a full-time IT leader can be costly and time-consuming, especially for small to mid-sized companies. Fractional leadership offers a practical alternative that brings experienced IT executives into your organization on a part-time basis. This approach can transform your IT strategy by providing expert guidance, improving decision-making, an

In today’s fast-changing technology landscape, many organizations face challenges managing their IT strategies effectively. Hiring a full-time Chief Information Officer (CIO) can be costly and sometimes unnecessary for companies that do not require constant executive-level IT leadership. This is where a fractional CIO offers a practical, flexible solution. A fractional CIO brings strategic IT expertise on a part-time basis, helping businesses align technology with their goals