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Gartner is projecting IT spending to surpass $5 trillion in 2024, growing 8% year over year. That's a lot of zeros, but there's also a lot of players. Forrester sheds light on what's influencing tech investments and key factors in enterprise buying decisions. #EnterpriseTechnology #TechInvestments

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pàrt 2 CAN YOUR COMPANY REMAIN GLOBAL, AND IF SO, HOW? There is another emerging aspect of geopolitical resilience that increasingly arises in various conversations with business leaders—one that we refer to as “structural segmentation.” Structural segmentation describes a cluster of moves that global corporations are considering to mitigate geopolitical exposure, to enable locally informed decision making, and to clear a pathway to safe, stable growth. In what follows, we define structural segmentation, identify questions for global companies to consider as they calibrate their operating models, and outline specific examples of how firms are implementing a segmentation approach. The findings are based on our and our colleagues’ conversations with business leaders across the world, as well as on analysis of more than 100 global organizations’ strategic moves. Structural segmentation describes a cluster of moves that global corporations are considering to mitigate geopolitical exposure, to enable locally informed decision making, and to clear a pathway to safe, stable growth. Structural segmentation for geopolitical resilience During the past 25 years, geographic boundaries have faded for companies. Many built complex supply chains that shipped components and products across the world, often crisscrossing it multiple times. Wisely, they established global R&D hubs, forged enterprise-wide technology stacks, democratized access to data, consolidated legal entities, and fostered one-firm cultures. The premise of a fully globalized world, which underpinned these moves, is now in question, and companies should respond. Legal, regulatory, economic, political, and social contexts are shifting. Companies are increasingly seeking an integrated approach to taking coordinated action across six domains: operations (that includes production and supply chains), R&D, technology and data, legal entity structure, capital, and people. Across each of these domains, we find that organizations typically contemplate either (re)committing to globality or structurally segmenting activities across geopolitically distant markets. Structural segmentation can take several forms across a continuum. Full structural segmentation involves localizing parallel activities in multiple locations across the world. Factories, for example, may produce only for the regions in which they are located (often in a region or regions that have higher “geopolitical distance”4 from the company’s home market). As an alternative, some companies are relocating toward home or geopolitically aligned countries, at least in select domains. In general, this involves preserving global connections—for example, housing most technologies in a home country, while creating a minimal viable footprint in geopolitically distant countries. In its most extreme form, however, this might include a major move, such as housing all R&D in the home market

Read Gartner's 2024 Market Guide for Network Detection and Response and didn't have to go too far before finding some interesting points. According to this report: ▪ Most organizations value the response capabilities during their NDR provider evaluations, but only deploy very narrowly automated responses past the pilot phase. ▪The other part is the frequent mention of "Fine Tuning False Positives" and the realistic expectation setting that they will occur when using behavioral analytics early on. Why do I think these are two key take aways? I believe this does a great job of creating the importance of not just getting the "best technology" but emphasizing the need of all three pillars, People, Process, Technology (PPT) working together. Good NDRs can be a game changer for an organization but will only be as good as the people and process's you AND the vendor have in place to ensure the full use of the tool. Want to read the full report? Check out the link below: https://lnkd.in/eBtnT_5C

Opportunity Watch from Arrow ECS Ireland provides Partners with critical, timely data & thought leadership to stay ahead on all things #ArtificialIntelligence #Cybersecurity #Cloud #DataCentre in todays landscape. #CloudPlatforms are accelerating, Professional & #ManagedServices are in demand more than ever. Globally IT Spending is strong. But worryingly 73% of SMBs experienced a #cyberattack, #databreach or both within the past 12 months, up from 43% in 2022, Security trends we see: • Attackers & defenders using AI to scale operations • Cybercrime linked to organizations & nation states seeking to achieve geopolitical goals • Exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities, edge devices and virtualization software • Cyberthieves using cloud services to scale attacks via vulnerabilities • Use of older techniques not accounted for in modern detection systems • Malware authors developing software in more programming languages Comprehensive, proactive security is needed on all fronts, as are resiliency and rapid recovery. Happy to discuss how Check Point Software - UK and Ireland, RSA Security and Tenable, all offer your end users solutions that have never been more relevant than in todays Threat Landscape for Business's of all sizes.

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#HCTrends 2024 is here! Explore 8 emerging trends that can help your organization unlock human performance and drive better outcomes. https://lnkd.in/diNdmVxN

#HCTrends 2024 is here! Explore 8 emerging trends that can help your organization unlock human performance and drive better outcomes.  https://lnkd.in/gP2UnNPZ