Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team!  Missed the last Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Apple introduces quantum-secure cryptography in iMessage Apple has introduced PQ3, a post-quantum cryptographic protocol, in its messaging system, iMessage. PQ3 is said to be the first messaging protocol to reach what Apple refers to as Level 3 security, providing protocol protections that surpass those in all widely deployed messaging apps, and that seeks to p ..read more

Chief information and security officers both have feelings of anxiety and see opportunity as the new year starts. That’s the summation of the analysis done by IANS Research and Artico Search in their State of the CISO 2023-2024 report. It’s an 18-page summary of interviews conducted last fall with 100 American and Canada CISOs, plus data collected from 663 CISOs in the middle of last year on compensation, budget dynamics, board engagement and job satisfaction. It notes pressures on CISOs include the facts that many companies are pulling back cybersecurity spending because of the economy, cyber ..read more

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team!  Missed the last Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. NuEnergy to design Communitech’s generative AI policy   Ottawa-based AI governance firm, NuEnergy.ai has announced that it will partner with tech hub Communitech to design its generative AI policy. The policy, delivered through a collaborative workshop and supported by NuEnergy’s Machine Trust Platform (MTP), will serve as an AI governance model for tech c ..read more

As 2023 comes to an end, it’s only natural to think about the year ahead. Forrester has just unveiled its 2024 predictions for enterprise software, software development and technology infrastructure; here is a breakdown of what the company believes will transpire: Enterprise Software  Forrester defines enterprise software as “the set of packaged applications that are often used by a given functional area of expertise or vertical industry”. In 2024, the company’s main prediction is that enterprise software vendors will advance innovation needs while also accelerating how organizations cons ..read more

Buoyed with confidence now that he is back with the company he co-founded, Sam Altman this week told OpenAI employees in an internal blog that he has “never been more excited about the future (and) I am extremely grateful for everyone’s hard work in an unclear and unprecedented situation.” Altman officially returned as CEO on Wednesday, after having been fired by the former board of directors last month in a stunning turn of events that saw him quickly resurface at Microsoft to launch a new AI research team, and just as quickly come back to the company that created ChatGPT. There will, of cour ..read more

Despite the money being poured into cybersecurity by IT departments, the leading cause of breaches of security controls was the failure of technology to detect an attack, a new survey from Trellix suggests. Forty-two per cent of respondents to the international survey of infosec leaders whose organization had suffered a recent cyber attack said their technology didn’t detect the breach. Other top causes (multiple responses were allowed) included a breach due to an attack on the organization’s supply chain (40 per cent); a missed vulnerability (40 per cent); an analyst missing an alert (38 per ..read more

Catherine Luelo, Canada’s chief information officer, has announced her resignation, two years after taking up the job to modernize the technology systems of the federal government. Shortly after the news broke, Luelo appeared by videoconference as a previously scheduled witness before the House of Commons Ethics Committee’s hearings into the use of social media by foreign entities for unethical or illicit sharing of personal information. She was called on because of her recommendation in February to forbid federal employees from using China-based TikTok on federally-issued internet-connected d ..read more

Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be returning to his position with the company, OpenAI said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Late Tuesday evening, it announced, “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details.Thank you so much for your patience through this.” The move follows five days of musical chairs and corporate chaos in which OpenAI announced two interim CEOs, and more than 95 per cent of employees signed a letter demand ..read more

Two-thirds of global executives report cloud has returned positive Return on Investment (ROI) over the last two years, new research from MIT Technology Review finds.  The report by MIT Technology Review Insights, in partnership with Infosys Cobalt, examines how cloud capabilities play a vital role in accelerating the global economy’s next stage of digital transformation, including in sustainability, AI, and cybersecurity.  The 2023 Global Cloud Ecosystem report examines secondary research and analysis from global experts on the cloud economy along with primary research from a global ..read more

In yet another huge twist in the OpenAI leadership saga, ousted chief executive officer Sam Altman, who had reportedly been negotiating to return to the company, has been snapped up, along with his OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, to head an advanced AI research unit at Microsoft. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made the announcement on X (formerly Twitter) late Sunday night. We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers ..read more