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February 03, 2025

What You Should Be Focused on in 2025



Get Your Priorities Right 

Our personal new year's resolutions may already be distant memories, but senior IT execs are making and sticking to priority plans for 2025. In the world of security this week we outlined the top 12 priorities for every CISO this year.   

Securing the enterprise requires wide-ranging initiatives — with an eye on the bottom line. And it is that dual challenge that piqued the interest of our CSO readers, who used Smart Answers to ask how security executives should balance business performance with managing risk.  

The answer, curated by our AI chatbot using generations of human reporting, reflects the challenge. CISOs have to factor in overall company strategy as well as operational security and resiliency. And above all? Try to make things simple. Easy when you know how. 

Find out: What are the top cybersecurity priorities for CISOs in 2025? 


A Compromising Position 

Staying with security, this week we reported on a warning to FortiGate admins, who were advised to run a compromise assessment as soon as possible. This following the leak of stolen configuration data and passwords from a two-year old hack.  
Scary stuff and good advice. But it led our CISO audience to ask Smart Answers about the potential implications of this vulnerability. Smart Answers opines that the vulnerability could be exploited to gain access to sensitive data and disrupt operations in data centers.  

Make that assessment today.  

Find out: What are the potential impacts of FortiGate vulnerability on data centers?  


Cracking the Right Codes 

In brighter news, this week we reported in InfoWorld a list of 11 cutting-edge programming languages that developers should learn now. These innovative alternatives to the popular languages are gaining steam—and one of them could be the perfect fit for your next project.  

Diving in here our developer audience wanted to understand why we recommended languages with a strong focus on NLP. Smart Answers says that Natural Language Processing offers many benefits to coders, including improving applications such as machine translation and chatbots. Well, our chatbot would say that, wouldn't it? 

Find out: What are the benefits of using a programming language with a strong focus on natural language processing? 


 

About Smart Answers
Smart Answers is an AI-based chatbot tool designed to help you discover content, answer questions, and go deep on the topics that matter to you. Each week we send you the three most popular questions asked by our readers, and the answers Smart Answers provides. 

Developed in partnership with Miso.ai, Smart Answers draws only on editorial content from our network of trusted media brands—CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World—and was trained on questions that a savvy enterprise IT audience would ask. The result is a fast, efficient way for you to get more value from our content.

 
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