CIO.com reported that “Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases.”  The September 12, 2024 article  entitled “Salesforce unveils Agentforce to help create autonomous AI bots” (https://www.cio.com/article/3518646/salesforce-unveils-agentforce-to-help-create-autonomous-ai-bots.html) included these comments:

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CIO.com reported “The added risks of shadow generative AI are specific and tangible and can threaten organizations’ integrity and security. Unmonitored AI tools can lead to decisions or actions that undermine regulatory and corporate compliance measures, particularly in sectors where data handling and processing are tightly regulated, such as finance

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SCMagazine.com reported that “Hackers are using cloud service attacks as a way to go after big-money targets in the insurance and financial industries.” The September 11, 2024 article entitled “Hackers use cloud services to target financial and insurance firms” (https://tinyurl.com/ysr2z33d) included these comments:

The most common targets in

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Computerworld.com reported that “While AI will reduce or eliminate altogether the need for human input in some areas, it will also enhance productivity, requiring professionals to reskill and adapt to more strategic and creative roles,…”  The September 9, 2024 article entitled “Will genAI kill the help desk and other IT

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SCMagazine.com reported that “A patched vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot could expose sensitive data by running a novel AI-enabled technique known as “ASCII Smuggling” that uses special Unicode characters that mirror ASCII text, but are actually not visible to the user interface.”  The August 28, 2024 article entitled “ASCII Smuggling’

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SCMagazine.com reported that “The widespread use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large-language models (LLMs) means that many enterprises will soon have to undertake a transformative reconfiguration of their network architectures.”  The August 23, 2024 entitled “AI network deployments: Understanding the performance challenges” (https://tinyurl.com/ytaehycj) included these comments:

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Computerworld.com reported that “…various businesses trying to contractually remove their liability by asking the AI vendor to indemnify them against costs or legal issues arising from their use of genAI tools. It often doesn’t help nearly as much as the enterprise executives hope it will.” The August 13, 2024 article

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SCMagazine.com reported “Security faced significant challenges in the past year. On the threat side, exploits and numerous zero-day attacks sent security teams scrambling. On the regulation side, the U.S. SEC instituted stringent incident reporting requirements, while in the EU, government bodies proposed new frameworks like the Artificial Intelligence Act in

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The WashingtonPost.com reported “Google pulled a video advertisement it had been running prominently on Olympics coverage that showed a father using artificial intelligence to help his daughter write a letter to her sports hero, the latest example of the tech giant receiving backlash for its AI products.
“The August 2

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GovInfoSecurity.com reported that “The U.S. Department of Defense still hasn’t addressed a series of critical cybersecurity gaps in its information technology business programs – two years after a government watchdog agency first urged the department to develop security strategies for each program.” The July 15, 2024 article entitled ” DOD

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