IT Brew – December 20, 2023

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IT Brew’s article by Billy Hurley provides insight into what IT topic will be the most discussed in boardrooms in 2024.  

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VikingCloud global security architect, Fayyaz Makhani, provides the key topic for Hurley’s article: AI. Makhani explains, “Understanding and directing what parts of the business will be most impacted with AI in terms of both efficiency or capability: That will be something I think that would be on top of the board’s mind.”

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VikingCloud cyber evangelist and product expert, Jon Marler, is also quoted in the article, highlighting the potential risk of AI on personal data and proprietary information ownership: “People start using these AI technologies, and they look at companies like OpenAI and their ChatGPT; they have a cloud service for that. But once you dig into the terms of service, you start to find out, “Oh, if I’m feeding them a whole bunch of data, they now own that data. And I don’t own that data anymore.” Marler continues, “Very few people are thinking about: What happens when I put critical information about my business into a platform that’s making decisions, and then who owns that at the end of the day?

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For more detail from industry experts like VikingCloud’s Fayyaz Makhani and Jon Marler on boardroom discussions on AI in 2024, read the full article at itbrew.com.