Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence Top CIOs' Minds: Survey

Cybersecurity continues to threaten the global landscape in 2018 and 95 percent of CIOs surveyed said they expect cyber threats to increase and impact their organisations, said the survey, presented during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Ontario. For the majority of CIOs, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly change how they do their jobs in the near future, a new survey said on Tuesday. Cybersecurity continues to threaten the global landscape in 2018 and 95 percent of CIOs surveyed said they expect cyber threats to increase and impact their organisations, said the survey, presented during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Ontario. "In response to these concerns, the survey found that digital security ranks high on the CIO agenda as 35 percent of respondents said they have already invested and deployed some aspect of digital security, and 36 percent are in the process of planning to implement some form of digital security," said Andy Rowsell-Jones, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. "CIOs are also increasingly adopting AI in their organisations. Predominantly, AI is being used initially, either to boost the customer experience or to fight fraud," he added.