Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 91 | Page 51

FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT

The Digital Horizon – Tracking security trends

Bashar Bashaireh, VP Middle East, Türkiye and North Africa at Cloudflare, discusses new challenges amid a changing cybersecurity landscape.

The digital landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by several converging factors: the swift advancements in AI, growing infrastructure needs, the escalating challenges of cybersecurity, the shifting regulatory landscape, and fundamental changes in how we connect and collaborate.

AI-powered coding assistants are streamlining software development, Generative AI tools are enhancing content creation, and advanced AI models are assisting healthcare providers with early disease detection. These real-time breakthroughs are revolutionising industries, making AI an invisible but indispensable part of our daily lives.
Together, these elements are shaping the future of the Internet, creating a complex, interconnected ecosystem where each trend influences and amplifies the others. As a result, we must rethink our approaches to infrastructure, security and the role of technology in our lives.
However, with such advancements come significant responsibilities. Concerns around algorithmic bias, data privacy and intellectual property have moved from hypothetical to urgent. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into everyday life,
The AI Revolution: The future is now( but unevenly distributed)
AI, once merely a buzzword, is now at the core of many technological advancements. A recent McKinsey survey on AI reveals that 65 % of organisations use Generative AI regularly, and 72 % have integrated AI into at least one business function. AI’ s impact is becoming as transformative as the advent of electricity in the early 20th century, which reshaped entire industries and economies. Similarly, AI is now embedded in various workflows, enhancing productivity and fostering new forms of creativity.
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