Amber Donovan-Stevens

Content Editor / Top Business Tech

Amber is a Content Editor at Top Business Tech

Posts by adonovan-stevens:

What’s the state of gender diversity in the tech industry?

Catherine Wong, Chief Product Officer, EVP Engineering at Domo, measures the temperature of the gender diversity landscape in the technology industry. She looks at the levels of gender diversity at different levels within companies, the remaining barriers to entry for women in senior tech positions, and what current leaders can do to attract and keep more women in senior data and technology roles.

5 questions businesses should ask in the wake of Biden’s cybersecurity bill

Steven Freidkin, CEO of Ntiva, breaks down Biden’s new cybersecurity bill and explains what this means for businesses. He advises on how an organisation can review your vendors’ risk assessments, check for potential security gaps in your supply chain, and review your vendors’ monitoring and compliance while ensuring contract terms are in place to facilitate sharing threat information.

The Practical ROI of a quick Active Directory recovery

Instead, Sean Deuby, Director of Services, Semperis, looks at a few practical ways to see a return on your investment in ensuring a proper AD recovery, allowing you to do your own calculations and come to your own conclusions. Of course, losing one domain controller is a problem in itself, but let’s look at another increasingly common scenario that has catastrophic consequences: a ransomware attack that takes out every domain controller across all company sites. In that situation, recovering AD can be a white-knuckle, under-the-gun challenge. 

Can AI be relied upon to run mission-critical systems and make judgement calls?

Concerns are on the rise about reliability in AI predictions. Human intuition still beats AI hands down in making judgment calls in a crisis. People – especially those working in their areas of expertise – are simply more trustworthy. Studies have shown that professionals such as air traffic controllers or nuclear power plant operators are highly reliable even in high-risk situations as, unlike AI systems, they can detect, contain and recover from errors, and practice improvisational problem-solving. While current AI systems are great at situational awareness, they are less good at anomaly detection, and improvising solutions. Can AI mature? asks Fred Werner, Head of Strategic Engagement, ITU Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau.

5 cloud computing trends you need to consider

The use of the cloud is ubiquitous in business today. From the Internet becoming the corporate network to the IT supply chain being rewritten, Adrian Davey, IT strategy consultant at Agilisys outlines the five cloud computing trends every business needs to consider as we move beyond the cloud.