Bob Keaveney

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Managing Editor at BizTech

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American Banker Digital Banking Conference: Put Customers First in Data-Based Decisions

3 weeks ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

Jun 05 2025 Data Analytics New technology is helping financial institutions leverage the vast quantities of data at their disposal, but how much is too much? Banks and credit unions sit atop vast troves of data on their customers’ financial lives. On one level, that creates an unrivaled opportunity for institutions to build personalized experiences and marketing appeals aimed directly at individual consumers. But what’s the most effective way of doing that?
American Banker Digital Banking Conference: How Fifth Third Bank Stays Cybersecure

3 weeks ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

Ensuring Good Cloud Security in Financial ServicesMinick described three additional challenges:Cloud security. Protecting financial networks isn’t harder in the cloud, just different. In fact, Minick said, “some things are easier on cloud. For example, encrypting data: On cloud, you just have to click a button, and my job is to make sure the button is clicked.” Data encryption in a bank’s own data center is a lot more complicated.
American Banker Digital Banking Conference: How Will AI Affect Customer Service? | BizTech Magazine

3 weeks ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

Financial institutions are scrambling to build AI-powered experiences, but so far, the results have been mixed.
RSAC 2025: How Can Organizations Strengthen Their Identity Security Posture?

1 month ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

May 23 2025 Security Stolen and misused credentials are threat actors’ top attack strategy. Rohit Ghai, CEO of the security company RSA, explains what businesses can do about it. Cybercriminals have more sophisticated tools than ever to deploy as they seek to compromise networks, but they continue to rely primarily on the tried-and-true method of impersonating authorized users. The reason: It works.
RSAC 2025: Key Takeaways From the Year’s Biggest Cybersecurity Event

1 month ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

May 02 2025 Security Organizations are focused on the role of artificial intelligence in security and vice versa. The 34th annual RSAC security conference has come to an end, but IT security professionals will spend the rest of the year striving to build on what they learned at the event to protect their networks with better defense systems and smarter security policies.
RSAC 2025: Cisco Announces New Open-Source AI Security Model

1 month ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

Apr 29 2025 Security As the cybersecurity community kicked off its biggest event of the year, Cisco said it wanted to make its new tool available for everyone. Cisco announced a new open-source AI model built for security as nearly 45,000 cyberdefense professionals, government officials, analysts and others gathered to kick off the RSAC 25 conference in San Francisco on April 28.
RSAC 2025: How to Reduce Burnout Among Cybersecurity Employees

2 months ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

Apr 28 2025 Security The profession is understaffed, overworked and prone to high turnover. Here are some ideas to keep your team engaged. For virtually its entire existence, the cybersecurity profession has confronted two big challenges: a critical shortage of well-trained professionals, and significant burnout among those working in the field. Each problem reinforces the other.
Google Cloud Next 25: How One Retailer Navigated Its Migration With Expert Help

2 months ago | cdw.com | Bob Keaveney

At first glance, a cloud migration might not seem like a big lift for a company such as Jim’s Formal Wear. Unlike big chain stores, it mostly works behind the scenes through independently owned retail stores to rent and sell tuxedoes and other men’s formal wear. Even so, when CIO Jeff Thurston began the process of migration his hodgepodge of on-premises technology to the Google Cloud Platform, he knew he didn’t want to go it alone — and in the end he’s glad he didn’t.
Google Cloud Next 25: Lessons Learned From Platform Engineering Successes

2 months ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

Apr 10 2025 Software You need to build fast, but you don’t get to break things. How can the right software development platform help? “Build fast and break things.” That used to be the creed of the software developer, famously coined by Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, where for many years it was a kind of internal company motto.
Google Cloud Next 25: What To Expect at This Year’s Event

2 months ago | biztechmagazine.com | Bob Keaveney

Apr 08 2025 Artificial Intelligence The newest artificial intelligence–based work assistant, agentic AI and cloud security will be hot topics in Las Vegas. One of the most important technology events of the year will get underway this week, and artificial intelligence — as you might expect at a major tech show — will be the star.