Shell is appointing former CISO Robbert Van Rutten as its new group CIO, effective July 1, 2023 The appointment comes after veteran CIO Jay Crotts announced that he was stepping down after a 37-year career at the energy supermajor, which has involved responsibility for the IT Function globally since 2015.
There’s nothing humans love more than the egregiously misleading, said with imperturbable confidence. We know what we want – irrational certainty – and perhaps we deserve to get it good and hard, to misuse essayist H.L. Mencken. Artificial Intelligence, in the form of large language models (LLMs), is delivering this
HM Treasury is advertising for a Head of Cyber Security, with a salary band of £50,550 - £57,500. The salary has triggered a fresh outcry among security professionals about the widening gap between the public and private sectors – where triple that salary would not be a challenge in
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Gil Shwed is an anachronism: A startup founder who has stayed CEO for three decades, carefully growing his brainchild from nothing into a $2 billion-by-annual-revenue powerhouse, whilst reporting a profit every single quarter along the way. (“Every quarter?” The Stack asks. “Every month,” Check Point’s CEO says softly.) Check