Your Year-End IT Planning Checklist: What to Review Before 2027
Year-end planning at most companies means budgets, performance reviews, and a scramble to use up whatever’s left in the training line item.
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Year-end planning at most companies means budgets, performance reviews, and a scramble to use up whatever’s left in the training line item.
Generative AI-related lawsuits in the U.S. grew 978% between 2021 and 2025, and filing growth accelerated to 137% in the most recent year alone.
Mid-market companies typically run well over a hundred SaaS applications, and that number is climbing again after a couple of years of deliberate consolidation.
Manufacturing was the most-attacked industry globally in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year, accounting for more than a quarter of all incidents IBM’s X-Force team responded to.
Employees are adopting AI tools on their own—often creating “shadow AI”—without realizing they’re creating a security or compliance gap by doing so.
Cloud platforms guarantee uptime and infrastructure resilience, not data backup. Those are two different promises, and the second one is usually yours to keep.
A large share of Fortune 500 companies have licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot, but actual daily usage among employees with access remains well under half in most studies.
The biggest proposed overhaul of the HIPAA Security Rule in two decades has stalled, and it may not arrive on
Microsoft ended support for Windows 10. Those PCs no longer receive security updates through normal channels, which makes them a growing target.
Prevention matters, and insurers, auditors, and business partners still require it. What’s changed is that resilience has become the outcome the business gets judged on.