Here’s a disconcerting new trend: IT departments admitting they’re doing a poor job. Not what you want to hear from people we rely on. Let start with a survey from anti-virus expert Kaspersky Lab, which found that 84% of North American chief information security officers believe cybersecurity breaches are inevitable. Too many attackers and too little budget, they say. Somehow this doesn’t seem the best way to motivate management to give you more money.

IoT’s future is not what it used to be: batteryless sensor maker PsiKick reports that projections for installed IoT devices fell from 1 trillion by 2015 (estimated in 2012) to 50 billion by 2020 (estimated in 2017) to a mere 25 billion by 2025 (estimated in 2018).

Bombora has launched Visitor Insights, a consent-based website tag that tracks the topics a device has consumed.   It infers intent, job function, management level, and other information that B2B publishers can use for ad targeting and personalization.  This Bombora report shows intent trends by industry: for example, media and advertising users show 70% more interest in Customer Data Platforms than they did last year.