Eoin Higgins

Reporter, IT Brew

Eoin Higgins is a reporter with IT Brew. His work focuses on cybersecurity, IT jobs, and government tech. Eoin’s work has appeared in outlets around the country and around the world, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Intercept, the Nation, MSNBC, and many others. His first book, on tech billionaires and the media, is available now. He lives in New England with his family.

Fireside chat with Ezra Feilden, CTO of Starcloud
Cloud

Space data centers? They could be closer than you think

“It’s getting easier to deploy things in space and it’s getting harder to deploy things on the ground,” CTO says.

Eoin Higgins
Caterpillar machines
Cloud

Industrial AI gets a test at Caterpillar

“We’ve got 1.6 million connected assets; we have over 16 petabytes of data in a very high-quality, highly structured way,” Caterpillar CTO says.

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IT Strategy

State of the industry: What we heard about AI at Ai4

“We’re starting to see what these tools are really capable of,” engineer says.

Eoin Higgins
A portrait of Anthony Moisant, chief information and security officer at Indeed
IT Strategy

From unhoused to the C-suite: Anthony Moisant’s journey to Indeed

“When you’re underprivileged, when you’re a dropout, and you don’t have those green lights, you’ve got to work really, really hard,” Moisant says.

Eoin Higgins
young accountant fading
Cloud

AI observability needs humans in the loop in order to excel

“What they want is a natural language interface into all the different systems, and that’s what I would be demanding from any vendor that brought products into my door,” AI product VP says.

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The silhouette of an AI robot servicing an IT server rack
IT Strategy

AI-native staffers are highly sought after—and at a premium

“There’s a training desert out there—a lot of employers do have some programs, but definitely not a majority of them,” Indeed exec says.

Eoin Higgins
A laptop with padlocks and keys floating above the keyboard, surrounded by rows of binary-style code
Cybersecurity

Surviving modern ransomware

Ransomware attackers now have AI on their side. Get the playbooks IT teams use to detect, contain, and recover—plus a hands-on breach simulator.

Brianna Monsanto, Eoin Higgins, Caroline Nihill, Billy Hurley
Headshot of John Bates, a light-skinned man with short brown hair wearing a dark blazer and t-shirt smiling at the camera.
CIO Leadership

John Bates on what he’s learned about communication and AI

“When I spoke to the board, they said, ‘Well, you’d better become the CEO then,’” Bates says.

Eoin Higgins
digital billboards screens are shown at a corner of Times Square as the sun sets, with taxis crossing the street in front of the screens
IT Strategy

Shifting sands and making waves: July in the tech C-suite

Who’s in, who’s out, who’s at the beach.

Eoin Higgins
Hands typing at a computer keyboard with a glass monitor reading AI.
Software

Tech stack changing as prompt requests shorten

Enterprises are “liking those responses more,” CEO says.

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