SC Media, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Securing What Runs: The New CISO Priority
Modern security teams face a growing mandate: stop attacks before they spread, not just after they're discovered. more →
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Thursday’s Briefing · August 14
CIODIVE, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Hidden Cost Of 'Good Enough': Why CIOs Must Rethink Data Risk In The AI Era
In today's cost-conscious climate, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are being asked to achieve the impossible: deliver more innovation with fewer resources. more →
RCRWireless News, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
The Top 10 RFP Response Software
As B2B organizations grow, the RFP response process can become too time-consuming for manual workflows. Top tools, such as Loopio and Responsive, can automate the process. more →
The Hacker News, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Wild West Of Shadow IT
Everyone's an IT decision-maker now. The employees in your organization can install a plugin with just one click, and they don't need to clear it with your team first. It's great for productivity, but it's a serious problem for your security posture. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Virtual CISO offerings triple among MSPs, MSSPs as demand rises
Virtual chief information security officer (vCISO) services have seen a 319% increase in adoption among managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs), with 67% of providers now offering these services, according to a recent Cynomi survey. more →
CIO, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
What CIOs Need To Know About Measuring AI Value
Even though many companies report positive ROI from gen AI, IT leaders don't always know how to actually measure it, and the vast majority of AI projects fail. So what's the real story, and what metrics are important to gauge AI success? more →
Platform-Engineering, Friday, August 8th, 2025
What, Exactly, Is Platform Engineering? Do We Even Know? Maybe It Doesn't Matter
So you want to be a platform engineer? Maybe you are one already! And just haven't realized it. Platform engineering is at the center of many application development conversations today, but what, exactly, are we talking about? Is platform engineering just a job title? Is it a technology? A management technique? Merely yet another trending industry vibe? more →
Platform-Engineering, Monday, August 4th, 2025
What's In It For Platform Engineering At Black Hat
I'm heading to Vegas this week for my annual pilgrimage to 'summer camp for hackers.' With Black Hat, DEF CON, BSides and other cyber‑world events all happening this week, the security community converges on Las Vegas. more →
techradar, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Redefining Secops: The Intelligent Future Of SIEM
Security operations are under pressure from all sides. Threats are faster, attack surfaces are expanding, and demands on people and tools continue to grow. more →
CSO Online, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Summer: Why Cybersecurity Must Be Strengthened As Vacations Abound
Cyberattackers are well aware of what's happening at this time of year, which is why they take advantage of seasonal circumstances to launch more aggressive campaigns. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Tech Leader: IAM Success Requires Empathy, Not Just Code
Identity and access management is more about people than technology, according to Gerry Gebel, Strata Identity's Head of Standards, reports Forbes. more →
HelpNet Security, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Surprising Truth About Identity Security Confidence
Organizations most confident in their identity security are often the least prepared, according to a new report from BeyondID. The study reveals a troubling gap between what organizations believe about their identity security programs and how they actually behave. Surprisingly, those expressing the highest confidence are adopting fewer best practices than their more cautious peers. more →
ITProToday, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Why Experts Are Rethinking Token Security and API Keys
Exposed API keys are enabling sophisticated cyber-attacks, with organizations struggling to implement effective key management while infostealers quietly exfiltrate credentials to the dark web. more →
Data & AI Leaders Summit (Sept. 21-23)
This three-day summit is designed for enterprise technology and business leaders responsible for turning AI potential into operational reality. It brings together leaders and practitioners to build modern data foundations, operationalize AI, and govern it for trust. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, August 4th, 2025
How Quantum Computing Is Revolutionizing Data Centers' Future?
A Quantum Leap in Processing Power Is Poised to Reshape the Architecture of Modern Data Centers more →
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
IBM Predicts the Dawn of Quantum Advantage
In the very new world of quantum computing, which vendor or standards body gets to officially proclaim that the technology has first reached 'quantum advantage'? more →
StorageReview, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
PCI-SIG Unveils PCIe 8.0: 256 GT/s Bandwidth Coming by 2028
The PCI-SIG has officially announced the forthcoming PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification, which is set to double the data rate of the current PCIe 7.0 standard, reaching an impressive 256.0 GT/s. more →
AI-augmented code modernization: from framework migrations to autonomous agents
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
Search Security, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
An Explanation Of Quantum Cryptography
In this video, Informa TechTarget product marketing associate Katie Donegan explains what quantum cryptography is, how it differs from classical cryptography and how it works. more →
How to Leverage Threat Intelligence Without Drowning: The Zero Noise Approach
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
Techstrong.IT, Friday, August 8th, 2025
As States Compete For Data Centers, Battles Grow Fierce
Vermaland, an Arizona land developer, has landed a massive data center deal: it's scheduled to build a $33 billion data center complex in Pinal County, Arizona. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Data Center Security
In an era where data is the lifeblood of every enterprise, safeguarding the core of your digital operations-the data center-is absolutely non-negotiable. more →
RTInsights, Monday, August 4th, 2025
State Of Data Center Report Highlights Security, Control
Growing costs and increased cybersecurity complexity are driving some companies to repatriate workloads from the cloud to the data center. more →
ITProToday, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Resilience Paradox: Why 90% of IT Teams Overestimate Their Operational Readiness
A new SolarWinds study reveals 90% of IT teams think they're resilient, yet fewer than half can handle basic challenges like BYOD and AI integration. more →
Techiexpert, Saturday, August 9th, 2025
Top 7 IoT Trends To Watch In 2025: What's Hot?
We are in the mid of July 2025 and the world of connected devices is evolving rapidly. Businesses, developers and consumers are keenly observing the IoT trends 2025. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
AI In Cloud Computing: How AI Is Revolutionizing The Landscape
Cloud AI refers to artificial intelligence services and resources hosted on public cloud platforms. These capabilities are used to automate processes, optimize resource allocation, and support a wide range of intelligent functions. more →
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
CVE-2025-32094: HTTP Request Smuggling Via OPTIONS + Obsolete Line Folding
In March 2025, Akamai received a bug bounty report identifying an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability. We quickly resolved the issue for all customers via a platform-wide fix with no evidence of any successful exploitation of the attack vector known to us. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Why The Right Tool - And The Right Team - Are Essential For DNS Security
In today's fast-moving digital world, visibility isn't just nice to have - it's a necessity. But visibility without action? That's just noise. more →
Why Your Observability Vendor Can't Solve Your P1s: Breaking the Ingestion Tax and Agent Silos
Join Techstrong and NeuBird AI to learn why the future of production-ops AI isn't another data store, but a virtualized context layer. Discover how querying live tools in place delivers accurate root cause analysis in minutes without data movement or security risks. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
CCNP Automation: A Renamed Certification, Reimagined
We learn from an early age that change is the only constant in life. Sometimes we view change as something to be worried about, something we must shift and adjust for, and that the unknown could bring us.well, anything. more →
Cisco, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Cisco's Foundation AI Advances AI Supply Chain Security With Hugging Face
Today, Hugging Face adds a new model on average every 7 seconds, and the platform now hosts nearly 1.9 million models available to developers worldwide. more →
Cisco, Friday, August 8th, 2025
Context Length: An AI 'Nerd Knob' Every Network Engineer Should Know
Alright, my friends, I'm back with another post based on my learnings and exploration of AI and how it'll fit into our work as network engineers. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct: An Out-Of-The-Box Security Copilot
When we released Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-base-8B (Foundation-sec-8B) in April, we proved that an eight-billion-parameter model-trained exclusively on security data-can outperform general-purpose LLMs many times its size on cybersecurity benchmarks. more →
Cisco, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Improving Cloud-VPN Resiliency To DoS Attacks With IKE Throttling
Cloud-based VPN solutions commonly expose IKEv2 (Internet Key Exchange v2) endpoints to the public Internet to support scalable, on-demand tunnel establishment for customers. more →
Building a Secure AI Strategy for the Enterprise
This virtual event explores the implications of this new world order of AI agents joining the business, including AI discovery, governance, identity, and how to put in place the proper guardrails. more →
ESET, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
When Access Becomes A Risk: Cyber Threats Facing Professional Services
Professional services ensure success for their clients, but what about their own livelihoods? Their access is their bane, as threat actors seek to leverage them as springboards to others more →
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
DARKReasing, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Google Chrome Enterprise: More Than An Access Point To The Web
In a conversation with Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney, Lauren Miskelly from Google explains that Chrome Enterprise is the same Chrome browser that consumers use, but with additional enterprise-grade controls, reporting capabilities, and administrative features more →
Google, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
New Gemini App Tools To Help Students Learn, Understand And Study Even Better
Level up your learning with new tools in the Gemini app. more →
Google, Monday, August 4th, 2025
What To Know About Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
Google has released its new large reasoning model, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which extends its 'thinking time' by scaling its inference compute, which allows it to tackle difficult problems through parallel branches. more →
Webinar: 6 Use Cases You Didn't Think Possible on the Data Lake
Your lakehouse already holds the data. Iceberg and Delta solved openness, durability, and cost. So why does every workload with a real performance SLA still live somewhere else? more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Social Engineering Attacks Surged In The First Half Of 2025
Cybersecurity incidents nearly tripled in the first half of 2025, jumping from 6% in the second half of 2024 to 17% in 2025, according to a new report from LevelBlue. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Warning: New Phishing Campaign Targets Instagram Users
A phishing campaign is targeting Instagram users with phony notifications about failed login attempts, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. Notably, the emails contain "mailto" links rather than traditional URLs, which help the phishing messages avoid being flagged by security filters. more →
Oracle, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Oracle High-Availability Exadata Service Targets AI And Location-Sensitive Use Cases
Oracle Corp. announced that the Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure offering it announced early this year is now generally available. more →
ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't. more →
Tierpoint, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Top 8 Managed M365 Benefits For Your Business
As cloud transformation becomes a key priority for businesses, the adoption of cloud-based productivity suites has surged. In particular, Microsoft 365 (M365), formerly known as Office 365, has proven to be a vital part of business processes, with commercial revenue growing 16% in fiscal year 2024. more →
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
