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Monday’s Briefing · May 12

Security Boulevard, Friday, May 9th, 2025

MCP: A Comprehensive Guide to Extending AI Capabilities

Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a significant advancement in how artificial intelligence systems interact with external services and tools. At its core, MCP is an open standard protocol that facilitates communication between AI applications (known as "MCP Clients") and various services (known as "MCP Servers") that provide specialized capabilities. more →

MCP: A Comprehensive Guide to Extending AI Capabilities

Techstrong.ai, Friday, May 9th, 2025

Advancing Social Media Comment Intelligence

Respondology, the pioneering leader in social media comment moderation and intelligence and creator of the industry's first Comment Activation Platform, announced the successful closure of its $5 million Series A-1 funding round. more →

Advancing Social Media Comment Intelligence

Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

AI Deepfakes

In this Techstrong AI interview, AU10TIX chief business development officer Ofer Friedman speaks with Mike Vizard about the alarming rise of deepfake technology infiltrating the job market and corporate environments. more →

AI Deepfakes

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Thursday, May 8th, 2025

DPIT: IT Budget Hell by Cindy Novak - DeLaurell #357

With over 30 years of experience, Cindy Novak - DeLaurell brings a refreshing perspective on transitioning into technology leadership. A licensed pilot who drives Sherman tanks and manages multi-million dollar IT budgets, she demonstrates how diverse experiences shape effective leadership. more →

DPIT:  IT Budget Hell by Cindy Novak - DeLaurell #357

ComputerWorld, Monday, May 5th, 2025

How Insider Threats Are Evolving In 2025

Insider threats are no longer just about disgruntled employees. In 2025, threat actors are recruiting from within - sometimes using underground "job boards" to find insiders willing to sell credentials, plant malware, or steal data. more →

How Insider Threats Are Evolving In 2025

cxotalk, Friday, May 9th, 2025

Inside The AI Arms Race: LLMs, Economics, And Strategy

In CXOTalk episode 880, host Michael Krigsman is joined by Nate B. Jones, AI product leader and expert in large language models (LLMs), to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of AI technology. With enterprises facing increasing pressure to adopt and scale AI solutions, Nate breaks down the strategic decisions executives must make to stay competitive in the "AI arms race." more →

Inside The AI Arms Race: LLMs, Economics, And Strategy

Analytics Insight, Monday, May 5th, 2025

SWIFT: The Invisible Backbone of Global Banking

SWIFT processes over 42 million financial messages daily, connecting 11,000+ institutions across 200+ countries and territories. Established in 1973, this network handles 50% of all high-value cross-border payments, with transaction values exceeding $5 trillion daily. more →

SWIFT: The Invisible Backbone of Global Banking

Security Boulevard, Monday, May 5th, 2025

Data Anonymization Techniques Defined: Transforming Real Data Into Realistic Test Data

The pressing question in many cybersecurity professionals' minds is: Will the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their secrets translate into a robust security strategy for my enterprise? NHIs, the underdogs of cybersecurity, have steadily risen to prominence, and their potential in risk mitigation and security augmentation is not to be underestimated. From healthcare to financial services, NHIs have shown the ability to bolster security across a multitude of industries, particularly those operating. more →

Data Anonymization Techniques Defined: Transforming Real Data Into Realistic Test Data

HelpNet Security, Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

Rethinking Appsec: How DevOps, Containers, And Serverless Are Changing The Rules

Application security is changing fast. In this Help Net Security interview, Loris Gutic, Global CISO at Bright, talks about what it takes to keep up. Gutic explains how DevOps, containers, and serverless tools are shaping security, and shares views on the biggest risks, important controls, and why AI must be used carefully. more →

Rethinking Appsec: How DevOps, Containers, And Serverless Are Changing The Rules

SC Media, Friday, May 9th, 2025

Quantum Encryption Adoption Still Severely Lacking

Quantum encryption has been established by only 5% of U.S., UK, and Australian businesses so far even though 69% believe that cryptographically relevant quantum computers are imminent within the next five years, reports Infosecurity Magazine. more →

Quantum Encryption Adoption Still Severely Lacking

IBM, Tuesday, May 6th, 2025

IBM and Oracle Expand Partnership to Advance Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud

IBM is working with Oracle to bring the power of watsonx, IBM's flagship portfolio of AI products, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Leveraging OCI's native AI services, the latest milestone in IBM's technology partnership with Oracle is designed to fuel a new era of multi-agentic, AI-driven productivity and efficiency across the enterprise. more →

IBM and Oracle Expand Partnership to Advance Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud

IBM, Friday, May 9th, 2025

IBM Debuts AI Mainframe, LinuxONE Emperor 5

IBM has released the newest version of its LinuxOne mainframe series-a machine format first popularized by IBM in the 1960s-with a set of specs built for today's artificial intelligence- (AI) driven tech infrastructure. more →

IBM Debuts AI Mainframe, LinuxONE Emperor 5

Red Hat News, Friday, May 9th, 2025

Friday Five - May 9, 2025

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your we ekly digest of things that caught our eye. more →

Friday Five - May 9, 2025

SC Media, Tuesday, May 6th, 2025

Rubrik: 91% of SG orgs hit by cyber incidents

Cloud Tech News reports that cyberattacks are intensifying across Singapore's hybrid cloud landscape, with 91% of IT and security leaders reporting incidents in the past year, according to Rubrik Zero Labs' latest report, The State of Data Security in 2025: A Distributed Crisis. more →

Rubrik: 91% of SG orgs hit by cyber incidents