AITHORITY, Monday, July 21st, 2025
AI Architectures For Transcreation vs. Translation
The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought transformative change to language services, particularly in translation and transcreation. more →
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Monday’s Briefing · July 28
ET Insights, Monday, July 21st, 2025
AI Is Only As Good As Your Data: Why Business Leaders Must Champion Data Readiness
The business world is racing to embrace GenAI and autonomous agents. From uncovering new efficiencies and accelerating decision-making to unlocking previously hidden opportunities, AI holds enormous promise for every facet of enterprise operations. more →
FutureCIO, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Why Your AI Proof Of Concept Isn't Enough And How To Fix It
Scaling AI beyond the proof-of-concept (POC) stage requires a strategic approach that balances innovation with operational excellence. more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
AI And You: Don't Wait... Or Be Weight
My advice about AI is always the same: Don't wait. or you will become weight. We often discuss how AI will impact the workforce, particularly for white-collar knowledge workers. But does this apply to CEOs too? The answer is a clear and resounding yes. more →
Techstrong.IT, Friday, July 25th, 2025
From Hype To Infrastructure: Why AI Readiness Starts Below The Surface
The world is buzzing with AI ambition. From corner offices to server rooms, every enterprise seems to be launching pilots, spinning up models, and investing in data science talent. more →
CIO, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Rethinking And Realigning IT For The AI Era
CIOs from a range of industries discuss how AI's emergence as a transformative force is leading them to adapt and reimagine how IT operates to better harness the technology's potential to revolutionize their business. more →
Redmond, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Take Control Of Your Cloud Bill: Cost Models, Discounts And Hidden Fees Explained
As cloud costs grow more complex, understanding fixed vs. variable pricing, spotting hidden charges and using the right discount strategies are essential to keeping budgets on track. more →
Solutions Review, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
A Unified Cloud Strategy Is The Key To Accelerating AI Innovation In U.S. Enterprises
Cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing how businesses operate, innovate, and serve customers. But despite growing investment in both technologies, many U.S. organizations still struggle to unlock their full potential. The reason: a lack of unified strategy. more →
Architecture and Governance, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Cloud Integration, Migration, And Optimization Market: Endless Potential Of Cloud
The cloud is the nucleus of innovation in the enterprise in this high-paced world of digitalization. With organizations trying to enhance their IT infrastructure, take up remote working, the demand for easy integration, migration, and optimization of the clouds has soared. more →
Search Cloud Computing, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Demystify The Cloud And Edge Computing Relationship
Edge computing remains primarily on-prem, but evolving technologies like 5G might enable some workloads to migrate to shared hosting models, creating a hybrid computing ecosystem. more →
Search Storage, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Top Tips For Analyzing Cost Of Cloud Storage
Avoid budget overruns and maximize your cloud investment with regular cloud storage cost analysis. Keep an eye out for hidden costs such as egress fees. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
InformationWeek, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
How CIOs Measure And Report IT Value
IT as a cost center is dead. Most of today's chief information officers have been tracking 'value' for some time, but what they measure has changed. more →
IT Security Guru, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Majority of CISOs Lack Full Visibility Over APIs
A new report by Salt Security found that the majority of CISOs struggle when it comes to API security, with only 17% having a fully developed strategy in place more →
The Register, Friday, July 25th, 2025
DNS Security Is Important But DNSSEC May Be A Failed Experiment
Nobody thinks of running a website without HTTPs. Safer DNS still seems optional 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 →
Tech Field Day, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Security Field Day 13 - Part 1 (Finally!)
Futurum Research analyst Fernando Montenegro shares his perspective on the security industry following his first appearance as a delegate at Security Field Day 13. For additional information and coverage from Security Field Day 13, you can visit the Futurum Group website. more →
Tech Field Day, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Why Supply Chain Security Is The First Line Of Defense
Tom Hollingsworth highlights the critical role of supply chain security as the foundational defense mechanism in protecting organizational systems and data. more →
Tech Field Day, Monday, July 21st, 2025
You Don't Need a CCIE to Build a Network - Until You Do
Keith Townsend's latest piece challenges the conventional wisdom around the necessity of having a CCIE for building networks given the advent of SONiC and Hedgehog more →
Modernize for the AI Era
Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. more →
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Competitive Corner Breaks Down Key Shifts In 2025 Gartner Backup Magic Quadrant (MQ)
While machine translation has seen massive improvements through sophisticated AI architectures, the more nuanced domain of transcreation - where cultural adaptation, emotion, and brand voice are vital - requires a different level of AI capability. As organizations expand globally, understanding the distinction between AI architectures for transcreation vs. translation becomes essential for delivering truly localized and resonant content. more →
Migrate and Modernize your applications with Zscaler Zero Trust Security Platform on AWS
In this webinar, we'll explore how teams can identify private applications and usage patterns to inform migration planning, maintain visibility into performance during and after migration, and secure workload-to-workload communications across AWS, data centers, and multicloud environments. more →
Forrester, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Beyond The Metrics: How B2B Marketing Pros Should Use Storytelling Techniques To Communicate Value
As a marketing professional, you live and breathe metrics: website traffic, leads generated (although you should be talking about buying groups engaged), pipeline contribution, engagement rates, and more. But when it comes to communicating marketing's business value, the numbers alone just don't cut it. 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 →
Barracuda Networks, Monday, July 21st, 2025
Malware Brief: A Malware Foursome Working Together
In today's Malware Brief we'll take a quick look at four different examples of malware that have all emerged at about the same time. They demonstrate the complex chain of threats being used together, sometimes by different groups for disparate purposes. more →
Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Why You Should Be Familiar With The MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Many technologists and IT pros are aware of MITRE ATT&CK, but they don't know what to do with it. If you're using tools like CIS CDM and NIST CSF 2.0, why would you need to know the details found in MITRE ATT&CK? more →
Barracuda Networks, Friday, July 25th, 2025
SafePay: Email Bombs, Phone Scams And Really Big Ransoms
When it comes to choosing a brand name, 'SafePay' must be among the most boring of choices. It sounds more like a payment app than an organized crime group. more →
Barracuda Networks, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Email Threat Radar - July 2025
During July, Barracuda threat analysts identified several notable email-based threats targeting organizations around the world. Many of them leveraged popular phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kits. more →
Commvault, Saturday, July 26th, 2025
Commvault Unveils Clumio Backtrack For Amazon Dynamodb, Reshaping Cloud-Native Database Recovery And Resilience
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced the general availability of Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB, an advanced offering that transforms how organizations recover data from one of the most widely used cloud-native NoSQL databases in the world. more →
Commvault, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
The 54% Problem: Why Most Organizations Can't Recover From Cyberattacks (And How To Fix It)
Here's a sobering statistic that should concern every business leader: Despite spending millions on resilience and recovery infrastructure, 54% of enterprises lack confidence in their ability to recover from a major disruption or cyberattack. more →
CyberArk, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Illusion Of Control: Why Securing AI Agents Challenges Traditional Cybersecurity Models
Enterprise security teams commonly focus on controlling AI agent conversations through prompt filters and testing edge cases to prevent unauthorized information access. While these measures matter, they miss the bigger picture: the real challenge is granting AI agents necessary permissions while minimizing risk exposure. more →
Securing the Autonomous Enterprise: Discover, Govern, and Protect Non-Human Identities.
This technical briefing breaks down how to operationalize a unified security architecture to establish clarity and control over your autonomous ecosystem. more →
Fortinet, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Securing The Modern Workspace
Today's workspace goes far beyond traditional email and messaging apps. Users collaborate in tools like Confluence and Microsoft Teams, share files via Google Drive or Dropbox, and meet virtually on Zoom. These capabilities have made work more agile and distributed, but they've also significantly expanded the attack surface. more →
Fortinet, Friday, July 25th, 2025
In-Depth Analysis Of An Obfuscated Web Shell Script
This analysis is a follow-up to the investigation titled 'Intrusion into Middle East Critical National Infrastructure' (full report here), conducted by the FortiGuard Incident Response Team (FGIR), which investigated a long-term cyber intrusion targeting critical national infrastructure (CNI) in the Middle East. more →
Fortinet, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Inside The Toolshell Campaign
FortiGuard Labs is currently tracking multiple threat actors targeting on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers. This attack leverages a newly identified exploit chain dubbed "ToolShell." 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 →
Proofpoint, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Cybersecurity Stop Of The Month: Detecting And Responding To An Account Takeover
The Cybersecurity Stop of the Month blog series explores the ever-evolving tactics of today's cybercriminals and how Proofpoint helps organizations better fortify their defenses to protect people against today's emerging threats. more →
Proofpoint, Monday, July 21st, 2025
NET RFQ: Request for Quote Scammers Casting Wide Net to Steal Real Goods
In this report, Proofpoint threat researchers take a deep dive into a widespread Request for Quote (RFQ) scam that involves leveraging common Net financing options (Net 15, 30, 45) to steal a variety of high value electronics and goods. Net financing of 15-90 days is the most common payment terms used by businesses. more →
Resecurity, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Methods to Bypass OTP in Mobile Apps: Successful VAPT Scenarios
Resecurity conducted hundreds of VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing) engagements for customers of different sizes and profiles-ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to emerging start-ups looking to test their cybersecurity controls before going live. Interestingly enough, regardless of the maturity of the company, issues related to API and authorization were identified in many cases, especially when the application had been developed by a third party. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenAI
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. more →
Trend Micro, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Back To Business: Lumma Stealer Returns With Stealthier Methods
Lumma Stealer has re-emerged shortly after its takedown. This time, the cybergroup behind this malware appears to be intent on employing more covert tactics while steadily expanding its reach. This article shares the latest methods used to propagate this threat. more →
Trend Micro, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Proactive Email Security: The Power Of AI
Lead with AI-powered email security to stay ahead of attackers and personalize user interaction at every touchpoint, bridging technology and behavior with precision. more →
Varonis, Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Varonis Enhances CSPM Capabilities To Protect Cloud Data
Varonis enhances its CSPM capabilities to provide centralized risk visibility, expanded misconfiguration detection, and unified workflows. more →
Varonis, Friday, July 25th, 2025
What Salesforce Organizations Need To Know About The Growing Vishing Threat From UNC6040
Learn about the vishing threat from UNC6040 targeting Salesforce environments and how to protect your organization from data breaches and extortion. more →
Varonis, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Why Least Privilege Is Critical For AI Security
From writing emails to analyzing financials and coding, AI has quickly become integral to the way we work. At the same time, AI tools and agents reveal the cracks in an organization's data security. In these AI-enabled organizations, enforcing the principle of least privilege (PoLP) is more important than ever. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
