CIO, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
Why CIOs Need To Respond To Digital Sovereignty Now
As data and clouds go regional, global CIOs feel growing urgency to adapt to an increasingly localized digital era. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · August 26
CIO, Monday, August 18th, 2025
2025 CIO Hall Of Famers: 8 Tips For Building A Successful IT Leadership Career
What does it take to get to the top IT position? This year's CIO Hall of Fame inductees offer hard-earned advice for achieving rewarding career growth at the intersection of business and IT. more →
CIO, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
6 Signs Of A Dying Digital Transformation
Your initiative launched with great expectations. Now it's falling apart in front of your eyes. What should you do next? more →
CIO, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
6 IT Management Practices Certain To Kill IT Productivity
Sometimes, the best way to fix a broken organization is to stop breaking it. Here's what you're doing to keep your staff from getting real IT work done. more →
CSO Online, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
What Is The Cost Of A Data Breach?
The cost of a data breach is not easy to define, but as organizations increasingly fall victim to attacks and exposures, financial repercussions are becoming clearer. more →
Heller, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
Leading the AI Conversation: A CIO's Guide to Engaging the Board
AI has quickly become a board-level priority, yet few members have knowledge or experience to make strategic decisions about its use. CIOs can take the lead in educating them. Here's how. more →
FutureCIO, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
PodChats For FutureCIO: The Critical Need For A Unified AI Vision
A unified AI vision serves as the Guiding Principle for enterprise-wide AI adoption, ensuring that all departments work toward common strategic objectives. Without this alignment, organisations risk fragmented investments, duplicated efforts, and missed opportunities for transformation. more →
silicnANGLE, Monday, August 18th, 2025
On theCUBE Pod: Mainstreaming Crypto, Government Bets On Semiconductors And AI's Next Decade (1:01:15)
Crypto innovation is accelerating across finance and technology, driving initial public offering booms, reshaping artificial intelligence infrastructure and forcing policymakers to confront the future of manufacturing and global competition. more →
silicnANGLE, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Tech Stack Modernization Takes Center Stage In AI Adoption: theCUBE Analysis At Wow: World Of Workato (11:40)
Enterprises are turning to tech stack modernization as the next frontier of artificial intelligence adoption, pushing beyond pilots to measurable outcomes. By unifying data, strengthening governance and driving ROI, companies are building systems that simplify operations while empowering teams with intelligent automation. more →
theCUBE research, Saturday, August 23rd, 2025
Cyber Is Your #1 Risk And You're Likely Unprepared (42:12)
Cybersecurity is the number one risk facing enterprises today, and yet organizations remain dangerously unprepared. Executives are not blind to the problem - they understand the financial exposure, the reputational stakes, and the business impact of a major breach. more →
The Virtual CISO Moment , Friday, August 22nd, 2025
The Virtual CISO Moment - A Conversation With John J. Masserini
John Masserini is the founder and managing partner of SentiCon Security, the voice behind the award-winning blog Chronicles of a CISO, and a founding member of BSides South Florida. more →
Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
As AI becomes part of production operations, engineering teams face new challenges in interpreting system behavior, automating routine tasks, and accelerating incident response. more →
DevOps.com, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
Tackling The DevSecOps Gap In Software Understanding
When I first read the recent article from CISA titled 'Tackling the National Gap in Software Understanding,' I had the same reaction I imagine many of you did: Well, of course this is necessary. Who in their right mind doesn't want better visibility into the software used in our most mission-critical systems? more →
HelpNet Security, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
DevOps In The Cloud And What Is Putting Your Data At Risk
In this Help Net Security video, Greg Bak, Head of Product Enablement at GitProtect, walks through some of the biggest security risks DevOps teams are dealing with. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
What Is Generative AI Security
From supporting customers through intelligent chatbots to auto-generating code, GenAI is revolutionizing enterprise operations. But as Spiderman coined, with great power comes great responsibility. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
What is Single Sign-On (SSO)
Single Sign-On (SSO) [GO1] is an authentication model in which a user logs in once with a set of credentials to gain access to multiple applications. It forms a key part of many identity and access management (IAM) systems. more →
DevOps.com, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
How AI-Created Code Will Strain Devops Workflows (19:16)
Nick Durkin, Field CTO at Harness, explains why as artificial intelligence (AI) tools are relied on more to create code, it's now only a matter of time before bottlenecks in existing DevOps workflows become exacerbated to the point where they need to be re-engineered. more →
Techstrong.IT, Monday, August 18th, 2025
Report Sees Data Center Vacancy Rates Achieving Another All-Time Low
An analysis of the data center collocation market published today by JLL, a provider of commercial real estate services, finds that only 2.3% of the more than 15.5 gigawatts of current capacity in North America is currently vacant for a new all-time low. more →
DataCenter Knowledge, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
Current Debate: Will the Data Center of the Future Be AC or DC?
As AI transforms data centers, the industry revisits a fundamental question: is AC or DC power better suited for tomorrow's high-density computing needs? more →
DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Terabit Connection: Will 6G Finally Cut The Data Center Cable?
While 6G technology remains in the planning stages, its potential terabit speeds and near-zero latency could revolutionize data center networking by 2030. more →
HelpNet Security, Monday, August 18th, 2025
Weak Alerting And Slipping Prevention Raise Risk Levels For CISOs
Prevention effectiveness is falling, detection gaps remain wide, and attackers are exploiting weaknesses in data protection and credentials. Data theft prevention has dropped to 3 percent, password cracking success rates have nearly doubled, and new threat groups are bypassing defenses. more →
ITProToday, Monday, August 18th, 2025
Legacy It Infrastructure: Not The Villain We Make It Out To Be
The tried-and-true reliability of legacy systems often outweighs the allure of modern alternatives, challenging us to reconsider what "legacy" truly means in today's IT landscape. more →
InfoQ, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
JDK 25 and JDK 26: What We Know So Far
JDK 25, the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release since JDK 21, has reached its second release candidate as declared by Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle. more →
InfoQ, Monday, August 18th, 2025
Java News Roundup: Spring Framework, Spring Data, Open Liberty, Hibernate Reactive, Quarkus, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for August 11th, 2025, features news highlighting: the eighth milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the fifth milestone release of Spring Data 2025.1.0; the August 2025 edition of Open Liberty; Hibernate Reactive 4.1; and the first release candidates of Quarkus 3.26 and Gradle 9.1. more →
OpenSource For U, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
A Complete Guide To Deploying Java Applications In Docker
Explore the entire life cycle of deploying Java applications via Docker - from understanding the basics and writing the initial Dockerfile to building container images and managing complex multi-container deployments using Docker Compose. more →
SecureWorld Threat Defense Virtual Conference
The conference brings together cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and solution providers to discuss emerging threats, defense strategies, AI integration, and cloud security, while offering opportunities to network and earn CPE credits. more →
Analytics Insight, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Top Cloud Engineering Skills To Master In 2025
Top Skills Every Cloud Engineer Must Learn in 2025 to Stay Ahead in Tech more →
ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
ISACA Launches AI Security Management Certification
ISACA accredited security professionals can now pursue a new AI security management credential more →
The Register, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
AWS CEO Says Using AI To Replace Junior Staff Is 'Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard'
They're cheap and grew up with AI . so you're firing them why? more →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
Cloudflare, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
MoQ: Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack
For over two decades, we've built real-time communication on the Internet using a patchwork of specialized tools. RTMP gave us ingest. HLS and DASH gave us scale. WebRTC gave us interactivity. Each solved a specific problem for its time, and together they power the global streaming ecosystem we rely on today. 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 →
CyberArk, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
A CISO's guide to post-quantum readiness: How to build crypto agility now
The quantum threat isn't theoretical-it's operational. more →
CyberArk, Monday, August 18th, 2025
How external attackers and malicious insiders exploit standing privileges in the cloud
For many of us, the term 'cloud security breach' conjures meticulous attack plans executed by sophisticated criminal syndicates. more →
F5, Monday, August 18th, 2025
Classification and the evolution of application delivery
If you've followed anything I've written in the past, oh, nearly 20 years, you already know that application architecture has profound impacts on application delivery. I more →
F5, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Protect AI innovation on AWS with API security
As more and more organizations pursue AI, they increasingly rely on APIs to connect AI models to applications and data for training and inference. However, the more API connections, the higher the risk. Threat actors can abuse APIs to exfiltrate data, jailbreak AI models, and even steal the models themselves. more →
F5, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Understanding AI agents: Construction, behavior, and boundary setting
Some folks seem to be conflating LLMs with AI agents. Let's just put that to bed, shall we? While certainly some are 'extending' chatbots to execute tools and call them AI agents, that's an immature approach if you want to harness agents for advanced automation. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
Google, Monday, August 18th, 2025
14 ways Googlers use AI to work smarter
See how Googlers are using tools like Gemini and Imagen to save time, spark new ideas and build more helpful products. more →
Google, Thursday, August 21st, 2025
5 new things Gemini can do on Pixel
New Pixels are here, and they come with lots of new Gemini capabilities. more →
Google, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Google Cloud adds new protections for AI agents and cloud workloads at Security Summit 2025
Google Cloud today announced a range of new security capabilities designed to protect organizations' artificial intelligence capabilities while also using AI to strengthen defenses. more →
Google, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Google unveils new AI and cloud security capabilities at Security Summit
Google used its Cloud Security Summit 2025 today to introduce a wide range of updates aimed at securing AI innovation and strengthening enterprise defenses. The announcements span protections for AI agents, new tools for security operations centers, enhancements in cloud security, and extended safeguards for enterprise browsing. more →
Proofpoint, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
Cybercriminals Abuse AI Website Creation App For Phishing
We are often asked about the impact of AI on the threat landscape. While we have observed that large language model (LLM) generated emails or scripts have so far had little impact, some AI tools are lowering the barrier for entry for digital crime. Take, for example, services that can create websites in minutes with the help of AI. 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 →
Rapid7, Monday, August 18th, 2025
From Perimeter to Core: Vector Command Advanced Expands Red Team Coverage
In today's threat landscape, meeting compliance requirements like PCI DSS, SOC 2, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is no longer just about ticking boxes. It's about proving that your security controls actually work under pressure. more →
Rapid7, Monday, August 18th, 2025
What the First 24 Hours of a Cyberattack Can Teach You About MDR
When a zero-day exploit targets your infrastructure, the clock starts ticking. Fast. And in today's threat landscape, speed without context is chaos. more →
Varonis, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
The Cloud Threat Playbook: Catching What Posture Tools Miss
Identity is the new perimeter. Learn how Varonis stops cloud breaches by resolving access, detecting threats, and automating least privilege. more →
Varonis, Monday, August 18th, 2025
Why Data-Centric Security is Important for the DoD
Learn how Varonis protects DoD environments by utilizing various approaches to secure sensitive data. more →