The Register, Friday, September 5th, 2025
Techie Ended Vendor/Client Blame Game By Treating Managers Like Toddlers
Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk more →
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The Register, Monday, September 1st, 2025
I Was A Part-Time Dba. After This Failover Foul-Up, They Hired A Full-Time DBA
At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM more →
ZDNet, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
I'm Ditching Passwords For Passkeys For One Reason - And It's Not What You Think
Passkeys promise to replace passwords. The reality is far more confusing. But you should move to them anyway. Here's why. more →
The Register, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
In The Rush To Adopt Hot New Tech, Security Is Often Forgotten. AI Is No Exception
Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks more →
The Register, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
DDoS Is The Neglected Cybercrime That's Getting Bigger. Let's Kill It Off
Don't worry, there's a twist at the end more →
techradar.pro, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
I Am A Cybersecurity Expert - Here's Why It's Time For Businesses To Bolster Defenses, Beyond Just Tech
How to build a proactive and adaptive cyber defence ecosystem more →
techradar.pro, Thursday, September 4th, 2025
Aligning It And Security Teams For Optimal Business Success
How can IT and Security teams become more aligned? more →
Help Net Security, Monday, September 1st, 2025
Boards Are Being Told To Rethink Their Role In Cybersecurity
Boards of directors are being told that cybersecurity is now central to business resilience and growth, and that they must engage more directly in the way their organizations manage risk. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Ensuring Compliance And Feeling Reassured In The Cloud
How Can Non-Human Identities (NHIs) Enhance Cloud Security? more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, September 1st, 2025
Convenience Vs. Privacy: Can We Have Both?
In this episode, we discuss if the convenience of modern technology compromises our privacy. Inspired by a thought-provoking Reddit post, we explore how everyday actions like saving passwords, enabling location tracking, and using cloud backups put our personal data at risk. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Are Your NHIs Fully Protected From Cyber Threats?
Why are Non-Human Identities (NHIs) so crucial in cybersecurity? These machine identities consist of Secrets (encrypted tokens, keys, or passwords) and permissions that are akin to a passport-visa system. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, September 1st, 2025
Phishing As A Service 2.0: The Franchise Model Of Cybercrime
When you think of franchising, you probably picture McDonald's, Starbucks, or Subway - not cybercriminals. But the uncomfortable truth is that modern cybercrime looks a lot less like 'lone hacker in a hoodie' and a lot more like fast food chains. Instead of flipping burgers, they're flipping login pages. Instead of secret sauce, they're selling MFA bypasses. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, September 1st, 2025
Achieving A Secure Cloud With Restructured NHIs
How Important is Restructuring Non-Human Identities in Ensuring a Secure Cloud Environment? more →
Migrate and Modernize your applications with at 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 →
Search Software Quality, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Guidelines For AI-Driven Legacy Code Modernization
AI will not be able to refurbish legacy systems at the push of a button. Still, with proper guidance and oversight, AI tools can speed up code modernization projects. more →
techradar.pro, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
How AI Is Transforming Software Development For The Better
Generative AI is transforming coding workflows more →
ITPro, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Senior Developers Are All In On Vibe Coding, But Junior Staff Lack The Experience To Spot Critical Flaws
Experienced developers are far more confident in using AI-generated code more →
Analytics Insights, Monday, September 1st, 2025
AI-Powered Code Generation: Redefining The Role Of Developers
How AI-Powered Code Generation Is Changing Developer Workflows and Software Creation more →
The CTO Advisor, Monday, September 1st, 2025
Five Vide Coding Lessons For The Enterprise
It all starts with a YouTube video. more →
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
Destination CRM, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
The Best Marketing Automation: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards
Grand View Research valued the global marketing automation software market at $6.7 billion in 2024 and expects it to reach $15.6 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual rate of 15.3 percent. more →
Destination CRM, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
The Best Business Intelligence/Analytics: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards
Fortune Business Insights valued the global business intelligence market at $32 billion in 2024 and expects it to grow from $34.8 billion this year to $63.2 billion by 2032, a compound annual growth rate of 8.9 percent. more →
Destination CRM, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
The Best Customer Data Platform: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards
Customer data platforms were born in marketing, but they've outgrown the martech realm and now touch many more departments, which is causing the market to expand rapidly. Fortune Business Insights valued the global CDP market at $2.7 billion in 2024 and projects it to reach $3.3 billion by the end of this year and $13 billion by 2032, with a compound annual growth rate of 21.7 percent more →
Destination CRM, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
The Best Customer Journey Orchestration Solution: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards
Customer journey orchestration is a system for companies to design and manage the various customer interactions across multiple touchpoints, leveraging data analytics and real-time insights to create personalized, seamless experiences. more →
Destination CRM, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
The Best Workforce Engagement Management (WEM): The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards
Mordor Intelligence values the current global workforce management software market at $9.4 billion and expects it to reach $11.7 billion by 2030, expanding at a 7.1 percent compound annual growth rate. Growth, it says, stems from clear gains in labor-cost visibility, automated compliance, and the infusion of artificial intelligence into time-and-attendance cores. more →
Destination CRM, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
The Best Unified Customer Experience Platform: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards
Future Market Insights expects the worldwide customer experience platforms market to grow at a compound annual rate of 14.8 percent over the next 10 years, expanding from a current value of $13 billion to $51.5 billion by 2035. more →
RTInsights, Saturday, September 6th, 2025
Real-Time Analytics News For The Week Ending September 6
In this week's real-time analytics news: Siemens and Snowflake announced a collaboration to connect OT and IT data. more →
Build and Automate Your Infrastructure with Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
This webinar focuses on deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) within Microsoft Azure, utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for scalable, cross-domain infrastructure automation. more →
Commvault, September 2,2025
Commvault Transforms Cyber Recoveries
Recent analyst data shows that amid rising cyber threats, customers rely on Commvault Cleanroom Recovery and Cloud Rewind to slash recovery times and verify preparedness more →
Migrating Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service
This session is ideal for engineering leaders, search architects, and platform teams currently operating Apache Solr who want to understand the benefits, trade-offs, and practical steps involved in migrating to a fully managed search service on AWS. more →
CrowdStrike, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Secure AI At Machine Speed: Defending The Growing Attack Surface
As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise - from customer-facing tools to backend automation - it dramatically expands the enterprise attack surface. Models, agents, apps, and data pipelines now span public and private clouds, SaaS, and edge environments, creating a sprawling, opaque risk landscape. more →
CrowdStrike, September 3,2025
Three Insights You Might Have Missed From theCUBE's Coverage Of Crowdstrike Fal.Con
Last year, CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. weathered a major stress test, one that pushed the company to respond quickly and visibly on a global scale. more →
Google, Thursday, September 4th, 2025
Google's Most Powerful Supercomputer Ever Has A Combined Memory Of 1.77PB - Apparently A New World Record For Shared Memory Multi-CPU Setups
Ironwood TPU is already deployed in Google Cloud data centers more →
InfoQ, Thursday, September 4th, 2025
Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image With Advanced Editing And Consistency Features
Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (nicknamed nano-banana), its newest image generation and editing model. The system introduces several upgrades over earlier Flash models, including character consistency across prompts, multi-image fusion, precise prompt-based editing, and integration of world knowledge for semantic understanding. more →
Google, Friday, September 5th, 2025
Get Gemini's Help In Google Sheets With One Simple Step.
AI in Google Sheets makes categorizing, summarizing or even generating hundreds of rows of text quick and painless. For instance, you can use the AI function to categorize user feedback, summarize product reviews or write personalized copy. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
New On Android: Write Smarter, Share Quicker And Remix Emoji
Polish your writing with AI, browse Emoji Kitchen stickers, share files with a tap and more. more →
Google, September 2,2025
Google Mandiant: Emails Sent To Corporate Execs Claiming Oracle Data Theft
Threat actors claiming to be part of the notorious Cl0p ransomware group are sending extortion emails to corporate executives at a range of organizations saying they have stolen sensitive data from the target's Oracle E-Business Suite accounts and demanding a ransom payment, according to Google threat researchers. 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 →
CloudTech, September 3,2025
IBM Launches Cloud AI Service To Manage Complex Networks
IBM is rolling out a new AI-powered cloud service designed to help companies get a better grip on their increasingly messy networks. more →
Agentic Security Needs to Operationalize Threat Intel
Agentic AI has changed attacks for both adversaries and defenders, but AI has not changed the fundamentals of security. Triage is not the end goal for defenders; prevention is. This means hyperfast AI-powered triage is still not a solution, just one more (very necessary) tool. more →
Proofpoint, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Not Safe For Work: Tracking And Investigating Stealerium And Phantom Infostealers
Threat actors are increasingly turning to information stealers in malware delivery, and Proofpoint threat researchers have observed an increase in the variety of commodity information stealers regularly used by cybercriminal threat actors. more →
Proofpoint, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Strengthen Human Resilience During Cybersecurity Awareness Month - And All Year Long
Modern cyberattacks don't just exploit technology-they exploit people. While email remains the primary attack vector, cybercriminals are expanding their tactics and exploiting additional channels, like Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
How Financial Services Companies Can Build Trust With Effective Data Privacy Management
In an industry built on trust, managing data privacy is non-negotiable. Here's how financial services companies can protect sensitive data, meet regulatory demands, and strengthen client confidence. more →
Salesforce, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
What 350 Mobile Workers Taught Us About Fixing Productivity (And Your Costs)
Salesforce surveyed 350 mobile workers about the administrative burden, scheduling woes, and their openness to AI agents as a solution. more →
Salesforce, Friday, September 5th, 2025
Turning The Tables: How To Use AI To Get Ahead Of Security Threats
When agents handle routine monitoring and other security tasks, it frees up teams to refocus on strategic priorities. 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 →
Tierpoint, Thursday, September 4th, 2025
Understanding Hybrid Cloud Security: Key Challenges And Best Practices
Hybrid cloud has become a popular choice for many organizations, with 38% of IT decision-makers planning to adopt this mixed computing environment over the next two years. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
