Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Has AI Hijacked Cloud-Native Innovation?
It seems like AI is sucking the oxygen out of every room in tech right now. more →
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Wednesday’s Briefing · August 6
CIO, Thursday, July 31st, 2025
7 Tips For A More Effective Multicloud Strategy
As organizations increasingly find themselves operating in multiple clouds, IT leaders must get more intentional about how they address the resulting complexity, security issues, and cost concerns. more →
CIO, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
7 Enterprise Cloud Strategy Trends Shaking Up IT Today
The cloud is moving rapidly in new directions. Here's a rundown of the latest top strategy trends. more →
InfoWorld, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
How To Excel In Multicloud: The New Checklist
The question today is not whether to support multicloud operations but how to excel at it. Here's what experts are saying about the challenges and opportunities in multiple cloud operations. more →
ITPro, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
UK Enterprises Regret Going All-In On Public Cloud
Data sovereignty, rising costs, and governance issues mean many IT decision-makers regret having made the move more →
SC Media, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Cloud Security Risks Rise With Hybrid Environments
As cloud adoption accelerates, businesses face an expanding threat landscape, especially within hybrid cloud environments that combine public and private infrastructure, according to Forbes. more →
The Register, Monday, July 28th, 2025
Intern Did Exactly What He Was Told And Turned Off The Wrong Server
And was then blamed for not knowing about inaccurate labels more →
The Register, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Servers Hated Mondays Until Techie Quit Quaffing Coffee In Their Company
Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots more →
Informationweek, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Translating Cyber-Risk For The Boardroom
When security leaders embrace this truth and learn to speak in the language of leadership, they don't just protect the enterprise, they help lead it forward. more →
ITPro, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Global Cybersecurity Spending Is Going To Hit $213 Billion In 2025 - Here's What's Driving Investment
Spending across major fronts comes in the wake of rising cloud security threats and growing skills gaps more →
ITProToday, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Taming Cyber Reporting Pressures
Organizations are increasingly inundated with cybersecurity reporting demands from a growing community of stakeholders. Follow these tips to eliminate reporting chaos, regain control, and enjoy peace of mind. more →
SC Media, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Cybersecurity Threats Surge In First Half, Report Finds
Threat actors have launched a deluge of cyberattacks during the first six months of 2025, resulting in record-high credential theft, ransomware, and data breach incidence, Cybernews reports. more →
TechRepublic, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Google Cloud/Forrester Report: Top Challenges To Effective Threat Intelligence
Too many threat intelligence data feeds and not enough skilled analysts top the list of challenges for cybersecurity teams, says a new Google Cloud/Forrester report. more →
The Register, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Enterprises Neglect AI Security - And Attackers Have Noticed
IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance... more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Symmetric Cryptography In Practice: A Developer's Guide To Key Management
Cryptography often intimidates developers due to its mathematical complexity, yet it forms the backbone of modern computer security-from HTTPS connections to payment processing. 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 →
Search Disaster Recovery, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Build IT Resilience To Avoid Paying Ransomware Demands
No one wants to pay the ransom after a cyberattack, but many organizations feel like they have no choice. Explore the benefits of investing in resilience over making payments. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
Tech Field Day, Monday, July 28th, 2025
Cloud Rewind At Cloud Field Day 23: Resilience As Code, Without The Ritual
Mike Stanley provided a detailed overview of the concept of Resilience as Code discussed at Cloud Field Day 23, highlighting the pivotal shift towards automating resilience in cloud environments without the cumbersome rituals traditionally associated with high reliability. more →
Tech Field Day, Monday, July 28th, 2025
Microsoft Security Copilot Agents And You
Karen Lopez provides an insightful examination of Microsoft Security Copilot Agents, highlighting their role and impact on IT security protocols. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
MinIO at Cloud Field Day 23: Four Key Takeaways for Enterprise IT
At Cloud Field Day 23, MinIO presented several insights critical for enterprise IT, highlighting their innovative solutions in object storage which are designed to meet the demands of high-performance applications. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Network Engineers Are Facing An Identity Crisis
Network engineers are the firefighters and knowledge bases of enterprise IT, however the role of a network engineer is rapidly evolving. With the rise of automation, orchestration, and AI, the familiar image of an engineer hunched over a command-line interface (CLI) is giving way, leading many to question the future of their profession. more →
Tech Field Day, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
The AI Infrastructure Bottleneck No One Talks About
Jack Poller sheds light on the seldom-discussed AI infrastructure bottleneck, highlighting the limitations in current technologies that could potentially hinder AI applications' effectiveness. 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 →
Seach Data Center, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Benefits Of Edge Computing Over Large Data Centers
Edge computing attracts companies by reducing latency. Its benefits over large data centers include modular design, effective data management and zero-trust security. 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 →
9to5Linux, Monday, July 28th, 2025
VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support For Linux Kernel 6.16 On Linux Hosts And Guests
This release also improves the Linux Guest Additions, the built-in recording feature, a NAT issue, and other problems reported by users. 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 →
Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Threat Spotlight: How Attackers Poison AI Tools And Defenses
Barracuda has reported on how generative AI is being used to create and distribute spam emails and craft highly persuasive phishing attacks. These threats continue to evolve and escalate - but they are not the only ways in which attackers leverage AI. more →
Barracuda Networks, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Encryption Vs. Cryptography: What's The Difference (And Why Does It Matter?)
Encryption keeps data safe from prying eyes. But what about cryptography? Is this just another name for the same concept? more →
Virtualization, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Take 5 with Tom Fenton: My Five Must-See VMware Explore 2025 Sessions
Every year, I create a must-see list of VMworld/Explore sessions. These are the sessions that interest me most at the conference. This year looks pretty solid, especially with VMware's big push to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 and the transformational changes we see in AI. more →
Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security
In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control. more →
Cisco, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Back To Basics: Start Your Networking Career With Cisco U.
If you could go back to the beginning of your career, what would you do differently? It's a thought-provoking question that many seasoned professionals often reflect on. For those just starting out in the tech world-or those looking to refresh their knowledge-this question holds the key to building a strong career foundation. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Cisco AI Assistant-Your Shortcut To Smarter, More Productive IT
Imagine a world where network management is greatly simplified, troubleshooting is accelerated, and every IT team member operates like a seasoned pro. more →
Cisco, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Using Generative AI for Technical Writing at Cisco ThousandEyes
As a technical content writer for Cisco ThousandEyes, I have to admit, my greatest fear is to be replaced by a generative AI algorithm. more →
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. more →
Dell, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Dell's Comprehensive Approach To AI And The Dell AI Factory
Tom Hollingsworth recently explored Dell's sophisticated approach toward harnessing the power of AI through the introduction of the Dell AI Factory, aimed at integrating advanced AI solutions into enterprise environments. 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 →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Boost Your Browsing Security: Integrate Securitycoach With Microsoft Edge For Business
Managing the security gap between your technical defenses and user behavior just got easier! more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Retail Organization Sees 50-Fold Increase In Phishing Reporting With KnowBe4's Phish Alert Button And Training
A global retail and wholesale company transformed their security posture after implementing KnowBe4's Phish Alert Button (PAB) and security awareness training, achieving an astonishing 50-fold increase in user reporting of phishing attacks. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
CyberheistNews Vol 15 #30 [Heads Up] Ransomware Is Back - And Smarter Than Ever In 2025: Trends
I've been following ransomware since the first one, the AIDS Cop Trojan, was released in December 1989. It locked up victim computers and asked for $300 to be sent to a Panama P.O. Box. A lot has changed since then. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Malicious Connectors Potentially Impact Hundreds Of Millions Of Microsoft 365 Users
Most Microsoft 365 users aren't aware of this recently growing serious email threat vector. more →
Proofpoint, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Exploiting Direct Send: Attackers Abuse Microsoft 365 To Deliver Internal Phishing Attacks
Proofpoint identified an active phishing campaign exploiting Microsoft 365 Direct Send, which delivered spoofed messages that appeared as internal emails. more →
Proofpoint, Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Microsoft OAuth App Impersonation Campaign Leads to MFA Phishing
Proofpoint has identified a cluster of activity using Microsoft OAuth application creation and redirects that lead to malicious URLs enabling credential phishing. The fake Microsoft 365 applications impersonate various companies including RingCentral, SharePoint, Adobe, and DocuSign. Proofpoint first observed this activity in early 2025 and remains ongoing. more →
Resecurity, Friday, August 1st, 2025
Sharepoint Zero-Day Exploit (Toolshell) - Network Infrastructure Mapping
As reported by ISMG, nearly 150 different organizations' on-premises SharePoint servers have been exploited by attackers targeting the zero-day vulnerabilities now tracked as ToolShell. Early attacks have been attributed to China-linked groups, in some cases leading to Warlock ransomware infections. 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 →
