SC Media, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Securing What Runs: The New CISO Priority
Modern security teams face a growing mandate: stop attacks before they spread, not just after they're discovered. more →
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Thursday’s Briefing · August 14
CIODIVE, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Hidden Cost Of 'Good Enough': Why CIOs Must Rethink Data Risk In The AI Era
In today's cost-conscious climate, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are being asked to achieve the impossible: deliver more innovation with fewer resources. more →
RCRWireless News, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
The Top 10 RFP Response Software
As B2B organizations grow, the RFP response process can become too time-consuming for manual workflows. Top tools, such as Loopio and Responsive, can automate the process. more →
The Hacker News, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Wild West Of Shadow IT
Everyone's an IT decision-maker now. The employees in your organization can install a plugin with just one click, and they don't need to clear it with your team first. It's great for productivity, but it's a serious problem for your security posture. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Virtual CISO offerings triple among MSPs, MSSPs as demand rises
Virtual chief information security officer (vCISO) services have seen a 319% increase in adoption among managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs), with 67% of providers now offering these services, according to a recent Cynomi survey. more →
CIO, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
What CIOs Need To Know About Measuring AI Value
Even though many companies report positive ROI from gen AI, IT leaders don't always know how to actually measure it, and the vast majority of AI projects fail. So what's the real story, and what metrics are important to gauge AI success? more →
Platform-Engineering, Friday, August 8th, 2025
What, Exactly, Is Platform Engineering? Do We Even Know? Maybe It Doesn't Matter
So you want to be a platform engineer? Maybe you are one already! And just haven't realized it. Platform engineering is at the center of many application development conversations today, but what, exactly, are we talking about? Is platform engineering just a job title? Is it a technology? A management technique? Merely yet another trending industry vibe? more →
Platform-Engineering, Monday, August 4th, 2025
What's In It For Platform Engineering At Black Hat
I'm heading to Vegas this week for my annual pilgrimage to 'summer camp for hackers.' With Black Hat, DEF CON, BSides and other cyber‑world events all happening this week, the security community converges on Las Vegas. more →
techradar, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Redefining Secops: The Intelligent Future Of SIEM
Security operations are under pressure from all sides. Threats are faster, attack surfaces are expanding, and demands on people and tools continue to grow. more →
CSO Online, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Summer: Why Cybersecurity Must Be Strengthened As Vacations Abound
Cyberattackers are well aware of what's happening at this time of year, which is why they take advantage of seasonal circumstances to launch more aggressive campaigns. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Tech Leader: IAM Success Requires Empathy, Not Just Code
Identity and access management is more about people than technology, according to Gerry Gebel, Strata Identity's Head of Standards, reports Forbes. more →
HelpNet Security, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Surprising Truth About Identity Security Confidence
Organizations most confident in their identity security are often the least prepared, according to a new report from BeyondID. The study reveals a troubling gap between what organizations believe about their identity security programs and how they actually behave. Surprisingly, those expressing the highest confidence are adopting fewer best practices than their more cautious peers. more →
ITProToday, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Why Experts Are Rethinking Token Security and API Keys
Exposed API keys are enabling sophisticated cyber-attacks, with organizations struggling to implement effective key management while infostealers quietly exfiltrate credentials to the dark web. 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 →
Analytics Insight, Monday, August 4th, 2025
How Quantum Computing Is Revolutionizing Data Centers' Future?
A Quantum Leap in Processing Power Is Poised to Reshape the Architecture of Modern Data Centers more →
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
IBM Predicts the Dawn of Quantum Advantage
In the very new world of quantum computing, which vendor or standards body gets to officially proclaim that the technology has first reached 'quantum advantage'? more →
StorageReview, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
PCI-SIG Unveils PCIe 8.0: 256 GT/s Bandwidth Coming by 2028
The PCI-SIG has officially announced the forthcoming PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification, which is set to double the data rate of the current PCIe 7.0 standard, reaching an impressive 256.0 GT/s. more →
Couchbase CATALYST - The Agent Era is here. Is your data ready? (Oct. 20-22)
Couchbase Catalyst 2026 is the first Couchbase customer conference: three days where technology leaders, architects, and the engineers building on Couchbase meet to advance next-generation data solutions for the Agent Era. more →
Search Security, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
An Explanation Of Quantum Cryptography
In this video, Informa TechTarget product marketing associate Katie Donegan explains what quantum cryptography is, how it differs from classical cryptography and how it works. more →
Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth
As AI, cloud, and connected technologies rapidly expand the attack surface, security teams must focus on the risks that matter most. Join CISO leaders to explore how exposure management strengthens visibility, prioritization, and resilience, thus enabling organizations to innovate confidently while reducing their most critical cyber risks. more →
Techstrong.IT, Friday, August 8th, 2025
As States Compete For Data Centers, Battles Grow Fierce
Vermaland, an Arizona land developer, has landed a massive data center deal: it's scheduled to build a $33 billion data center complex in Pinal County, Arizona. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Data Center Security
In an era where data is the lifeblood of every enterprise, safeguarding the core of your digital operations-the data center-is absolutely non-negotiable. more →
RTInsights, Monday, August 4th, 2025
State Of Data Center Report Highlights Security, Control
Growing costs and increased cybersecurity complexity are driving some companies to repatriate workloads from the cloud to the data center. more →
ITProToday, Monday, August 4th, 2025
The Resilience Paradox: Why 90% of IT Teams Overestimate Their Operational Readiness
A new SolarWinds study reveals 90% of IT teams think they're resilient, yet fewer than half can handle basic challenges like BYOD and AI integration. more →
Techiexpert, Saturday, August 9th, 2025
Top 7 IoT Trends To Watch In 2025: What's Hot?
We are in the mid of July 2025 and the world of connected devices is evolving rapidly. Businesses, developers and consumers are keenly observing the IoT trends 2025. 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 →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
AI In Cloud Computing: How AI Is Revolutionizing The Landscape
Cloud AI refers to artificial intelligence services and resources hosted on public cloud platforms. These capabilities are used to automate processes, optimize resource allocation, and support a wide range of intelligent functions. more →
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
CVE-2025-32094: HTTP Request Smuggling Via OPTIONS + Obsolete Line Folding
In March 2025, Akamai received a bug bounty report identifying an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability. We quickly resolved the issue for all customers via a platform-wide fix with no evidence of any successful exploitation of the attack vector known to us. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, August 4th, 2025
Why The Right Tool - And The Right Team - Are Essential For DNS Security
In today's fast-moving digital world, visibility isn't just nice to have - it's a necessity. But visibility without action? That's just noise. more →
Closing the Loop on AI Coders: 3,200 Vulns Fixed with Zero Human Triage
If you're an engineering leader trying to figure out whether 'AI fixes vulnerabilities automatically' is a real operating model or a demo, this is the mechanism and the data, not the pitch. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
CCNP Automation: A Renamed Certification, Reimagined
We learn from an early age that change is the only constant in life. Sometimes we view change as something to be worried about, something we must shift and adjust for, and that the unknown could bring us.well, anything. more →
Cisco, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Cisco's Foundation AI Advances AI Supply Chain Security With Hugging Face
Today, Hugging Face adds a new model on average every 7 seconds, and the platform now hosts nearly 1.9 million models available to developers worldwide. more →
Cisco, Friday, August 8th, 2025
Context Length: An AI 'Nerd Knob' Every Network Engineer Should Know
Alright, my friends, I'm back with another post based on my learnings and exploration of AI and how it'll fit into our work as network engineers. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Foundation-Sec-8B-Instruct: An Out-Of-The-Box Security Copilot
When we released Llama-3.1-FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-base-8B (Foundation-sec-8B) in April, we proved that an eight-billion-parameter model-trained exclusively on security data-can outperform general-purpose LLMs many times its size on cybersecurity benchmarks. more →
Cisco, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Improving Cloud-VPN Resiliency To DoS Attacks With IKE Throttling
Cloud-based VPN solutions commonly expose IKEv2 (Internet Key Exchange v2) endpoints to the public Internet to support scalable, on-demand tunnel establishment for customers. 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 →
ESET, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
When Access Becomes A Risk: Cyber Threats Facing Professional Services
Professional services ensure success for their clients, but what about their own livelihoods? Their access is their bane, as threat actors seek to leverage them as springboards to others 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 →
DARKReasing, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Google Chrome Enterprise: More Than An Access Point To The Web
In a conversation with Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney, Lauren Miskelly from Google explains that Chrome Enterprise is the same Chrome browser that consumers use, but with additional enterprise-grade controls, reporting capabilities, and administrative features more →
Google, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
New Gemini App Tools To Help Students Learn, Understand And Study Even Better
Level up your learning with new tools in the Gemini app. more →
Google, Monday, August 4th, 2025
What To Know About Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
Google has released its new large reasoning model, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which extends its 'thinking time' by scaling its inference compute, which allows it to tackle difficult problems through parallel branches. 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 →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Social Engineering Attacks Surged In The First Half Of 2025
Cybersecurity incidents nearly tripled in the first half of 2025, jumping from 6% in the second half of 2024 to 17% in 2025, according to a new report from LevelBlue. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Warning: New Phishing Campaign Targets Instagram Users
A phishing campaign is targeting Instagram users with phony notifications about failed login attempts, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. Notably, the emails contain "mailto" links rather than traditional URLs, which help the phishing messages avoid being flagged by security filters. more →
Oracle, Thursday, August 7th, 2025
Oracle High-Availability Exadata Service Targets AI And Location-Sensitive Use Cases
Oracle Corp. announced that the Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure offering it announced early this year is now generally available. more →
AI-augmented code modernization: from framework migrations to autonomous agents
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
Tierpoint, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Top 8 Managed M365 Benefits For Your Business
As cloud transformation becomes a key priority for businesses, the adoption of cloud-based productivity suites has surged. In particular, Microsoft 365 (M365), formerly known as Office 365, has proven to be a vital part of business processes, with commercial revenue growing 16% in fiscal year 2024. more →
How to Leverage Threat Intelligence Without Drowning: The Zero Noise Approach
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
