CIO, Monday, July 7th, 2025
Hertz Adopts AI For Fleet And Workforce Management
The global car rental company is leveraging Palantir Foundry and Palantir AIP to help deliver on its mission, and for its customers. more →
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Friday’s Briefing · July 18
SC Media, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
How 75 CISOs Are Fighting Back Against Security Debt
Security debt isn't just a technical nuisance-it's a strategic liability that undermines your team, your tools, and your trust with stakeholders. more →
ITPro, Monday, July 7th, 2025
How Can Businesses Handle Data Sprawl?
Poor data observability opens the door to security vulnerabilities more →
InformationWeek, Friday, July 11th, 2025
How CIOs Are Navigating Today's Hyper Volatility
Enterprises had to become an extreme form of agile during the pandemic. Now, with daily geopolitical changes, IT departments must be even more agile and resilient. more →
Intelligent CIO, Friday, July 11th, 2025
How Should CIOs Prioritise Technology Investments To Balance Innovation With Resilience In An Increasingly AI And Data-Driven Enterprise Landscape?
CIOs are tasked with balancing the drive for rapid AI and data-driven innovation with the need to build resilience in an increasingly unpredictable business landscape. more →
ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks
The clothing manufacturer's IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack - and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy more →
devops.com, Friday, July 11th, 2025
Could Agentic AI In DevOps Create New Security Flaws?
Agentic artificial intelligence, software that can gather context, reason about goals and then act without minute-by-minute human supervision, is no longer science fiction inside DevOps pipelines. more →
ITProToday, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Guide To DevOps Topologies
Beyond tools and processes, how you structure your DevOps teams could be the key factor determining your organization's collaborative success. more →
devops.com, Friday, July 11th, 2025
SBOMs Are Not Enough
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a way to capture the names and versions of all the components used to build an application. more →
devops.com, Friday, July 11th, 2025
Why Your Deployments Fail: A Deep Dive Into Misconfigured Pipelines
In modern Kubernetes environments, even small misconfigurations in your CI/CD pipeline can lead to failed or flaky deployments. Jenkins pipelines that build, test and deploy containers to Kubernetes clusters are powerful but complex. more →
HelpNet Security, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Why Your Security Team Feels Stuck
Cybersecurity friction usually gets framed as a user problem: password policies that frustrate employees, MFA that slows down logins, or blocked apps that send workers into the arms of shadow IT. But there's a different kind of friction happening behind the scenes, and it's hitting security teams themselves. more →
ITPro, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Workers Are Covering Up Cyber Attacks For Fear Of Reprisal
Research shows that fear of the consequences is driving employees to cover up security failures more →
CIODIVE, Friday, July 11th, 2025
How 3 Companies Curb ERP Overhaul Risks
How 3 companies curb ERP overhaul risks Clorox, Ulta Beauty and McCormick are aiming to ease disruption from major tech upgrades through preparation and planning. more →
CIODive, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Mccormick Aims To 'Derisk' ERP Implementation
The food company's executives said they've pivoted to a functional deployment approach, which will take longer but mitigate some challenges. more →
Search Customer Experience, Friday, July 11th, 2025
Influencer Marketing Best Practices For B2B Brands
Influencer marketing can help B2B brands engage audiences across the entire marketing funnel. Best practices include setting goals and tailoring content for specific funnel stages. 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 →
AWS, July 8,2025
Oracle Database@AWS Now Generally Available
Customers can now use Oracle Database@AWS in AWS Regions in Northern Virginia and Oregon, with planned expansion to 20 more more →
AWS, July 9,2025
Introducing AWS Builder Center: A New Home For The AWS Builder Community
We really love builders at AWS. We're constantly thinking of new ways to help technical communities thrive and create spaces like AWS Developer Center and community.aws where people can connect and share their knowledge and experiences. more →
Barracuda, July 10,2025
SOC Threat Radar - July 2025
Over the last month, Barracuda Managed XDR's security solutions, threat intelligence and SOC analysts identified developments that organizations should be aware of more →
Barracuda, July 11,2025
Wipe, Leak, Extort: The Crazy Hybrid Playbook Of Anubis Ransomware
Anubis is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in December 2024, and quickly distinguished itself by integrating file-wiping capabilities alongside the traditional encryption and data exfiltration. more →
Barracuda, July 8,2025
Barracuda Unveils Entra ID Backup Premium To Safeguard Identity Data
New Solution Protects Against Accidental and Malicious Data Loss, Ensures Business Continuity and Strengthens Cyber Resilience 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 →
KnowBe4, July 10,2025
New KnowBe4 Report Reveals Critical Cyber Vulnerabilities Threatening Europe'S Digital Manufacturing Sector
Research shows Europe's manufacturing digitalisation has made it a prime target for ransomware and social engineering attacks, as cyberattacks on the sector increase more →
KnowBe4, July 9,2025
KnowBe4 Shares Cybersecurity Best Practices For Safer Return-To-Office Transitions
As organizations transition back to in-person work environments, KnowBe4 highlights key measures to protect sensitive data and mitigate cyber risks more →
Microsoft, July 9,2025
Choosing The Right AI Path For Your Business: A Practical Guide For Business Leaders
With generative AI moving from experimentation to execution, the pressure is on to turn plans into progress. Every customer I talk to has done the homework: their use case lists are in, their priorities are clear, and their excitement is real. 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 →
Tenable, July 11,2025
Cybersecurity Snapshot: AI Security Field Gets Boost from New CSA Framework and from SANS - OWASP Partnership
Check out a new Cloud Security Alliance framework for securing AI systems. Plus, SANS Institute and OWASP are joining forces to deliver AI security controls. more →
Tenable, July 11,2025
Ai Security: Web Flaws Resurface In Rush To Use MCP Servers
In the rush to implement AI tools and services, developers are rapidly embracing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). more →