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Friday’s Briefing · May 9

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

Compliance Challenges In Cloud Data Governance

Adopting cloud computing allows organizations of all shapes and sizes to access data and collaborate in the most flexible ways imaginable. While it brings many benefits, it also brings along compliance issues in data governance, particularly when data crosses borders. Ensuring data is safe, private and organized is paramount. more →

Compliance Challenges In Cloud Data Governance

Futurum Group, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025

RSAC 2025: Cisco Raises the AI Security Stakes

Cisco made several portfolio innovation and partnership announcements at RSAC 2025, all aimed at helping security professionals secure and harness the power of AI. An increasingly sophisticated threat landscape combined with an expanding talent shortage means the need has never been greater for machine-scale security and response. more →

RSAC 2025: Cisco Raises the AI Security Stakes

SC Media, Monday, April 28th, 2025

Why Our Industry Must Shift From Prevention To Cyber Resilience

Over the past year, cyber operations by foreign adversaries, including the People's Republic of China (PRC), have moved away from traditional espionage and data theft to developing strategic plans that could infiltrate and cripple critical U.S. infrastructure. more →

Why Our Industry Must Shift From Prevention To Cyber Resilience

Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, April 28th, 2025

Why Businesses Must Rethink Cybersecurity

Relying on an MSP alone fails to provide comprehensive security which can only be achieved through the collaborative efforts of MSP, MSSP and cybersecurity consulting services. more →

Why Businesses Must Rethink Cybersecurity

HelpNet Security, Monday, April 28th, 2025

Most Critical Vulnerabilities Aren't Worth Your Attention

Web applications face a wide range of risks, including known-exploitable vulnerabilities, supply chain attacks, and insecure identity configurations in CI/CD, according to the Datadog State of DevSecOps 2025 report. more →

Most Critical Vulnerabilities Aren't Worth Your Attention

Security Boulevard, Friday, May 2nd, 2025

NCSC Guidance on 'Advanced Cryptography'

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre just released its white paper on 'Advanced Cryptography,' which it defines as 'cryptographic techniques for processing encrypted data, providing enhanced functionality over and above that provided by traditional cryptography.' more →

NCSC Guidance on 'Advanced Cryptography'

Upcoming Event · Wed, Oct 14 · 11:00am

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 →

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Modernize for the AI Era (Oct. 14th)

Cyber Defense Magazine, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025

What Can We Learn From Recent Telecom Hacks

In early November, it was reported that Singapore telecommunications company, Singtel, had been compromised by Volt Typhoon, a hacking group considered to be backed by the Chinese state. While details about the intrusion remain limited, no data is thought to have been stolen. more →

What Can We Learn From Recent Telecom Hacks

Fierce Network, Monday, April 28th, 2025

Telcos Rave About Optical AI Opportunities, But Will It Last?

The age of AI is upon us, and telcos want to get in on the action by expanding their optical networks for hyperscalers. Demand for data center interconnect (DCI) is indeed massive, but it could also be a short-lived opportunity, said research firm STL Partners. more →

Telcos Rave About Optical AI Opportunities, But Will It Last?

Search Disaster Recovery, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025

10 Ways To Reduce Your MTTR

Mean time to repair is a critical metric for BCDR professionals. Learn how to calculate and reduce MTTR with this tip. more →

10 Ways To Reduce Your MTTR

Cisco, May 1,2025

Scaling The Cisco AI Assistant For Support With Splunk

Cisco needed to scale its virtual support engineer that assists its technical support teams around the world. By leveraging its own Splunk technology, Cisco was able to scale the AI assistant to support more than 1M cases and free up engineers to concentrate on more complex cases, creating a 93+% customer satisfaction rating, and ensuring the critical support continues running in the face of any disruption. more →

Scaling The Cisco AI Assistant For Support With Splunk

Crowdstrike, May 1,2025

Crowdstrike And AWS Announce The 2025 Cybersecurity Accelerator Winner

CrowdStrike announced Terra Security as the winner of the second annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) and CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, presented in collaboration with the NVIDIA Inception program for startups. Terra Security was recognized for its innovations in agentic AI-powered, continuous web application penetration testing. more →

Crowdstrike And AWS Announce The 2025 Cybersecurity Accelerator Winner

InfoQ, Friday, May 2nd, 2025

Google Unveils Ironwood TPU for AI Inference

Google has unveiled its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Ironwood, at Google Cloud Next 25. Ironwood is Google's most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator to date and the first TPU designed specifically for inference workloads. more →

Google Unveils Ironwood TPU for AI Inference

Google, April 28,2025

Google Cloud Enhances Databases with Firestore and MongoDB Features

At the recent Google Cloud Next 2025, Google Cloud announced the preview of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, introducing support for the MongoDB API and query language. This capability allows users to store and query semi-structured JSON data within Google Cloud's real-time document database. more →

Google Cloud Enhances Databases with Firestore and MongoDB Features

Hitachi-Vantara, April 30,2025

Revolutionizing It Operations With Genai And Agentic AI

Emerging technologies like generative AI (GenAI) and agentic AI are poised to significantly enhance IT operations. These advancements offer new, truly transformative ways to manage, optimize and automate IT environments, and are certain to improve efficiency and foster innovation. more →

Revolutionizing It Operations With Genai And Agentic AI

Upcoming Event · Thu, Sep 24 · 1:00pm

Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes

In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes (Sept. 24th)