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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Wednesday’s Briefing · September 10
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 →
ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't. 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 →
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 →
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 →
Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint
Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. Bold sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? 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 →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes
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 →
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 →
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 →
