CIO, Thursday, September 25th, 2025
7 Hard-Earned Lessons Of Bad IT Manager Hires
Mistakes are good teachers. But you don't have to make them to learn from them. These tech leaders share the hiring mistakes that taught them the most. more →
This WeekHome →Calendar →Back Issues/Search →Archive →RSS →Subscribe →
Wednesday’s Briefing · October 1
CIO, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
How To Build A Customer-Focused, Adaptive, High-Performing IT Team
Think IT leadership is about tech? Wrong. The future of IT success lives or dies on people skills, not coding skills. more →
CSO, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
5 Questions ChatGPT Should Ask Vendors
Persistent, persuasive, and sometimes misleading, vendor pitches are a constant in a CISO's inbox. To separate value from noise, security leaders rely on key questions that test whether a product solves real problems. more →
CIO, Friday, September 26th, 2025
American Express Credits AI With Improving Customer Experiences
Ransomware activity is climbing again, with a steep increase in the number of victims and the number of groups launching attacks. A new mid-year report from Searchlight Cyber shows how quickly the threat landscape is shifting and why CISOs need to keep adjusting their defenses. more →
InformationWeek, Friday, September 26th, 2025
AI Initiatives Driving Closer Relationship Between CIO And CEO
As organizations deploy AI technologies to improve efficiency, productivity, and customer experience, many are finding that increased collaboration between CEOs and CIOs is key to a successful AI strategy. more →
Search CIO, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Beating AI Fatigue: Quick Wins For CIOs
Rapid AI advancements have left IT and business leaders feeling burned out. CIOs can take steps -- such as finding quick wins and upskilling employees -- to reduce this fatigue. more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
How To Reach Platform Engineering Maturity
Platform engineering is no longer a niche experiment inside IT. As software delivery grows more complex, organizations are investing heavily in platform teams to reduce friction, improve security, and give developers the tools they need to deliver features faster. more →
Technative, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
Five Reasons Platform Engineering Is The Missing Link In Continuous Application Modernization
In 2025, modernization efforts remain central to digital transformation, and platform engineering has emerged as a critical, yet often overlooked, linchpin in that journey. more →
techradar.pro, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
How AI Augmentation Is Revolutionizing Penetration Testing In Cybersecurity
From deepfake fraud to API exploits and logic flaws, fintechs are facing a new wave of AI-driven cyber threats more →
Search Security, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
8 Best Practices For Securing Restful API
The REST architectural style helps applications communicate with each other. Be sure RESTful APIs have the protections necessary to keep attackers at bay. more →
Search Security, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
7 API Discovery Best Practices For Complete Visibility
Secure your API landscape with these API discovery best practices spanning the entire SDLC. Find hidden endpoints, audit integrations and monitor continuously. more →
Same Curve, Twice the Speed: Why AI Cost Management Isn't Cloud FinOps 2.0
In this session, we'll break down what actually separates AI cost management from cloud cost management: different unit economics, different owners, different attribution models, and a waste rate of 25% of cloud and AI spend, which took cloud a decade to reach and AI hit almost overnight. more →
Search Enterprise AI, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Compare GPUs Vs. CPUs For AI And Machine Learning Use Cases
Choosing which AI hardware option makes more sense for an AI or machine learning project depends on multiple factors, including speed, memory and cost. 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 →
Cyberscoop, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Why Federal IT Leaders Must Act Now To Deliver NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Transition
The NIST standards show that with one year of progress behind us, there are five years of opportunity ahead. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, September 25th, 2025
Post-Quantum Cryptography And The Future Of Data Security
Quantum computing is no longer science fiction. In the last ten years, researchers and tech companies have competed to build quantum computers. These computers can solve problems that regular computers cannot. more →
EdTech, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Business Continuity Keeps Albany District Running No Matter What
The City School District of Albany develops a plan to restore operations in the face of disruption. more →
theCUBE research, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
The Long Hours Of Lost Data
Following a successful cyberattack, we have found that substantial amounts of data can become exposed or irretrievable. Our research indicates that businesses can lose many hours or even days' worth of transactions following such an attack - the Recovery Point Objective, or RPO. more →
DevOps.com, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
The DevSecOps Career Path: What No One Tells You About Getting Started
DevOps teams across organizations are suddenly finding themselves responsible for security with no roadmap. more →
Computerworld, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Is AI Killing The Resume?
As applicants use AI to quickly create job-specific resumes, some companies are shifting focus to skills assessments, portfolios, and real-world tasks. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, September 25th, 2025
What 400 Executives Reveal About The Future Of AI Adoption
Against the backdrop of global artificial intelligence (AI) spending that is projected to reach US$644 billion in 2025 - which would be a 76.4% increase from 2024 according to Gartner - it's clear that organizations view AI as existentially necessary. But what specifically are enterprises thinking about when they invest in AI? more →
Threat Exposure Analytics: Measuring and Communicating Security Risk
This webinar provides trend executive reporting tips that connect technical findings to business impact. Security leaders will gain practical approaches for implementing analytics programs that transform exposure data into actionable insights and compelling risk narratives. more →
Fortinet, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
The Security Implications of Quantum Computing: What CISOs Need to Know
CISOs possess a wide range of skill sets, but there are two in which we have been conditioned to excel. First, we're adept at understanding genuine risks that can impact our organizations. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
IBM, Friday, September 26th, 2025
In AI, Alignment Is The Goal. Steerability Is How You Get There
IBM Fellow Kush Varshney explains how IBM Research is responding to generative AI's evolving safety risks. more →
IBM, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
HSBC Breaks New Ground In Quantum-Enabled Algorithmic Trading With IBM Quantum Computers
Researchers deliver evidence that quantum computers could soon solve valuable problems in algorithmic bond trading. more →
SuperMicro, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Supermicro Showcases AI-Optimized Systems And New Servers At Innovate! 2025 In Madrid
Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced several new servers and is showcasing its latest AI-optimized systems at the Supermicro INNOVATE! event in Madrid, Spain. 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, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Cloud Banking: A Guide To Cloud Computing In Finance
The future of banking is bright. By 2030, Accenture predicts that banking will be universally accessible thanks to digital technologies and AI-enabled systems, and the customer experience will be highly personalized and financially empowering. more →
Tierpoint, Thursday, September 25th, 2025
The Ultimate Guide To A Successful Cloud Migration Strategy
Migrating to the cloud can open the door for your business to achieve innovation, improved performance, a better user experience, and significant cost savings. However, it's not without its complexities. more →
Tierpoint, Friday, September 26th, 2025
On-Prem To Cloud Migration: Journey To A Seamless Transition
Moving from an on-premises environment to the cloud is almost always a one-way ticket. Although some businesses do engage in moving from the cloud to on-premises infrastructure, also known as cloud repatriation. more →
Tierpoint, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
What Is Managed Detection and Response (MDR) in Cybersecurity?
Endpoint cybersecurity tools alone are not enough to protect against today's threats. Sophisticated attack techniques and growing attack surfaces go beyond what traditional cybersecurity tools can address. more →
Trend Micro, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
Domino Effect: How One Vendor's AI App Breach Toppled Giants
A single AI chatbot breach at Salesloft-Drift exposed data from 700+ companies, including security leaders. The attack shows how AI integrations expand risk, and why controls like IP allow-listing, token security, and monitoring are critical. more →
Trend Micro, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
AI-Powered App Exposes User Data, Creates Risk Of Supply Chain Attacks
Trend Research's analysis of Wondershare RepairIt reveals how the AI-driven app exposed sensitive user data due to unsecure cloud storage practices and hardcoded credentials, creating risks of model tampering and supply chain attacks. more →
Trend Micro, Friday, September 26th, 2025
CNAPP Is The Solution To Multi-Cloud Flexibility
Cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) not only helps organizations protect, but offers the flexibility of multi-cloud. more →
Trend Micro, Thursday, September 25th, 2025
New LockBit 5.0 Targets Windows, Linux, ESXi
Trend Research analyzed source binaries from the latest activity from notorious LockBit ransomware with their 5.0 version that exhibits advanced obfuscation, anti-analysis techniques, and seamless cross-platform capabilities for Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems. more →
Trend Micro, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
This Is How Your LLM Gets Compromised
Poisoned data. Malicious LoRAs. Trojan model files. AI attacks are stealthier than ever-often invisible until it's too late. Here's how to catch them before they catch you. 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 →
Zscaler, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Beyond The Castle Walls: Zscaler Privilege Remote Access Redefines Secure Access For The Modern Enterprises
A late-night server outage or remote plant malfunction shouldn't paralyze critical workflows-yet for many organizations, sluggish VPN logins, cumbersome credential management, and complex access approvals routinely disrupt IT and OT teams alike. more →
Zscaler, Friday, September 26th, 2025
How To Choose The Right Sase Vendor In The AI Era
Whichever car you've boarded on the AI train, it's going places, and not all of them good. more →
Zscaler, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
YiBackdoor: A New Malware Family With Links to IcedID and Latrodectus
Zscaler ThreatLabz has identified a new malware family that we named YiBackdoor, which was first observed in June 2025. more →
Securing the Autonomous Enterprise: Discover, Govern, and Protect Non-Human Identities.
This technical briefing breaks down how to operationalize a unified security architecture to establish clarity and control over your autonomous ecosystem. more →
