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Articles Posted Week of Jul 7thth, 2025 — Jul 13th, 2025 (328/2/3)
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CxO
Skills Gaps Send CISOs In Search Of Managed Security Providers
You Have A Fake North Korean IT Worker Problem - Here's How To Stop It
A Majority Of Enterprises Say CISOs Now Responsible For Operational Technology (OT) Security
Big Data
Marketing
DevOps
IBM News
Check Point News
Check Point Software Technologies Named A Leader In Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2025 Evaluation
Exposing Scattered Spider: New Indicators Highlight Growing Threat To Enterprises And Aviation
How A Hybrid Mesh Architecture Disrupts The Attack Chain (Part Two)
Join SUSE experts in this exclusive webinar to discover how you can streamline operations, boost performance, and cut costs - without compromising security. Register
CxO
Skills Gaps Send CISOs In Search Of Managed Security Providers
Use of MSSPs is on the rise as CISOs contend with increased workloads, rising threats, and budget constraints, in addition to talent and training gaps....more
You Have A Fake North Korean IT Worker Problem - Here's How To Stop It
Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another...more
6 Data Risks CIOs Should Be Paranoid About
From misclassified data to AI use without adequate quality assurance, IT leaders looking to make the most of data-driven decision-making have lots to worry about....more
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
A Majority Of Enterprises Say CISOs Now Responsible For Operational Technology (OT) Security
The C-suite at enterprises is taking operational technology (OT) security more seriously than in years past, reported Fortinet....more
Big Data
AI-Driven Network Security And Big Data Analytics Revolutionise Business Operations
Kunal Purohit, President - Next Gen Services at Tech Mahindra, tells us how AI-driven innovations are shaping the convergence of network security platforms and Big Data analytics, enabling organisations to adapt to dynamic digital environments with greater agility and intelligence....more
Top 10 Data Platforms In 2025
Snowflake & More: The Leading Data Platforms Shaping Analytics and Enterprise Intelligence in 2025...more
Marketing
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
Whether you're a cloud engineer, architect, or business leader trying to make sense of the AI landscape, this webinar will give you a practical lens into what's possible - and what's proven. Register
DevOps
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
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
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
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
IBM News
IBM Unveils Power11 Chip And Servers For Ai Workloads
IBM has unveiled Power11, an upgrade to its Power series of servers and chips, offering design improvements that it claims streamline operations for the AI era. Among the key improvements: Power11 is the first Power server to support the IBM Spyre Accelerator, IBM's system-on-a-chip designed for AI-intensive inference workloads....more
Big Blue's Devs Flood Watsonx With Incremental Updates
IBM's developers are adding features to watsonx.data and other parts of its watsonx AI software to help customers build and operate AI agents that get faster responses to data store requests and comply with governance monitoring....more
Check Point News
Check Point Software Technologies Named A Leader In Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2025 Evaluation
Check Point's Hybrid Mesh Security Platform recognized for plan to deliver AI-driven capabilities to automate network security functions...more
Exposing Scattered Spider: New Indicators Highlight Growing Threat To Enterprises And Aviation
Check Point Research identifies phishing domain patterns, offering actionable insights to proactively counter threats from the notorious cyber group behind recent airline attacks...more
How A Hybrid Mesh Architecture Disrupts The Attack Chain (Part Two)
In Part 1 we covered the basics and how a fragmented approach can have a higher MTTD and MTTR. In part two we highlight five critical ways a hybrid mesh approach uniquely disrupts the ransomware lifecycle....more
Join us for a deep dive into VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, the latest innovation in private cloud from Broadcom. In this Tech Field Day Showcase, Broadcom experts will explore what's new in VCF 9.0 and share best practices for successful adoption and deployment. Register
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