DC: CxO, Big Data, Telco, Cloud, Google, Proofpoint, Cloudflare, Akamai Technologies, Webinars (Mon., Aug 11th Afternoon)
Articles Posted Week of Aug 4th, 2025 — Aug 10th, 2025 (329/1/2)
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CxO
Cybersecurity Must Be A Top Priority For Businesses From Beginning To End
Executives Love Their AI Rollouts, But Employees Aren't Buying It
The Hidden Cost Of 'Good Enough': Why CIOs Must Rethink Data Risk In The AI Era
Big Data
Telco
Cloud
Google News
Google Chrome Enterprise: More Than An Access Point To The Web
New Gemini App Tools To Help Students Learn, Understand And Study Even Better
Proofpoint News
Cloudflare News
Perplexity Is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives
Redesigning Workers Kv For Increased Availability And Faster Performance
Akamai Technologies News
Gartner Market Guide: Microsegmentation For Zero Trust And Resilience
Why The Right Tool - And The Right Team - Are Essential For DNS Security
There is no one way to build a cybersecurity program. Every CISO has their own approach, and every organization has its own unique blend of culture, technical infrastructure, and risk appetite. Register
CxO
Cybersecurity Must Be A Top Priority For Businesses From Beginning To End
The benefits of a collaborative approach to cybersecurity...more
Executives Love Their AI Rollouts, But Employees Aren't Buying It
Less than half of workers see their organizations' approach to gen AI as strategic and successful. CIOs must embrace the change management challenge to ensure clear direction and organization-wide AI literacy....more
Redefining The Role: What Makes A Ciso Great
Security is everyone's responsibility, but as a CISO, it starts with you....more
Securing What Runs: The New CISO Priority
Modern security teams face a growing mandate: stop attacks before they spread, not just after they're discovered....more
The Hidden Cost Of 'Good Enough': Why CIOs Must Rethink Data Risk In The AI Era
In today's cost-conscious climate, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are being asked to achieve the impossible: deliver more innovation with fewer resources....more
Big Data
Warning Signs Your Organization Has Unreliable Data
Organizations that don't address the warning signs of unreliable data pay a steep price, and automated AI systems will drive that price up rapidly....more
Telco
Cloud Native Complexity: The Telco Visibility Challenge
As telcos move to cloud-native architectures, they have the advantage of rich telemetry, providing valuable insights for optimising network performance, enhancing security and improving customer experience....more
Full Duplex Innovation - Microwave Trends For 5G Backhaul (Analyst Angle)
Analyst house ABI Research looks at how full duplex microwave innovations are boosting 5G spectrum efficiency, helping operators meet growing backhaul demands, overcome spectrum limitations, and enable high-capacity, cost-effective wireless connectivity....more
Cloud
Customer Gravity Is Shaping The Cloud Now
Cloud strategies are shifting from centralized data gravity to customer gravity, where intelligence is deployed at the edge for real-time, personalized experiences....more
Securing the Age of Agentic AI: Autonomy, Risk, and Resilience Register
Most Common Security Lapses Seen During Cloud Migrations
Migrating to the cloud isn't just about packing up your belongings and moving them to a new neighborhood. It's a complex journey, fraught with potential security lapses. While the promise of agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud is alluring, a stumble during migration can expose organizations to significant cyber risk....more
Serverless Monitoring Best Practices
Serverless monitoring has significantly transformed the approach of building and deploying applications, providing unparalleled scalability, cost savings and operational overhead....more
Google News
Google Chrome Enterprise: More Than An Access Point To The Web
In a conversation with Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney, Lauren Miskelly from Google explains that Chrome Enterprise is the same Chrome browser that consumers use, but with additional enterprise-grade controls, reporting capabilities, and administrative features...more
New Gemini App Tools To Help Students Learn, Understand And Study Even Better
Level up your learning with new tools in the Gemini app....more
What To Know About Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
Google has released its new large reasoning model, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which extends its 'thinking time' by scaling its inference compute, which allows it to tackle difficult problems through parallel branches....more
Proofpoint News
Insider Incident Of The Month: The Growing Risk Of Sensitive Data Sent To Unauthorized Email Accounts
The Insider Incident of the Month blog series sheds light on the growing problem of email exfiltration of sensitive data to unauthorized accounts. It also examines how Proofpoint helps protect against these serious data loss events. Stories in this blog series are anonymized. ...more
Cloudflare News
Perplexity Is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives
We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine....more
Redesigning Workers Kv For Increased Availability And Faster Performance
On June 12, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a significant service outage that affected a large set of our critical services. As explained in our blog post about the incident, the cause was a failure in the underlying storage infrastructure used by our Workers KV service....more
Vulnerability Disclosure on SSL for SaaS v1 (Managed CNAME)
Earlier this year, a group of external researchers identified and reported a vulnerability in Cloudflare's SSL for SaaS v1 (Managed CNAME) product offering through Cloudflare's bug bounty program....more
Akamai Technologies News
Gartner Market Guide: Microsegmentation For Zero Trust And Resilience
Microsegmentation is no longer a nice-to-have; it's a must-have. The network perimeter is dead. In today's complex IT landscapes, attackers can move inside your defenses with alarming ease to exploit unsegmented pathways, spread ransomware, and exfiltrate data....more
Why The Right Tool - And The Right Team - Are Essential For DNS Security
In today's fast-moving digital world, visibility isn't just nice to have - it's a necessity. But visibility without action? That's just noise....more
This session reveals how forward-thinking organizations are leveraging AI-enabled Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) to transform compliance from a bureaucratic burden into their secret weapon for smarter security. We'll be joined by the VP of Cybersecurity Risk and Compliance at C2 Labs for a full perspective on AI and automation in GRC. Register
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