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Articles Posted Week: Nov. 24th, 2025 — Nov. 30th, 2025 (332/4/4)
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CxO
Humor
Dev’s Last-Day-Of-Contract Code Helped To Crash App Used By 350,000 People
Cabling Survived Dungeons And Fish Factories, Until A Lazy User Took The Network Down
DevOps
It’s Time To Rethink Access Control For Modern Development Environments
Patch Or Perish: The Brutal Truth About Vulnerability Management In 2025
What I’m Thankful For In DevOps This Year: Living Through Interesting Times
Dell News
KnowBe4 News
Phishing CampAIgn Uses Fake Party Invites To Deliver Remote Access Tools
What Happens When Cybercriminals Compromise A Sportswear Giant?
Compliance gaps are costing contact centers millions, and most leaders don't even know where they're exposed. Join us for a 60-minute deep dive to uncover the unseen pitfalls in data privacy, consent handling, and QA coverage - and learn how plug-and-play automation can protect your business before regulators come knocking. Register
CxO
AI Fluency In The Enterprise: Still A ‘Horseless Carriage’
Panelists at this month’s Microsoft Ignite event talked about their efforts to roll out agentic AI at their companies, including what works - and what still needs work....more
Cyber Resilience Is A Business Imperative: Skills And Strategy Must Evolve
Building cyber resilience through skills, strategy, and leadership...more
Allies: The CIO’s Key To Amplifying Influence
By taking a bottom-up approach to establishing co-creation relationships with business users on the front lines, IT leaders can develop the political capital to better influence the executives those users report to....more
Humor
Dev’s Last-Day-Of-Contract Code Helped To Crash App Used By 350,000 People
Customer signed off and a remaining staffer triggered the mess...more
Cabling Survived Dungeons And Fish Factories, Until A Lazy User Took The Network Down
A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career...more
Join us for a collaborative conversation that unpacks Cyber 5 2025 performance and explores how Agentic Commerce, generative AI, and real-time experimentation are sparking new possibilities for eCommerce growth in 2026 Register
DevOps
It’s Time To Rethink Access Control For Modern Development Environments
As development environments evolve at breakneck speed, our approach to securing them remains stuck in the past. I’ve watched countless organizations implement robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, deploy Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools, and then breathe a collective sigh of relief, believing they’ve solved their access control challenges. But have they?...more
Patch Or Perish: The Brutal Truth About Vulnerability Management In 2025
Hackers aren’t breaking in; they’re merely walking through open doors. In 2025, known vulnerabilities are the easiest way in. Thousands of companies are leaving them wide open....more
The Future Of DevOps Still Has A Pulse
Over the last few years, we have watched our industry get swept up in the promise of AI agents. The pitch is compelling: tell a system ‘Deploy this workflow and roll back if things don’t go as expected,’ and watch it handle everything else....more
What I’m Thankful For In DevOps This Year: Living Through Interesting Times
Whether it’s the breakneck pace of innovation, including AI and how it is changing our day-to-day, the shifting regulatory landscape, or simply the challenge of keeping teams connected in a world that’s still figuring out hybrid everything, we truly are living at a historic juncture....more
Dell News
Building Ancient Roads On Modern Machines
From Silkroad to flow state: How NVIDIA RTX-powered Dell workstations freed Nicolas Garilhe to create without limits....more
KnowBe4 News
One-Size-Fits-All Security Training Fits Nobody
Here’s a curious thing about people, sometimes we crave the familiar, and sometimes we demand the novel....more
Phishing CampAIgn Uses Fake Party Invites To Deliver Remote Access Tools
A large phishing campaign is using phony seasonal party invites to trick users into installing remote management and monitoring (RMM) tools, according to researchers at Symantec....more
What Happens When Cybercriminals Compromise A Sportswear Giant?
Between 1:48pm ET on October 29 and 6:53pm ET on October 30, 2025, KnowBe4 threat analysts observed a high volume of phishing emails detected by KnowBe4 Defend that were sent from the legitimate domain of one of the world’s largest sportswear brands....more
This Session Explores The Next Stage In The Evolution Of Cloud Security, Moving From Fragmented Visibility And Static Configuration Checks Toward Real-Time Insight, Automated Investigation, And Adaptive Response. Register
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