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Articles Posted Week of Aug 4th, 2025 — Aug 10th, 2025 (329/1/1)
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CxO
Technology
HR
Email
Datacore News
Veeam News
Dangerous Tools in Clumsy Hands: Lessons from the VanHelsing Ransomware Leak
Minimum Viable Business And Minimum Viable Company For Cyber Resilience: What You Need To Know
The Overlooked Risk In Your Microsoft 365 Defense: Why Identity Protection Matters More Than Ever
Okta News
Akamai Technologies News
AI In Cloud Computing: How AI Is Revolutionizing The Landscape
CVE-2025-32094: HTTP Request Smuggling Via OPTIONS + Obsolete Line Folding
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CxO
5 IT Roadmap Gotchas In A Disruptive Era
Long-term planning - once the bedrock of IT operations - has become increasingly challenging for CIOs of late. The ability to anticipate change, pivot effectively, and avoid common pitfalls is vital to ensuring your IT journey ends in success....more
The Wild West Of Shadow IT
Everyone's an IT decision-maker now. The employees in your organization can install a plugin with just one click, and they don't need to clear it with your team first. It's great for productivity, but it's a serious problem for your security posture....more
'Big Bang' Tech Deployments Fade Amid Optimization Focus
'Instead of 24- or 36-month projects, we're talking six- to eight-week cycles, Grant Thornton's Tony Dinola said....more
AI Burnout: A New Challenge For CIOs
As AI is incorporated into the workplace, it is having an impact on employee mental health. Not just an HR issue, IT leaders must take a proactive approach to ward off AI burnout....more
CISOs Say They're Prepared, Their Data Says Otherwise
Most security teams believe they can act quickly when a threat emerges. But many don't trust the very data they rely on to do so, and that's holding them back....more
Technology
How Quantum Computing Is Revolutionizing Data Centers' Future?
A Quantum Leap in Processing Power Is Poised to Reshape the Architecture of Modern Data Centers...more
IBM Predicts the Dawn of Quantum Advantage
In the very new world of quantum computing, which vendor or standards body gets to officially proclaim that the technology has first reached 'quantum advantage'?...more
PCI-SIG Unveils PCIe 8.0: 256 GT/s Bandwidth Coming by 2028
The PCI-SIG has officially announced the forthcoming PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification, which is set to double the data rate of the current PCIe 7.0 standard, reaching an impressive 256.0 GT/s....more
HR
Non-Certified A.I. Skills Continue To Earn Substantially Higher Cash Pay Premiums Than A.I. Certifications, Similar To Pay Trends For All 1,371 It Skills And Certifications In The Itscpi.
As AI begins to shift from experimental to operational for many employers, paying IT talent is fast becoming a new ballgame. The list of AI-related skills and certifications generating cash pay premiums reported in Foote Partners' IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM (ITSCPI) is averaging the equivalent of 14% of base salary....more
Prime Day has come and gone, but the real opportunity lies ahead. In this webinar, the Blue Wheel team will break down the biggest takeaways from Prime Day 2025: what worked, what didn't, and what it means for the rest of the year. We'll share performance data, trend insights, and creative tactics that leading brands used to win during the event. Register
Email
4 Reasons Why Spark Mail Works Better For Me Than Gmail
Have you been looking for an alternative to the Gmail app on Android? Well, Spark scratches that itch for me....more
Security Teams Need To Focus On Vendor Email Compromises
Most people think of cyberattacks as complex, technical breaches: Malware. Ransomware. Exploits....more
10 Best Practices To Improve Email Deliverability
Email marketing is one of the most dependable channels for engaging and converting customers. Your email must reach the inbox, as opposed to going into the spam folder or bouncing. Improving email deliverability can enhance your campaign results and help you reach your customers more effectively....more
Datacore News
Breaking The Data Migration Curse: No Downtime, No Drama
A smarter way to move data between storage systems without breaking apps, SLAs, or your weekend...more
Veeam News
Dangerous Tools in Clumsy Hands: Lessons from the VanHelsing Ransomware Leak
For many organizations, this is the nightmare scenario: you think you've negotiated your way out of a ransomware attack, you've paid the ransom demanded, and you've waited for the promised decryption tool. But when you think your data is safe and the ordeal is finished, you discover your data is still lost....more
Minimum Viable Business And Minimum Viable Company For Cyber Resilience: What You Need To Know
New approaches to existing practices, Minimum Viable Company (MVC) and Minimum Viable Business (MVB), are gaining traction in the Cyber Resilience space....more
The Overlooked Risk In Your Microsoft 365 Defense: Why Identity Protection Matters More Than Ever
Cybersecurity is a moving target, and as organizations increasingly rely on Microsoft 365, Entra ID has become the latest battleground in the war on information security....more
Okta News
Unlocking SaaS Security: How Identity Can Help
SaaS developers and builders, SaaS users, enterprise security teams, and Identity Providers may all play seemingly disconnected roles in a SaaS environment. But everyone can support a unified SaaS Security strategy by focusing on Identity....more
Usability And Utility: How Users Establish Usefulness
Understanding usability may be your missing evaluator when establishing a product's value. Like tech stacks, a human's ability to process information affects product performance. Usability principles streamline how users process information and evaluate how useful a product is....more
Akamai Technologies News
3 Key Areas To Focus On When You're Evaluating AI Security
We are all painfully aware that the AI security space is moving faster than anyone expected. What started as a bunch of vendors slapping "AI-powered" stickers on existing tools has evolved into something much more sophisticated - and, frankly, much more necessary....more
AI In Cloud Computing: How AI Is Revolutionizing The Landscape
Cloud AI refers to artificial intelligence services and resources hosted on public cloud platforms. These capabilities are used to automate processes, optimize resource allocation, and support a wide range of intelligent functions....more
CVE-2025-32094: HTTP Request Smuggling Via OPTIONS + Obsolete Line Folding
In March 2025, Akamai received a bug bounty report identifying an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability. We quickly resolved the issue for all customers via a platform-wide fix with no evidence of any successful exploitation of the attack vector known to us....more
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