DC: Popular IT Articles Posted Week of October 6th, 2025

Volume 331 Issue 1 - IT News You Can Use

IT News You Can Use

Full issue is here: Volume 331, Issue 1

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Most Popular Articles in Vol 331 Issue 1, Grouped into Sections

CxO

• Navigating Complexity: CISO Strategies For Security Tool Consolidation And Budget Optimization

• Beyond October: Why Cybersecurity Awareness Needs To Be A Daily Habit, Not An Annual Event

• How CIOs Balance Emerging Technology And Technical Debt

• In Order To Last, Should CIOs Adopt AI-First?

• CISO Conversations: John ‘Four’ Flynn, VP Of Security And Privacy At Google DeepMind

• 7 Standout CIO Skills Every Company Wants

• The Invisible CIO: When Doing It Right Is No Longer Enough

• How CIOs Use Predictive AI To Make Better Decisions

• 25 Recent Cyber Attacks That Serve As A Wake-Up Call For Businesses

• The CIO’s Playbook For Reducing Tech Debt

• AI Cost Overruns Are Adding Up - With Major Implications For CIOs

• Leading With Emotional Intelligence In The Age Of AI

• Top CIO Conferences In 2026

• Why CIOs Must Be Business Leaders First, Technologists Second

Security

• Rethinking NHI Security: The Essential Shift to Zero Trust Security and Ephemeral Identities

• Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Double-Down On The Security Basics

• Inside The Mind Of A Threat Actor: What Cisos Must Learn Before The Next Breach

• Cybersecurity In The Age Of Remote Contact Centers: Risks And Remedies

• AI-Powered Voice Cloning Raises Vishing Risks

• Phishing Is Moving From Email To Mobile. Is Your Security

• CISA 2015 Cyber Threat Info-Sharing Law Lapses Amid Government Shutdown

• What Is Identity And Access Management (IAM)?

CxO Podcasts

• Three Insights You Might Have Missed From theCUBE’s Coverage Of ‘The Networking For AI Summit’

• DPIT: ERP Without the Nightmare w/James Dean Miller (#377) (1:12:18)

• Quantum. Is Here: How 2025 Became The Breakthrough Year (42:58)

• DPIT: Grant Walsh: The Golf Course Leadership Philosophy (#376) (42:08)

• Oxide And Friends: Scaling Manufacturing (Episode 27 Season 5) (1:30:06)

• Escape AI Quicksand: Data Misuse, Misadventures, And Mal-Intent

• First Person Meets... Hal Lonas: Tell Me When I Am Wrong (28 min)

• PodChats for FutureCIO: Accelerating agentic AI adoption in 2026

Operations

• How AI Revolutionizes - And Threatens - Data Center Cybersecurity

• Pushing The Limits Of Liquid Cooling And Future-Proofing Thermal Strategy

• Data Center Security In 2025: A Cybersecurity Awareness Month Guide

• Data Center Redundancy: A Guide To N-Levels And Tier Classifications

• How Infrastructure And IT Operations Leaders Can Develop A Strategy For Success In 2026

• Security Vs. IT: Why Patching Is Still A Point Of Failure

Security Boulevard

• As Hardware, API And Network Vulnerabilities Rise, Defenders Rethink Strategies

• Adapting Your Security Strategy For Hybrid Cloud Environments

AI

• Shadow AI Is The New Shadow It: Why A SaaS-First Approach Wins

• Accelerating The Path To Practical Quantum Applications With AI

• What World-Class IT Looks Like In The Gen AI Era

Humor

• Intern Had No Idea What Not To Do, So Nearly Mangled A Mainframe

• Energy Drink Company Punished ERP Graybeard For Going Too Fast

Platform Engineering

• AI In Platform Engineering: Promise, Plateau And The Path Forward

• Platform Engineering As A Product: Why IT Leaders Need To Think Like Product Managers

Marketing

• Dell Refreshes Storage Lines With QLC Flash And Beefed-Up Security

• 2025 AI Marketing Guide: Use Generative Tools Without SEO Loss

HR

• Workers Are Avoiding Advancement. How Can HR Adjust When No One Wants To Lead?

Cloud

• 31% Of IT Leaders Waste Half Their Cloud Spend

AR-VR

• What Is Extended Reality?

Encryption

• Quantum-Safe Strategies: Why C-Suite Must Care Now, Not Later

Developer

• Why Visual Studio Code Is My Favorite IDE

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