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Red Hat News
LLM Compression And Optimization: Cheaper Inference With Fewer Hardware Resources
Red Hat, June 30,2025
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye....more
Friday Five - July 4, 2025
Red Hat, July 4,2025
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye....more
IBM News
An IBM CIO Approaches AI With Both Optimism and Caution
IBM, July 1,2025
Matt Lyteson, IBM's CIO, technology, reflects on an artificial intelligence project designed to show AI's benefits and shortcomings....more
Cisco News
Take An AI Break And Let The Agent Heal The Network
Cisco, July 1,2025
AI is running full throttle, leaving a wake of radical changes for software developers. We're entering a time where AI can write code, call tools, and execute complex workflows-all from a single prompt....more
Scaling AI In The Enterprise
Cisco, July 1,2025
AI workloads are pushing the limits of traditional data center infrastructure, demanding new levels of performance, scale, security, and operational rigor....more
Four Steps To Achieve Cyber Resilience For Utilities
Cisco, July 2,2025
With rising energy demands, the rapid adoption of renewable energy, and the growing frequency of severe weather events, utility companies around the globe are under mounting pressure to upgrade and modernize their grid infrastructure....more
Building An XDR Integration With Splunk Attack Analyzer
Cisco, July 2,2025
Cisco XDR is an infinitely extensible platform for security integrations. Like the maturing SOCs of our customers, the event SOC team at Cisco Live San Diego 2025 built custom integrations to meet our needs....more
Designed With You. Built For What's Next
Cisco, July 2,2025
Since the announcement of the Cisco 360 Partner Program last November, something powerful has taken shape-not behind closed doors, but out in the open....more
ESET News
Why Is Your Data Worth So Much? Cybersecurity Podcast
ESET, July 1,2025
In this episode of Unlocked 403, Becks sits down with Jake Moore, Global Security Advisor at ESET, to unpack how social media platforms harvest and monetize our data....more
Which Online Myths Are Your Kids Falling For? Learn How To Recognize Them
ESET, July 1,2025
Today, with the rise of social media algorithms, viral challenges, and AI-generated content, it has become increasingly difficult to tell what's real and what's not....more
Salesforce News
AI Agents Are Rewriting Developer Processes - Here's What's Next
Salesforce, June 23,2025
For years, 'shift left' has been the mantra for development teams: catch bugs early, test often, and fix fast....more
How Executives Use AI For High-Stakes Work
Salesforce, July 2,2025
Using AI in the C-suite helps you hone your strategic vision and signals to employees that AI use isn't optional, but expected. Here's how....more
DDN News
DDN Gears Up For AI Boom With Next-Gen Storage Systems
DDN, July 2,2025
The new AI400X3 and Infinia 2.1 systems offer enhanced speed, object storage and GPU integration for enterprise AI deployments....more
DDN On Infinia Object Storage And Solving The Posix Problem
DDN, July 3,2025
We spoke to DDN SVP for Products James Coomer and CTO Sven Oehme about the status of its relatively new Infinia object store and about details on its claimed performance, multi-tenancy, and resilience....more
DDN Targets Enterprise-Shaped Hole In Its AI Storage Offer
DDN, July 2,2025
Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025...more
Episode 268 Of The French Storage Podcast With DDN
DDN, July 2,2025
With a fantastic session with DDN during the recent IT Press Tour in California early June with Paul Bloch, president and co-founder, and Sven Oehme, CTO, covering HPC storage but above all AI storage and all connected domains and challenges, I got the idea to extend this with a special talk with Sven to go deeper in the technology and their architecture approach....more
IO500 10-Node Production Results - Driving AI Success
DDN, June 30,2025
Few metrics capture real-world AI storage performance as clearly as the IO500 benchmark. In the latest IO500 10-Node Production rankings (ISC 2025), the results read like a roll-call of DDN's success....more
The AI Infrastructure Bottleneck No One Talks About: Why Smart Storage Is The Missing Layer
DDN, June 30,2025
In our opinion, Gartner's Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies, 2025 (subscription required) offers critical insights into which storage innovations are poised to transform enterprise IT strategies....more
Varonis News
Hidden Risks Of Shadow AI
Varonis, June 30,2025
Shadow AI is on the rise as employees adopt unsanctioned AI tools. Learn the risks it poses to security and compliance, and how to manage it responsibly....more
Cloud Data Security: Best Practices
Varonis, June 30,2025
Unlock the power of cloud data security: discover tips on access, monitoring, compliance, and more to keep your organization safe and thriving....more
Rapid7 News
From .pth To p0wned: Abuse Of Pickle Files In AI Model Supply Chains
Rapid7, July 1,2025
Recent threat research highlights a growing risk in the Python and machine learning (ML) ecosystem: the exploitation of serialized model files, specifically those using Python's pickle module....more
Proofpoint News
Phish-Proofing Your Inbox With Proofpoint
Proofpoint, July 2,2025
In June 2025 Gartner published 'Overcome AI-Powered Attacks by Leveling Up Your Email Security Platform' by Nikul Patel, Deepak Mishra and Max Taggett....more
Strengthening Data Security in the Age of AI: ESG Validates Proofpoint DSPM
Proofpoint, July 3,2025
As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, they are also struggling to manage rapidly expanding data footprints. Modern enterprises are seeing their data grow in both volume and complexity across cloud and on-premises environments....more
AI And Data Privacy: Ensuring Compliance In The Age Of AI
Proofpoint, June 30,2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how organizations use and understand data. AI can process huge amounts of information to deliver insights that drive value. But these benefits come with serious risks-especially to data privacy....more
KnowBe4 News
KnowBe4 Urges Organizations to Recognize Social Engineering's Critical Role in Ransomware Surge
KnowBe4, July 2,2025
Amidst rising ransomware-related attacks, KnowBe4 shares five pivotal tips to reduce human risk this Ransomware Awareness Month...more
Cyberheistnews Vol 15 #26 [My Clicking Time Bomb] What Do I Do About The Repeat Clickers?
KnowBe4, July 1,2025
[My Clicking Time Bomb] What Do I Do About the Repeat Clickers?...more
CyberArk News
The Quantum-AI Collision: What Cisos Must Do Now To Stay Ahead
CyberArk, July 2,2025
Technology is moving at the speed of light, and two forces-quantum computing and AI agents-are poised to shake up cybersecurity. We're not talking about some far-off future; this is happening now....more
Scattered Spider Unmasked: How An Identity-Focused APT Is Redefining Cyber Threats
CyberArk, July 3,2025
Scattered Spider has emerged as one of the most disruptive advanced persistent threats in recent years, breaching major organizations across telecom, gaming, transportation, and retail. In the last few months, the group has escalated its activity-targeting financial services and launching coordinated ransomware campaigns that have crippled operations and exposed sensitive data....more
Cloudflare News
Content Independence Day: No AI Crawl Without Compensation!
Cloudflare, July 1,2025
Almost 30 years ago, two graduate students at Stanford University - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - began working on a research project they called Backrub....more
From Googlebot To GPTBot: Who's Crawling Your Site In 2025
Cloudflare, July 1,2025
Web crawlers are not new. The World Wide Web Wanderer debuted in 1993, though the first web search engines to truly use crawlers and indexers were JumpStation and WebCrawler....more
The Crawl Before The Fall... Of Referrals: Understanding AI's Impact On Content Providers
Cloudflare, July 1,2025
Content publishers welcomed crawlers and bots from search engines because they helped drive traffic to their sites....more
Message Signatures Are Now Part Of Our Verified Bots Program, Simplifying Bot Authentication
Cloudflare, July 1,2025
As a site owner, how do you know which bots to allow on your site, and which you'd like to block?...more
Tenable News
How To Chart An Exposure Management Leadership Path For You, Your Boss And Your Organization
Tenable, June 30,2025
For years, organizations poured resources into reactive defenses, scrambling to contain breaches once they were already underway....more
Navigating Public Cloud Vulnerability Management: When To Choose Network Scanners, Agents Or Agentless
Tenable, July 2,2025
There are various approaches to managing vulnerabilities on cloud workloads, and knowing which vulnerability scan method to use is critical to your success....more
Sophos News
Threat Intelligence Executive Report - Volume 2025, Number 3
Sophos, July 3,2025
This issue of the Counter Threat Unit's high-level bimonthly report discusses noteworthy updates in the threat landscape during March and April...more
Using AI To Identify Cybercrime Masterminds
Sophos, June 30,2025
Analyzing dark web forums to identify key experts on e-crime...more
Check Point News
Disrupting The Ransomware Attack Chain With Hybrid Mesh Security (Part 1)
Check Point, July 4,2025
In this three-part blog series, we explore how a hybrid mesh architecture can effectively break the ransomware attack chain....more
Amazon Prime Day 2025: Deals Await, But So Do The Cyber Criminals
Check Point, July 3,2025
Ahead of this year's Amazon Prime Day 2025 on July 8th, shoppers worldwide are preparing their wish lists. So are cyber criminals....more
From VPN to SASE: Enabling Hybrid Work Beyond Legacy Access
Check Point, July 2,2025
It's 8 AM EST and your VPN is already at 85% capacity. New York comes online in an hour, and your help desk is already fielding 'slow connection' tickets....more
Raising The Bar: Infinity Global Services' Pen Testing Achieves Crest-Accreditation
Check Point, July 1,2025
In today's evolving threat landscape, proactive security measures are more critical than ever. Penetration Testing (PT) - a core service within Infinity Global Services (IGS) - plays a vital role in uncovering vulnerabilities before they can be exploited....more
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