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Security
AI
New ISACA Research: 81% Using AI At Work, But Only 28% Of Firms Have A Policy In Place
AI Vs. AI: How Deepfake Attacks Are Changing Authentication Forever
How Data Conversations Unlock The Transformative Potential Of AI
CRM
Edge
Salesforce News
Phishing-Resistant Passwordless Best Practices: Read The Gartner Report
The New Leadership Test: Master AI For Strategy, Model It For A Smarter Company
IBM News
KnowBe4 News
Trend Micro News
Security
The Complexity Trap: Why Cybersecurity Must Be Simplified
Simplicity beats complexity in modern cybersecurity...more
From Goat To Game Plan: What 18 Months Of Cloud Pentesting Reveal
Insights from 18 months of cloud pentests reveal consistent failure patterns-and how security teams can evolve from checklist-driven practices to attacker-informed defense. What follows is based on the Pentera paper 'The Diary of a Cyber GOAT.'...more
Managing Encryption Keys Vs. Access Keys
Modern infrastructure depends on keys. Lots of them. Every time a workload spins up, data moves between services, or a machine requests access to an API, some form of key - often called a credential - makes that interaction possible....more
Top Identity Security Themes At Identiverse 2025
Identiverse 2025 found security pros tackling nonhuman identity risks, preparing for agentic AI challenges and shifting from homegrown to commercial CIAM tools....more
AI
New ISACA Research: 81% Using AI At Work, But Only 28% Of Firms Have A Policy In Place
89% of digital trust pros say increased AI skills and knowledge needed to retain job or advance their career over next two years; and nearly a third of organisations are increasing jobs for AI-related functions within 12 months....more
AI Vs. AI: How Deepfake Attacks Are Changing Authentication Forever
Imagine receiving a video call from your company's CEO asking you to immediately transfer $25 million to a specific bank account for an urgent acquisition deal....more
How Data Conversations Unlock The Transformative Potential Of AI
AI will only be as good as the data it ingests...more
CRM
The Best Free CRM Software Of 2025: Expert Tested
Looking for a better way to manage customer conversations? Discover the top free CRM software options for 2025, including HubSpot, Capsule, and Agile CRM....more
Edge
6 Edge Monitoring Best Practices In The Cloud
When it comes to application monitoring, edge workloads are outliers -- literally and metaphorically. Learn what sets them apart and how to implement monitoring best practices....more
Edge AI Model Lifecycle Management: Versioning, Monitoring, And Retraining
As artificial intelligence continues to push closer to the edge of the network, Edge AI has emerged as a transformative paradigm across industries....more
Prioritize Security From The Edge To The Cloud
Businesses can find security vulnerabilities when they push their workloads to the edge. Discover the pitfalls of cloud edge security and best practices to secure edge workloads....more
Why Does AI Matter At The Edge?
AI isn't just reshaping data centers - it's transforming the very networks we rely on at home and work....more
Salesforce News
Credential Phishing: What It Is And How To Prevent It
Credential phishing is a specific kind of phishing cyberattack that is aimed at getting users to share their credentials (typically usernames and passwords) so that the attacker can steal and use them to gain unauthorized access to email accounts, business systems, and other secure resources....more
Phishing-Resistant Passwordless Best Practices: Read The Gartner Report
We hear a lot about the urgent need for phishing resistance, and to be sure, phishing does pose a significant threat-as recent attacks on Change Healthcare and Fidelity Investments demonstrate....more
The New Leadership Test: Master AI For Strategy, Model It For A Smarter Company
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
IBM News
An AI Model With A Finger On The Time Series Pulse
IBM's new foundation model, TSPulse, can go beyond standard forecasting tasks to detect anomalies, fill in missing values, classify data, and search recurring patterns. It's also tiny enough to run on a laptop...more
Watsonx Code Assistant For Z Is The Rosetta Stone For Mainframes
The COBOL language underlies critical business systems, but WCA for Z is using the power of AI to help developers understand and modernize it....more
KnowBe4 News
Warning: Scammers Are Targeting Whatsapp Users
Researchers at Bitdefender warn of a wave of social engineering attacks targeting WhatsApp accounts. The attacks begin with automated phone calls that instruct users to add a specific phone number to their WhatsApp contacts. The call then ends abruptly....more
What Is Human Risk Management?
Cybersecurity has long focused on fortifying networks, securing endpoints and blocking malicious code....more
Your Knowbe4 Fresh Content Updates From June 2025
Check out the 33 new pieces of training content added in June, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, new features and events....more
Trend Micro News
Why A Classic MCP Server Vulnerability Can Undermine Your Entire AI Agent
A single SQL injection bug in Anthropic's SQLite MCP server-forked over 5,000 times-can seed stored prompts, exfiltrate data, and hand attackers the keys to entire agent workflows. This entry unpacks the attack chain and lays out concrete fixes to shut it down....more
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