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Security
AI-Powered DDoS: How Attackers Evolve and Defenders Fight Back
Tackling Cybersecurity Today: Your Top Challenge and Strategy
Why SIEM Rules Fail and How to Fix Them: Insights from 160 Million Attack Simulations
AI
DevOps
Hitachi Vantara News
HPE News
Networks Need Agentic AI with HPE Juniper Networking (31:35)
HPE Accelerates Self-Driving Network Operations With New Mist Agentic AI-Native Innovations
Zscaler News
Cloudflare News
Cloudflare Rolls Out New Defenses for Generative AI in the Enterprise
Cloudflare Takes Aim at AI Security Gaps With Confidence Ratings
Security
Debunking Common Myths About DDoS Attacks and Protection
Today, enterprises heavily rely on the internet and web-based applications and services, making their continuous availability critical for business growth and long-term sustainability....more
NIST Outlines Cybersecurity Framework for AI System
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week released a concept paper proposing new cybersecurity guidelines designed to secure artificial intelligence systems....more
AI-Powered DDoS: How Attackers Evolve and Defenders Fight Back
DDoS attacks were once crude instruments-digital sledgehammers that would flood a target with massive amounts of traffic until it crashed....more
Tackling Cybersecurity Today: Your Top Challenge and Strategy
Shadow IT used to be a fringe problem, a rogue Dropbox account here, a personal Gmail there. Now, it's everywhere. One customer said it best: 'We don't have a Shadow IT problem. We are Shadow IT.' That stuck....more
Why SIEM Rules Fail and How to Fix Them: Insights from 160 Million Attack Simulations
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems act as the primary tools for detecting suspicious activity in enterprise networks, helping organizations identify and respond to potential attacks in real time....more
AI
Agentic AI Compliance And Regulation: What To Know
Agentic AI's autonomous nature and its ability to access multiple data layers bring heightened risk. Learn how to ensure its deployment meets compliance standards....more
The AI Infrastructure Inflection Point: From Experimentation to Production
Artificial intelligence represents one of the most transformative innovations since the internet itself. AI is reshaping how we work across every role, from executives and sales teams to marketing, product, and engineering. Beyond becoming part of our digital infrastructure, AI is changing how professionals approach their daily work....more
The 5 Golden Rules of Safe AI Adoption
Employees are experimenting with AI at record speed. They are drafting emails, analyzing data, and transforming the workplace. The problem is not the pace of AI adoption, but the lack of control and safeguards in place....more
DevOps
John Willis: The True North of DevOps and DevSecOps
Over the last 14-plus years of my journey through DevOps, I've had the good fortune to meet some of the smartest, most generous, most forward-thinking people in our industry....more
No More Coders? You Still Need DevOps.
If you're not coming out from under a rock, you may have heard that it's the end of the road if you're making software today. AI is coming to take your job! We're entering an age of robots building software! Get on board now, or your competitors will squash you like a bug! There's a lot of hype . and do I smell tulip bulbs?...more
Hitachi Vantara News
Three Things Every Organisation Adopting AI Needs To Be Mindful of Today
As Australian organisations embrace AI-driven change, three factors will be important to optimise their forward-facing strategies...more
Just as the methodology of DevSecOps evolved to manage the new risks of DevOps-oriented software practice, a new framework is needed to identify, prioritize, remediate and manage the new classes of vulnerabilities being introduced rapidly into AI-native applications. Register
HPE News
Networks Need Agentic AI with HPE Juniper Networking (31:35)
Agentic AI is reshaping the IT landscape and networking is no exception. Building upon the previous research into machine learning means we have a head start on harnessing that power....more
Turning Vision Into Reality: HPE is a Leader in Private AI Infrastructure Systems, According to the IDC MarketScape
The features and capabilities of HPE Private Cloud AI, which was named a Leader in Private AI Infrastructure Systems by IDC...more
HPE Accelerates Self-Driving Network Operations With New Mist Agentic AI-Native Innovations
HPE Juniper Networking portfolio simplifies IT operations and elevates user experiences with more autonomous actions delivered via agentic workflows and expanded digital experience twinning...more
Zscaler News
Why Regulations Can Outlive Their Usefulness
Cybersecurity regulations can protect organizations from known risks, but when they fail to evolve, they become obstacles to innovation and leave gaps for attackers to exploit....more
Zscaler Completes 2024 IRAP Assessment, Demonstrates Enhanced Security and Governance Maturity
Zscaler, Inc. announced that it has successfully completed the 2024 Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment in Australia for its Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform....more
Cloudflare News
Cloudflare Rolls Out New Defenses for Generative AI in the Enterprise
Cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced new capabilities for Cloudflare One, its zero-trust security platform, designed to help organizations securely adopt, build and deploy generative artificial intelligence applications....more
Cloudflare Takes Aim at AI Security Gaps With Confidence Ratings
Cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Application Confidence Scores for artificial intelligence applications, a new feature designed to help enterprises evaluate the security, compliance and reliability of third-party software-as-a-service and generative AI tools....more
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