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Articles Posted Week of Oct. 6th, 2025 — Oct. 12th, 2025 (331/2/6)
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Security
Humor
Techie Found An Error Message So Rude The CEO Of IBM Apologized For It
Client Defended Engineer After Oil Baron-Turned Tech Support Entrepreneur Lied About Dodgy Dealings
MFA
DR
Developer
Salesforce News
5 Stars: How To Get Reviews For Your Small Business Or Startup
5 Prompting Tips Every Marketer Should Know To Get The Most From AI
Cloudflare News
Join this complimentary Gartner webinar as a Gartner expert shares how to identify and invest in high-impact AI techniques, including multimodal AI, AI agents and ModelOps. Register
Security
Enterprise Browsers: The New Standard For Security?
The market for enterprise browsers is growing fast - but are their features and security controls enough to compete with free applications?...more
What CISOs Should Know About Deepseek Cybersecurity Risks
DeepSeek poses significant risks to U.S. enterprises -- even those that don’t greenlight it for internal use. CISOs should take steps to reduce the threat....more
Why We Need A Cybersecurity Validation Standard
Any organization that has not been hit by ransomware thinks, by default, that its defenses are good....more
Humor
Techie Found An Error Message So Rude The CEO Of IBM Apologized For It
This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Saul” who shared a story from his time working for an IBM dealer in the late 1980s. “I’d taught myself how to use a PC/DOS and got the job because I knew more about PCs than the hiring manager or the team lead,” Saul told Who, Me? On his first day at the coal face, his boss asked him to learn something new: UNIX....more
Client Defended Engineer After Oil Baron-Turned Tech Support Entrepreneur Lied About Dodgy Dealings
Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders...more
MFA
Seven Ways To Harden Our MFA Deployments
When multifactor authentication (MFA) became mainstream, the cybersecurity community embraced the technology as a silver bullet to a generations-old problem....more
Every day, organizations are at risk of a cyberattack by financially motivated threat actors as well as state sponsored cyber spies. But just who are the cyber attackers behind the endless wave of attack campaigns and what are their underlying missions? Register
DR
How To Create A Business Continuity Plan
To create a Business Continuity Plan, begin with a Business Impact Assessment to identify critical processes and set RTO/RPO targets, then assess risks across cyber, natural, system, and supply-chain scenarios....more
Developer
AI Is Transforming Software Engineering. Here’s How It Can Help Your SDLC
AI’s shaking up software development - making coding faster, collaboration smoother, and Agile teams more powerful than ever....more
Why We Need Human Developers
Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World explains why humans remain crucial to critical software projects; how AI investments are being funded by layoffs; and why AI infrastructure is so expensive....more
Salesforce News
Your AI Agent Works, But Do Your Users Think It’s Worth It?
Design research shows that improving your users’ perception of value is the key to adoption. Learning from AI agent pain points can help....more
AI Agents Give Everyone The Power To Act Like A Leader
Wider access to intelligence - and the freedom to use it - elevates every employee beyond their job title....more
5 Stars: How To Get Reviews For Your Small Business Or Startup
Learn how to get positive reviews for your small business using these top tips and strategies....more
5 Prompting Tips Every Marketer Should Know To Get The Most From AI
Learn how better prompts can help you power smarter campaigns, scalable personalization, and deeper customer connections...more
Cloudflare News
Cloudflare Unveils New Tool To Control Use Of Website Content
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare, Inc., unveils Content Signals Policy, a tool to help website owners and publishers gain more control over their content....more
This session brings together a unique panel of experts who have served as editors of some of the most important storage sanitization standards. Register
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