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Security
Deepfakes And Malware: AI Menu Grows Longer For Threat Actors, Causing Headaches For Defenders
Clean vs Fast Recovery: Why MTCR (Mean Time To Clean Recovery) Matters
Security Boulevard
Workload Identity And Access Management: The Definitive Guide
Seven Identity And API Security Tools Modern SaaS Teams Should Evaluate In 2026
Standardize or Suffer: The JCHK Blueprint for MSSPs Defending SMB and SME Clients
Humor
Security Contractor Blew The Whistle On Support Crew’s Viral Indifference
Contractor Quaffed His Way Through Y2K Compliance While The Client Scowled
Call Centers
Operations
The Majority Of Businesses Couldn’t Survive Three Days Of Downtime
Building A Virtual Desktop Security Strategy For The Enterprise
Beyond PUE: Rethinking How Data Center Sustainability Is Measured
Developer
3 Developer Tools I Use Every Day Even Though I’m Not A Developer
From Bugs To Business Loss: The Real Cost Of Poor Software Testing
Lenovo News
Red Hat News
Our Journey To AI-Centricity, Part 2: Crafting A Strategy That Scales
Red Hat AI tops MLPerf Inference v6.0 with vLLM on Qwen3-VL, Whisper, and GPT-OSS-120B
Red Hat And NVIDIA: Setting Standards For High-Performance AI Inference
Okta News
Akamai Technologies News
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Security
Deepfakes And Malware: AI Menu Grows Longer For Threat Actors, Causing Headaches For Defenders
Artificial intelligence has dramatically improved a number of technologies in a short period of time. Unfortunately, these technologies are also being weaponized by an assortment of malicious actors....more
Clean vs Fast Recovery: Why MTCR (Mean Time To Clean Recovery) Matters
Your backups survived a ransomware attack. Your team restored everything within hours. And three days later, the same malware is back, encrypting the same files, because nobody checked whether those backups were clean before putting them into production....more
Security Boulevard
Workload Identity And Access Management: The Definitive Guide
For every human identity your IAM program governs, there are roughly 82 machine identities operating outside it. Most of them authenticate with static credentials that were provisioned once and never reviewed....more
Seven Identity And API Security Tools Modern SaaS Teams Should Evaluate In 2026
Modern SaaS teams need layered security covering enterprise SSO provisioning, API runtime protection, AI agent security, and passwordless authentication....more
Standardize or Suffer: The JCHK Blueprint for MSSPs Defending SMB and SME Clients
Advanced persistent threats don’t discriminate by organization size - they discriminate by defense capability. Nation-state actors and their proxies invest months conducting reconnaissance, moving laterally through networks with surgical patience, and exfiltrating data long before any alert fires....more
Humor
Security Contractor Blew The Whistle On Support Crew’s Viral Indifference
Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of things you did at work that had interesting consequences. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Brad” who once worked as a security contractor....more
The Company’s Biggest Security Hole Lived In The Breakroom
Welcome to Pwned, The Register’s new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we’re sure it has protected against a lot more exploits than it has caused. But in this case, the desire for everyone’s favorite stimulant led to a massive breach....more
Contractor Quaffed His Way Through Y2K Compliance While The Client Scowled
Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won’t stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call - the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories. To mark the occasion, The Register has revisited our mailbag of holiday-adjacent stories to tell the tale of a reader we’ll Regomize as “Marcus,” who told us he worked as a contractor for a “very large, very blue, blue-chip company” in the Netherlands and helped it prepare for Y2K....more
Call Centers
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our April 2026 Issue
Welcome to our April issue. This issue brings together a range of perspectives and practical insights designed to help us navigate our environments with confidence....more
Operations
The Majority Of Businesses Couldn’t Survive Three Days Of Downtime
IT outages have a disastrous impact on enterprise productivity and finances...more
Building A Virtual Desktop Security Strategy For The Enterprise
Virtual desktop security requires strong governance, IAM, monitoring and endpoint controls. CIOs must address risks across VDI and DaaS to protect data and ensure compliance....more
Beyond PUE: Rethinking How Data Center Sustainability Is Measured
Three essential metrics to help data center managers measure sustainability success via a more complete and comparative framework...more
Developer
Top Cybersecurity Programming Languages To Learn In 2026
Build a Future-Proof Career in Cybersecurity by Learning the Most in-Demand Programming Languages of 2026...more
3 Developer Tools I Use Every Day Even Though I’m Not A Developer
Normally, when you see a tool marked as being “for developers,” your first instinct is to keep away because it’s either too complicated, too niche, or it doesn’t really apply to you. It turns out, however, that some of them can genuinely be useful, even if you’re not a developer....more
From Bugs To Business Loss: The Real Cost Of Poor Software Testing
Test reports suggest stability, but production tells a different story through revenue drops and user churn. The gap exists because software quality is measured in controlled environments, not real-world usage....more
Lenovo News
Closing The AI ROI Gap: Security As A Lifecycle Discipline
Expanding Success In The Channel Through Technical Capability
Red Hat News
Our Journey To AI-Centricity, Part 2: Crafting A Strategy That Scales
Red Hat AI tops MLPerf Inference v6.0 with vLLM on Qwen3-VL, Whisper, and GPT-OSS-120B
Red Hat And NVIDIA: Setting Standards For High-Performance AI Inference
Running LLMs Dynamically, In Production, On Limited Resources, Is Hard. We Think There’s Room For Another Approach...
Okta News
The Product-Minded Engineer: Why My Best Code Starts With ‘Why’
Akamai Technologies News
How Managed Databases Are Transforming Today’s IT Landscape
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