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5 CISO Principles for Navigating Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure
Ransomware Gangs Skip the CEO, Head Straight for the 40-Something IT Manager
Black Hat 2026: Why AI Software Bills of Materials Are Essential to AI Trust
Introducing Kitesurf: The Agent-First Browser that Runs in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI Tool for Exploring Internet Data in Plain Language
Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a Single AI Control Plane
Cloudflare Has Mostly Ditched Third-Party Security Tools, Suggests Not Trying That at Home
Data Storage Infrastructure Must Be a Priority for AI Workloads
AI's Latest Rocket Ship Is an Old School, 28-Year-Old Data Company
What the Hugging Face Breach Reveals About AI Agents and Identity
Introducing Rubrik Agent Identity: Identity for Agents, Control for Actions
Cyber Resilience Comes to GCC High: Rubrik Extends M365 and Entra ID Protection
Six Data Security Missteps Leadership Teams Don't See Coming
The Threat Surface Isn't Your Network. It's Agents Acting on Your Data
Your Data Loss Prevention Strategy Was Built for a World That's Already Gone
Why IPv6 Is the Non-Negotiable Foundation for AI-Agentic Systems
IPv6 adoption is essential for AI systems, edge computing, and next-generation networks replacing aging IPv4. more →
I've Gone From Writing About SD-WAN to Depending on It
A remote worker combines 5G and Starlink with SD-WAN failover for reliable internet in rural Colorado. more →
5 CISO Principles for Navigating Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure
CISOs should establish incident notification protocols before crises, prioritizing harm reduction over polished narratives. more →
What Does a Data Breach Cost? AI Is a Sizable Factor
Average breach costs reached $6 million globally, up 35% year over year, with AI-enabled attacks driving the rise. more →
Water System Controllers Don't Belong on the Internet, Says Ex-NSA Chief After Suspected Iran Attacks
Retired NSA chief Paul Nakasone urges disconnecting PLCs after suspected Iranian attacks on US water systems. more →
Ransomware Gangs Skip the CEO, Head Straight for the 40-Something IT Manager
Modern ransomware attacks target mid-level managers rather than executives to accelerate payment decisions. more →
Black Hat 2026: Why AI Software Bills of Materials Are Essential to AI Trust
AI SBOMs are needed as a practical control, not a compliance nicety, after the Hugging Face-OpenAI incident. more →
Why AI Agents Need Their Own Identity
Agents are neither service accounts nor extensions of the human who launched them, and need first-class identities. more →
Introducing Kitesurf: The Agent-First Browser that Runs in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf, an agent-first browser running in V8 isolates on Workers. more →
The Next Generation of MCP
Cloudflare details the next generation of MCP, with a rewritten stateless core that runs natively on Workers. more →
Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI Tool for Exploring Internet Data in Plain Language
Cloudflare launches Radar Researcher, turning plain-language questions about Internet data into interactive charts. more →
Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a Single AI Control Plane
Cloudflare unifies Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single control plane with shared observability and routing. more →
Unveiling Good and Bad Behaviors on the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare shifts bot mitigation from point-in-time risk scoring to continuous trust evaluation with BotBase and Precursor. more →
Cloudflare Has Mostly Ditched Third-Party Security Tools, Suggests Not Trying That at Home
Cloudflare automates bug bounty triage with Claude Sonnet for $58 a month instead of proprietary tools. more →
Data Storage Infrastructure Must Be a Priority for AI Workloads
DDN argues storage is the overlooked constraint determining GPU utilization in AI infrastructure. more →
Advancing AI for National Security: NVIDIA, DDN, and the Naval Postgraduate School Collaborate to Prepare Tomorrow's AI Leaders
NVIDIA donates a DGX GB300 system to the Naval Postgraduate School to develop AI solutions for Navy operations. more →
AI's Latest Rocket Ship Is an Old School, 28-Year-Old Data Company
Data storage CEO Alex Bouzari becomes a billionaire as the AI boom transforms his niche business. more →
Building the Multivariate Inference Efficiency Model
A framework combining workload, system, hardware, and cost variables to predict AI inference performance under production traffic. more →
Raising the Stakes for Sustainable, AI-Ready Infrastructure
Hitachi Vantara warns AI could consume more than half of data center power by 2028. more →
IBM Introduces Apptio AI Value & ROI to Close the Gap Between AI Spend and Business Results
IBM launches Apptio AI Value & ROI to link AI token spend to business outcomes. more →
AI Hacking Tests Exposed an Enterprise Security Problem
IBM examines what AI hacking test spillovers reveal about containment of agentic evaluations. more →
Proofpoint Launches OEM Program to Help Security Providers Embed Trusted Threat Intelligence and Detection Capabilities
Proofpoint launches an OEM program letting security providers embed its threat intelligence and detection. more →
What the Hugging Face Breach Reveals About AI Agents and Identity
Rubrik analyzes the Hugging Face breach, finding identity compromise drove almost everything after initial entry. more →
Introducing Rubrik Agent Identity: Identity for Agents, Control for Actions
Rubrik launches Agent Identity as the access plane monitoring every agent and MCP server. more →
Cyber Resilience Comes to GCC High: Rubrik Extends M365 and Entra ID Protection
Rubrik extends Microsoft 365 and Entra ID protection to GCC High for defense and public sector customers. more →
From Sovereign Cloud to New Hypervisors: What Service Providers Gain in Veeam Data Platform V13.1 and Service Provider Console V9.3
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 and Service Provider Console v9.3 add sovereign cloud and new hypervisor support. more →
Six Data Security Missteps Leadership Teams Don't See Coming
Veeam identifies six data security missteps that leadership teams typically fail to anticipate. more →
The Threat Surface Isn't Your Network. It's Agents Acting on Your Data
Veeam argues the real threat surface is now agents acting on your data, not the network. more →
Your Data Loss Prevention Strategy Was Built for a World That's Already Gone
Veeam argues traditional data loss prevention strategies were designed for conditions that no longer exist. more →
Veeam Data Platform v13.1: Identity, Cyber, and AI
The release adds automated Active Directory recovery, extended threat detection, and AI agents for operations. more →
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 Now Available, Helping Organizations Recover Clean and Fast From Cyber Disruption
Veeam releases Data Platform v13.1 with expanded hypervisor support and enhanced threat detection. more →
The Inbound Lead You Never Had to Chase
Inbound leads start warmer, move faster, and close better than anything dug out of a cold list - but generating them has always been marketing's job, leaving individual reps to hunt. A LinkedIn newsletter changes that by giving a rep their own discoverable, subscribable asset: LinkedIn invites your network at launch, notifies subscribers at every issue, and indexes issues in search. A feed post is a firework; a newsletter issue is a streetlight that keeps pulling people in. And nobody subscribes to enterprise IT news casually, so the list self-qualifies. more →
Everyone Shows Up to Pitch. Almost No One Shows Up to Help
Reps like to differentiate on product, but buyers rarely experience that differentiation - features blur, and every platform claims to be AI-powered and enterprise-grade. What buyers remember is behavior: who was useful when there was nothing in it for them. In a market where every rep appears only to extract, consistently showing up to contribute is a contrast play that captures disproportionate attention. It stays effective precisely because it's rare - anyone can publish once, almost nobody publishes usefully every week for a year. more →
The Warmest Cold Open in Sales
Cold outreach fails because the recipient has no reason to believe you're worth their time, and no amount of subject-line optimization fixes a missing relationship. The durable answer is to stop being cold: "you may have seen my weekly newsletter" reframes you from stranger to known quantity, even for prospects who never read an issue. A visible, ongoing body of work answers the buyer's instinctive credibility check before you've said anything. Because the newsletter reaches your whole network continuously, that warming is ambient rather than engineered one prospect at a time. more →
Stop Collecting Business Cards. Build an Audience.
Business cards, badge scans, purchased lists, and paid advertising share one flaw: none of them compound. Contacts decay the moment they're filed, and ad reach vanishes when the spend stops - you rented the audience and own nothing afterward. A newsletter audience behaves in the opposite way, accumulating subscribers who persist and deepen their relationship with you issue after issue. For an individual seller this is close to career-defining, because it replaces total dependence on channels you don't control with owned, permission-based distribution that appreciates the longer you hold it. more →
Your Best Pipeline Is the Customers You Already Have
Sales culture fixates on new logos while the most efficient pipeline sits inside the existing book — customers who already trust you, pay you, and have validated that your solution works. Accounts are rarely lost to dramatic failure; they're lost to silence, as the rep moves on to the next hunt and a more present competitor fills the gap. A weekly newsletter keeps the entire installed base warm with no upsell attached, surfaces expansion signals through what customers engage with, and insures against champion turnover by reaching the whole account rather than one contact. more →
Be Seen as an Advisor, Not Just Another Vendor
Ask any enterprise IT buyer how they feel about salespeople and you'll get a tired sigh. It's not personal. It's the accumulated weight of a thousand cold emails, a hundred "quick calls," and an inbox full of reps who all somehow have "a solution that's perfect for your exact challenges" despite never having spoken to them. To the average buyer, the word *vendor* has come to mean *someone who wants my money*. more →
Consistency Is a Sales Skill — and Your Newsletter Proves It
How to Use LinkedIn Newsletters to Stay Top-Of-Mind (Aug. 18th)
Rapid Identity Recovery: Lessons from Frontline Incident Response (Aug. 18th)
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