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Volume 325, Issue 3: April 14th, 2025 — April 20th, 2025

John McLaughlin

Apr 28, 2025

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CxO

AI

Careers

Cisco News

Why A Distributed Workforce Needs Distributed Security

Dell News

IBM News

Empowering Developer Innovation: Balancing Speed, Security, and Scale (April 29th)

CxO

5 Major Digital Transformation Trends In 2025

AI Becomes a Collaborative Teammate : Artificial Intelligence has evolved beyond being merely a productivity tool to become an active collaborator in organizational workflows....more

CIOs Increasingly Dump In-House POCs For Commercial AI

High failure rates and low returns of homegrown AI pilots are accelerating a shift to commercial, off-the-shelf solutions as software vendors roll more AI functionality into their products....more

Cybercriminals Switch Up Their Top Initial Access Vectors Of Choice

Vulnerability exploitation, including attacks on network edge devices, has leapfrogged phishing to become a key factor in many security breaches, according to Verizon's DBIR....more

How Organizations Can Leverage Cyber Insurance Effectively

By focusing on prevention, education, and risk transfer through insurance, organizations - especially SMEs - can protect themselves from the rapidly escalating threats of cyberattacks....more

Gartner Survey Finds 85% of CEOs Say Cybersecurity is Critical for Business Growth

Survey Findings Illustrate that Cybersecurity Has Morphed into Critical Driver for Business Growth...more

AI

'Periodic Table Of Machine Learning' Could Fuel AI Discovery

Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new ones....more

Challenges Of Operationalizing GenAI

Christian Lau, chief product officer for Dynamo AI, describes the challenges that so many organizations still need to overcome before they can successfully operationalize GenAI....more

How LLMs Are Transforming Business Processes

Dr. Arthur O'Connor, academic director of data science for the School of Professional Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) and author of "Organizing for Generative AI and the Productivity Revolution", delves into how advanced reasoning capabilities being added to large language models (LLMs) will profoundly alter business processes as costs continue to rapidly decline....more

Managing AI Agents At Scale

In this Techstrong.ai video interview, Digital.ai CEO Derek Holt dives into how organizations will have to think through the way artificial intelligence (AI) agents need to be managed at scale across the enterprise....more

Networking And Cybersecurity Implications Of AI Agents

Aviatrix CTO Anirban Sengupta dives into the networking and cybersecurity implications of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that could one day soon number in the millions....more

Reduce Regression Testing from 200 Hours to 40 Without Adding More Work (April 30th)

Careers

The Great AI Skills Disconnect - And How To Fix It

Exclusive: A new Workera report shows business leaders and employees are deeply split on AI upskilling. Bridge that divide, or else....more

Which DevOps Certifications Are Worth It In 2025?

Are DevOps certifications really worth it in 2025? You might be asking this while scrolling job boards or feeling stuck in your current role. Good news: You're not alone. And yes, some DevOps certifications can truly change your career if you choose the right ones....more

From Software Engineer To Data Engineer: The Hidden Skills Gap

Software to Data Engineer: Bridging the Hidden Skills Divide in 2025...more

Cisco News

Why A Distributed Workforce Needs Distributed Security

For anyone in the tech industry, when we hear 'transformation' our mind automatically places 'digital' before it. However, in recent years, the traditional workplace has also been undergoing a significant transformation of its own....more

Dell News

Dell-NVIDIA Partnership Powers High-Performance AI Fabric Solutions

What happens when Dell & NVIDIA team up? Discover cutting-edge AI fabric solutions designed for high performance and low latenc...more

Maintain Device Trust With Dell

Lean on Dell as you refresh. Our PC telemetry, built-in security and new management capabilities are now available on more devices....more

IBM News

IBM's Open-Source Terramind AI Uses 9 Data Modalities To Transform Earth Observation

IBM Corp. is partnering with the European Space Agency to create an artificial intelligence system that will keep tabs on climate change and other global issues, such as water scarcity, in real time using space-based data....more

Reskilling For The Future: Why Developers And Infrastructure Pros Need To Escape Their Comfort Zones

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Miha Kralj, IBM Global Senior Partner - Microsoft Practice, to discuss the rapid evolution of computing....more

Securing Generative AI Platforms And Adopting AI For Cybersecurity

Generative AI presents enterprises with transformative opportunities but also introduces critical security risks that must be managed effectively. The adoption of AI-driven technologies increases concerns around data privacy, unauthorized access, adversarial threats and governance complexities....more

Key Findings From Stanford'S 2025 AI Index Report

Benchmarks, inference costs, innovation: how's AI reshaping our society? This year, Stanford's 2025 AI Index Report added new areas of coverage to reflect AI's growing role in every facet of our lives....more

Identity at the Core of a Robust Cyber Resilience Strategy (April 30th)

In this session, we'll explore why cultivating identity resilience, focusing on recovery and beyond is essential for staying ahead of evolving threats and safeguarding your organization's most valuable assets. Register