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Volume 325, Issue 5: April 28th, 2025 — May 4th, 2025

John McLaughlin

May 07, 2025

IT News You Can Use - Full Weekly Issue - Vol 325 Issue 5

Security

AI

DR

10 Ways To Reduce Your MTTR

Compliance

Cisco News

Security

DevSecOps Reality Check: Context Reduces Critical Security Alerts by 82%

Cutting through security noise, Datadog's 2025 State of DevSecOps report finds most critical alerts aren't actually critical....more

Best Practices For User Authentication And Authorization In Web Applications: A Comprehensive Security Framework

Your authentication system isn't just a door-it's the fortress protecting everything you value. Your authentication system isn't just a door-it's the fortress protecting everything you value....more

Are You Confident in Your IAM Solutions?

Is Your Trust in IAM Solutions Justified?...more

AI And Automation Shift The Cybersecurity Balance Toward Attackers

Threat actors are increasingly harnessing automation, commoditized tools, and AI to systematically erode the traditional advantages held by defenders, according to Fortinet....more

5 Myths About Passwords You Should Stop Believing

We've been using computer passwords for decades, yet it seems like no one can agree on how you should pick a password, what it should contain, and if a password is good enough. Let's cut through it....more

AI

The Top 10 Enterprise Generative AI Applications - Based On 530 Real-World Projects

Generative AI is used across departments. Most of the 530 identified generative AI implementations are in customer support, marketing, IT, operations, and R&D. Customer issue resolution is the top application. 49% of projects focus on customer support, with issue resolution alone making up 35%....more

Beyond OCR: How AI is Transforming Document Processing for Enterprise Applications

Beyond OCR: How AI is Transforming Document Processing for Enterprise Applications...more

The Evolution Of AI Agents

Babak Hodjat, CTO for artificial intelligence (AI) for Cognizant, traces the evolution of AI agents from the initial launch of Apple Siri to a new era of agentic AI....more

Maintaining Data Competency

In this Techstrong AI leadership interview, R Systems CEO Nitesh Bansal explains why attaining and maintaining data competency has now become critical to ensure success in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)....more

Top 10 AI Tools Ranked By Monthly Site Visits

AI giants and rising stars: 2025's most visited tools...more

DR

10 Ways To Reduce Your MTTR

Mean time to repair is a critical metric for BCDR professionals. Learn how to calculate and reduce MTTR with this tip....more

The Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends in Software Engineering for 2025 & Beyond (May 19th)

Compliance

Compliance Challenges In Cloud Data Governance

Adopting cloud computing allows organizations of all shapes and sizes to access data and collaborate in the most flexible ways imaginable. While it brings many benefits, it also brings along compliance issues in data governance, particularly when data crosses borders. Ensuring data is safe, private and organized is paramount....more

4 Compliance Questions For CIOs Considering AI Projects

IT leaders must consider the legal implications of potential use cases in order to rein in risks....more

Cisco News

Scaling The Cisco AI Assistant For Support With Splunk

Cisco needed to scale its virtual support engineer that assists its technical support teams around the world. By leveraging its own Splunk technology, Cisco was able to scale the AI assistant to support more than 1M cases and free up engineers to concentrate on more complex cases, creating a 93+% customer satisfaction rating, and ensuring the critical support continues running in the face of any disruption....more

Embracing a Passwordless Future: Cisco's Journey to Seamless Authentication with Duo Passwordless

Cisco IT needed to secure its workforce in a zero trust, user-friendly way that would allow its 130,000 users to securely work anywhere, from any device, without friction....more

Cisco Continues To Drive Innovation To Reimagine Security For The AI Era

Cisco made several transformative innovation and partnership announcements that will help security professionals secure and harness the power of AI....more

Cisco and ServiceNow Partner to Simplify and Secure AI Adoption for Businesses at Scale

Cisco announced a deepened partnership to enable confident and secure AI adoption for businesses at scale...more

Zscaler News

It's Not Too Late To Ditch Your VPN: Why ZPA Is The Superior Secure Access Solution - Part 1

This is the first of the blog series examining the advantages of Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) architecture. In this post, we'll focus specifically on how ZPA addresses the security limitations of traditional Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions, which have become increasingly inadequate for securing enterprises....more

IDC Marketscape Recognizes Zscaler As A Leader In Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has undergone significant transformations over the years. Initially rooted in reactive measures to prevent data misuse, DLP has evolved to incorporate predictive and automated capabilities powered by AI and machine learning....more