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VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Network World

Broadcom released emergency patches for its VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products to fix three vulnerabilities that can lead to virtual machine escape and are actively being exploited by attackers. Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted. VMware products, especially the ESXi enterprise hypervisor, are high-value targets and have been repeatedly attacked by cybercriminal and cyberespionage group

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How to Manage Software Supply Chain Risks

Information Week

Developers are using more third-party software than ever before because it just doesnt make sense to build everything. Risks should be considered, however.

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What To Expect From the Intersection of AI and Biometrics

Information Week

AI and biometrics are ubiquitous parts of modern life. How are these technologies interacting and reshaping one another?

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyer's Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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Quantum Security Isn’t Hype, Every Security Leader Needs It

Forrester IT

The commercial availability of quantum computers that can compromise traditional asymmetric cryptography is still five to 10 years away. But security and risk (S&R) professionals must assess and prepare for the impact of quantum security now.

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Women in Cyber Security on the Rise, But Facing More Layoffs and Budget Cuts Than Men

Tech Republic Security

In 2024, women accounted for 22% of global security teams on average, compared to 17% in 2023, according to ISC2.

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The 8 new rules of IT leadership — and what they replace

CIO Business Intelligence

The CIO role continues to evolve, changing as dramatically as the technology it manages and maintains. Moreover, the pace of the chief IT positions transformation seems to be accelerating likewise mirroring the speed of change in the tech stack. As a result, tech executives must lead, manage, and work differently than they did in the past. Here, veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisers share the changes theyre seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership along with the old ones they

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How I Apply Third-Party Lab Results In My Security Operations Research

Forrester IT

Last week, I attended the AV Comparatives conference in Innsbruck, Austria. This conference brought together many cybersecurity vendors, particularly those with a European focus, as well as a few non-profits, academic institutions, and analyst firms.

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DoJ Busts Alleged Global Hacking-for-Hire Network of ‘Cyber Mercenaries’

Tech Republic Security

Targets included the U.S. Treasury Department, journalists, and religious organisations, and the attacks intended to steal data and suppress free speech.

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Get Control Over Unstructured Data

Information Week

The No. 1 data management problem today is coping with the 80% of data that is unstructured. Its time for IT to define a methodology.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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AI driving a 165% rise in data center power demand by 2030

Network World

Global power demand from data centers will increase 50% by 2027 and by as much as 165% by the end of the decade compared with 2023, according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs Research The industry is shrugging off the potential of DeepSeek which claimed large-scale AI modeling capabilities from low-end hardware and is instead focused on efficiency, wrote James Schneider, a senior equity research analyst covering US telecom, digital infrastructure, and IT services, in the data center deman

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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Reorganizing Your Frontline Marketing Teams Without Clear Purpose Is Marketing Malfeasance

Forrester IT

This blog dives into the pitfalls of team reorganizations without a core purpose. Learn how to identify root causes and ensure your reorganization efforts hit the mark.

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Save 70% on a Course Showing You How to Invest in Crypto

Tech Republic Security

In this online training course, learn about NFTs, blockchain, decentralized apps, and more.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Winning the War Against Social Media Disinformation

Information Week

Media literacy, critical thinking, and platform accountability are key to fighting the infodemic.

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10 Linux commands for testing connectivity and transfer rates

Network World

There are quite a few tools that can help test your connectivity on the Linux command line. In this post, well look at a series of commands that can help estimate your connection speed, test whether you can reach other systems, analyze connection delays, and determine whether particular services are available. This post provides intros and example output from these commands: ping traceroute mtr ncat speedtest fast nethogs ss iftop ethtool ping The ping command is the simplest and most often used

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Deep tech disruption: How advanced technologies are transforming businesses

CIO Business Intelligence

CEOs, CIOs and CFOs are finding that deep tech is actively driving business innovation and profitability. From AI models that boost sales to robots that slash production costs, advanced technologies are transforming both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. Business leaders dont need to be technology experts to grasp this shift; they need vision and urgency.

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Apple and the UK Government broke a “trust promise”.

Forrester IT

This blog post was co-authored with Martin Gill, VP, Research Director Last week we shared some classical Greek imagery in our blog on the UK Governments recent swathe of AI announcements. This week Im more inspired by Ancient Rome to say mala tempora currunt!

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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How Agile Teams Can Stay Focused While Resolving IT Service Management Tickets

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile and ITSM responsibilities can coexist with effective time management, optimizations, and SLA adjustments. Leaders should analyze ticket performance, identify optimization opportunities, and guide teams on productivity. Clear communication of new strategies and measuring impact will enhance agile capacities while minimizing disruptions to service-level agreements and team burnout.

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How to Build a Reliable AI Governance Platform

Information Week

AI governance platforms play an important role in ensuring that AI systems are ethical and transparent. Here's what you need to know to create a platform for your organization's needs.

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Nvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from the AI leader

Network World

No company has both driven and benefited from AI advancements more than Nvidia. Last year, Nvidias GTC 2024 grabbed headlines with its introduction of the Blackwell architecture and the DGX systems powered by it. With GTC 2025 right around the corner (it runs March 17- 21 in San Jose, Calif.), the tech world is eager to see what Nvidia and its partners and competitors will unveil next.

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MWC25: KSA accelerates digital transformation with Huawei-Zain partnership

CIO Business Intelligence

In a landmark move for Saudi Arabias digital economy, Huawei Cloud and Zain KSA have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate cloud adoption and digital transformation across industries. Signed at MWC Barcelona 2025, this collaboration aligns with Saudi Arabias Cloud-First policy and underscores both companies commitment to advancing cloud technologies in the Kingdom.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Application Modernization And Multicloud Managed Services, Q1 2025

Forrester IT

Applications modernization remains a critical priority for enterprises as they continue their journey to the cloud and beyond. While the lift and shift era of cloud migration has ended, the modernization journey, continues.

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Step by Step Guide to Creating Access Packages in Microsoft Entra Face Check

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Step by Step Guide to Creating Access Packages in Microsoft Entra Face Check appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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How to Create a Winning AI Strategy

Information Week

After making hefty investments in artificial intelligence, many organizations are not seeing the value they expected, but a few simple changes can make a world of difference.

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SolarWinds buys Squadcast to speed incident response

Network World

Observability provider SolarWinds announced this week it had signed an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based Squadcast and its incident response technology for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will let SolarWinds provide customers with intelligent incident response that will speed mean time to resolution (MTTR) for customers, SolarWinds says.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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IT leaders’ AI priorities emphasize productivity over innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders are still aiming for the low-hanging fruit when using AI, zeroing in on improving employee productivity rather than more advanced uses such as enabling innovation or expanding revenue, according to a new survey. Over two-thirds of IT leaders have focused their AI investments on employee productivity, with just over half using AI to improve customer support or to enable innovation, according to the AI Priorities Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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Software Giants’ Q4 2024 Earnings: Tech Executives Are Still Responding

Forrester IT

We analyzed theQ4 2024 earnings announcementsof 11 enterprise software companies, revealing an accelerated drive toward AI, a sharper focus on cloud costs, and a surge in platform consolidation.

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A private company has successfully landed landed on the Moon for the first time

TechSpot

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander successfully touched down on the lunar surface at 3:34 a.m. ET (02:34 CST) on Sunday, becoming the first non-governmental object to land on the Moon without issue. The feat marks an early step in NASA's efforts to establish a lunar economy.

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Bridging the Tech Gap: Fostering Cross-Generational Adoption

Information Week

Businesses are closing generational IT gaps with tailored training, collaboration, and AI adoption strategies that empower employees of all ages to embrace transformative tools.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.