CISOs, C-suite remain at odds over corporate cyber resilience

More than a year after the SEC revamped cyber disclosure rules, security and IT executives still struggle to articulate enterprise risk strategies.

By David Jones • Oct. 8, 2024

5 cybersecurity best practices for small to midsize businesses

Discover the security vulnerabilities putting small to midsize businesses at risk.

Oct. 7, 2024

Banking tech alliance drafts enterprise AI adoption guidelines

The Fintech Open Source Foundation, which now includes Nvidia and Moody’s, outlined LLM risks and control measures to guide deployment in the industry.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 4, 2024

Phishing remains cloud intrusion tactic of choice for threat groups

The attack mode accounted for one-third of the cloud-related incidents IBM X-Force responded to across a two-year period.

By Matt Kapko • Oct. 2, 2024

CrowdStrike CEO pushes ‘resilient by design’ framework, promising changes

The cybersecurity vendor is embracing a new business framework after a defective software update led to one of the largest IT outages in history.

By Matt Kapko • Sept. 26, 2024

CrowdStrike’s mea culpa: 5 takeaways from the Capitol Hill testimony

CrowdStrike was quick to apologize after a faulty content update triggered a global IT network outage. An executive detailed internal changes designed to prevent it from happening again.

By Matt Kapko • Sept. 25, 2024

Microsoft names deputy CISOs, flushes dead accounts as part of internal security overhaul

The company released a progress report on efforts to revamp its internal security culture and governance.

By David Jones • Sept. 23, 2024

Generative AI raises security concerns among IT leaders

Executives worry their organization lacks the ability to protect applications and workloads, according to a Flexential survey.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Sept. 18, 2024

Microsoft, working with security partners, pledges better deployment, testing collaboration

Following a summit with U.S. and European partners, the company is working to build additional resiliency features to prevent a repeat of the historic global IT outage linked to CrowdStrike.

By David Jones • Sept. 13, 2024

Oracle leans on private cloud to fortify enterprise security, data sovereignty

“We expect that private clouds will greatly outnumber public clouds,” Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 10, 2024

AT&T takes Broadcom to court over VMware support services dispute

The telecommunications company claims it is being bullied into “paying a king’s ransom” for software it does not want or need, according to the complaint.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 5, 2024

CrowdStrike takes a revenue hit as global IT outage reckoning lingers

Sales are taking longer to close and the cybersecurity vendor is offering discounts to stem potential customer losses.

By Matt Kapko • Aug. 29, 2024

After a wave of attacks, Snowflake insists security burden rests with customers

The cloud-based data warehouse vendor remains “slightly muted” about the attacks on its customers because Snowflake wasn’t breached, CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said.

By Matt Kapko • Aug. 22, 2024

Palo Alto Networks CEO touts leads from CrowdStrike fallout

In the wake of the massive IT outage, some CrowdStrike customers have entered talks with Palo Alto Networks in search of a new provider.

By David Jones • Aug. 20, 2024

Companies aren’t as cyber resilient as they think

Most companies fall short on business continuity as malicious threat activity continues to rise, a Cohesity study found.

By David Jones • Aug. 19, 2024

3 CIO lessons for maximizing cybersecurity investments

Securing resources has gotten easier, said Feroz Merchhiya, City of Santa Monica CIO. But that hasn't diminished tech leaders' role in showing the value.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Aug. 16, 2024

Answering the big post-outage question: “Are we all patching wrong?”

Adaptiva CEO Deepak Kumar answers pressing patching questions in light of the recent global outage.

Aug. 13, 2024

Delta expects $380M revenue hit due to CrowdStrike outage

The company said it canceled 7,000 flights in five days due to the IT outage, according to a Thursday securities filing.

By Roberto Torres • Updated Aug. 8, 2024

CrowdStrike blames mismatch in Falcon sensor update for global IT outage

The security company, in its root cause analysis report, said it is using lessons from the crash to make larger changes. Analysts predict further challenges.

By David Jones • Aug. 7, 2024

Microsoft spends billions on infrastructure to relieve Azure capacity constraints

The hyperscaler is working with third-party data centers to satisfy AI demand, CFO Amy Hood said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2024

American Airlines credits IT teams with quick recovery from CrowdStrike disruption

“Within an hour of the outage, we assembled the right operating teams and IT experts to develop and execute a plan to get our systems back online,” COO David Seymour said Thursday.

By Matt Ashare • July 25, 2024

United completes manual reboot as aviation industry reels from CrowdStrike outages

The airline’s IT teams fixed more than 26,000 computers and devices at 365 airports globally, according to CEO Scott Kirby.

By Matt Ashare • July 23, 2024

Top takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage for IT teams

"This may be the biggest stress test that I've ever seen for direct, first-line IT support teams," Gartner's Jon Amato said. 

By Roberto Torres • Updated July 23, 2024

Delta’s CrowdStrike recovery stymied by crew-tracking systems failure

The carrier lagged behind other airlines in its efforts to restore operations, canceling thousands of flights over the weekend.

By Matt Ashare • July 22, 2024

CrowdStrike software update at the root of a massive global IT outage

A defective software update led to major disruptions in aviation, banking and other industries Friday as Microsoft 365 services were impacted worldwide.

By David Jones , Roberto Torres • Updated July 19, 2024