The InformationWeek Podcast

Was the cloud the perfect safe haven away from the massive IT outage attributed to CrowdStrike’s mishandled update to Microsoft Windows machines? The answer is complex and this episode speaks to some of the considerations organizations might make about their cloud strategies in the fallout of the outage that knocked out some 8.5 million devices more than one week ago. The nature of the cloud, and...

Eric Wenger, senior director for cyber and emerging tech policy, with Cisco; Roman Arutyunov, co-founder and senior vice president of products with Xage Security; Dennis Dayman, CISO with Code42; TK Keanini, CTO with DNSFilter; and Akash Agarwal, director of engineering and DevSecOps with LambdaTest, discuss ways to address possible cyberthreats and misinformation in the workplace during this inte...

The latest AWS Summit New York has come and gone, but enterprise pain points, needs, and opportunities in the cloud still warrant discussion.   There was much talk of artificial intelligence, generative AI (GenAI) in particular, at the conference, especially in relation to the use of cloud resources to further its spread and development. Other aspects of the cloud naturally need their time in the...

In recent weeks we have seen the EU go after Apple for breaching the Digital Markets Act, and Microsoft for Teams bundling in violation of antitrust law. Alberto Gimeno, CEO of Invofox, discusses what challenges and considerations a young tech company may face trying operate in the EU compared with the United States.

In this episode of DOS Won’t Hunt, Chaim Mazal, chief security officer, Gigamon; Kat Traxler, principal security researcher, Vectra AI; Joel Moses, distinguished engineer and CTO, platforms and systems, F5; Tsvi Korren, field CTO, Aqua Security; and Shane Snider, senior writer, InformationWeek discuss ways cloud security must evolve.

Nicholas Mattei, assistant professor of computer science at  Tulane University ; Barbara Bickham, founder and managing partner with Trailyn VC ; Robert Clougherty, CampusWorks CIO for Drew University ; and Muddu Sudhakar, CEO of Aisera, discuss how AI applies inductive reasoning.

In this episode, Matias Madou, CTO and co-founder of Secure Code Warrior; Anthony Aurigemma, chief revenue officer with Anomali; and Ed Frederici, CTO of Appfire discuss the impact AI has on career skills and professional advancement. Despite the hype, are AI skills actually vital to doing jobs?

Votiro, IAPP, AvePoint, and Lookout discuss the intersection of data monetization, security, data privacy, and data ownership.

A weeklong exploration of the technology scene in New York kicks off June 3. Startups and incumbents, new founders and veterans of the market will come together at NY Tech Week to discuss their respective innovations as well as what they are curious to see evolve. New York continues to make its presence known as a tech hub as startups rise from its streets while big names such as Google and Meta h...

With the rollout of Google’s Generative AI Overview for web searches, the game changed for businesses that relied on understanding how to leverage their sites and content for higher ranking. AI Overview puts an AI-generated summary at the top of the page in response to searches. Links still appear below the summary and AI Overview might not appear for every search. This raised concerns among brand...

What if we lived in a world without semiconductor chips? Tony Moor, senior director of silicon lab services with IOActive, and Shane Snider, senior writer with InformationWeek, join in for a conversation on our reliance on semiconductor chips. In the alternate retrofuture of the popular "Fallout" streaming series and video game franchise, semiconductors never caught on as a backbone for computer t...

RSA Conference 2024 has come to a close, wrapping up a plethora of announcements on cybersecurity from government authorities, concerns about the continued rise of disinformation, and the roles AI may take, on defense and offense, in the mix. Iain Mulholland, senior director, cloud CISO with Google Cloud; Masha Sedova, vice president of human risk strategy at Mimecast; Jason Mar-Tang, field CISO a...

With executive orders from the Biden administration in play, cloud service providers are being called upon for insight into who uses their services to, ostensibly, thwart bad actors from overseas. Federal authorities want to identify anonymous cyber attackers who try to tap domestic cloud services to launch attacks, but there has been some pushback from aspects of the industry. Some of the complai...

Meant to arm federal authorities with intelligence gleaned from telecom and other sources, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was renewed recently, but not without debate down to the deadline for renewal. Richard Searle, chief AI officer with Fortanix, and Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, managing director of the Washington, DC office of IAPP, discuss FISA's renewal, questions raised for tech companie...

Dale Zabriskie, field CISO with Cohesity, and Kim Larsen, CISO with Keepit, discuss ways disaster recovery can work more closely with security, and what that means for zero trust and backup systems.

Doug Hathaway, vice president of engineering with Versapay; Prashant Kelker, chief strategy officer with ISG; and Sitaram Iyer, senior director of cloud native solutions with Venafi, discuss how AI and quantum computing may present high risks or big boons to fintech.

As AI compounds the problem of fraud, the Federal Trade Commission put a new rule in play to combat some $1.1 billion in reported losses that stem from impersonating government and business agencies. Jordan Burris of Socure, AJ Nash of ZeroFox, Chanley Howell from Foley & Lardner, and Chris Briggs with Mitek discuss what the new rule may mean for companies and the fight against AI-powered frau...

What role can observability, AI, and other tech play in supporting and coordinating disaster response efforts such as the container ship crash that toppled the Frances Scott Key Bridge?

Antitrust lawsuit questions Apple’s handling of apps and products that might challenge its dominance.

Politicos and the private sector clash over ownership of TikTok, smashing together allegations of geopolitical antagonism and data privacy risks.

Keri Olson, vice president of IBM AI for Code Initiatives, discusses what benefits developers might realize by using AI in the development process.

The Guy Fawkes mask is often associated with hacktivists and protesters, but is there a deeper lesson in privacy and responsibility in technology to be learned?

The arrival of Apple’s VR-AR headset might be a watershed moment. Forrester and Gartner offer perspective on where this tech niche is heading.

Forrester analyt talks the arrival of Apple’s VR-AR headset and what it means for this tech niche.

Interview with Tuong Nguyen of Gartner on where this tech niche is heading.