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Kyle Tobener wants information security professionals to remove the words “don’t do that” from their vocabulary. Tobener, VP, Head of Security and IT at DevOps startup Copado, spoke at Black Hat USA 2022 on August 10 about how building a harm reduction framework can improve cybersecurity more than simply focusing on use reduction.

The job of the chief marketing officer (CMO) is to deliver superior brand experiences, but they are struggling to manage more channels than ever, are tasked with more responsibilities, and are under enormous pressure to drive profitable growth.

Black Hat at 25: Chris Krebs, the former director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, looked to the future of cybersecurity during his keynote speech at Black Hat USA.

Google experienced an outage of its Search, Maps, and Images services on August 8 for about 30 minutes. The outage was attributed to an internal error at the company with software.

ServiceNow’s Marcus Torres talks low code and the shortage of engineers. Great Expectation’s Ben Castleton discusses data quality.

Companies may have to reshape how data is interacted with and monetized as legal upheaval and uncertainty about data privacy take hold.

‘There has not been enough time spent thinking and studying the long-term effects of climate change on cloud [computing] and network resiliency.’

The cloud is growing, but cloud outages are nothing new. And neither are we. InformationWeek was first founded in 1985 and our online archives go back to 1998. Here are just a few lowlights from the cloud's worst moments, dug up from our archives.

Given the expensive consequences of even relatively short cloud outages, legal action is inevitable in some instances. Companies have to determine whether they actually have a case and if it even makes sense from a business perspective to engage in a legal battle.

The cloud is not infallible, and outages are inevitable. Here’s what IT leaders need to know about whether and how to recoup from a cloud outage.