Mark Albertson

Mark Albertson is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He is an experienced technology reporter, recognized by Onalytica as a "Who's Who In Cloud Influencer" and named to Peerlyst’s “24 Powerful Cybersecurity Journalists.” Prior to SiliconANGLE, Mark wrote for the San Francisco Examiner, Blasting News, and CBS-Bay Area.

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Rethinking data security in the age of ransomware and AI

In a world where storing passwords in a file literally named “passwords” once seemed like a good idea, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE and Dell Technologies Inc. took us down memory lane at the recent Cyber Resiliency Summit, reminiscing about the days when a cyberattack on a movie studio was the most shocking news in tech. While there ...
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Three insights you might have missed from the Cyber Resiliency Summit event

Notable cyberattacks, or the threat of one, are becoming a near daily headline in the news. Within the past seven days, Ukraine’s top mobile operator reported being hit by a major cyberattack during the country’s ongoing conflict with Russia, Toyota Motor Co. revealed a second breach in less than month, and the U.S. government issued ...

As enterprises adopt AI, open-source leaders worry about regulatory and proprietary issues

The open-source community has a message for regulators and the tech industry as it relates to artificial intelligence: Keep governance neutral and the technology open. This was one of the key talking points that emerged from the AI.dev + Cassandra Summit hosted by The Linux Foundation in San Jose this week as open-source contributors and tech ...

Cybercriminals and nation states up their game in persistent global attacks

A leading security researcher has described the current approach by hackers in three words: scale, speed and sophistication. This captures how cybercriminals and nation state actors are pursuing the business of leading an assault on government and enterprise systems today, according to Wendi Whitmore (pictured), senior vice president of Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks ...

Kong rides the API wave to surpass $100 million in annual revenue as co-founder’s prediction comes true

In December 2010, Augusto Marietti (pictured) wrote a guest post for SiliconANGLE Media that predicted open application programming interfaces in the cloud would reach “every corner of the internet.” Thirteen years later, time has proven Marietti right. On Wednesday, cloud API technology developer Kong Inc., announced it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. The ...

Forrester analysts explore generative AI’s influence on data security

A potent combination of vulnerabilities in cloud frameworks and the potential for threat actors to use readily available artificial intelligence tools to breach systems is raising awareness among enterprise IT organizations in data protection and cyber resiliency. “Everyone is afraid that people are going to use generative AI to automate existing attacks,” said Brent Ellis ...

Rapid AI evolution drives demand for dependable security: Insights from theCUBE analysts

The road to cyber resiliency will now follow a course through generative artificial intelligence. That was one of the conclusions drawn from sessions during the Cyber Resiliency Summit, an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, today. While the explosion of interest in generative AI may be new, the issues surrounding enterprise security are ...

MasterCard extends its fraud detection capabilities through partnership with Persistent Systems and AWS

Credit card companies have been using artificial intelligence for quite some time, and one major provider is now looking at generative AI for additional solutions. MasterCard International Inc. is the second largest credit card network by purchasing volume, and each transaction is scored at lightning-fast speed to determine the probability of fraud using AI. MasterCard’s ...

Toyota’s software engineering hub helps drive automotive safety in the ‘golden hour’

Cars are getting smarter, to the point where an accident can trigger an automatic alert that could save lives. This service is currently available through Toyota Safety Connect, a system designed to connect drivers with the Toyota Response Center around the clock in the event of an emergency. “Did the vehicle roll over, where did ...

Three insights you might have missed from the ‘Supercloud 5: The Battle for AI Supremacy’ event

Major cloud players are moving swiftly to take control of the generative AI narrative. This dynamic could be seen in November when Microsoft Corp. acted rapidly to assist OpenAI in getting back on track following days of boardroom turmoil. It was also reinforced last week at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas as the cloud giant ...