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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Bank of Montreal transforms customer decisions with FICO’s AI-driven platform

Fair Isaac Corp., known as FICO, has built a platform around the practice of using analytics in business applications to optimize customer engagement. This has become especially important in the banking world, as one of FICO’s customers recently discovered. Bank of Montreal, known as BMO, leverages FICO’s decision management platform to help strengthen relationships with ...

Main Line Health battles healthcare hackers with zero-trust strategy

Healthcare systems are under attack by cyber threat actors, and it does not appear that there will be relief anytime soon. Nearly 400 healthcare cyberattacks were reported through the first three quarters of 2024 and over 1.2 million patients were affected by data breaches in February of this year alone. Against this threat backdrop, healthcare ...

Partnership between Google and PwC addresses enterprise hesitancy to adopt AI security tools

In its role working with major technology companies such as Google LLC, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is in a position to observe industry trends as they develop across enterprise verticals. When it comes to AI security tools, the management consulting company has seen hesitancy among some clients to adopt them, driven by key questions surrounding controls and ...

As agentic AI drives new malware risks, KnowBe4 points to smart defenses

The rise of agentic AI, while viewed by many as a positive new tool to automate enterprise business functions, is also causing heartburn in the cybersecurity community. This unease is because agentic artificial intelligence opens the door to use by threat actors that could result in more powerful, scalable malware. This scenario was documented in ...

Google and HCL Tech launch SecOps Labs to advance AI-driven security

As part of several announcements made by Google LLC this week during the RSAC 2025 Conference, the search giant launched SecOps Labs, a new space that provides customers with the firm’s latest AI pilots. SecOps Labs will be part of a collaboration with HCL Technologies Ltd., an approach that fits with Google’s desire to offer ...

Balancing act: Cybersecurity industry moves quickly to adopt AI for defense while speed of attacks escalates

The cybersecurity community is walking a tightrope with artificial intelligence: It’s balancing a desire to embrace AI as a useful tool for strengthening protection against attacks and taking action to mitigate an emerging new category of risk that widespread adoption of AI will bring. This clash of competing interests is playing out as security professionals ...

Enhancements for Broadcom’s vDefend address integrated security and simplicity for threat protection

In recent weeks, Broadcom Inc. has deployed enhancements for VMware vDefend to strengthen integrated security and scale protection across application environments that have become significantly more complicated with expanded adoption of AI. The latest solutions were designed to make life easier for security practitioners and DevOps staff in dealing with a rising tide of advanced ...

RSAC kickoff analysis: Agentic AI and replatforming will be key topics at this week’s conference

As the RSAC 2025 Conference gets underway in San Francisco this week, AI and its implications for the cybersecurity industry will be a prime topic of conversation in sessions and hallways during the week-long event. This will include the growing role of AI agents and what continued widespread adoption of the technology will mean for ...

Progress for ProLiant: HPE’s focus on server security, efficiency and automation adds new capabilities for enterprise AI

Enterprise AI adoption has compelled hardware manufacturers to make decisions on whether to focus on security, efficiency or automation in system design. Based on its February announcements, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has chosen to provide all three. The company’s release of the most recent generation for its ProLiant line of servers illustrates how AI is ...

What to expect during RSAC 2025: Join theCUBE April 28-May 1

Cybersecurity has become the defining battleground of the digital era — and the war is escalating. As enterprises race to adopt artificial intelligence, they’re also exposing cracks in their cyber defenses, from vulnerable software supply chains to weak data safeguards and sprawling tool stacks. The threat landscape isn’t just expanding — it’s evolving in real ...