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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Cloud giants and ambitious startups alike expand the AI narrative

Thomas Kurian’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has $290 billion in annual revenue, and Kevin Systrom’s startup Artifact Inc. is operating on a funding round of $5 million. Despite the disparity the two firms have a common goal, shared with many a company today: to blaze new trails in artificial intelligence that will shape the future for ...

Zero-trust concepts are the focus in Verified Access solution from AWS

Zero-trust security requires that users and systems prove their identities and trustworthiness. Amazon Web Services Inc. takes this concept a step further by embracing the idea that access to data should not be solely made based on network location. “It is not a binary choice of being … identity centric or network centric,” said Madhu ...
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CrowdStrike rolls out new cybersecurity products and a competitive edge at Fal.Con

Cybersecurity solutions provider CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. unveiled new protective tools for its product lineup during its Fal.Con conference in Las Vegas today. The announcements included Foundry, a no-code application development platform specifically designed for security, which caught the attention of theCUBE’s analysts. “Falcon Foundry I thought was interesting, where you can essentially create an unlimited ...

Google Cloud updates its Chronicle security tool for greater visibility in attack surface management

Google Cloud announced steps this week to help security operations teams analyze the tremendous amount of data now flowing through network operations. On Monday, the cloud provider updated its Chronicle Security Operations platform to combine security information and event management, or SIEM, along with security orchestration automation and response, or SOAR, adding threat intelligence from ...
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Keynotes at mWISE signal optimism for cybersecurity as social engineering attack grabs the spotlight

Social engineering as an attack vector for malicious actors gained its share of the spotlight in the past week, primarily because of the successful breach of casino systems in Las Vegas. A ransomware attack attributed to the ALPHV/BlackCat hacking group affected websites, online reservations, ATMs and credit card machines at MGM Resorts properties across the ...

Persistent Systems and Notified see value in emerging AI-specific use cases

The current wave of generative AI uses cases has created intense interest and also fueled plenty of thoughts around what will happen next. One emerging theme is that generative AI will lead toward fine-tuning and custom tailoring of models. In recent weeks, Google Cloud has introduced a Sec-PaLM generative AI model for security, and a neural ...

Splunk’s focus on unified security fuels partnership with Google Cloud and expansion into AI

Splunk Inc. built its platform around enterprise resilience, and this has provided the 20-year-old company with a perspective on how organizations are adapting to the reality of data protection in a technology world that is constantly under attack. “For the first time, I think we’re seeing the blend of these organizations coming together because we ...

Red Hat and Google partnership targets streamlining transition from on-premises to cloud

Red Hat Inc. and Google Cloud have been collaborating for more than 11 years in migrating customers to the cloud platform. At the heart of this partnership is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL, which provides an operating system backbone to streamline operations from datacenter to cloud and out to the edge. The process of ...
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AI moves by Google Cloud raise interest in what AWS will deliver next

The news from Google Cloud Next this week centered around generative AI for the enterprise. The cloud provider made a number of significant announcements in this area, yet one of the sidebar stories from the event revolved around a company that wasn’t even there. As the undisputed leader in cloud computing for more than two ...

Infosys’ digital transformation playbook for enterprises in 2023

The digital consulting giant Infosys Ltd. has built its global practice in over 56 countries by identifying the key drivers of digital transformation for its clients. In 2023, the primary drivers of digital transformation make for a short list. “There is AI coupled with cloud; that is what’s driving digital transformation,” said Shyam Vijayan (pictured, ...