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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They said it in 2023: From one reporter’s notebook, memorable quotes from SiliconANGLE’s coverage

The dominant enterprise technology story for 2023 can be summed up in two letters: AI. Companies were either adopting generative artificial intelligence, thinking about adoption or offering technology that enabled it. There were other topics making news in 2023. Many interviews on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio, and SiliconANGLE’s ongoing new coverage of major tech ...

Embracing AI and cyber resiliency: IBM enhances its portfolio as storage moves into the enterprise spotlight

Speeds and feeds in the storage market are so 2020. Now the conversation is all about data security and how storage can enable artificial intelligence to drive business results. This was one of the key messages that emerged from two major events hosted by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, and IBM Corp. in July and ...

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 ...