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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Data and AI opens access for developers, provides useful signals for security

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have opened up a whole new world of data usage for enterprise developers. The ability of AI to channel massive amounts of data and apply models that will perform near-instant analysis has created a new dynamic where programmers become active participants in how data is used. “Up until now, data ...

Nvidia and Amazon executives address new age of uncertainty in an AI-powered world

When a tool as powerful as generative artificial intelligence becomes available at large scale, five-year business plans go right out the window. “You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world as people try to figure out how to do this,” Mat Honan (pictured, right), editor in chief at MIT Technology Review, said in ...

SBOMs and firewalls are part of Sonatype’s focus on software supply chain security

When there’s a safety issue with a car or a child’s toy, the items usually get recalled and a fix is implemented. Some tech industry leaders are wondering why the same approach isn’t working for software. Log4j is a widely used open-source tool used to collect diagnostics data from applications written in Java. In late ...

What to expect during the ‘Navigating the Road to Cyber Resiliency’ event: Join theCUBE May 16

Ransomware and supply chain hacks have become threats to organizations globally. Cyber risk puts pressure on organizations to focus on end-to-end security, from the silicon root of trust all the way up the tech stack. This reality was brought to the forefront recently with a supply chain compromise at 3CX, provider of voice-over-IP unified communication ...

Three insights you might have missed from the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU event

The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathering in Amsterdam provided an opportunity for engineers and developers to hear the latest on container, cloud-native and open-source innovation. The rise of artificial intelligence and its impact on the evolution of DevOps, as well as data governance, were prime topics of discussion during the weeklong event. TheCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming ...

What to expect during the ‘AWS Industry Technology Partners Showcase’: Join theCUBE May 4

Broadcasters and media production companies have bought into cloud-native models, carried along by a tidal wave of digital content that is now available through streaming platforms that have come to dominate the internet. The Sandvine Corp.’s “Global Internet Phenomena” 2023 report found that video usage now accounts for 65% of all internet volume. Data points ...

Ocean’s roar of generative AI and expanding dark web capture security world’s attention at RSA

The cybersecurity world has many problems to confront, but the most pressing one at the moment is speed. The introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT language-based artificial intelligence engine has become a central focus for businesses and society at large as the adoption curve continues to expand at a dramatic pace. It took Instagram two and half ...

Google takes an opinionated view of how generative AI can be used in cybersecurity

On Monday, Google LLC announced a large language model fine-tuned for cybersecurity operations. The new generative AI model, Sec-PaLM, is designed to address enterprise challenges around threat overload, tool sprawl and a shortage of talent in the cybersecurity business. The LLM leverages years of accumulated threat intelligence gathered by Google and Mandiant Inc., which was ...
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Growth of generative AI is leading to change moment for DevOps

The role of data in DevOps is changing, facilitated by the introduction of powerful new generative artificial intelligence engines such as ChatGPT. The success of DevOps in modern, cloud-native environments has given rise to platform engineering, and among the many byproducts of this trend is a growing potential for AI and machine learning to be ...

Report from QlikWorld: Qlik sets its own course toward the brave new world of data apps

Whether it’s an aggressive acquisition strategy or intriguing uses of its technology by big-name customers, QlikTech International AB generated a fair amount of buzz in Las Vegas this week. In theCUBE’s just-concluded coverage of QlikWorld 2023, interviews with company executives and customers highlighted how the enterprise world may be very application-centric right now but business logic ...