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How to prepare for when quantum computers break encryption

4 days ago | itbrew.com | Billy Hurley

Not to ruin the party like it’s 1999, but there’s a looming Y2K-like technology threat that IT pros need to prepare for before it’s too late: quantum computing. The promise of quantum computing and its problem-solving prowess also poses a glaring threat to old encryption methods like the RSA algorithm.
Financial services increasing target of email attacks, phishing

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

Threat actors are taking aim at the financial tech sector and upping the ante when it comes to email attacks. That’s according to research from Abnormal Security that found increases year over year in advanced email attacks (23%) and phishing (17%), with business email compromises largely staying stable. Surprisingly, the most successful attacks are ones that ask for a simple favor.
Want an agent? IBM guides clients through AI guardrails

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Billy Hurley

Consider this: You’re looking for a water bottle that exudes your style. Gatorade currently allows you to custom design your water bottle with a prompt of “anything you can imagine.” (“A panda flipping pancakes,” the site suggests.)What could go wrong—besides that proverbial first GenAI pancake? At a June 12 meeting in IBM’s Manhattan headquarters, the company’s agentic experts considered the disastrous outcomes in a custom-bottle scenario—with no technical safeguards in place.
Adversaries won’t wait-so neither should a federal procurement process, expert says

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

Tech is more than an industry; it’s a national security prerogative. So, why is the sector’s federal procurement system—how the government works with outside sources to acquire goods and services—stuck in the past? That’s a question Steven Aberle, CEO and founder of Rohirrim, has been asking himself lately. Rohirrim is a procurement and request for proposal (RFP) solutions AI company and Aberle a former government contractor.
How to keep track of legacy IT that goes AI

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Billy Hurley

So, you woke up and your favorite SaaS tool now has an AI capability you didn’t ask for. An attendee at our recent IT Brew virtual event asked how to track the legacy IT that suddenly gets AI-ified: “Should we be evaluating these tools differently?”We posed the question to IT industry pros, including Eoin Wickens, director of threat intelligence at HiddenLayer, and Peter Eichelberger, director of IT at Altamont Capital Partners, who spoke with us during the May 2025 presentation.
At Cisco, Tom Gillis continues decades-long career

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

As a child, Tom Gillis had one parent who was an engineer and one who was a musician. His father worked at Raytheon while his mother was a concert pianist who played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But music, while a joy, wasn’t encouraged as a career. “She used to say to me, I want you to love music, appreciate music, but I forbid you to make it your living,” Gillis told IT Brew. “And of course, I’m like, okay, cool, I’ll be an engineer.
The flash crash of 2010 offers warning as AI automates

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Billy Hurley

On May 6, 2010, at 2:32 pm, stocks and stomachs dropped. An unexpected sell-order of 75,000 contracts (worth $4.1 billion, according to an SEC report filed a few months later) led to a chain reaction of buys, sells, buybacks, sellbacks, and panicked exits. In the span of about 10 minutes, in what became known as the “flash crash,” the Dow Jones Industrial Average (which today includes companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple) fell by about 9%.
Stephen Orban wants to continue democratizing data and AI for all

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Caroline Nihill

New SVP of Product Ecosystems and Partners at Databricks Stephen Orban said that he admires how technical the company is and the vision it has for democratizing data and artificial intelligence for all. “Generative AI over the last couple of years is not just a CIO-level concern, that’s a CEO- and boardroom-level concern,” Orban said in an interview with IT Brew.
How GenAI has impacted the role of the pen tester

2 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Billy Hurley

After a long week of hunting for misconfigurations in a company’s infrastructure, Aaron Herndon, penetration tester and principal security consultant at Rapid7, frequently spends a Friday writing out the team’s discoveries. A 40-day assignment may mean a digest of 120 pages, Herndon said; even limited findings require an analyst to show their work. “Writing is the worst part of this job,” he told IT Brew.
How to prepare IT teams for social engineering attacks

2 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Billy Hurley

While some recent cyberattacks targeting retailers—like Victoria’s Secret, Dior, North Face, Adidas, Whole Foods, and the UK’s Co-op—have involved moves like credential stuffing and network reconnaissance, some cyber tactics are more theatrical than technical. A data breach of UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S), its CEO said, reportedly involved social engineering and tricking a third-party provider into providing access.