There's nothing Salesforce.com likes better than tweaking Oracle (more on that in a bit), so it's not surprising that it announced Sunday that it was adding artificial intelligence capabilities to its popular flagship product,
according to The New York Times. We might be in an era of AI washing, to some extent, but the number of companies making important bets on AI technology cant be ignored.
HOW CYBER SECURITY TEAMS CAN CONVINCE THE C-SUITE OF THEIR VALUE Security professionals are seen as getting in the way at a lot of tech (and non-tech) companies, putting unnecessary restrictions on when products can be shipped. In a partial preview of what I'll discuss with IBM's Diana Kelley at Structure Security,
Harvard Business Review has a nice overview of how information security practitioners can get more support from the upper ranks of their company, authored by Alejandra Quevedo of Facebook.
KREBSONSECURITY HIT WITH RECORD DDOS Brian Krebs is one of the most hard-working and influential journalists in the field of information security, which means he has made a few enemies over the years. Krebs' site was hit this week by what Akamai called the largest DDoS attack it had ever seen,
according to a blog post from Krebs (link is to a mirrored site, because, well...). He later tweeted that Akamai was forced to take his site offline, and we'll try to get clarification from Akamai CSO Andy Ellis next week at Structure Security the scope of this attack.
EXCLUSIVE: PROBE OF LEAKED U.S. NSA HACKING TOOLS EXAMINES OPERATIVES MISTAKE The fallout from the leak of hacking tools used by the NSA continues, and Reuters reports that government investigators believe a former employee or contractor left the tools exposed on an outside server. In an interesting twist to this saga,
Reuters reports that the NSA discovered the tools had been exposed three years ago after being informed of an error by that employee, but didn't tell the companies whose software vulnerabilities were being exploited by those tools because it couldnt detect any use of them by foreign hacking groups against friendly assets.
ARM RAISES BAR FOR SAFETY, DETERMINISM One of the sessions I'm looking forward to next week at Structure Security involves a discussion between representatives from Intel, Qualcomm, and ARM on how hardware security can improve, and ARM this week released a new core design for automotive applications with enhanced security.
EETimes reports that the new Cortex core offers new sandboxes for executing code in a secure environment.
ORACLE'S CLOUD STRATEGY: IS SIMPLE: WOO AND WIN THE LATECOMERS It was Oracle Week in downtown San Francisco this week, which means the usual mix of horrible traffic and grandiose statements.
The Register breaks down Oracle's pitch to its customers, many of whom have been quite skeptical about this whole cloud thing and might respond to Oracle's hybrid cloud products and services.
