A record $16.6bn in cybercrime losses was reported to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2024. This “staggering” amount represents a 33% rise compared to recorded losses in 2023, according to the IC3 Internet Crime Report 2024. The bulk of these losses were as a result of cyber-enabled fraud – scams that use the internet for various nefarious purposes, including theft of money, data or identity, or the creation of counterfeit goods or…

The year of 2025 is expected to a massively disruptive year from ‘Core to Cloud to AI to Gen AI’ as the futuristic CIO expects tech OEMs and ecosystem partners to declutter tech complexity, demystify hyped technologies to help navigate their career graph and accelerate their company’s business. The tech buying process unlike in the past has not stirred across CIOs and their teams in recent years, but it has completely got shaken. And if…

Phishing has declined as a method of initial access in 2024 and is now behind credential theft and vulnerability exploitation, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends 2025 Report. This continues a trend observed over several year, with email phishing falling from 22% to 14% for initial access from 2022 to 2024. Vulnerability exploitation was the most common method of infiltrating targets in 2024, making up 33% of cases. However, this marks a significant decline from 38% in…

The demand for highly performant networks has risen exponentially as organizations seek to empower employees with fast, anywhere access to key applications. At the same time, the threat environment continues to escalate, and the consequences of breaches and disruption become increasingly severe. Networking teams are striving to deploy increasingly distributed, complex network solutions, and security teams are faced with the challenge of securing them. Xalient’s latest research report ‘Why SASE is the Blueprint for Future-proofing…

He also detailed how Nvidia partners are leveraging NeMo microservices in their AI agent platforms. AT&T, for example, is using agentic AI to support its call centers. Working with Arize and Quantiphi, AT&T has built an AI agent that leverages NeMo microservices to process its knowledge base of nearly 10,000 documents, which are refreshed weekly. Conway noted that NeMo microservices helped improve the agent’s accuracy by 40%, which also lowered the compute overhead. Then there’s…