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CIOFirst’s Weekly Roundup: Google Cloud, Accenture, IBM, Wipro, Cloudflare, Microsoft, OpenAI and More
Welcome to CIOFirst’s Weekly Roundup – your trusted briefing on the forces redefining enterprise IT strategy, AI-native infrastructure, data engineering, cybersecurity, and large-scale digital transformation. This week’s highlights spotlight accelerated AI cloud platforms, next-generation silicon and connectivity, governed data pipelines, industrial AI alliances, and the growing need to translate cyber risk into board-level business impact.…
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CBTS Acquires Recovery Point Systems, Expanding Enterprise Disaster Recovery, Cyber Resiliency, and AI Infrastructure Hosting Capabilities
CBTS, a leading provider of AI-ready infrastructure, cloud, and security services, announced the acquisition of Recovery Point Systems, a nationally recognized leader in fully managed and orchestrated Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and cyber resiliency solutions developed specifically for enterprise IT environments. Recovery Point brings enterprise-grade DRaaS capabilities to the CBTS portfolio, backed by…
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Wipro Announced Collaboration with CrowdStrike to Unveil CISO Command Center to Counter Frontier AI Cyber Threats
Wipro Limited has launched its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Command Center in strategic collaboration with cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike. The specialized operational hub is engineered to rewire enterprise defense strategies against frontier AI-accelerated threats, enabling proactive, risk-informed cyber resilience that aligns directly with core business priorities. The CISO Command Center reinforces Wipro’s consulting-led cybersecurity framework,…
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Rubrik Introduces Apache Iceberg Protection on AWS for Data Security
Rubrik has announced the Rubrik Apache Iceberg Protection, which is an enterprise data protection solution that enables protection of Apache Iceberg on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With the announcement, the cloud data security and artificial intelligence governance portfolio of Rubrik has been strengthened. With the solution, the users can recover complete and queryable Iceberg tables…
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Elastic Integrates OpenAI GPT Cyber Models into Elastic Security to Accelerate Threat Remediation
The current state of global cybersecurity faces a rise in the speed and sophistication of attacks. With the emergence of generative AI technology and autonomous tools, the malicious actor community has become capable of finding vulnerabilities in software, launching spear-phishing operations, and conducting cyberattacks using multiple vectors in milliseconds. This creates an operational crisis for…
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Cloudflare Partners with OpenAI Daybreak Models to Launch AI-Powered Edge Vulnerability Management
Cloudflare, has unveiled Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, which will become available through the Cloudflare Managed Defense program. The Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation technology will utilize the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network to deliver solutions that will combine code-level analysis and automatic patching by leveraging the power of OpenAI Daybreak model, including GPT-5.6 Cyber, along with security…
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CIOFirst’s Weekly Roundup: NVIDIA, Deloitte, IBM, Tech Mahindra, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike and More
Welcome to CIOFirst’s Weekly Roundup – your trusted briefing on the forces redefining enterprise IT strategy, AI-native infrastructure, data engineering, cybersecurity, and large-scale digital transformation. This week’s highlights spotlight accelerated AI cloud platforms, next-generation silicon and connectivity, governed data pipelines, industrial AI alliances, and the growing need to translate cyber risk into board-level business impact.…
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Synology Launches ActiveProtect Manager 2.0, Bringing Expanded Platform Support and Advanced AI-Driven Security
Synology launched ActiveProtect Manager 2.0, the latest software update for its ActiveProtect data protection appliances. This release introduces expanded platform coverage, cross-platform recovery, and enhanced security, with future updates bringing AI-driven threat mitigation. “Managing fragmented backup infrastructure drives up costs and slows recovery. The ActiveProtect appliance unites purpose-built storage with powerful data management software into…
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HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B to Advance Trustworthy AI
HiddenLayer, the leading AI security company that secures agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications, announced a $100 million Series B funding round led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, and Booz Allen Ventures. The company will use the funding to deepen its enterprise platform, including its Agentic Runtime Security capabilities, and…
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Palo Alto Networks Acquires Console to “Agentify” Enterprise Cybersecurity
The enterprise technology landscape is undergoing a transition toward Agentic AI-where autonomous artificial intelligence agents independently execute software tasks, make operational decisions, and interact directly with corporate databases. However, as organizations rapidly deploy AI agents across cloud applications, customer support centers, Nonetheless, as AI agents get deployed at lightning speed within cloud applications, customer support…