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Early Morning Byte: Monday, May 5, 2025
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AI is becoming the backbone of modern cybersecurity. Today’s threats are fast, intelligent, and unpredictable, making yesterday’s defenses obsolete. To thrive, security leaders must embrace autonomy, automation, and AI as core capabilities, not future plans. The orgs willing to adapt quickly are setting the new standard.
And speaking of evolving mindsets, we’re excited to welcome BetterCloud as our newest affiliate sponsor. Their just-released 2025 State of SaaS report couldn’t come at a better time.
With IT teams under pressure to do more with less, the report offers real-world insights on how to reduce waste, manage risk, and scale smarter. It’s a timely look at how SaaS management is becoming a strategic lever, not just a tech checklist.
💡 Let’s jump today’s full edition to catch up on all you need to know…

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FEATUREDThe Age of Autonomous Security: How AI Is Changing the Game

Defensive tools and strategies from previous time periods were not built to protect against current AI-driven cyber attacks. To survive, cybersecurity must evolve. To win, it must innovate.
By Amit Ojha, Contributing CIO ● Read More…
EXTRA BYTES

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2025 report captures a global workforce grappling with disconnection, declining well-being, and the pressures of adapting to a rapidly transforming digital era.

In a keynote address at the 2025 Hill and Valley Forum in Washington, D.C., Jensen Huang painted a sweeping vision of artificial intelligence as the foundation of a new industrial age.

On a recent earnings call, Royal Caribbean Group delivered first-quarter 2025 financial results that exceeded expectations and company executives outlined an ambitious technology roadmap.
TRENDINGChatGPT and Amazon’s Race to Reinvent the Customer Journey

The way people shop online is evolving, not with sudden disruption, but with steady, technology-driven change. Today, developments from companies like Visa and OpenAI point to a new shift.
By Emory Odom, Contributing Writer ● Read More…
RESOURCE HUB

BetterCloud is proud to announce the publication of our 13th annual State of SaaS Report. We surveyed over 600 IT professionals to provide you with insights so you can identify and eliminate spending waste, mitigate risk and expand your team's bandwidth without adding headcount.
FEATURED OPPORTUNITY

Stanton has selected CIO Partners to lead their search for its next Senior Vice President of Information Technology, located in Calhoun, Georgia. Read More...
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