Mark Albertson

Mark Albertson is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He is an experienced technology reporter, recognized by Onalytica as a "Who's Who In Cloud Influencer" and named to Peerlyst’s “24 Powerful Cybersecurity Journalists.” Prior to SiliconANGLE, Mark wrote for the San Francisco Examiner, Blasting News, and CBS-Bay Area.

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Three insights you might have missed from the ‘Optimize Your Media Supply Chain’ event

Cloud-native supply chains and advanced video production technologies are becoming a key influence in the media content world. Gartner analysts have predicted that more than 85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first strategy by 2025, and the media ecosystem is very much a part of that trend. To assess what this will mean for the ...

Quieter voices may ultimately carry the day in making progress for women in tech

Progress toward greater gender diversity in the technology world appears to have stalled. AnitaB.org has reported that the percentage of women in technical roles stands at 27.6%, more than a percentage point lower than the number reported in 2020. Why progress remains slow is perplexing to some since McKinsey & Co. recently published data showing ...

Bugcrowd plans to transform the penetration testing market through AI and white-hat hackers

Bugcrowd Inc. has grown from a “napkin moment” sketched out by the founder on an airplane flight 11 years ago to now include an expanding ecosystem of bug bounty programs and, most recently, penetration testing as a service. Last week, the multi-solution, crowdsourced cybersecurity platform announced new capabilities in its Penetration Testing as a Service, ...

What to expect during the Open Source Summit NA event: Join theCUBE May 10-12

The explosion of interest in OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT large language model signifies more than just major interest in artificial intelligence. It has boosted interest in open source as well. Since ChatGPT was released into general availability in late November last year, with a free version available to all, a host of open-source equivalents have hit ...

Data choice and control play strong roles in how Cribl and CrowdStrike provide security solutions

When CrowdStrike Inc. launched its Falcon Fund investment vehicle in 2021, one of the first companies it chose to support was Cribl Inc. Three years later, that investment is making an impact in a number of ways. Aside from the most recent collaboration between the two firms to leverage Cribl’s data streaming expertise, the companies ...

Data and AI opens access for developers, provides useful signals for security

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have opened up a whole new world of data usage for enterprise developers. The ability of AI to channel massive amounts of data and apply models that will perform near-instant analysis has created a new dynamic where programmers become active participants in how data is used. “Up until now, data ...

Nvidia and Amazon executives address new age of uncertainty in an AI-powered world

When a tool as powerful as generative artificial intelligence becomes available at large scale, five-year business plans go right out the window. “You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world as people try to figure out how to do this,” Mat Honan (pictured, right), editor in chief at MIT Technology Review, said in ...

SBOMs and firewalls are part of Sonatype’s focus on software supply chain security

When there’s a safety issue with a car or a child’s toy, the items usually get recalled and a fix is implemented. Some tech industry leaders are wondering why the same approach isn’t working for software. Log4j is a widely used open-source tool used to collect diagnostics data from applications written in Java. In late ...

What to expect during the ‘Navigating the Road to Cyber Resiliency’ event: Join theCUBE May 16

Ransomware and supply chain hacks have become threats to organizations globally. Cyber risk puts pressure on organizations to focus on end-to-end security, from the silicon root of trust all the way up the tech stack. This reality was brought to the forefront recently with a supply chain compromise at 3CX, provider of voice-over-IP unified communication ...

Three insights you might have missed from the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU event

The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathering in Amsterdam provided an opportunity for engineers and developers to hear the latest on container, cloud-native and open-source innovation. The rise of artificial intelligence and its impact on the evolution of DevOps, as well as data governance, were prime topics of discussion during the weeklong event. TheCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming ...