More than 85 percent of companies already operate in multicloud environments and by 2021, 98 percent plan to use multiple hybrid clouds, according to the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). After cloud adoption, the application modernization trend follows, with an integral part of it being microservices architecture — decomposing…

With the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) going into effect on January 1, 2020, I think it’s timely to look at how digital natives may change the way we view data privacy altogether. If you were a toddler when Voyager 1 and 2 buzzed Saturn in 1980 and 1981 respectively,…

IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) researchers have been responding to and analyzing the MegaCortex ransomware since its emergence. MegaCortex’s rapid evolution is one of the ways by which it has adapted to its perpetrators’ goals. While malware does evolve over time, MegaCortex’s evolution has been especially speedy…

The walk-up music for the post-lunch keynote speaker sounded familiar, but it took me a minute before I figured it out: It was the Hot Dog Song from Disney Jr.’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It may have been the most unique walk-up music I heard at any of the cybersecurity conferences…