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Billy Hurley

Billy Hurley is a reporter for IT Brew. He was previously a reporter and editor at SearchSecurity.com from 2008 to 2010. He later wrote stories and produced podcasts for SAE Media Group, which published the monthly magazine NASA Tech Briefs.

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Software

How the IT standup is evolving

What’s the deal with daily developer check-ins?

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Cybersecurity

IT Brew Movie Club: ‘Blade Runner’

Today’s cybersecurity pros have their own kind of Voight-Kampff test as they try and figure out: “Are you a human or not?”

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Cybersecurity

What’s the answer when LLMs aid cyber adversaries?

Cisco Talos’s Nick Biasini shares some ideas, including defensive agents and acts of deception.

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Cybersecurity

Surviving modern ransomware

Ransomware attackers now have AI on their side. Get the playbooks IT teams use to detect, contain, and recover—plus a hands-on breach simulator.

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Cloud

First jobs: How a Visa engineer learned to stay calm on call

Sai Joshitha Kathari recalls the importance of “systematic” thinking.

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IT Operations

How to take vacation when you’re the “on call” emergency handler

A data center lead and senior engineer share strategies for really taking PTO.

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Cybersecurity

AI powers a 12% YOY increase in data breach costs: IBM

We spoke with IBM X-Force’s global head of adversary simulation Patrick Fussell.

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IT Strategy

How to ensure AI tools aren’t filtering out good IT candidates

We talk with IT recruiters and people officers about their best practices.

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IT Strategy

Three IT strategies for implementing AI hiring tools

And ensuring top candidates don’t get taken off the pile.

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IT Operations

How to harden a database against sudden traffic surges

IT pros share their best practices.