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Brianna Monsanto

Brianna Monsanto is a reporter with IT Brew who covers cybersecurity, cloud computing, and IT strategy news. Prior to IT Brew, Brianna covered the wealth management industry for Financial Advisor IQ, a Financial Times Specialist brand. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Television, Radio and the Emerging Media from CUNY Brooklyn College and a Master of Arts in Journalism with a concentration in Business and Economic Reporting from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

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Software

Developers fear performance evaluations based on AI data: survey

Some developers say they would feel better about AI data in performance evaluations if they were involved in defining the metrics.

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Cloud

AI is giving the green IT movement another lifeline

“The one thing about agents, they don’t have a meter that says, ‘Oh, I’m consuming electricity.’ They just consume it,” one expert tells IT Brew.

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Cloud

More than one-third of IT pros aren’t confident employees know AI policies

One CEO recommends repeating AI policies to staff to build knowledge of internal AI and data security guidelines.

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Cybersecurity

Microsoft cautions against code of conduct-themed phishing campaign

Microsoft says the campaign leveraged “polished, enterprise-style HTML templates” and other elements to appear more convincing.

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Cloud

What is AI sovereignty and why are companies chasing after it?

Data loss and reducing vendor dependency are some of the reasons businesses are interested in pursuing AI sovereignty.

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Software

Why Snyk chose to build a new lead qualification system over buying

The new system saves employees about 1,300 hours a year on the manual work associated with lead generation.

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Cloud

Does every company need to be an AI company now?

“I feel like you’re seeing all of these storage companies realize that they have an important part to play,” says one IDC expert.

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Cloud

How to throw an effective promptathon

“The best way to learn how to write a good prompt is to write a thousand really bad prompts,” says one expert.

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IT Operations

DNSFilter’s support bot is moving on to bigger and better things

DNSFilter Head of AI Labs Mikey Pruitt says he expects the content filtering company’s AI-driven support agent to address tier-2 support requests by Q4.

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IT Operations

Agentic AI and the New IT Risk Landscape

Accounting and finance skillset needs are evolving rapidly. Finance leaders describe how the changes have altered hiring cycles, talent evaluation, and employee development.