Brianna Monsanto

Reporter, IT Brew

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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Cybersecurity

Red Hat launches ‘asago’ open-source community

Collaborators include Microsoft and Nvidia.

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IT Strategy

Employers are paying less for certain IT tasks: report

Tasks like maintaining technical equipment and analyzing system performance were associated with lower pay.

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Cybersecurity

Human error drove cyber losses in H1 2026

Social engineering contributed to 85.3% of incurred losses during that period, according to Resilience.

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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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Software

How Lorilyn McCue sees product management evolving for the AI era

“It’s really exciting to be able to take some of the burden of these small things off of the engineers and to be able to also be a doer yourself,” McCue says.

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Software

Software operators are shipping AI features that customers don’t use

A little over 50% of vertical market software companies saw fewer than one in four customers use their AI features.

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Cybersecurity

Unit 42 uncovers AI-enabled autonomous hacking campaign

The threat actor tried to exploit more than 400 targets.

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IT Strategy

More than one-quarter of all AI spend is wasted: report

Over 50% of respondents say there isn’t a clear AI cost owner in their company.

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Cybersecurity

Paying a ransom doesn’t stop cybercriminals: report

And the US had the highest ransom payment rate.

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IT Strategy

Most countries won’t achieve tech sovereignty by 2030

Forrester says absolute sovereignty is unrealistic, even for the US.

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