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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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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.

IT Operations

The state of automation and AI

IT pros tasked with automating their tech stacks—and integrating AI—face an escalating series of challenges

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Cybersecurity

How 1Password CIO Jacob DePriest thinks about approving internal AI tools

How do you secure a workforce where everyone is now an AI builder?

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IT Strategy

How IT pros are thinking about AI and budgets amid economic uncertainty

“CIOs will once again need to double down on IT spend management through prioritization, targeted cost cutting, tight vendor management, and other techniques,” one Forrester report states.

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Cloud

How do chief trust officers measure and own trust?

“It turns out it’s very hard to build trust with customers if people don’t trust each other inside the company,” says one CTrO.

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Cybersecurity

How Adobe is boosting AI fluency internally

During the company’s Security Grand Challenge event, it challenged employees to solve a difficult problem with AI.