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Caroline Nihill

Caroline Nihill is a reporter for IT Brew. Her work primarily focuses on cybersecurity, IT operations, and tech interactions between the private and public sectors. Based in the D.C. area, Caroline has also worked for Scoop News Group outlets including FedScoop, CyberScoop, StateScoop, and others.

Healthcare workers, alerts, and screens convey AI acceleration and workplace safety in the medical space, with the Centegix duress button at the center.
Software

How the Department of Veterans Affairs uses Slack in a new partnership

Can Slack help the VA adopt an agentic operating system?

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IT Strategy

Why organizations are choosing to repatriate data from data centers

How hard could it really be?

Cybersecurity disclosure
Cybersecurity

Supply-chain attack against open source projects could have big impact

One expert recommends professionals put package updates in purgatory to defend against these threats.

geopolitical risk
Cybersecurity

Iran conflict: DDoS uptick

Intel 471’s Ashley Bather suggests organizations have a plan to address DDoS attacks to mitigate potential downtime.

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Software

How the help desk can fight shadow AI

Why IT departments should monitor any shadow AI usage—and understand why employees are engaging in it.

WTW Geopolitical Risk Prep
Cybersecurity

Experts point to increasing threat intelligence in light of Handala attacks

Experts are noticing the hacker group gaining traction in successful attack attempts.

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Software

What one privacy expert thinks about challenges facing agentic AI

Salesforce’s Ed Britan discusses privacy, trust in AI, and more.

Illustration of the Pentagon building with network nodes emanating from it.
IT Strategy

Will Anthropic’s battle with the government ripple through IT?

Experts think the Anthropic incident may change how companies regard their AI vendors.

The inside of a data center.
IT Operations

How automation is changing the human element in data centers

One expert suggests that professionals understand AI’s limitations in a data center context.

A magnifying glass revealing the code behind an AI brain
Software

What to do about troubles with AI-generated code

Spoiler: Logging and monitoring are your friends.