“Going green” isn’t just a catchphrase for the marketing team: IT and tech teams are also hoping to create more sustainable environments now and in the future. This comes as the global market for green tech and sustainability is forecast to jump from this year’s 28.6 billion to 134.9 billion by 2030, a February report shows. IT Brew caught up with tech and sustainability experts to explore what going green looks like in the industry.

Why is it so important that IT teams and tech teams consider going green?

“There’s an interesting sort of inflection point there of, how much is this going to influence buying decisions?” Kyle Campos, chief technology and product officer at CloudBolt—a software company that wants to “simplify cloud waste remediation” on a large scale—told IT Brew. “Is it informational, so that you have the context of, ‘Hey, our decisions result in X amount of carbon [emissions],’ or whatever it may be? Or are you actually evaluating your efficiency to make different buying decisions?”

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If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? For IT pros who manage a multi-location network, multipresence—aka the ability to be in two places at once—would be pretty ideal.

But until multipresence is possible for us mortals, you can lighten your load with this handy infographic from Eaton.

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Chris Novak, senior director of cybersecurity consulting at Verizon Business, said there’s at least one optimistic finding in his company’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), an annual study pointing out a year’s worth of breaches, extortion, ransomware, human deception, and other dark cyberactivity: More people are acing the phishing test.

While the report revealed rather alarming data, like a year over year near-tripling of breaches involving vulnerability exploits, the Verizon team also highlighted an increase in reporting of phishing incidents, even from those who clicked a suspicious link.

“The people who fell victim and the people who didn’t, the reporting from both of those indicate that it’s improved,” Novak told IT Brew.

Read more here.—BH

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There’s a feeling among prominent IT pros—including some who spoke at RSA Conference 2024 last week—that generative AI and large language models benefit cybersecurity pros in the short term.

Why? Because defenders have something that attackers frequently lack: lots and lots of context-specific data.

“Nobody would debate that defenders have more data about their environments, what’s going on in them, how it’s configured. To me, whoever has more data wins in the long term. Because these technologies are benefiting from that type of learning,” Anton Chuvakin, Google Cloud’s security advisor for the office of the CISO, told IT Brew.

A recent study from Google Cloud and the Cloud Security Alliance found that 67% of 2,486 IT and security professionals said they’ve already tested AI for security-specific purposes, including rule creation, attack simulation, and compliance violation detection.

Keep reading here.—BH

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