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Video: How Netskope and Optiv Fight Shadow AI

As organizations race to modernize cloud environments and adopt AI, security and governance can’t be an afterthought. In this episode of Partner POV, Katie Bavoso sits down with Netskope and Optiv to explore how a deep partner-led approach helps customers securely adopt cloud and AI technologies at scale. Joe Green of Netskope and Paul Herrmann…

TeamPCP and the Rise of Cloud-Native Cybercrime

Flare researchers have identified a threat actor known as TeamPCP behind a large-scale campaign targeting cloud-native infrastructure by abusing exposed orchestration and management interfaces.  First observed in late 2025, the activity reflects a broader shift away from endpoint-focused attacks toward systematic exploitation of cloud control planes. “The campaign reflects a dark mirror of legitimate markets.…

AI-Driven Attack Gains AWS Admin Privileges in Under 10 Minutes

Threat actors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate cloud intrusions.  In a recent incident observed by Sysdig researchers, attackers escalated from stolen credentials to full administrative access in an AWS environment in under 10 minutes, illustrating how AI can shorten cloud attack timelines. “The threat actor achieved administrative privileges in under 10 minutes, compromised…

AI-Driven Attack Gains AWS Admin Privileges in Under 10 Minutes

Threat actors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate cloud intrusions.  In a recent incident observed by Sysdig researchers, attackers escalated from stolen credentials to full administrative access in an AWS environment in under 10 minutes, illustrating how AI can shorten cloud attack timelines. “The threat actor achieved administrative privileges in under 10 minutes, compromised…

AI-Driven Attack Gains AWS Admin Privileges in Under 10 Minutes

Threat actors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate cloud intrusions.  In a recent incident observed by Sysdig researchers, attackers escalated from stolen credentials to full administrative access in an AWS environment in under 10 minutes, illustrating how AI can shorten cloud attack timelines. “The threat actor achieved administrative privileges in under 10 minutes, compromised…

Video: How Rafay Systems Simplifies Hybrid Cloud & AI on AWS

In this Partner POV episode, sponsored by Rafay Systems, host Katie Bavoso sits down with Mohan Atreya, Chief Product Officer at Rafay Systems, to explore how platform teams can simplify hybrid and multi-cloud environments, accelerate Kubernetes operations, and support AI and GPU-intensive workloads—all while maintaining governance and cost efficiency. Mohan explains how Rafay works alongside…

Video: Tackling AI, Tech Debt & Faster AWS Migration with Caylent

In this episode of Channel Insider: Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso sits down with Ryan Gross, Head of Data & Applications at Caylent, to explore how AI is reshaping cloud migration, what reducing technical debt looks like, and accelerating modernization on AWS. Ryan breaks down how Caylent became the #1 independent AWS-only partner, the challenges…

China’s ‘Typhoons’ changing the way FBI hunts sophisticated threats

Major cyber intrusions by the Chinese hacking groups known as Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon have forced the FBI to change its methods of hunting sophisticated threats, a top FBI cyber official said Wednesday. U.S. officials, allied governments and threat researchers have identified Salt Typhoon as the group behind the massive telecommunications hack revealed last…

Tensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twins

Enterprises want access to new software and AI tools but can’t risk sending their sensitive data out to a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Tensor9 looks to help software companies land more enterprise customers by helping them deploy their software directly into a customer’s tech stack. Tensor9 converts a software vendor’s code into the format needed…

A look at Intel Capital before the 34-year-old firm strikes out on its own

When Intel Capital announced its plans to spin out from semiconductor giant Intel in January, it came as a bit of a shock considering the firm has been operating as Intel’s venture investment arm since 1991. In many ways this decision marks the end of an era for what’s considered by some to be the…

Plural’s platform allows enterprises to manage their Kubernetes clusters in one place

When Sam Weaver was vice president of product management at Unqork, he realized that the company needed a better way to manage its sprawling network of Kubernetes clusters — which are groups of computing nodes. When Unqork couldn’t find anything off the shelf, it assembled a 15-person team to build a Kubernetes management product. Despite…

Video: How Vega Cloud Helps MSPs Solve Cloud Billing Errors

Managing cloud environments is already complex—tracking revenue and costs shouldn’t be an added headache. That’s why Vega Cloud developed Vega for MSPs, a purpose-built platform designed to help managed service providers optimize cloud spend, enhance financial accountability, and drive operational efficiency.  In this episode of Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso sits down with Vega Cloud…

Vulnerability in popular AI developer could ‘shut down essentially everything you own’ 

A popular platform for developing AI systems has patched an easily exploitable vulnerability that would have given an attacker remote code execution privileges. Researchers at application security firm Noma detail how the flaw, embedded in Javascript code for Lightning.AI’s development platform, could be manipulated to give an attacker virtually unfettered access to a user’s cloud…

Hugging Face makes it easier for devs to run AI models on third-party clouds

AI dev platform Hugging Face has partnered with third-party cloud vendors including SambaNova to launch Inference Providers, a feature designed to make it easier for devs on Hugging Face to run AI models using the infrastructure of their choice. Other partners involved with the new effort include Fal, Replicate, and Together AI. Hugging Face says…

Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. As part of Stargate, OpenAI’s massive new AI infrastructure deal with SoftBank, Oracle, and others, Microsoft says it has signed a new agreement with OpenAI that gives it “right of first refusal” on new…

Bipartisan cloud study recommends speeding federal adoption, or remain vulnerable on cyber

Slow adoption of cloud technologies poses a cybersecurity hazard for federal agencies, which will require an overhaul of contracting, regulatory and budgeting procedures to fix, a bipartisan think tank report that will be released Thursday concludes. Led by veterans of both the first Trump administration and Biden administration as well as lawmakers from both parties,…

UK antitrust watchdog launches review of IBM’s HashiCorp takeover

The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM’s planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp would affect competition. The CMA said Monday it was inviting comment on the merger from interested parties by January 16. The regulator set a provisional February 25 deadline to decide whether to…

Nuon helps companies deploy their software into their customers’ cloud accounts

Jon Morehouse launched PowerTools in 2019 to help companies ship static sites and serverless apps to their cloud accounts on providers like AWS and Azure. When a customer asked him if they could use PowerTools to deploy their software into one of their customer’s cloud accounts, Morehouse was skeptical. Morehouse told TechCrunch that after that…