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The Coca-Cola Company stated a dairy company it owns (fairlife, LLC), has suspended production in the United States due to a cyberattack. After a user gained unauthorized access to parts of its systems, including production-related operations, the organization was forced to temporarily suspend operations. Outside cybersecurity experts have been called upon by the organization to assist in an investigation. At this time, there is no evidence that product quality or safety has been impacted.

Hugging Face, a host platform for AI models and datasets, confirmed it had experienced a data breach. Furthermore, the organization asserted the breach had been carried out entirely by an AI agent. “We identified unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets and to several credentials used by our services,” the platform stated in a post regarding the matter.

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During her junior year in college, Atwell had been considering law school before an internship with the State Department completely reoriented her future. There, Atwell was “randomly” placed in diplomatic security within the cyber threat analysis division, as a threat analyst. When she returned to school, Atwell switched tracks from law school to intel analyst.

"It changed my whole career path," she reflects. "I was a music major, but after that, I changed my major to criminal justice." Behnke earned her bachelor's degree in Social Science with a focus in Criminal Justice from Washington State University while working in loss prevention at Macy's.

Dr. Jazma Mekelle Parker began her security career as a contract background investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Here, she worked on investigations related to security clearances and federal trust determinations. “I was entrusted with conducting interviews, gathering sensitive information, and helping assess whether individuals could be trusted with access to classified national security information,” Dr. Parker says.

It's easy to picture a data center as a single, heavily guarded building sitting by itself, but the reality isn’t as clean-cut, since data centers come in different shapes and sizes. Small ones may occupy the floor of a building near a city center, while large-scale campuses operate more like self-contained cities, with independent cooling systems, fuel storage, backup power, and utility connections spread across a wide physical footprint.

Bonavita: Most of my career has been at the intersection of technology and business transformation. I’ve led technology platform sales at Accenture, run a large business process outsourcing operation that I helped transform from a premise-based model to a fully cloud-based one, and most recently built out specialized SD-WAN, SASE, and cybersecurity sales teams at Lumen Technologies before joining GTT.

A report by Drata recently analyzed survey responses from security and IT professionals on AI adoption trends. The report exposes a widening gap between what organizations expected from AI in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and what it has actually delivered — and traces that gap to three compounding failures: vendors oversold, buyers bought breadth, and governance never caught up.

“Looking back, one of the most important lessons I learned was that growth often comes from stepping into gaps rather than following the crowd. Choosing that path early in my career shaped the opportunities that followed and ultimately influenced the direction of my professional life,” Cerra says. Cerra served with the U.S. Secret Service for more than 20 years, leading investigations, conducting protective operations and advancing security initiatives.