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Security leaders evaluating cloud access security broker (CASB) and data loss prevention (DLP) tools often discover the two categories overlap just enough to create budget friction and just little enough to leave real gaps. A CASB can flag risky file-sharing behavior in Salesforce without ever inspecting the content inside the file. A traditional DLP tool can classify that same file as containing source code without knowing whether the sharing link is public.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we are tackling something almost everyone does without thinking twice: connecting to public Wi-Fi (and what it could be costing you without you ever knowing). You are at an airport, a coffee shop, or a hotel lobby. You notice your data plan is running low and scroll through the available networks. And there it is: Free Wi-Fi—no password required.

Network outages are still painfully expensive, and configuration mistakes are one of the biggest culprits. A 2023 analysis of Uptime Institute data shows that configuration and change management failures are the top cause of major network outages, responsible for around 45% of network incidents. Even a small configuration slip on a core switch can cascade into large-scale downtime. That’s why consistent, well-governed network device management is key to keeping business services uninterrupted.

SAST scanners do their job well. The problem is their job stops at flagging vulnerable functions, not confirming whether those functions are reachable in your application. The result is a vulnerability remediation workflow full of findings that developers spend sprint cycles investigating, only to conclude they aren’t exploitable. Seemplicity’s Code Analyst closes that gap before the finding ever hits the queue. Security tools are supposed to make developers’ jobs easier.

A threat intelligence platform (TIP) is the software layer that bridges the gap between raw threat data and your team's security decisions. It aggregates signals from open, deep, and dark web sources, normalizes indicators of compromise (IOCs), enriches them with context like reputation scores and malware family attribution, and maps adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) so analysts can act instead of investigating.

AI! It's in everything, everywhere, all at once! It’s reading emails, summarising meetings, drafting documents, and writing code, and it’s no longer just giving us answers. We now also have agents that act on their own, access other systems, and make decisions with little to no human oversight. From a capability standpoint, it’s amazing.