Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Every business hits this fork in the road: Do we build or do we buy? Andy Dean and Christian Reilly break it down simply: Buy doesn't always mean SaaS; it can mean bringing in complex systems like SAP. But complexity creeps fast. M&A, new markets, legacy apps, all of it adds layers. To win long-term, you need a clear target architecture and guardrails to reduce drift. That's where automation, cloud landing zones, and Infrastructure-as-Code come in.

In this episode of The Connectivity Cloud Podcast with Cloudflare, host Mark Dembo is joined by Andy Dean, Head of Technical Operations at AllSaints, and Christian Reilly, Field CTO of EMEA at Cloudflare, to unpack what real-world digital transformation looks like, specifically how enterprises can navigate the complex balance between security and scalability, from managing multi-vendor environments to modernizing legacy infrastructure.

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Introducing Agentic Cloud Security with Sysdig Sage. Cloud security doesn’t need more alerts — it needs better judgment. At Sysdig, we believe defenders shouldn’t have to choose between speed and certainty. They need a different kind of intelligence: AI that thinks AI that reasons AI that acts With the Sysdig Sage, the age of agentic cloud security has arrived. Sysdig Sage brings a security “brain” to your cloud—always on, always learning, always working.

Cato Rapid Recap In just 2 minutes, get up to speed with the most impactful Cato updates designed to help enhance security, visibility, and control across your enterprise network.

In the first half of 2025 alone, cloud intrusions were up 136% compared to all of 2024. China was a big driver — CrowdStrike saw a 40% year-over-year surge in intrusions from suspected cloud-conscious China-nexus threat actors. In the government sector, interactive intrusions increased 71%, and targeted intrusion activity jumped 185%.

Tired of spending hours reviewing vendor artifacts, policies, and questionnaires? Meet Bitsight Framework Intelligence—the AI-powered engine that transforms static compliance documents into structured, actionable insights. This capability, embedded in Bitsight’s Continuous Monitoring product, automatically parses vendor documentation, maps control evidence to frameworks like SIG Lite, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001, and generates audit-ready reports in just a few clicks.

Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.

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