Cloud security, AI giveth and taketh away

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Kyler Middleton is senior principal software engineer at healthcare tech company Veradigm. She is also founder, owner, and CEO at 14ers Consulting, an IT services and engineering firm, as well as the co-host of her own podcast, Day Two DevOps and the founder of an IT training website, LetsDoDevOps.com. Her LinkedIn profile says, "I will teach you. It's unavoidable."

In this episode, Middleton and TechTarget Editorial's Beth Pariseau examine two of the biggest double-edge swords in IT: cloud security and AI. The same cloud platforms that connect the world -- and broaden its attack surface -- also offer free and low-cost tools for IT pros to experiment with multiple layers of security automation and centralize log analytics; the same AI models that make burgeoning log data manageable could make it more difficult for security novices to learn the basics. Middleton shares her outlook on all these issues as well as tips for SecOps newbies.