In today's roundup, we cover Google’s lawsuit against a large-scale phishing network, urgent security patches from leading tech vendors, and several active exploitation cases targeting enterprise systems. Organizations are strongly advised to update affected products, review configurations, and enhance monitoring to mitigate ongoing threats.

Major Lawsuits, Critical Patches, and Active Exploits

We are joined by our producer extraordinaire, Alex Giroux the Associate Director of Brand and Customer Experience at Agital to talk all things marketing from the brain of an ad agency leader. 

From how direct mail is so cool that Kat keeps hers (but somehow is responsible enough to develop disposable camera pictures) to AI content creation, Alex has us covered on the latest and greatest marketing trends for both B2B and B2C. 

Whether you are in marketing or in business, this episode should resonate for you! And if it doesn't, you can just watch the YouTube with the sound off like Ian. 

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Well, it's already here.  A remix of a song you most likely heard if you were on the phone with a Customer Service Rep and been placed on hold.

After I graduated college, a number of day jobs I worked (including my current one as of this posting) were in call centres where I would often reach out to doctor's offices to obtain missing patient information and would more often than not jam out to this too while waiting for a person to help.

After finding out the name of this, I starting wonder what would this sound like on the dancefloor.  

I relistened to the song a number of times and constructed a banger based on it.

Hope you enjoy.  FREE DOWNLOAD!

Learn more about this history behind this earworm here!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbTKxC4eveI

Tim Carleton - Opus No. 1 (Randy Derricott Bootleg Remix)

Kat's out of town, so Ian is joined by Brad Oliver, Director of the US Commercial Collaboration SMB & Midmarket Sales Organization at Cisco to talk hobbies, work/life balance and fighting off burnout. You have to be able to bring your best self everyday, but how do you go about doing that?

Just two bros talking life, love and pursuit of happiness. Truly an episode for the people. 

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Big thanks to Cisco for sponsoring this video and sponsoring my trip to Cisco Partner Summit 2025.

Is your encryption safe? Cisco’s Vijoy Pandey reveals why distributed quantum computing is coming in 2-3 years, not 10. Learn about the 'Store Now, Harvest Later' threat and how quantum networking changes everything, including the security of your VPN. This paradigm shift is 100x bigger than the ChatGPT/AI moment, requiring the entire theory of computer science to be rewritten.

Join us as we dive into the imminent future of cybersecurity, qubits, and
entanglement technology from Cisco.

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05:08 - Post Quantum Cryptography
06:12 - Why Bother with Quantum Computing
07:57 - How Do We get to Practical Quantum Computing
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13:28 - Practical Use Case for Quantum Alert
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#522: Does Traditional Encryption End in 2027?

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This video is a deep dive with Jeetu Patel on why the real AI revolution is happening in infrastructure and networking, not just in GPUs or chatbots.
Jeetu explains that we are massively underestimating how much AI infrastructure the world will need. Power becomes the core constraint, GPUs are the core asset, and networking is the force multiplier that lets thousands of GPUs act as one system. He walks through how we went from models on a single GPU → 4–8 GPUs in a server → racks with hundreds of GPUs (like NVL-72 with 500+ GPUs) → clusters of racks, and now “scale across” between data centers when power and real estate are scattered across different regions.

The conversation then shifts to edge AI and Cisco Unified Edge: instead of doing all token generation in big data centers, some inference and token generation must move to the edge (branches, factories, hospitals, stadiums, stores) where data is created. Jeetu explains why edge devices need to be plug-and-play, remotely managed, and integrate compute, networking, security and observability in a single platform.

He also introduces the idea that AI is now constrained by three big bottlenecks:
• Infrastructure
• A trust deficit (people don’t trust AI yet)
• A data gap (models are mostly trained on human internet data, not on rich
machine data)

Jeetu explains how security becomes a prerequisite for productivity, not a trade-off, and describes Cisco’s work with Splunk, open-sourced time-series models, and machine data (logs, metrics, traces) to close the data gap by correlating machine data with human-generated data for better insights.
Globally, he talks about the “token generation race” – how every country now cares about having enough AI token generation capacity because it directly links to GDP and national security. He cites huge infrastructure build-outs with partners like G42 in the Middle East, at gigawatt and trillions-of-dollars scale.

Finally, Jeetu tackles the “AI will take my job” fear. He outlines three stages of
thinking:
1. “AI will take my job.”
2. “Someone who uses AI better will take my job.”
3. “Without AI, I won’t be able to do my job.”

His message to younger viewers: be excited, adopt AI as a companion, own your learning, and learn fast because AI compresses the time it takes to build skills.

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0:33 - "Networking is sexy" 
02:24 - Scale up, scale out and scale across explained 
04:47 - Cisco and Nvidia partnership 
05:55 - Cisco and G42 partnership // Addressing the AI bubble 
08:11 - New Cisco Unified Edge 
11:08 - Agentic AI in the future 
13:05 - Huge demand for networking 
13:57 - The three constraints 
16:38 - AI in the real world 
19:26 - How AI will take jobs away 
21:38 - Conclusion 

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#523: Why We Are MASSIVELY Underestimating AI Infrastructure Demand

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Cisco Unified Edge & The Future of Physical AI (w/ Kevin Wolenweber) Kevin Wolenweber reveals Cisco's new Unified Edge device and details the massive Nvidia partnership transforming data centers. We discuss the shift to "Physical AI," the terrifying security challenges of autonomous Agentic AI, and why "Gigawatt" scale clusters are changing the landscape for network engineers in 2025.  

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03:28 - Use cases for the Cisco Unified Edge // Using AI models 
08:00 - More traffic and more bandwidth 
09:32 - Addressing security issues and solutions 
10:44 - What's new on the Cisco Unified Edge 
11:41 - Cisco and Nvidia partnership 
15:03 - Growing data centers 
18:24 - AI in the future 
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23:08 - Networking and AI 
25:35 - Conclusion 

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#524: Why Cisco Built This AI Device

In this episode, Venkat Kirishnamurthy, a principal Architect at Cisco, explains what are the ins and outs of designin an AI datacenter. How is it different from another datacenter ? What kind of scale are we talking about ? What is the throughput required to connect 1000 GPUs together ?


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Cisco Tech Stories - ep 29 -   Rack and Roll - Scaling AI DCs

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We’re talking cookies today – both kinds. 

Kat harkens back to her digital marketing days to share her knowledge on first- and third-party cookies, and more importantly why you keep getting asked to accept them when you visit a landing page. We also clear up if your phone is listening to you, and if the internet will get even better at predicting your buying decisions. 

We then spend the last 5 minutes going in-depth on cookies (the kind you eat). From our favorites, wildcards and how wild Oreos have gotten, we give a comprehensive breakdown of them all... Weigh in with your takes!

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The Daily HEAL Security Dispatch Podcast is a leading source for up-to-the-minute news and deep insights in the realm of healthcare cybersecurity and threat intelligence. 

At the heart of HEAL Security's vision is the commitment to equipping organizations and individuals with rapid, contextually rich cybersecurity updates, establishing itself as a pivotal force in unifying practice and data against the ingenious tactics of criminal and malicious entities. HEAL Security is fervently devoted to constructing a robust resource and community that champions the defense of the healthcare sector against the growing cyber threats from organized crime groups and antagonistic nation-states. Our core focus encompasses the protection of vital IT infrastructures, the security of sensitive patient and clinical information, the safeguarding of critical healthcare systems, and the assurance of continuous, undisturbed patient care services.

Nice to meet you. My name is Randy Derricott, an Autistic EDM DJ/producer & Pharmacy Tech based in Coral Springs, Florida (a suburb of Fort Lauderdale) by way of Richmond, Virginia.

Active since 2004, I mainly make & play Trance & Progressive House.  I also sometimes let my nerdy side show by playing what I call "Comicontronica" or EDM remixes/covers of songs from video games, anime & the like.

My adventures have had me perform at a number of venues throughout South Florida as well as some of the biggest conventions in the US, among which include Anime Iwai, Otakufest, MegaCon, Kirbiicon, Colossalcon Ohio & Ichibancon in North Carolina.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, I put making music on the backburner to focus on my DJing adventures, both on Twitch and, once things eased, live shows.  I've recently decided to jump back into the music making pool again.  While I do have a Soundcloud with music I made under a past alias, I've decided to make a brand new Soundcloud, since I'll be using my real name going forward. 

Please feel free to check out my work and, if you like, follow my socials at linktr.ee/RandyDerricott

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