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Agentic AI: Your New Super-Powered Assistant
By: Brian Sabzjadid In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a new paradigm is emerging that promises to redefine how we get work done: “Agentic AI”. Picture this: It’s the near future, and you’re at your favorite café, sipping on a cappuccino,...
Why an MVP Mindset is Crucial for Your First AI Application
By: Jonathan D. Gough, PhD The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into business operations is not just a technological leap—it’s a strategic necessity. For organizations beginning their AI journeys, one essential question arises: How should they approach...
DEF CON 33: Hacking Highlights and What’s Next for Cybersecurity
By: Niko Zivanovich The cybersecurity community has just wrapped another groundbreaking DEF CON conference. DEF CON 33, which ran August 7–10, 2025 in Las Vegas, delivered an urgent wake-up call for security professionals worldwide. This year’s premier hacker...
Transformation Through Leadership: Key Insights from the “Edge of IT” Season 2 Premiere
By: Greg Berard Building Momentum for What’s Next Change can feel intimidating, but at Pellera, we see it as an incredible opportunity to rethink, reimagine, and reinvent. That’s the mindset driving us forward every day. With the launch of Season 2 of our podcast,...
Simplify AWS Migration With EVS IQ Services
By: BJ Schwein Looking to streamline your AWS Cloud migration and improve the management of your VMware workloads? With Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now generally available, businesses can leverage this powerful solution to simplify their cloud migrations....
Why Compliance Is Starting to Require Continuous Penetration Testing
By: Shaun Bertrand If your team is still doing one annual penetration test and calling it a day, you're already behind. Attackers don’t wait for your calendar. New vulnerabilities crop up constantly, and most security teams are stuck chasing the same issues over...
Carbon, Costs and Computation: The Compelling Case for Liquid Cooling
By: Darren Livingston Today’s data- and processing-intensive applications continually need more processing power, and more processing power means more computing, more servers, higher density in data centers, and, ultimately, more energy usage. Computers create heat...
Why CTEM Is the Future of Security and Easier Than You Think
By: Shaun Bertrand Over the years, we’ve seen pivotal moments in cybersecurity where innovation fundamentally reshaped how organizations manage threats. From the introduction of application-layer firewalls and the early days of security information and event...
PCI DSS v4.0 Requirement 12.5.2: Annual Scoping for Cardholder Data
If your business processes, stores, or transmits credit card and cardholder data, you should be on your way to enacting changes needed for your organization’s compliance with PCI DSS v4.0 which goes into effect on March 31, 2024. Version 4.0 encompasses 13 new...
CrushFTP CVE-2023-43177: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability and Remediation Guide
By: Ryan Emmons and Evan Malamais Pellera Technologies security researchers responsibly disclosed a critical unauthenticated zero-day vulnerability affecting the CrushFTP enterprise suite in August of 2023. With approximately 10,000 public instances and many more...