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The evolving landscape of network security in 2025

CIO

The modern network security landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by the increasing complexity of business operations and the rise of new technologies. New advances like SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) are helping network professionals keep pace. eliminating man-in-the-middle attacks.

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Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

TechCrunch

Take Descope , for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. So why launch Descope now?

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Authentic Leadership: 5 Big Mistakes that Can Derail Your Influence

Let's Grow Leaders

Impactful authentic leadership requires careful judgment and context. Authentic leadership matters even more during times of stress, uncertainty, and change. And yet, authenticity, like any other leadership competency can wreak havoc at the extremes. What is authentic leadership? They learn to do that well.

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Web3Auth secures $13M from Sequoia India to simplify crypto onboarding and authentication

TechCrunch

Web3Auth is powered by the Torus Network, an open-source, non-custodial, distributed key management network. Web3Auth builds on this infrastructure to make Web3 authentication — including password-less auth, SMS auth, or other OAuth methods like Google, Twitter, Discord and Reddit – in apps and wallets simple and intuitive to use.

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Authentic leadership: Building an organization that thrives

CIO

Leadership styles have traditionally centered their focus on profits, share prices, and productivity, but a new approach increasingly taken up by today’s leaders, known as “authentic leadership,” takes a different spin on the concept. But ultimately, authentic leadership can be viewed as the opposite of traditional leadership in many ways.

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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

TechCrunch

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Adversaries are pre-positioning themselves within critical networks, supported by a broader ecosystem that includes shared tooling, training pipelines, and sophisticated malware development. These networks are similar to botnets, but are primarily used as proxies, and are often administered by independent contractors that are based in China.

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