When a snowstorm barreled down the East Coast in late January, Jim Kozlowski’s data center team in North Carolina had a sleepover of sorts.

Fortified with stocked refrigerators and bedding, three to five technicians were ready to spend the next 48 hours checking generators, fuel lines, and other systems keeping the facility running.

If the data center went down, so would the servers and IT infrastructure of the large enterprises that Ensono supports all day, every day, even when it’s snowing hard.

“I can’t afford a second offline,” Kozlowski, Ensono’s chief sustainability officer and VP of data center operations, told IT Brew.

See how engineers shoveled out.—BH

We’re not sure if we should tell you all this, but…

There’s a “no comment” crisis in cybersecurity.

Despite laws in all 50 states requiring businesses and government entities to notify individuals of any breach of their personally identifiable information, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has noticed that disclosures increasingly don’t disclose all that much.

In an annual poll, the ITRC found a growing silence among the compromised:

• In 2020, “nearly every” disclosure shared details regarding the cause.
• In 2025, seven out 10 notices lacked information about the compromise’s cause.

Over time, data breach notices have become less helpful, ITRC President James E. Lee told IT Brew.

Lee spills on why.—BH

Organizations providing services to the upcoming Olympic Games in Italy might not need to worry about landing a triple axel in figure skating, but they’ll face their own sweat-inducing challenge: making sure threat actors don’t take advantage of cyber vulnerabilities during the events.

In 2024, France reported more than 140 cyber incidents throughout the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games, the Cyber Threat Alliance outlined in a 2025 report. Of those reported incidents, 22 successfully gained access to information systems, while the remaining 119 had “minimal or no impact.” France’s Cybersecurity Agency, Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information (ANSSI), provided support to almost 500 companies and organizations involved in the Olympics.

Kristopher Russo, a principal threat researcher at Palo Alto Network’s threat intelligence and incident response group Unit 42, told IT Brew that bad actors during those Paris games carried out attacks against critical infrastructure associated with the Olympics, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) events.

“The idea is really to both embarrass the hosts and the host countries of the game, show unpreparedness, get everybody on edge, and then also to push these individual ideologies and viewpoints to get that into the open,” Russo said.

How to win the match.—CN