The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.


IN THE NEWS:
InformationWeek - Security Top IT Investment Priority in 2023
The Red Hat Global Customer Tech Outlook 2023 report revealed network security and cloud security as the top funding priorities for organizations this year. Red Hat technology evangelist Gordon Haff explains the industry trends and challenges driving this shift in customer investments.


ON THE BLOG:
Career builders: Upskill in the new year with these 10 free Red Hat Training webinars
Throughout 2022, training experts from Red Hat Training and Certification delivered free monthly Taste of Training webinars to provide viewers valuable insight into Red Hat's course catalog and the latest updates on Red Hat technology.


LEARN MORE:
TelecomTV - The Great Telco Debate: Public cloud dependencies
Azhar Sayeed, senior director of TME technology and strategy at Red Hat, participated in The Great Telco Debate alongside partners and customers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of public cloud in transforming telecommunications.


CHECK IT OUT:
Cloud7 Expert Series - Sarwar Raza from Red Hat
Over the next year, establishing secure software supply chains will emerge as a top priority for DevSecOps teams and security teams. Sarwar Raza, Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Services at Red Hat, shares his insights on how organizations should approach their DevSecOps strategy.


GOOD READ:
Red Hat and WebAssembly
Red Hat is a long-standing proponent of WebAssembly (WASM), implementing the technology in several upstream and Red Hat-specific projects. Today, users can experiment with WASM in Fedora 37 and Red Hat Enterprise 9 using EPEL 9.
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