Access Point: Weekly News Roundup For Midmarket IT Executives – Jan. 31, 2025

Access Point is a weekly roundup of major tech news for midmarket IT executives on the go.


In this week’s roundup: United Healthcare breach involves many more than previously reported, the latest big Russian cybercriminal scam, DeepSeek shakes up the tech and financial sectors, how IT professionals can get data scientist-level insight into their AI, and more news.

InsightFinder AI Aims To Give Data Scientist Powers To IT

AI observability can give IT deep insight into AI but is more challenging than observability in other tech areas, says InsightFinder AI’s founder and CEO.

Russian Cybercriminals Muscle In On Microsoft Support Scam

Cyber gangs from Russia are increasingly acting as Microsoft support staff, in order to steal data or deliver ransomware to their victims. Find out more here.

Tech Stocks Plummet As Investors React Nervously To DeepSeek

DeepSeek, founded in 2023 by former hedge fund chief Liang Wenfeng, claims to have developed its V3 model for slightly less than $6 million. The lower cost and innovation was necessary because exports of the highest power GPU chips to China have been banned since 2022, forcing those developing LLMs to innovate faster than their well-funded US rivals.

UnitedHealth Data Breach Impacted Up To 190M People

Newly released figures suggest the scale of the 2024 Change Healthcare cyberattack is far larger than initially estimated. Around 190 million individuals are thought to have been affected.

MES IT Leader Spotlight: Daniel Giurgiuman, Director Of Technology And Vendor Management

MES IT Leader Spotlight is a series featuring midmarket IT leaders – their backstory, their biggest successes and challenges, their day-to-day roles, and even advice for their peers. In this edition, the spotlight is on Daniel Giurgiuman, director of technology and vendor management, at Talisen Construction Corp.