ET Insights, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Top 6 Digital Transformation Trends To Look For In 2026
With digital transformation sweeping across verticals, here are the top six trends to look out for in 2026. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · January 20
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026
AI Breach Case Studies: Lessons For CISOs - Firetail Blog
AI Breach Case Studies: Lessons for CISOsQuick Facts: AI Security BreachesThe threat landscape isn't what it used to be: AI breaches are happening right now, driven by real-world vectors like prompt injections, model theft, and the leakage of training data. more →
CIO, Monday, January 12th, 2026
7 Challenges IT Leaders Will Face In 2026
CIOs say the role is evolving. Those who can drive a transformation in people alongside technology will separate their organizations from those that fall behind. more →
CIO, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
What You Need To Know - And Do - About AI Inferencing
Training gets the hype, but inferencing is where AI actually works - and the choices you make there can make or break real-world deployments. more →
CIO, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
The Workforce Shift - Why CIOs And People Leaders Must Partner Harder Than Ever
AI isn't just another tech rollout - it changes how work feels and flows, which is why CIOs and people leaders have to redesign jobs together. more →
CIO, Friday, January 16th, 2026
IT Portfolio Management: Optimizing IT Assets For Business Value
CIOs can improve IT's value to the business by managing its assets like a portfolio of investments tuned to deliver, diversify, and de-risk. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Best Open-Source Projects That Will Lead In 2026
Top-Rated Open-Source Projects Like Supabase and Langchain That Will Lead Adoption in 2026 more →
OpenSource For U, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
The Untold Story Of Unix
Curious about how and why UNIX was developed? You'll find the answers here. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Account Takeover (ATO) Attacks Explained: Detection, Prevention & Mitigation
Understanding the anatomy of an account takeover more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
AI In Manufacturing: The Growing Risk And Reward Dilemma Escalating Data Security
AI tools, while powerful, introduce complex security and compliance challenges. Without robust, enterprise-grade security measures, the advantages of AI can quickly turn into operational disruptions and reputational damage. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Beyond Testing: API Security As The Foundational Intelligence For An 'Industry Leader'-Level Security Strategy
In today's security landscape, it's easy to get lost in a sea of acronyms. But one layer has become the undisputed foundation for modern application security: API security. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026
CCPA: Understanding How Synthetic Data Can Help Achieve Compliance
You've probably felt the pain of trying to move fast while navigating a growing maze of privacy rules. Data compliance is often framed as a legal checklist-but in reality, it's a systems challenge that plays out in your codebase, CI/CD workflows, and staging environments. How do you ensure privacy protections are embedded directly into the software development lifecycle? more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Dora Penetration Testing And Threat-Led Exercises Explained
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) introduces a unified framework for managing ICT risk across the European financial sector, with key requirements, including penetration testing, coming into force in 2026. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026
Identity Management Challenges In Pharma & Biotech SaaS Platforms (And How To Solve Them)
Pharmaceutical and biotech organizations are rapidly adopting SaaS platforms to support drug discovery, clinical development, manufacturing, quality management, and commercialization. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Are AI Managed NHIs Reliable In Identity Management
What Are Non-Human Identities and Why Are They Critical in Cybersecurity? more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
How Does Non-Human Identity Management Enhance Scalability In Tech Ecosystems?
How Does Non-Human Identity Management Enhance Scalability in Tech Ecosystems? more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Do AI-Driven Security Systems Empower Compliance
Are Non-Human Identities the Missing Link in AI-Driven Security? more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, January 12th, 2026
How Empowered Are Your Secret Management Protocols?
Where cybersecurity concerns are front and center for organizations across many sectors, the question of how to manage Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and secrets cannot be overlooked. Machine identities, often composed of an encrypted password, token, or key, play an indispensable role in interconnected digital environments. Yet, the approach to securing these elements often lags, creating vulnerabilities and compliance headaches. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, January 12th, 2026
How Protected Are Your Secrets In Hybrid Environments?
Are Your Machine Identities Secure in Hybrid Environments? more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
How Safe Are Your Secrets With Agentic AI Handling The
How Secure Are Your Secrets When Managed by Non-Human Identities? more →
Search Storage , Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
7 Storage Vendors Responding To Growing AI Demands
AI workloads are beginning to influence the products that storage vendors are offering. These are seven notable examples of storage vendors that are shifting their strategies. more →
Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security
In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control. more →
StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Ethernet Alliance 2026 Ethernet Roadmap Sets New Course For Connectivity
Refreshed roadmap defines Ethernet's evolving role in AI, automotive, and next-gen connectivity, spotlighting emerging trends shaping tomorrow's networks more →
The AI-Powered Modernization Playbook for Financial Services Secure Migration, Modernization & the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle
Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
Can You Afford The Total Cost Of Free Java
If you're considering running Java on a free JVM distribution without commercial, support, you have to assess the cost of free Java. Part of that calculation is the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited and the consequences of an exploit. more →
InfoQ, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Gatherers4j, Keycloak, Grails, Java Operator SDK
This week's Java roundup for January 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Gatherers4j and Keycloak; and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Grails and Java Operator SDK. more →
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Upcoming IT Webinars
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Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
Akamai Technologies, Friday, January 16th, 2026
Dangling DNA: The Most Overlooked Attack Surface In The AI Era
Today's organizations are focused on securing large language models (LLMs), mitigating prompt injection, and governing agentic browser behavior. But one of the most consequential artificial intelligence (AI)-era attack vectors is not directly related to AI models - it sits quietly inside your Domain Name System (DNS). more →
ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't. more →
Cloudflare, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
What Came First: The CNAME Or The A Record?
On January 8, 2026, a routine update to 1.1.1.1 aimed at reducing memory usage accidentally triggered a wave of DNS resolution failures for users across the Internet. The root cause wasn't an attack or an outage, but a subtle shift in the order of records within our DNS responses. more →
Cloudflare, Saturday, January 17th, 2026
Cloudflare Introduces Aggregations in R2 SQL for Data Analytic
Cloudflare recently announced support for aggregations in R2 SQL, a new feature that lets developers run SQL queries on data stored in R2. This enhancement expands R2 SQL beyond basic filtering and makes it more useful for analytical workloads without requiring separate data warehouse tools. more →
DDN, Monday, January 12th, 2026
DDN Earns Top Spot on CRN's Cloud 100 List for 2026
The Company's AI Data Intelligence Platform Is Engineered to Support AI Factories With NVIDIA Rubin and NVIDIA BlueField-4 more →
DDN, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
New DDN Report Reveals 65% of Organizations Are Struggling to Achieve AI Success
600 business and IT decision-makers reveal in 'The 2026 AI Infrastructure Report' that unified platforms, cloud strategies, energy expertise, and partnerships are the key to unlocking real AI success more →
The Register, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Over Half Of AI Projects Are Shelved Due To Complex Infrastructure
The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
Google, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
An Easier Way To Explore Search Trends With Gemini
The new Trends Explore page makes it simpler for journalists, creators and researchers to dive deep into Search trends with Gemini. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Revolutionizing Learning: How Ford's Kubernetes Community Sparks Technological Innovation
As traditional learning methods fall short in the fast-paced world of cloud computing and container orchestration, Ford has pivoted to a more agile approach to technology education: an internal Kubernetes user group that has transformed how its teams learn, collaborate, and innovate. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenAI
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. more →
Tierpoint, Monday, January 12th, 2026
What Is Cyber Threat Hunting?
Rapid response is critical when cyber threats strike, but a proactive approach is even more powerful, helping organizations disrupt attacks before cybercriminals infiltrate critical systems. more →
Outlook for Data Security: Going From Reactive to Resilient
In this complimentary Gartner webinar, Gartner experts will explore the evolution to data-centric security, the role of AI-driven adaptive controls and the importance of aligning incident response with business continuity. more →
