TechTarget, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
How to Operationalize Threat Modeling With AI
AI can automate threat-modeling tasks, but human validation and organizational buy-in remain essential. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · July 14
TechTarget, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
What Enterprises Are Getting Wrong About AI Data Readiness
Rising AI project failures stem from poor data readiness, not technology limits. more →
Kovrr, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
What Tools Help Build and Maintain an AI Asset Inventory?
Kovrr compares GRC, MLOps, ITAM, and connected security platforms for maintaining an AI asset inventory. more →
Computerworld, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
The Next Killer AI Feature? No AI at All
A growing market pays a premium for products that explicitly omit AI features. more →
Open Source For You, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Alibaba's Qwen Crosses One Billion Downloads, Eclipsing Meta's Llama
Alibaba's Qwen surpasses Meta's Llama as the most-downloaded open-source AI model family. more →
Solutions Review, Friday, July 10th, 2026
The Future Belongs to People Who Know When AI Is Wrong
As AI cheapens information, value shifts to human judgment and knowing when AI errs. more →
RT Insights, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Why the Cloud-First Mentality No Longer Serves the Modern Enterprise
Public cloud's costs and constraints are pushing enterprises toward dedicated infrastructure over a default cloud-first strategy. more →
Picking Your Winner in the Agentic AI Race
The biggest story in DevOps this year is the agentic AI revolution. Which platform will lead your pipeline? Join 3,000+ practitioners to evaluate, compare, and decide. more →
Six Five Media, Monday, July 6th, 2026
OpenAI's Equity Play, Anthropic's Access Reset, and the Billion-Dollar Race to Own AI Deployment
YouTube edition of the Six Five Pod on OpenAI's equity offer, Anthropic's reset, and the AI deployment race. more →
Tech Whisperers, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
What Would Jane Do? Leadership Lessons From a Hall of Fame CIO
CIO Hall of Fame inductee Jane Connell shares four decades of people-first leadership lessons. more →
Business Security Weekly (SC Media), Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Why AI Just Broke Traditional IT Security as Leaders Clash Over AI's Value and Hiring - Matt Quinn - BSW #455
Tanium COO Matt Quinn explains how AI collapsed exploit timelines to minutes and why autonomous security is now essential. more →
ISHIR Blog, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
The Strangler Fig Pattern: How to Modernize Legacy Systems Without a Big Bang Rewrite
The strangler fig pattern incrementally replaces legacy systems via a routing layer, avoiding risky big-bang rewrites. more →
NSU, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
The US-China AI Battle Is Not What You Think
A video arguing the US-China AI contest is misunderstood, with each side pursuing different strategic goals. more →
Autonomous Operations Starts with Resilience
In this session, we'll explore how organizations are evolving from reactive operations to autonomous operational resilience: systems that continuously observe application health, understand dependencies, anticipate operational risk, and take intelligent action before users and the business feel the impact. more →
The Register, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Apprentice Developer Defied Orders - Then Got a Job Supporting Her Weird Code
An apprentice secretly automated a Y2K task, then later inherited support for her own buggy creation. more →
The Register, Friday, July 10th, 2026
BOFH: Cross-Department AI Pitches Are Easier to Swallow with a Pint in Hand
The BOFH and PFY endure absurd cross-department AI pitches at the pub, with chaotic results. more →
The Register, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Datacenter MacGyver Saved the Biggest Football Match of the Year
A tech worker jury-rigged a server-room UPS to power a stadium control room and save a big match. more →
The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO
This webinar explores what CEOs expect AI to deliver across technology, finance, HR, operations, and other functions, where confidence gaps remain, and how success is being measured. Attendees will gain practical insights into how CxOs can translate AI investments into business outcomes, operate in a distributed leadership model, and meet rising CEO expectations. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Vulnerability Management Has to Get AI-Ready - Fast
AI accelerates vulnerability discovery while remediation stays at human speed, forcing security teams to automate fast. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
NIS2, Sovereignty, and Automation: Inside Germany's SOC Market With Johannes Kresse
A German SOC expert on how NIS2, AI, and sovereignty are reshaping the MSSP and SOC market. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Retail's Holiday Shadow: How AI-Native Impersonation Engines Target Peak Shopping
AI-native impersonation engines let attackers clone retail brands and flood the holiday season with fraud. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
Explores the gap between having cybersecurity skills and the ability to apply them effectively in practice. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Why Third-Party Risk Management Is Broken, According to CISOs and Analysts
Questionnaire-based, point-in-time vendor assessments no longer reduce real third-party risk, CISOs and analysts say. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, July 10th, 2026
How CISOs Quantify Cyber Risk Using Vulnerability Intelligence
CISOs use cyber risk quantification and vulnerability intelligence to translate vulnerabilities into financial exposure. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Evaluating Today's 10 Leading ERP Software Vendors
A review of the top 10 ERP vendors and the market and AI trends shaping buyer selection. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Prepare a Complete ERP Readiness Assessment for Your Company
How to evaluate organizational preparedness before committing to an ERP implementation. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
6 Cloud ERP Implementation Challenges and How to Solve Them
Six common cloud ERP implementation pitfalls and practical ways to address them early. more →
6 Use Cases You Didn't Think Possible on the Data Lake
Your lakehouse already holds the data. Iceberg and Delta solved openness, durability, and cost. So why does every workload with a real performance SLA still live somewhere else? more →
Router Jockey, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
What NFD40 Taught Me About AI Networking
Networking Field Day 40 takeaways on why AI cluster networking differs fundamentally from cloud architectures. 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 →
Telecompetitor, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Lack of Expertise, Not Coverage, Tops List of Holdups for IoT Deployments: Report
A Pelion/ABI study finds lack of expertise, cited by 60%, is the top barrier to IoT deployments over budget or connectivity. more →
TechRadar, Friday, July 10th, 2026
How AI Is Taking IoT Security to the Next Level
AI-driven automation and analytics are reshaping IoT security by speeding threat detection and cutting manual costs. more →
Barracuda Networks, Friday, July 10th, 2026
The Language of Data Privacy: What Is CPNI and Why Should You Care?
Barracuda explains Customer Proprietary Network Information and why telecom metadata is a growing breach target. more →
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
Citrix, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Open Banking Opened the Door. Here's How You Control Who Walks Through It, With NetScaler
Citrix argues NetScaler should be the control point for securing open banking APIs against evolving attacks. more →
Citrix, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Citrix Platform Flex Is Here to Transform the Modern Healthcare Ecosystem
Citrix introduces Platform Flex, a credit-based operating model tailored to healthcare workforce personas. more →
Citrix, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Centralized Computing Doesn't Replace Power Users, It Enables Them
Citrix argues centralized control combined with flexible compute empowers power users without added complexity. more →
Citrix, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
When the Systems Are Up but the Business Is Down
Citrix explains how partial degradations, not full outages, disrupt business and why rehearsed preparedness matters. more →
Help Net Security, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Citrix Launches MCP Gateway to Secure Enterprise AI Agents
Citrix adds MCP Gateway to NetScaler to govern and secure enterprise AI agent traffic. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
Commvault, Monday, July 6th, 2026
How Resilience Operations (ResOps) Drives Enterprise Recoverability
Commvault introduces ResOps, a cross-functional discipline uniting teams around measurable, tested recovery targets. more →
Commvault, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Cloud-Native Backup and Recovery for Google Cloud Storage Now Available
Commvault makes Clumio for Google Cloud Storage generally available with immutable, air-gapped backups. more →
Commvault, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Clock Has Already Started
Commvault urges organizations to start post-quantum cryptography preparation now, citing harvest-now-decrypt-later risk. more →
Webinar: 6 Use Cases You Didn't Think Possible on the Data Lake
Your lakehouse already holds the data. Iceberg and Delta solved openness, durability, and cost. So why does every workload with a real performance SLA still live somewhere else? more →
DataRobot, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Your Identity Stack Was Built for Two Kinds of Actor. Agents Are a Third.
DataRobot says identity systems built for humans and services fail to account for AI agents as a new actor type. more →
DataRobot, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Your Agents Are Using Your Credentials, and That Is the Problem
DataRobot argues that AI agents borrowing human credentials creates a major enterprise security gap. more →
Microsoft, Monday, July 6th, 2026
5 Insights From Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Frost Radar for Cloud Security Posture Management
Microsoft shares five takeaways from Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Frost Radar on cloud security posture management. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Protecting Microsoft at AI Speed: How SFI Proactively Hardens Our Cloud
Microsoft explains how its Secure Future Initiative proactively hardens its cloud infrastructure at AI speed. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
GigaWiper: Anatomy of a Destructive Backdoor Assembled From Multiple Malware
Microsoft analyzes GigaWiper, a destructive backdoor combining wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into one platform. more →
Microsoft, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Securing Our Future: July 2026 Progress Report on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative
Microsoft's July 2026 report details Secure Future Initiative progress on secure foundations and AI-powered defense. more →
Okta, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Unlocking Enterprise Security and Agility via Okta Integration Network SaaS Integrations
Okta shows how Integration Network SaaS integrations enable automated onboarding and real-time threat response. more →
CodeMender: AI Code Security Agent
Discover how CodeMender autonomously scans, verifies, and fixes software vulnerabilities at machine speed-enabling rapid remediation with complete developer control. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Monday, July 6th, 2026
It Might Feel Like We've Been Here Before, but We Haven't
Palo Alto Networks argues AI governance is a fundamentally new challenge, not a repeat of cloud or IoT waves. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
What It Takes to Secure Claude Cowork Across the AI Enterprise
Palo Alto Networks details runtime security gaps in Claude Cowork deployments and how Prisma AIRS addresses them. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
A New Approach to Export Control Compliance in a Borderless World
Palo Alto Networks adds a Context-Driven IP Address Manager in Prisma Access for export control compliance. more →
SecureWorld Quantum Cryptography Virtual Conference
The conference centers on helping IT and cybersecurity leaders transition from reactive concern to proactive planning regarding quantum threats. more →
Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Red Hat OpenShift as a Hybrid Engine for GitOps-Driven Application Modernization
Red Hat OpenShift can unify GitOps practices across hybrid infrastructure for application modernization. more →
Modernize for the AI Era
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 →
SuperMicro, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Supermicro Simplifies Edge AI Deployments With Validated Kubernetes Appliances With Red Hat and Everpure
Supermicro launches validated full-stack edge Kubernetes appliances for AI, built on Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx. more →
Cloud Native Now, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Supermicro Debuts Kubernetes Edge AI Appliance With Red Hat and Everpure
Supermicro launches a prevalidated Kubernetes edge AI appliance built with Red Hat and Everpure. more →
Symantec, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
GodDamn Ransomware: Latest Beast Rebrand Uses Malicious Driver to Disable Defenses
Symantec analyzes GodDamn, a Beast ransomware rebrand that deploys a malicious driver to disable security defenses. more →
How to Leverage Threat Intelligence Without Drowning: The Zero Noise Approach
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
