TechTarget SearchSecurity, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Building Cyber-Resilient AI in the Enterprise
Enterprise AI introduces distinct attack surfaces that require LLM-specific defenses beyond traditional security controls. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · July 21
CIO, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Senior Executives Abuse Shadow AI Twice as Much as Regular Employees Do
Executives use unapproved AI tools at roughly twice the rate of regular staff, creating major governance blind spots. more →
CIO Dive, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
AI ROI Is Rising, but Not Where Companies Expected
AI is delivering insights and better customer interactions rather than the cost savings enterprises anticipated. more →
The Hacker News, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
AI Can Find Bugs, but Human Knowledge Still Proves Them
AI speeds vulnerability discovery but human judgment is still required to validate whether findings are real and matter. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
How Agentic AI Amplifies Data Management Challenges
Autonomous agents magnify existing data quality problems and add governance risks that demand stronger data foundations. more →
ISHIR, Monday, July 13th, 2026
AI FinOps: Why Token Economics Will Define the Next Generation of Enterprise AI
Enterprise AI cost is shifting from infrastructure to token consumption, creating the need for an AI FinOps discipline. more →
CIO, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Why Technology Leaders Are Losing The AI Conversation To The People Who Report To Them
CIOs risk losing strategic influence over AI decisions when they lead with caution rather than confident positioning. more →
CIO, Friday, July 17th, 2026
AI Makes Its Case Against The Business-Savvy CIO
AI demands that CIOs deepen specialized technical expertise rather than simply become business-focused executives. more →
CIO, Friday, July 17th, 2026
The Build Vs. Buy Dilemma At The Heart Of Enterprise AI
Enterprises must choose among embedded, platform, or composed AI depending on where data lives and who controls decisions. more →
CIO, Friday, July 17th, 2026
5 Steps To Secure Your Infrastructure In The Frontier Model Era
Enterprises need resilient, security-first infrastructure as frontier models exploit vulnerabilities faster than humans can patch. more →
TechRadar Pro, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Why AI Infrastructure Costs Keep Surprising IT Leaders
Aerospike's Srinivasan Seshadri says AI cost overruns live in the data tier, not model or token spend. more →
Computer Weekly, Friday, July 17th, 2026
The Modern CIO Role Is Almost Overwhelming: Here's How To Survive And Thrive
[fetch failed] Feature on how CIOs can cope with the expanding demands of the modern CIO role and still thrive. more →
Dark Reading, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Agentic AI Is Untamable: Ask the Right Security Questions
Agentic artificial intelligence is creating enough risks for organizations to demand a security reframe. more →
Amazon, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Cyber Risk Is Business Risk: You Can Delegate the Decision, but Not the Liability
A book by Chris Thatcher and Sam Rehman arguing that cyber risk is business risk and executive liability cannot be delegated. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Why Cloud Security Is Mission-Critical for Federal Civilian and Defense Agencies
Cloud security is now central to federal operational readiness and national defense, demanding zero trust architecture and deep visibility. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, July 13th, 2026
A GDPR Compliance Audit Checklist for Growing Businesses
A practical GDPR audit checklist for scaling companies whose data has become fragmented across systems. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
The True Cost of Poor Customer Identity in 2026 (What the Data Shows)
Weak customer identity drives both breach costs and lost revenue, with passkeys addressing each at once. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
How Effective Is MFA, Really? An Evidence-Based Answer (2026)
MFA blocks the overwhelming majority of account compromises, but effectiveness varies sharply by factor type. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
5 Reasons to Bring Application Security Data Into Your Exposure Management Platform
Argues AppSec scanner findings belong in exposure management platforms to add risk context and cut alert fatigue. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
From Sign-Off to Personal Risk: The New Reality for CISOs
CISOs face growing personal liability as attestation requirements outpace midmarket governance infrastructure. more →
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
7 Best Software Tools for Managing Unstructured Data in 2026
A ranked guide to seven platforms for storing, moving and preparing unstructured data, led by Flexor's AI Context Engine. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Building Cyber-Resilient Storage Beyond Backup
Backup alone is no longer enough; cyber-resilient storage adds high-performance architectures and AI monitoring for fast recovery. more →
Help Net Security, Friday, July 17th, 2026
A Hard Drive Reliability Check on 341,263 Drives, From 4TB to Past 20TB
Backblaze's Q1 2026 report on 341,263 drives shows a 1.24% annualized failure rate, with 20TB+ drives performing strongly. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
Help Net Security, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Companies Keep Getting Breached by Vulnerabilities They Already Knew About
Vicarius survey finds 79% of organizations were breached via vulnerabilities already sitting in their own inventory. more →
Acronis, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Keeping The Lights On: Why Recovery Readiness Matters For Power And Energy Operations
Power and energy operators need fast, validated OT recovery, because prevention alone cannot keep the grid running. more →
How-To Geek, Sunday, July 19th, 2026
The Windows Command Line Is Hiding These 6 Awesome Network Troubleshooting Tools
A walkthrough of six built-in Windows PowerShell commands for diagnosing and fixing common network connectivity problems. more →
TechRadar Pro, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
How Automation Is Easing IT's Patching Pressure
Ivanti's Chris Goettl argues only automated, risk-based patching can survive the AI-driven "Patch Apocalypse". more →
Computer Weekly, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Modern Datacentre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Is Crucial
AI workloads are pushing traditional datacentre management to its limits. Modern DCIM is now essential, using predictive analytics to ensure resilience, efficiency, and sustainabilit 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 →
TechTarget SearchUnifiedCommunications, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
4 Ways to Support Contact Center Calling Redundancy
Four practical measures keep cloud contact center calling available: redundant connectivity, security, monitoring and patching. more →
Securing the Autonomous Enterprise: Discover, Govern, and Protect Non-Human Identities.
This technical briefing breaks down how to operationalize a unified security architecture to establish clarity and control over your autonomous ecosystem. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Why CISOs Should Use Zero-Trust Security For IoT
Zero trust is the most practical way to secure IoT, using continuous verification and microsegmentation instead of perimeter defenses. more →
The State of Data and AI Governance
The State of Data and AI Governance webinar will examine the organizational, cultural, and technical foundations required to govern data while enabling AI effectively. This includes the frameworks, roles, processes, and technologies needed to ensure trust, compliance, and responsible use at scale. more →
CrowdStrike, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
July 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches 622 Vulnerabilities Including Two Exploited Zero-Days
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday delivers 622 fixes, including two actively exploited zero-days and 62 Critical flaws. more →
CrowdStrike, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
AIDR: How CrowdStrike Is Defining the Next Era of Cybersecurity
CrowdStrike introduces Falcon AIDR, a runtime security category for detecting and responding to autonomous AI agent threats. more →
TipRanks, Monday, July 13th, 2026
DataDirect Networks Emphasizes Sovereign, Sustainable AI Infrastructure and KV Cache Gains
DDN stresses sovereign and sustainable AI infrastructure plus key-value cache performance gains for inference. more →
What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets In the Age of AI
In this free, full-day virtual event entitled What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI, you'll learn about the emerging threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud today, and how to ensure you have a comprehensive view and insight into your cloud infrastructure. more →
Glean, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Sales AI Works Better When It Works With Your Stack
Glean expands native sales connectors across meeting transcripts, sales intelligence, and enablement content to unify revenue team context. more →
Glean, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Agent Identity: Agents That Act And Appear As Themselves
Glean opens agent identity to public beta, letting AI agents run on their own service credentials instead of borrowing a user's. more →
Glean, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Introducing Databricks In Glean Assistant
Glean adds Databricks as a native source so employees can ask analytical questions in natural language and get SQL-backed answers. more →
Building a Secure AI Strategy for the Enterprise
This virtual event explores the implications of this new world order of AI agents joining the business, including AI discovery, governance, identity, and how to put in place the proper guardrails. more →
KnowBe4, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Report: Attackers Are Using AI to Automate Social Engineering
Research finds threat actors treat AI as operational infrastructure, mass-producing phishing pages while keeping traditional attack chains. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
ClickFix Social Engineering Is Now the Leading Malware Delivery Method
ReliaQuest research finds ClickFix has become the top malware delivery technique and has expanded to macOS. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Scammers Can Use AI Tools to Pinpoint Your Location Based on a Photo
McAfee research shows freely available AI models can geolocate travel photos with roughly 90% accuracy, fueling targeted scams. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Report: Social Engineering Remains a Central Part of AI-assisted Attacks
ESET's H1 2026 threat report finds attackers are bolting AI onto proven social engineering rather than inventing new techniques. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Trust, Verify, Protect: Modernizing Email Security for the Cloud
KnowBe4 argues legacy secure email gateways are obsolete and that cloud email defense must become identity-first. 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 →
Oracle, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Oracle Introduces AI-Native Builder Experience To Create and Run Agentic Applications in Oracle Fusion Applications
Oracle adds an AI-native builder to AI Agent Studio so teams can create agentic apps natively inside Fusion Cloud Applications. more →
Threat Exposure Analytics: Measuring and Communicating Security Risk
This webinar provides trend executive reporting tips that connect technical findings to business impact. Security leaders will gain practical approaches for implementing analytics programs that transform exposure data into actionable insights and compelling risk narratives. more →
Red Hat, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Why Good AI Agents Fail in Production: The Missing Infrastructure Layer
Red Hat examines three real-world AI agent failures traced to a missing infrastructure layer beneath the agent logic. more →
Red Hat, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Why Your AI Agent Framework Isn't Enough: 7 Platform Capabilities Missing From Production
Red Hat identifies seven platform capabilities that AI agent frameworks lack when moving agents into production. more →
Red Hat, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Friday Five - July 17, 2026
Red Hat's weekly roundup collects five top news items and ideas from Red Hat and the wider technology industry. more →
Red Hat, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Introducing Red Hat Build of Karpenter
Red Hat launches its build of Karpenter, a high-performance node autoscaler for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. more →
Red Hat, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Agentic AI, Red Hat OpenShift, and NVIDIA: Shifting to Precision Security
Red Hat's exploit intelligence combines with OpenShift and NVIDIA to cut false positives in vulnerability management. more →
RCR Wireless News, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Red Hat Outlines AI-RAN Roadmap
Red Hat maps a three-phase AI-RAN evolution through 2030, urging targeted GPU deployments over blanket acceleration. more →
ServiceNow, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Designed For Everyone: Accessibility And AI In The Australia Release
Recap of the Platform Academy session on accessibility in the Australia release, including the move to WCAG 2.2 AA. more →
ServiceNow, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
The Day Chaos Met Its Match: Dynamic Task Bundling In Field Service
How Dynamic Task Bundling in ServiceNow Field Service Management auto-groups related work order tasks for dispatchers. more →
ServiceNow, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Major Incident Management: On-Call Scheduling
Implementation guide for on-call scheduling to route incidents automatically to the right responder by severity. more →
ServiceNow, Friday, July 17th, 2026
ServiceNow University's AI Learning Days: Real Skills For Real Practitioners
ServiceNow University announces AI Learning Days 2026, a free one-day virtual event teaching practitioners hands-on AI skills. more →
Snowflake, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Inside the Data Collaboration That Helped Team USA Win Olympic Gold
Snowflake details how CoWork-powered data analysis helped US bobsled athletes win gold by four hundredths of a second at Milano Cortina 2026. more →
Snowflake, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Open Interoperability: Delivering Customer Choice
Snowflake contrasts its Horizon Catalog with Databricks Unity Catalog, arguing true interoperability requires bidirectional Iceberg REST support. more →
Tenable, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Why Cloud Security Is Mission-Critical for Federal Civilian and Defense Agencies
Tenable outlines why federal agencies need unified cloud security and how FedRAMP High and IL5 authorizations enable it. more →
Tenable, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
5 Reasons to Bring Application Security Data Into Your Exposure Management Platform
Tenable argues AppSec findings need exposure management context to be prioritized and remediated effectively. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Tenable Extends Exposure Management Reach to Code
Tenable One now ingests static code vulnerability findings, linking application security data to runtime exposure risk. more →
Why Your Observability Vendor Can't Solve Your P1s: Breaking the Ingestion Tax and Agent Silos
Join Techstrong and NeuBird AI to learn why the future of production-ops AI isn't another data store, but a virtualized context layer. Discover how querying live tools in place delivers accurate root cause analysis in minutes without data movement or security risks. more →
Ubuntu, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
MAAS Installation: Bare Metal Provisioning Is Easier Than Ever
Canonical has rewritten its MAAS installation documentation around snaps to simplify bare metal provisioning setup. more →
Ubuntu, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Tracing a Memory Leak Bug In PID 1 And Contributing an Upstream Fix: a Linux Support Story
Canonical support traced a 70GB systemd memory leak at a global retailer to a kernel race condition and landed an upstream fix. more →
Zscaler, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Formula One And Cybersecurity In The AI Era
Zscaler's CMO argues security should function like F1 brakes, enabling speed rather than slowing AI-driven transformation. 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 →
