Qmulos, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Agentic Compliance: What AI Should Automate and What Humans Must Still Decide
AI should automate compliance evidence collection while humans retain judgment and interpretation of results. more →
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InfoQ, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?
A platform team's phased, inform-then-enforce approach to cloud compliance that avoided alienating internal developers. more →
Kovrr, Monday, July 13th, 2026
What AI Governance Tools Exist in the Market Today
A survey of the AI governance tool landscape, mapping five vendor categories and the capability gaps enterprises still face. more →
Kovrr, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
The Best Cyber Risk Quantification Tools in 2026: A Buyer's Guide
A buyer's guide separating true cyber risk quantification platforms from compliance dashboards, with vendor profiles and an evaluation framework. more →
Michael Peters, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
AI Risk Management Continuum: GRC Automated Compliance Assessments 2026
[fetch failed] Discusses an AI risk management continuum for GRC programs and automated compliance assessments heading into 2026. more →
CyberSaint, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Why Continuous Compliance Breaks in Large Enterprises
Quarterly governance cycles cannot keep pace with cloud infrastructure that changes hundreds of times daily. more →
IT Security Guru, Friday, July 17th, 2026
CISOs Say Boardrooms Still Don't Grasp The Human Cyber Risk AI Is Supercharging
[fetch failed] CISOs report that boards still fail to understand the human-centric cyber risks AI is amplifying. more →
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
You've Been Heard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
436 - No Technology Fixes Bad Process W/ Bryant Lister
IT leadership delivers business value through data and process discipline, not technology implementation alone. more →
CXOTalk, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Agentic AI In Financial Services: Former UBS And SAP Group CIO
Banks run dozens of AI pilots, but almost no AI agents in production, and the gap is in controls, not models. Former UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann outlines the key conditions that must be met before agents can go live. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026
The Cost Of Delayed Patching: What Security Teams Are Missing
Exploitation now precedes patch availability, making delayed patching a board-level business risk rather than a backlog problem. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026
See It Once, Stop It Everywhere
Fortra's Bob Erdman makes the case for disciplined threat intelligence sharing through ISACs, peers and law enforcement. more →
The New York Times Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026
The Data Center Heist
[fetch failed] A New York Times Magazine long-form feature on a heist targeting a data center. more →
SecurityWeek, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Hacker Conversations: Jesse McGraw (GhostExodus), From Blackhat Hacker to Redemption
An interview tracing Jesse McGraw's path from notorious black hat hacker and federal prisoner to cybersecurity advocate. more →
Architecture & Governance Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026
AI Security Starts at Square One: Knowing What You Have
Organizations need AI Bills of Materials to inventory AI components as the foundation for effective AI security and governance. more →
TechTarget, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Why Conversational AI Is Redefining Your Security Perimeter
Employee trust in AI assistants is creating a new security perimeter as staff overshare sensitive company data with conversational AI tools. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Building SIEM Detections Using Sigma Rules
How UK SMEs can author portable log-based detections once in Sigma and deploy them across multiple SIEM backends. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, July 18th, 2026
Securing Model Context Protocol: A Roadmap for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure
Argues MCP traffic needs hybrid post-quantum cryptography and agent-to-agent trust before quantum decryption arrives. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, July 18th, 2026
5 Critical CMMC Compliance Assessments by Continuum GRC 2026
Outlines five CMMC assessments defense contractors should run to find gaps before certification. more →
Security Boulevard, Sunday, July 19th, 2026
From Principles to Practice: Actionable Blueprints for Ethical AI
Dan Lohrmann lays out concrete frameworks for turning AI ethics principles into day-to-day organizational practice. more →
Security Boulevard, Sunday, July 19th, 2026
DDoS Attack Trends in 2026: Scale, Precision, and the Gaps in Between
Five DDoS trends show enterprise defenses were sized for a threat environment that no longer exists. more →
How to Scale AI Agents Without Losing Control
This webinar explores practical approaches for governing AI agents at scale. Learn how to embed governance into workflows, define accountability, and establish the oversight needed to maintain control as AI capabilities evolve. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
AI Security in 2026: What Organizations Need to Do
Thales security leaders on how frontier AI compresses vulnerability discovery timelines and what defenders should prioritize. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Spec-Driven Development vs Vibe Coding: The Enterprise Framework for Scaling AI Software Delivery and Proving Its ROI
A framework for replacing ad hoc "vibe coding" with spec-driven AI development to cut defects and prove ROI. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
How Agentic AI Ends the Abuse Inbox Bottleneck
Agentic AI can autonomously triage user-reported phishing, eliminating the manual abuse-inbox queue that gives attackers dwell time. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
When Should an Enterprise Run AI Locally Instead of Using a Cloud LLM?
Five signals for deciding whether AI workloads belong on local infrastructure rather than a cloud LLM. more →
Kovrr, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
How to Assess and Manage AI-Related Risks
This guide walks through the full lifecycle of AI risk assessment and management, from initial discovery through financial quantification and board reporting, with practical guidance on how to build a program that scales. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Threat Modelling LLM Systems for Prompt Injection
Practical threat modeling guidance for UK SMEs securing LLM systems against direct and indirect prompt injection. more →
Gopher Security, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Why Standard Encryption Isn't Enough: The Case for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security
Post-quantum cryptography is urgently needed to protect AI infrastructure from "Store Now, Decrypt Later" harvesting attacks. more →
Gopher Security, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Building Quantum-Proof Cryptography Into Your Enterprise AI Security Architecture
Enterprises should adopt NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography now to counter Store Now, Decrypt Later attacks on AI infrastructure. more →
InfoQ, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 5, JHipster, Google ADK, OmniFish Build Of Payara, Introducing Vidocq
Weekly Java roundup covering TornadoVM 5.0's native CUDA support, JHipster 9.2.0, and the new Vidocq Jakarta EE 11 implementation. 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 →
CIO, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
How Do You Go From Junior to Staff Engineer When AI Writes the Code?
AI changes the mentoring interface for junior engineers rather than eliminating the path to senior and staff roles. more →
CSO Online, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
7 Skills and Traits of Elite Security Engineers
The traits that separate elite security engineers, from AI tooling fluency to systems-level thinking and business awareness. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Beyond Cloud Uptime: API Security and AI Resilience for 2026
Akamai makes the case that cloud resilience in 2026 depends on API security and AI workload protection rather than uptime metrics alone. more →
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography: What's Next for Edge Security
Akamai's Rich Salz breaks down Google's 2029 post-quantum timeline, new signature schemes, and the IETF PLANTS working group. more →
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Smash and Grab at Scale: Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Threat to Commerce
Akamai's SOTI report finds a 19% surge in malicious bot traffic against retail as agentic AI scales API abuse and infrastructure costs. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Using Microsegmentation to Contain Autonomous AI Agents
Akamai argues perimeter controls fail against autonomous AI agents and that machine-speed microsegmentation is needed to stop lateral movement. more →
Akamai Technologies, Friday, July 17th, 2026
From Recon to Free Flights: Precision Prompt Attacks on AI Agents
Akamai researchers walk through a kill chain in which attackers spoof tool output to make an AI travel agent issue free flights. 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 →
Anysphere, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Improvements to Cursor in Slack
Cursor's Slack integration now plans before executing, works across multiple repositories, and can pull context from other channels. more →
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
AWS, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Authenticate Legitimate AI Agent Traffic With AWS WAF Bot Control
AWS details how WAF Bot Control can verify AI agent traffic where IP-based filtering breaks down in shared multi-tenant environments. more →
AWS, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Announces Intelligent Tiering for Storage
CloudWatch Logs automatically moves log data across Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access tiers based on access patterns. more →
AWS, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.3 arrives on Amazon Bedrock with configurable reasoning effort, tool calling, structured output, and image input. more →
Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes
In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →
Broadcom, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
A Knight's Blueprint: Accelerating Infrastructure Delivery With VCF Automation
Broadcom VCF Knight Doron Shamo explains how VCF Automation turns ticket-driven provisioning into governed self-service. more →
Broadcom, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Opportunities Ahead: An Unexpected Turn Toward A Mainframe Career
A recent graduate describes entering the mainframe field through Broadcom's Mainframe Vitality Program and IBM Z Xplore. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Introducing Apache Spark 4.2
Apache Spark 4.2 adds metric views, expanded Spark Connect, and SQL primitives for vector and geospatial analytics. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Unified Context: The Missing Layer for Enterprise AI Coworkers
Databricks introduces Genie One, an AI assistant that unifies context across scattered enterprise systems. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
What Happens in the Milliseconds After You Tap Pay
A technical walkthrough of a Databricks fraud detection app scoring card transactions in under 50 milliseconds. more →
Databricks, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Meta's Spark Muse 1.1 Is Now Available on Databricks, Fully Governed by Unity AI Gateway
Databricks launches Model Provider Services in Unity AI Gateway, bringing Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 under unified governance. more →
HPE, Monday, July 13th, 2026
HPE Releases Annual Living Progress Report as AI Uptake Makes Efficient, Secure, and Responsible Digital Infrastructure Even More Critical
HPE published its 11th annual Living Progress Report detailing FY25 progress on efficient, secure and responsible digital infrastructure. 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 →
IBM, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
IBM Launches New Power Systems and Software Built for Enterprises to Address Risk, Productivity, and Flexibility
IBM introduced Power Autonomous Operations software, an IBM Bob Premium Package for i, and the entry-level Power S1112 server. more →
FutureCIO, Monday, July 13th, 2026
IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell to Scale Advanced, AI-Driven Remediation Capabilities
IBM and Red Hat commercially launch Lightwell to automate enterprise vulnerability remediation at scale. more →
NVIDIA, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Japan's Robotics and Manufacturing Leaders Build on NVIDIA Cosmos to Advance Physical AI Frontier
NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4B-parameter on-device vision reasoning model, as Japanese manufacturers adopt its physical AI stack. more →
NVIDIA, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Japan's Enterprises and Startups Build Industry-Specialized AI With NVIDIA Nemotron Open Models
Japanese enterprises and research institutions are building Japanese-language, industry-specific AI models on NVIDIA Nemotron open models. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Japan Government, Industrial Leaders and NVIDIA Launch the World's First National AI Infrastructure
Japan launches a national AI factory built on 13,750 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs across 140 megawatts. more →
AI Threat Readiness: Deep Dive Workshop
Your AI Systems Are Already Under Attack. Is Your Team Ready to Respond? more →
SentinelOne, Friday, July 17th, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 29
SentinelOne's weekly roundup covers Russian cybercrime sanctions, trojanized remote access tools, and 300 fake GitHub repos spreading infostealers. 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 →
SuperMicro, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Supermicro Expands End-to-End DCBBS Liquid Cooling Portfolio With Rear Door Heat Exchangers for High-Density AI and HPC Infrastructure
Supermicro expanded its DCBBS liquid cooling line with ten Rear Door Heat Exchanger models spanning 10kW to 120kW per door. more →
StorageReview, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Supermicro Expands DCBBS Liquid Cooling With Ten Rear Door Heat Exchangers up to 120kW
Supermicro adds ten rear door heat exchanger models from 10kW to 120kW per door, up to 240kW per rack. more →
