TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Don't Let AI Negotiate With Reality
CIOs must set clear boundaries on AI's role so it cannot make impossible options sound feasible. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · August 18
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
With AI, CIOs Need a New Playbook
IT leaders must restructure operations and avoid vendor lock-in while implementing AI technology. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why the Next AI Race Will Be Won at the Inference Layer
Enterprise AI advantage will come from routing each workload to the right model, accelerator, and environment. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression
AI removes the learning rungs on the career ladder while letting people perform above their experience. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why AI Models Need a Real-Time Web Intelligence Layer
Without a governed data access layer, even advanced models produce inconsistent enterprise results. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Shadow AI Can Be Stopped When Workers Get Better Options
Shadow AI is harder to police than shadow IT because AI is embedded by default in everyday apps. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
How CSOs Can Turn Cybersecurity Into a Business Growth Strategy
Security leaders move from gatekeeper to growth partner by talking outcomes instead of technical detail. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why Enterprise AI Now Has to Prove Its Return: A VC Investor Perspective
Investor Ed Sim says enterprise AI has entered a third wave in which spending is judged by measured return. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
What Boards Need to Know About Tech Risk
Technical debt costs US companies nearly $2.5 trillion a year yet rarely reaches the board agenda. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
71% of CISOs Spend 10+ Hours on Board Reports
CISOs spend excessive time on board presentations because of communication gaps and missing cyber risk frameworks. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Age Verification Failed - Regulating VPNs Won't Fix It
Restricting VPNs confuses the symptom with the problem and threatens infrastructure businesses depend on. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why Business Leaders Need to Take Quantum Seriously
Quantum computing, sensing, and communication sit on different maturity curves that business leaders should act on now. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
AI Cyberattacks: How Threat Actors Use AI in Real Intrusions
Three tracked groups used AI across reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and infrastructure upkeep. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Cybercriminals Turn to Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks
Subscription tools starting around $150 a month embed hostile instructions in email, PDFs, and invites. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Weak IAM Affects Up to 98% of Cloud Environments
Intruder's 2026 index finds weak identity and access management in 80-98% of cloud accounts. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
How to Build an AI Security Program
A framework for implementing operational security controls across AI systems using six components. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Cybersecurity's Identity Crisis: Why Trust Can No Longer Begin and End at Login
Authentication is only a snapshot in time, so trust must be continuously verified through behavioral signals. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why AI Is Accelerating Old Cyber Risks, Not Creating New Ones
AI changes the speed and scale of exploitation rather than introducing genuinely new categories of risk. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Convertr Adds Governance Module to Enforce Policies as Data Is Entered
Convertr launches a governance module to ensure customer data meets compliance requirements before CRM entry. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
US Data Center Power Requests Far Exceed What Grid Can Deliver
Developers have requested 1,066 GW; Wood Mackenzie expects utilities to commit to about 28% of it. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
This Black Swan Could Kill Your Storage Architecture - Here's How to Survive
AI's unexpected impact on flash storage economics creates a structural crisis requiring hybrid architecture solutions. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
How Smart Storage Design Helps Enterprises Thrive
Smart tiering strategies help enterprises navigate NAND shortages and build resilient storage systems. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Your Container Images Are Unsigned. In the AI Era, That's a Ticking Time Bomb.
Vulnerability scanning answers what is broken inside, not where an artifact came from or whether it changed. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Top AI Data Center Trends to Watch Through 2030
AI data centers are becoming specialized facilities with larger campuses, advanced cooling, and massive power needs. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
The Case and Model for Real-Time AI Cost Visibility at the Infrastructure Layer
Traditional cloud FinOps breaks on AI because tokens are not taggable resources like VMs. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Legacy IT Forces Enterprises to Delay AI Projects
Two-thirds of companies have moved AI workloads off public cloud to on-prem or private cloud. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Scaling AI Hinges on the Enterprise Data Layer
AI currently reaches just 45% of enterprise data, and only half of firms trust their agents' decisions. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
August's Patch Tuesday Is a Monster: 751 Fixes, With an Exploited Windows Flaw
Microsoft shipped 751 fixes, 108 rated critical, including a WinSock driver flaw already exploited. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Evolving Threats, Evolving Responses
Contact centers must strengthen disaster response plans as cyberattacks, outages, and severe weather threats intensify. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Unlocking the Cloud's Value
Contact centers must align cloud strategy with cost management and CX outcomes to maximize ROI. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
4 Ways to Support Contact Center Calling Redundancy
Cloud phone systems need safeguards beyond provider redundancy to keep contact centers reliable. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Contact Center Compliance Checklist for Modern Workforces
Essential compliance practices for contact centers to protect customer data and meet regulatory requirements. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
AI Learning Roadmap 2026: Beginner to Job-Ready
A 2026 AI career path running from Python fundamentals through production deployment and portfolio building. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Which AI Skills Are Employers Looking For in 2027?
Employers will prioritize AI literacy, agent expertise, cybersecurity, and critical thinking alongside domain knowledge by 2027. more →
C3.ai, Monday, August 10th, 2026
C3 AI Named Leader in AI Platforms
Forrester names C3 AI a Leader in AI platforms, scoring it highest in the current offering category. more →
Data & AI Leaders Summit (Sept. 21-23)
This three-day summit is designed for enterprise technology and business leaders responsible for turning AI potential into operational reality. It brings together leaders and practitioners to build modern data foundations, operationalize AI, and govern it for trust. more →
Cisco, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Monitoring Beyond SNMP: Turning Your Network Into a Sensor
Cisco argues rich telemetry and AI-driven assurance should replace legacy SNMP polling for network monitoring. more →
Cisco, Friday, August 14th, 2026
How Identity Drives MSP Profitability: An Analyst's Perspective
A Cisco partner blog argues identity-first security drives managed service provider profitability. more →
CoreWeave, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
The AI Loop: Launch Day Is Day One
CoreWeave argues model launch day is the start of the improvement loop, not the finish line. more →
CoreWeave, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
What Comes Next: Operating and Evolving the Production AI Factory
CoreWeave and NVIDIA cover operating a production AI factory at scale and preparing for the next hardware generation. more →
CoreWeave, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Why AI Factories Need Proof Before Production
CoreWeave argues AI factories need full-stack validation before production, not just racked and powered GPUs. more →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Report: Employees Are Overconfident in Their Ability to Spot Scams
A Trustmi survey finds employees still rely on typos and other outdated cues to spot AI-crafted phishing. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Why Securing AI Agents Is More Critical Than Ever
KnowBe4 outlines the prompt injection and shadow AI risks introduced by autonomous AI agents. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Shadow AI: The New Frontier of Shadow IT
A KnowBe4 CISO advisor argues shadow IT is evolving into ungoverned shadow AI use. more →
KnowBe4, Friday, August 14th, 2026
Unmasking the Invisible: How to Identify AI Tools, Hidden Devices, and Other Unknown Assets on Your Network
KnowBe4 sets out how to find unmanaged devices, shadow IT and unauthorised AI tools on enterprise networks. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Why You Can't Arrest Your Way Out of Youth Cybercrime
KnowBe4 reports INTERPOL findings on why arrests alone cannot address youth cybercrime recruitment. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
The Talent Pipeline Nobody Talks About: What Young People Told Us About Cybercrime
KnowBe4 research examines how criminal networks recruit young people and how academies can redirect them. more →
Micron, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Lighting a Spark: Why Science Centers and Experiential Learning Spaces Matter
A Micron director argues hands-on science centres turn childhood curiosity into engineering careers. 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 →
ServiceNow, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
The Cyber Resilience Act Explained
ServiceNow explains the EU Cyber Resilience Act, its phased deadlines and penalties of up to EUR 15 million. 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 →
Snowflake, Friday, August 14th, 2026
When the Deal Closes, the Data Work Begins: How Snowflake Accelerates M&A and Divestitures in Life Sciences
Snowflake examines why life sciences M&A data integration is uniquely constrained by GxP validation and privacy law. more →
Snowflake, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Connect AI Agents to Your Telemetry With the Observe MCP Server and CLI
Observe by Snowflake's redesigned MCP server and new CLI reach general availability for agent-driven telemetry access. more →
Trellix, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Accelerating Trellix's Transformation With AI-Native Security Engineering
Trellix's CTO describes standardising AI across engineering and reviewing its whole codebase with frontier models. more →
Trellix, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Signed, Sealed, Injected: The Mechanics of DCRat in 2026
Trellix analyses a DCRat campaign using SVG-based HTML smuggling, DLL sideloading and process hollowing. more →
Trellix, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Weaponized AI: The Commoditization of Cybercrime
Trellix documents seven dark web findings showing AI cybercrime tools now sold with pricing tiers and support. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
UiPath, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Your AI Governance Gap Isn't a Policy Problem. It's an Architecture Problem.
UiPath argues the AI governance gap is an architecture problem that policies alone cannot close. more →
UiPath, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Oracle Application Change Deserves Business-Level Confidence
UiPath argues Oracle application changes need AI-powered, governed testing to protect business workflows. more →
UiPath, Monday, August 10th, 2026
You Don't Have an Agent Problem. You Have an Orchestration Problem.
UiPath argues enterprises face an orchestration problem rather than an agent problem. more →
UiPath, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
The Power to Plan Beats the Power of Hindsight
UiPath argues retailers need real-time demand signals and agentic automation to act before disruption. more →
UiPath, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Lending, Accelerated: Focus on Borrowers, Not the Seams Between Systems
UiPath sets out how lenders can automate origination work and speed loan approvals. more →
Agentic Security Needs to Operationalize Threat Intel
Agentic AI has changed attacks for both adversaries and defenders, but AI has not changed the fundamentals of security. Triage is not the end goal for defenders; prevention is. This means hyperfast AI-powered triage is still not a solution, just one more (very necessary) tool. more →
Zscaler, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Tracking Shai-Hulud: Inside the ChainDrop NPM Worm
Zscaler analyses ChainDrop, an npm worm anchoring its C2 in an Ethereum smart contract and forging SLSA provenance. more →
Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure
Kubernetes has become the universal control plane for modern infrastructure - and now AI is accelerating that evolution. As organizations adopt AI native architectures, scale model training and inference, and push toward more autonomous operations, Kubernetes is emerging as the backbone for running intelligent, distributed systems at scale. more →
