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Wednesday’s Briefing · September 9
ITPro, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Should Businesses Consider Using Chinese AI Models?
Chinese models cost 60-90% less and perform well, but deployment location and audit controls decide the risk. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
AI-Powered Autonomous Bots Now Operate Without Human Direction, Forcing Companies To Rethink Cybersecurity Defenses
Protecting Your Business From Rogue Bots: A New CIO Risk more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Why AI Enablement Teams Shouldn't Live Within IT
Placing AI enablement outside IT keeps projects tied to real business problems rather than technology push. more →
The Register, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
AI Adoption At Work Is Broad But Shallow
An economics study of actual worker behavior finds generative AI touches 80% of occupations but few use it heavily. more →
Tech Spotlight - What AI Means for Identity Security
In this session, Nathan O'Bryan (5x Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Solutions Master, 30+ year veteran Active Directory administrator) will cover how changes in technology have shaped the way IT departments do Identity and Access Management. more →
CIO Influence, Friday, September 4th, 2026
CIOs Can Use AI, Knowledge Graphs, And Semantic Tech To Turn Fragmented Data Into Institutional Intelligence
Technology as Organizational Memory: How CIOs Can Turn Enterprise Data Into Institutional Intelligence more →
CIO Influence, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
OneSpan's CTO Discusses Modernizing Authentication Through Phishing-Resistant Passkeys And Unified Platforms
CIO Influence Interview With Ashish Jain, Chief Technology Officer at OneSpan more →
Analytics Insight, Friday, September 4th, 2026
CIOs Must Prioritize Data Readiness, Governance, Security, And Cost Control To Scale AI Safely By 2027
CIO 2027 Checklist: 10 IT Priorities for Building an AI-Ready Enterprise more →
CIO, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Cisco's EVP Explains How AI Agents Shift CIO Requirements From UX Expertise To Process Innovation Leadership
Why Cisco Is Redefining Its CIO Role more →
CIO, Monday, August 31st, 2026
IT Projects Keep Failing At Unacceptable Rates Despite Strategic Alignment; 12 Common Culprits Are Identified
Why IT Projects Still Fail more →
CIO, Monday, August 31st, 2026
PMO Leaders Need Internal Readiness Across Spiritual, Mental, Physical, And Emotional Dimensions To Earn Executive Trust
Why Technically Brilliant PMOs Still Lose the Room more →
The Register, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Techie With Three Months' Experience Was Sent In As The Cisco Expert And Proceeded To Blow Everything Up
This week, meet 'Martin' who told us about his very first job in tech. 'I had just started working as a network engineer for a very small IT infrastructure company. Since I was the only person who worked with Cisco gear, that made me 'The Cisco expert',' he told The Register. more →
The Register, Friday, September 4th, 2026
On Call: User Who Handled Life-Or-Death Situations Struggled With The Shift Key
Meet 'Roy' who toiled at a company that did work related to tissue donations and organ transplants. 'The on-call duties were a bit hair-raising due to the high stakes involved,' Roy told On Call. 'Thankfully, things typically ran well and I didn't get too many calls in the off hours.' more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Concentrated Expertise Among A Few Engineers Creates Operational Risk When Critical System Knowledge Stays Undocumented
Platform Engineering and the Challenge of Tribal Knowledge more →
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Deployment Frequency Alone Misleads Platform Leaders; The Full Change Lifecycle And Developer Friction Matter More
Platform Engineering Needs Better Measures of Productivity more →
CNCF, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Platform Engineering Maturity: From Toolchain To Self-Service
Most platform teams mistake standardized tooling for real self-service, and stall at interface maturity Level 2. more →
CNCF, Friday, September 4th, 2026
CPU + GPU: Why AI Platform Engineering Is A Heterogeneous Infrastructure Problem
Optimizing only the GPU misses the point: AI pipelines are CPU, memory, storage and network problems too. more →
CNCF, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Kubernetes Isn't New, But AI Makes It Scary Again
Fairwinds CTO argues AI workloads turn mature Kubernetes into an unfamiliar operations discipline all over again. more →
CloudFest Americas - Miami
A new era begins: CloudFest USA steps forward as CloudFest Americas. The business platform that unites Cloud, hosting, and infrastructure leaders from across North, Central, and South America into one globally-connected community experience. more →
Black Hat, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Black Hat USA 2026 Wrap-Up: The Agentic Age Has Arrived And Is Reshaping How Defenders Work
Black Hat's recap of USA 2026 identifies the arrival of the agentic age as the event's overarching theme, spanning AI agents, predictive defense, and machine-speed operations. more →
CyberScoop, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Why Judgment Is Emerging As Cybersecurity's Defining Skill
As AI makes technically sound recommendations cheap, the scarce skill becomes deciding what to do with them. more →
Professional Security Magazine, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Organizations Must Prioritize Recovery Readiness And Incident Response Capability To Limit Cyber Downtime Impact
Cyber Risk and Incident Response more →
The Next Web, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Dover Microsystems' CoreGuard Adds Silicon-Level Security Enforcement To Processors Via Programmable Micropolicies
The Next Cybersecurity Battleground Is Inside the Processor more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
AI Agents, Identity Management, And Quantum Security Emerge As Critical Cybersecurity Priorities For 2027
Top Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2027 more →
CSO Online, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Zero Trust Has A Big AI Agent Problem Ahead
Agentic AI breaks zero trust's per-request model by chaining individually authorized actions into unapproved outcomes. more →
The Register, Friday, September 4th, 2026
PostgreSQL 19 Connects The Dots With Standardized Graph Queries
PostgreSQL 19 adds SQL/PGQ property graph syntax, reducing the need for a separate graph database in some workloads. 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 →
ITSM.tools, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Service Management Has Outgrown The IT Department
David Cannon argues the valuable work is now orchestrating technology wherever it sits, not running a service desk. more →
ITSM.tools, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
The 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant For ITSM Platforms: What Changed Between 2022 And 2026
Gartner's ITSM Magic Quadrant returns after four years with sixteen vendors and major position shifts. more →
ITSM.tools, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Want Better ESM Adoption? Stop Suggesting ESM
Leading with the ESM acronym kills adoption; lead with a department's existing pain instead. more →
CNCF, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Migrating A Critical Kubernetes Deployment From The Default Namespace Without Any Downtime
A step-by-step war story on moving a live auth service out of the default namespace with zero downtime. more →
CSO Online, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
When The Patch Tsunami Meets The Maintenance Window
AI-speed vulnerability discovery has broken OT patch cycles; triage, containment and surge planning matter more than patching faster. more →
Data Center Knowledge, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Data Centers Avoid Water Reuse Because Evaporative Cooling Loses It And Treatment Costs Are Uneconomical
Why Data Centers Rarely Reuse Cooling Water more →
CRM Magazine, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
CRM Magazine Names Its 2026 Industry Leaders Across 11 CRM Categories Based On A Panel Of Analysts
The Best CRM Software and Solutions: The 2026 CRM Industry Leader Awards 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 →
LinkedIn, Sunday, August 30th, 2026
Data Center Sales Teams Must Shift Messaging From Technical Specs To Business Outcomes To Reach Executives
Why Technical Pitches Fail With C-Level Data Center Buyers more →
Content, Leads & Company Page (Half Day LinkedIn Course) - Austin, TX
How to get ROI on LinkedIn: Create content that grows your page and brings inbound leads. Posting content is no longer optional on LinkedIn - in this course, we’ll show you how to do it efficiently so that it grows your followers and generates leads. more →
Bitdefender, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Why Are So Many Security Professionals Keeping Breaches Quiet?
Bitdefender research finds more than half of breached IT and security professionals were told to keep the incident confidential. more →
The Frontier AI Threat: Closing the Mobile Gap in Your Exposure Management Strategy
Join Lookout's Chief Technology Officer, David Richardson, to explore how the mobile attack surface has evolved in the AI era. We will discuss how to protect the modern workforce by addressing the three core pillars of mobile AI security, heavily focusing on continuous exposure management and governance. more →
Check Point, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Security Hardening Assessment: Prepare for AI Transformation Without Increasing Risk
Check Point's Security Hardening Assessment finds gaps such as excessive permissions and misconfigurations before AI adoption amplifies them. more →
Check Point, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
The Inbox Is Disappearing. Why Security Must Follow the Workspace
Check Point argues email-centric security no longer fits a workspace spanning browsers, SaaS, collaboration tools, identities and AI agents. more →
Check Point, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
AI Observability Must Evolve for the Agentic Era
Check Point argues agent observability must capture decision traces and be able to stop unsafe actions before they execute. more →
Check Point, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Gambling Goblin: A Chinese-Speaking Actor Hijacks Brazilian Government Sites to Fuel a Global SEO Fraud Machine
Check Point Research tracks Gambling Goblin, which compromises Brazilian government web servers to power a global SEO fraud operation. more →
Commvault, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Cyber Resiliency for AI and Ransomware Recovery
Commvault outlines how Commvault Cloud, Cleanroom, AirGap and AI-assisted recovery combine to withstand ransomware and AI-era disruption. more →
Commvault, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Clumio Advances Cloud-Native Cyber Resilience With FedRAMP Milestone
Commvault's Clumio reaches a FedRAMP milestone, extending cloud-native data protection to government and regulated workloads. more →
Commvault, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Meet Clumio Chat: An AI Assistant to Help Evaluate Cloud-Native Data Protection
Commvault launches Clumio Chat, an AI assistant answering questions on backup, recovery, deployment and cloud workload protection. more →
The Future of AI Infrastructure
Join Amin Vahdat and Google Cloud product leaders for an inside look at how we are meeting these new demands with co-designed infrastructure open at every layer. more →
F5, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
F5's AI-Powered WAF Advances Virtual Patching for the Post-Mythos Era
F5 adds AI-driven WAF capabilities to block frontier-AI-driven threats in the data path and speed virtual patching. more →
F5, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Poisoned Packages Are Killing Our Industry
F5 calls for a central registry for malicious open-source packages as AI accelerates supply-chain abuse. more →
Glean, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
From Enterprise Search to Enterprise Context: What AI Agents Actually Need
Glean argues AI agents need an enterprise context layer, not just search, to do reliable work across systems. more →
Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint
Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. Bold sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? more →
Google, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Pairing Google Antigravity with Gemini 3.7 Flash Solves Notable Multi-Agent Math and Engineering Problems
Autonomous Gemini agent teams in Antigravity solved seven open math problems and built CPU emulators. more →
Google, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Introducing Agentic Video Understanding with Gemini
Google's agentic video feature cuts token use up to 88% and costs up to 66% while improving quality up to 7%. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash plus a cybersecurity-specialized Flash Cyber variant at 3.7's speed and cost. more →
Google, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Proactive Cyber Defense for Governments and Enterprises
Google launches Fairwind, a limited-access program giving governments and trusted partners its cyber defense tools. more →
Google, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Introducing WeatherNext 3, Our Most Advanced and Accurate Global Weather AI Model
WeatherNext 3 adds real-time satellite data, hourly refreshes and clean energy variables, shipping across Google products. more →
Google, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Use Your Voice to Get More Done in Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Google Workspace adds three voice-activated features for drafting documents, searching inbox and capturing notes. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face
NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, pledging to keep the model platform open. more →
Beyond Tokens: A CIO's Guide to What Really Drives the Total Cost of AI
This webinar explores the broader costs of AI and helps CIOs develop a more complete understanding of where spending and value creation occur as AI adoption expands. Learn how to evaluate AI investments beyond technology costs, improve cost visibility, strengthen business accountability and make more informed decisions that balance innovation, risk and enterprise value. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Spring Ring: An Inside Look at Voice Phishing Campaigns in Microsoft Teams
Unit 42 analyzes the Spring Ring campaign, which abuses Microsoft Teams voice phishing to deploy malware and reach domain controllers. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Securing the Agentic Shift: Data Protection Across the AI Data Path
Palo Alto Networks maps the data protection gaps opened when AI agents move enterprise data via MCP and A2A. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
An AI-Assisted Cyber Attack: Inside a Unit 42 Investigation
Unit 42 reconstructs an intrusion where autonomous AI agents let an attacker breach an enterprise network within hours. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Attackers Expose Ongoing AI Tool Use Targeting Organizations in Latin America
Unit 42 details how attackers targeting Latin American organizations use AI for data exfiltration and leak their own operations through OpSec errors. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Built for Resilience: How Cortex XDR Overcomes Modern SOC Architectural Limitations
Palo Alto Networks argues Cortex XDR's architecture fixes the storage cost, telemetry and timeline gaps that slow modern SOCs. more →
Couchbase CATALYST - The Agent Era Is Here. Is Your Data Ready? (Oct. 20-22)
Couchbase CATALYST 2026 is the first Couchbase customer conference: three days where technology leaders, architects, and the engineers building on Couchbase meet to advance next-generation data solutions for the Agent Era. more →
Salesforce, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Top Innovations in the Winter '27 Release: AI Agents Run the Work, Freeing the Enterprise to Work Smarter and Faster
Salesforce's Winter '27 release moves AI agents from assisting on single tasks to running entire enterprise workflows. more →
Engineered for What's Next: Rubrik and AWS Cyber Resiliency for Enterprise Workloads
Join speakers from Rubrik and AWS to explore how leveraging Rubrik and AWS minimizes security blind spots, reduces blast radiuses, and enables rapid recovery. Discover how to turn your data into an advantage that lets you build and scale with certainty - no matter what comes next. more →
SUSE, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
From Pilot to Production: How to Scale Enterprise AI Without Operational Sprawl
SUSE explains why AI pilots that succeed in isolation accumulate operational sprawl when platform teams scale them enterprise-wide. more →
SUSE, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Simplifying VM Migrations
SUSE details new tooling that reduces the manual mapping work involved in migrating VMs from vSphere to SUSE Virtualization. more →
SUSE, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Escaping the Black Box: How Private Enterprise AI Addresses Compliance, Control and Costs
SUSE argues opaque public models and hosted AI services create compliance, control and cost risks that private AI resolves. more →
How CIOs Can Guide Board Conversations on AI Risk in Higher Education
This webinar explores how CIOs are framing AI risk for boards and senior executives through four critical lenses: regulatory and compliance exposure, operational and cybersecurity risk, academic and research integrity, and the strategic opportunities and ROI that AI presents. more →
Sysdig, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Defending the Battlefield: Stateful Detections for an Agentic Threat Landscape
Sysdig says human-speed defenses fail against AI-driven attacks and makes stateful detections central to runtime security. more →
Sysdig, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Security Briefing: August 2026
Sysdig's monthly briefing finds AI-enabled attacks rarely need new privileges, using ordinary command execution instead. more →
Sysdig, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Runtime Is the Real Defense, Not Just Posture
Sysdig argues posture scanning is a still image of a moving target and that runtime security should be the starting point. more →
Sysdig, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Cloud Security and the Power of Runtime Insights
Sysdig makes the case for adopting a CNAPP with runtime insights as cloud adoption turns enterprises into high-value targets. more →