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 →
Migrating Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service
This session is ideal for engineering leaders, search architects, and platform teams currently operating Apache Solr who want to understand the benefits, trade-offs, and practical steps involved in migrating to a fully managed search service on AWS. 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 →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenAI
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. 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 →
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
Enterprise data leaders face an aggressive mandate: deploy generative AI and autonomous agents that drive real operational efficiency. Yet, as teams move past isolated pilots into production, they run into a hard architectural barrier. That barrier? Data gravity. 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 →
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 →
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 →
Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth
As AI, cloud, and connected technologies rapidly expand the attack surface, security teams must focus on the risks that matter most. Join CISO leaders to explore how exposure management strengthens visibility, prioritization, and resilience, thus enabling organizations to innovate confidently while reducing their most critical cyber risks. 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 →
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 →
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 →
Build and Automate Your Infrastructure with Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
This webinar focuses on deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) within Microsoft Azure, utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for scalable, cross-domain infrastructure automation. more →
