Secure Reading, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
If A Cyber Attack Hits Tomorrow, Who In Your Company Owns The Risk?
Many organizations invest in security tools, but few clearly define who is responsible when something goes wrong. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · January 6
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Top 10 Cybersecurity Predictions For 2026
Cybersecurity predictions are an opportunity to look forward instead of back, to be proactive instead of reactive, and to consider how changes in attackers, technology, and the security industry will impact the sustainability of managing cyber risks. more →
CIO, Monday, December 29th, 2025
7 Major IT Disasters Of 2025
Multiple outages at major hyperscalers lasted several hours, causing web services to go down, while a battery fire took out government services in South Korea. more →
CIO, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
CIOs' Top Resolution Should Be To Create A Visions-Rich 2026
The tech 'future' for too many workers today involves reacting to whatever happened in the past 12 hours. It's time for CIOs to take the reins and rediscover IT's aspiration to be great. more →
CIO, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Engineering The AI-Ready Enterprise: From Middleware To Mindware
AI works best when it has context, guardrails and smart plumbing - enter 'mindware,' the layer that helps enterprises think, not just integrate tools. more →
ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Top 10 Technology Ethics Stories Of 2025
Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025 more →
siliconANGLE, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
Grading Our 2025 Enterprise Technology Predictions
This is the time of year when we get a flood of predictions from public relations and other thought leaders. As you know, we publish predictions every January: TheCUBE Research does a set, we do a set with the Data Gang (Tony Baer, Sanjeev Mohan and the crew), and Eric Bradley of Enterprise Technology Researc and I do our Breaking Analysis predictions. We'll do those again in January after the new ETR data comes out. more →
IT Business Podcast, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
Top 10 MSP 'Excitements' For 2026
This episode uses a satirical Top 10 list to spotlight what MSPs will really face in 2026 - AI hype, security culture problems, tool sprawl, compliance pressure, and event overload - while driving home that success comes from outcome‑based services, strong processes, and a prepared team. more →
ITPro, Monday, December 29th, 2025
The 2025 That Didn't Happen
Across AI, wearables, and quantum security, a number of promises fell through more →
Oxide, Monday, November 10th, 2025
Oxide And Friends: Futurelock
Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026! more →
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Best of 2025: Platform Engineering Is Marketing, Engineering A Platform Is Real
Everyone in the DevOps community has surely come across the term 'platform engineering'. It can imply anything from DevOps to SRE, to sysadmin work, depending on the context in which it is used. As platforms function at the intersection of human factors and technology, they are inherently complex. more →
Platform Engineering, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
Best of 2025: Platform Engineering vs. DevOps: Building Better Developer Experiences
In the rapidly evolving software development landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to improve developer productivity while maintaining robust governance and security. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Best of 2025: Platform Excellence With A Product Management Mindset
Platform engineering is the discipline of designing, building and maintaining the platform that serves as the foundation for developers to efficiently build, deploy, monitor and scale software. 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 →
Help Net Security, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Automation Forces A Reset In Security Strategy
Enterprise security teams are working under the assumption that disruption is constant. A global study by Trellix shows that resilience has moved from a long term goal to a structural requirement for CISOs. Infrastructure design, operational integration, and the use of AI shape how organizations prepare for ongoing pressure from threats and regulation. more →
Help Net Security, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Security Teams Debate How Much To Trust AI
AI is reshaping how organizations operate, defend systems, and interpret risk. Reports reveal rising AI-driven attacks, hidden usage across enterprises, and widening gaps between innovation and security readiness. more →
Help Net Security, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Executives Say Cybersecurity Has Outgrown The IT Department
Cybersecurity has moved from a technical problem to a boardroom concern tied to survival. A global Rimini Street study of senior executives shows security risk shaping decisions on technology, talent, and long term planning across industries that keep economies running. more →
Help Net Security, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Security Coverage Is Falling Behind The Way Attackers Behave
Cybercriminals keep tweaking their procedures, trying out new techniques, and shifting tactics across campaigns. Coverage that worked yesterday may miss how those behaviors appear today. more →
Help Net Security, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
From Experiment To Production, AI Settles Into Embedded Software Development
AI-generated code is already running inside devices that control power grids, medical equipment, vehicles, and industrial plants. more →
HPCwire, Monday, December 29th, 2025
2026 AI Security Predictions - The Any-Identity Crisis, Breach-By-Exhaust, The Rise Of Autonomous Adversaries
History shows that large technology shifts often tend to have a major impact on enterprise security. Mainframe computing concentrated risk in one place. Cloud computing moved data out of physical walls. Mobile computing dissolved the idea of a fixed user. Each of these shifts, in its own way, forced security teams to rethink assumptions that at that time felt solid. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Are NHIs Safe From Unauthorized Access In Cloud Environments
How Secure Are Non-Human Identities in Cloud Environments? more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Can I Feel Confident In The Security Of Machine Identities
How Does Machine Identity Security Foster Confidence in Cybersecurity? more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
How Adaptable Are Secrets Scanning Systems To New Threats
How Do You Secure Non-Human Identities in a World of Evolving Cyber Threats more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
How Are Soc Teams Empowered By Advanced Machine Identity Management
How Can Machine Identity Management Optimize Security Operations? more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
How Does AI Decision Making Help Companies Stay Ahead Of Threats
Are you aware of how machine identities are silently reshaping cybersecurity? With the rise of Non-Human Identities (NHIs), the traditional approach to cybersecurity needs a significant shift. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, December 29th, 2025
How Scalable Is Secrets Management For Large Enterprises
What role do Non-Human Identities (NHIs) play in safeguarding enterprise security? With digital evolve, understanding and managing NHIs becomes imperative for organizations seeking robust security measures, especially those operating in cloud environments. more →
OrionX, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Analyst Roundtable: AI, Social Media, Bitcoin, Quantum - OXD34
Analyst roundtable covering the big ideas in technology that are changing the world, with Adrian Cockcroft, Stephen Perrenod, Chris Kruell, and Shahin Khan. 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 →
Cloud Native Now, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
Best of 2025: Akamai Allies with Fermyon to Advance Wasm Adoption
Akamai and Fermyon Technologies formed an alliance that brings WebAssembly (Wasm) software components to a highly distributed cloud computing network. more →
Cloud Native Now, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Best of 2025: Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open
In what may be the most Apple-esque move in recent memory - quiet, strategic, and totally on-brand - the tech giant has apparently executed an 'acquihire without the acquisition' by scooping up the co-founders and core team behind Styra, the original creators of Open Policy Agent (OPA). While Apple isn't acquiring Styra outright, the impact is arguably just as seismic. more →
Cloud Native Now, Friday, January 2nd, 2026
Best of 2025: CAST AI Report Surfaces Massive Kubernetes Cloud Infrastructure Waste
CAST AI published a report that shines a light on the massive amount of infrastructure resources being wasted by Kubernetes clusters. Organizations, on average, only use 13% of provisioned CPUs and 20% of memory when deploying clusters that have 50 to 1,000 processors, according to the report. more →
Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Best of 2025: DevSecOps for Kubernetes: 15 Best Practices for 2025
In today's environment, it is becoming harder to build secure applications. Applications are becoming increasingly complex, relying on more and more dependencies and components provided by vendors than ever before. more →
Cloud Native Now, Thursday, January 1st, 2026
Best of 2025: Google Adds Multi-Cluster Orchestration Service For Kubernetes
Google Cloud today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 conference disclosed it is making available a public preview of an orchestration framework for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters. more →
Cloud Native Now, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Best of 2025: Hardening Kubernetes Security with DevSecOps Practices
Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for orchestrating containerized applications, offering unprecedented agility, scalability and speed in delivering software. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Best Wearable AR Glasses For Everyday Use In 2026
Best AR & Smart Glasses in India 2025: XREAL, RayNeo, Rokid Compared 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 →
Cloudflare, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Cloudflare 2025 Impact Report
Report details key milestones in helping secure democratic elections worldwide, protect independent journalism and non profits from AI scraping, and create a more sustainable Internet more →
Cloudflare, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Cloudflare Year In Review: AI Bots Crawl Aggressively, Post-Quantum Encryption Hits 50%, Go Doubles
Cloudflare has recently published the sixth edition of its Radar Year in Review. The results reveal 19% yearly growth in global internet traffic, Googlebot dominance, increasing crawl-to-refer ratios, and broad adoption of post-quantum encryption. Over 20% of automated API requests were made by Go-based clients, almost doubling adoption over the previous year. more →
DDN, Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
A Year In Review At DDN - 2025
In the AI era, one year can feel like ten. Breakthroughs compound. Expectations reset. What once lived in pilot projects suddenly runs production systems that matter-to businesses, governments, and entire economies. That's what made 2025 different. more →
DDN, Monday, December 29th, 2025
DDN 2026 AI Predictions: The Operating Shifts Defining The Next Era Of AI
For the last several years, AI progress has been measured by models, parameters, and benchmarks. But as AI moves from experimentation into sustained production, a more fundamental truth is emerging: The next era of AI will be decided by operating models, not algorithms. more →
DDN, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Powering The New Economics Of AI: How DDN Fuels NVIDIA's Record-Breaking Inference Results
For the last several years, AI progress has been measured by models, parameters, and benchmarks. But as AI moves from experimentation into sustained production, a more fundamental truth is emerging: The next era of AI will be decided by operating models, not algorithms. 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 →
F5, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Securing Agentic AI: How F5 Maps To The OWASP Agentic Top 10
Agentic AI today is roughly where generative AI was a year ago. Most organizations with agentic projects are still in the pilot phase, but some early workloads are already beginning to interact with production systems. 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 →
IBM, Monday, December 29th, 2025
The Hidden Email Crisis That Costs Companies Billions
Their emails landed in clients' spam folders. Getting back to the inbox took months. more →
IBM, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Meet Bob, A Productivity Tool That Helps Developers Scale For Enterprise
Many coding assistants promise developers faster delivery and improved workflows. But when developers code for enterprise, they need tools that can adapt to their environment and work. Enter Project Bob: IBM's AI-first developer productivity platform. more →
IBM, Monday, December 29th, 2025
2025: The Year Open, Agentic AI Took Center Stage
From agentic capabilities in experimental AI models to real-world deployment, 2025 was the year open, agentic AI captured attention. For IBM, this evolution is embodied in BeeAI and Agent Stack, two open-source initiatives that have reshaped how enterprises build and deploy intelligent agents. more →
IBM, Monday, December 29th, 2025
The Operational Technology Threat Landscape: Insights From IBM X-Force
The world's most sophisticated threat actors are moving faster, operating quieter, and targeting the very heartbeat of modern society: operational technology (OT) and critical infrastructure. more →
IBM, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
IBM Storage Ceph Meets IBM Storage Deep Archive
Simplifying data archival with cost-effective, policy-based retrieval more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenA
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 →
Salesforce, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Building The Agentic Enterprise: Salesforce News And Stories That Shaped 2025
2025 was the year Salesforce translated its Agentforce vision into reality. What emerged was not merely an expanded product line ready for the era of AI agents but an entirely new operating model: the Agentic Enterprise. more →
Salesforce, Monday, December 29th, 2025
In 2025, AI Grew Up - And Learned To Play By The Rules
One thing is clear to us at Salesforce: enterprise AI has entered a new phase. Over the past three years, large language models (LLMs) proved what was possible. They reasoned, summarized, and conversed in ways that reshaped expectations for software almost overnight. But as those capabilities became familiar, our conversations with customers began to change. more →
Trend Micro, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Trend Micro Predicts 2026 As The Year Scams Become Ai-Driven, Ai-Scaled, And Emotion-Engineered
Trend Micro released its 2026 Consumer Security Predictions Report, warning that the coming year will see scams reach unprecedented AI-driven scale as automation reshapes how fraudsters target victims. From synthetic relationships to multi-channel fraud journeys, cybercriminals are merging automation with emotional manipulation, creating unprecedented speed, realism, and scale. more →
Outlook for Data Security: Going From Reactive to Resilient
In this complimentary Gartner webinar, Gartner experts will explore the evolution to data-centric security, the role of AI-driven adaptive controls and the importance of aligning incident response with business continuity. more →
