CIO, Friday, May 15th, 2026
The Biggest Mistakes CIOs Make in the Boardroom and How to Avoid Them
CIOs often fail in boardrooms by presenting technical details instead of facilitating strategic dialogue with board members. more →
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Analytics Insight, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
How CISOs and CTOs Align Security With Business Growth
CISOs and CTOs collaborate to balance cybersecurity with innovation and business growth. more →
CSO Online, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
CISOs Step Into The AI Spotlight
CISOs are evolving into strategic business leaders to govern AI adoption while managing escalating cybersecurity risks. more →
CIO Influence, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
CIO Influence Interview with Hugo Dozois-Caouette, CTO and Co-founder at MaintainX
MaintainX's CTO discusses AI-powered reporting and overcoming barriers to digital transformation in manufacturing. more →
TechRadar, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Why Digital Sovereignty is Becoming a Priority for Every Industry
Organizations across finance, insurance, and manufacturing are prioritizing digital sovereignty to protect data, ensure compliance, and maintain control. more →
Solutions Review, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
The AI-Native Enterprise: Why Organizations Must Redesign Themselves for the Generative AI Era
Organizations must fundamentally redesign themselves around AI rather than simply adopting it as a tool. more →
Platform Engineering, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Why Today's Most Reliable Platforms Are Built to Expect Failure
Modern digital platforms achieve reliability through distributed systems designed to expect and handle failure automatically. more →
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Building New Architecture for Engineering Excellence
Modern software engineering requires intelligent platforms, hyperscale reliability, and AI integration guided by strong technical leadership. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
AI in SOC: How Artificial Intelligence Improves Incident Response
AI and automation improve SOC incident response by organizing case data and guiding analysts through coordinated actions. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, May 16th, 2026
Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security: A Complete Guide for 2026
Organizations must implement post-quantum cryptography and zero-trust security for AI infrastructure to defend against future quantum threats and model poisoning attacks. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Cybersecurity Compliance Monitoring: A Complete Guide for Modern Enterprises
This guide provides a comprehensive look at what cybersecurity compliance monitoring is, why it matters, how it works, the frameworks that govern it, and the best practices organizations should follow to build a program that scales with their risk and regulatory exposure. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Data Trust + AI Success Blog Series: Why AI doesn't behave like a human
In most enterprise security programs, it's quietly assumed that the actor on the other side of a control is human. A person who can be trained, who will hesitate and, even with broad permissions, will exercise some natural judgment about what to open, what to share and what to leave alone. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
DevSecOps explained for growing technology businesses
For many growing technology businesses, the pressure is familiar. Product teams want to ship quickly, operations want stability, and security needs to reduce risk without becoming a bottleneck. DevSecOps is the practical way to bring those priorities together. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
How to Prevent Data Security Breaches in Your School District
K-12 school districts are increasingly becoming prime targets for data security breaches. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, schools are often managing large, decentralized networks with limited IT resources. As such, you're likely to face mounting pressure to protect their digital environments. more →
TechTarget, Friday, May 15th, 2026
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on SANs
Emerging technologies like AI, ML, and NVMe are transforming SANs while introducing new security challenges. more →
The High Stakes Dilemma: Protection Strategies for 2026-27
Out-of-control data can cause cybersecurity breaches, privacy law violations, AI hallucinations, higher storage costs, and more. In this virtual event, learn why and how to begin to clean up shop. more →
Techstrong AI, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Microsoft Power Apps MCP Server Now Teaches Itself From User Corrections
Microsoft adds closed-loop learning to Power Apps MCP Server, enabling agents to automatically improve from user corrections. more →
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
NVIDIA, Ineffable Intelligence Partner to Breach 'Data Wall' with Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning
NVIDIA partners with Ineffable Intelligence to develop massive reinforcement learning systems that move beyond traditional LLM scaling approaches. more →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Why ML Projects Collapse and How to Diagnose Them
Over 80% of AI projects fail due to misalignment and data quality issues, not technical shortcomings, requiring diagnostic frameworks to fix. more →
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
RAG Isn't One Problem. Teams Keep Solving the Wrong One
RAG projects fail in production because teams underestimate data preparation and governance while over-focusing on retrieval models. more →
Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
Red Hat Makes Bevy of Updates to Platforms for Running AI Workloads
Red Hat unveiled AI 3.4 with prompt management, safety testing, and new NVIDIA processor support. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Survey Sees IT Teams Struggling to Manage AI Workloads
Survey finds IT teams lack visibility and predictability in managing AI workloads at scale. more →
Techstrong IT, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Survey Reveals Emerging Backlash Against Nearby Data Centers
A Gallup survey finds 71% of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their communities. more →
Techstrong IT, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
A Practical Guide to Migrating Messaging Systems From On-Prem to the Cloud
Guide to three messaging system migration pathways: lift-and-shift, managed brokers, and serverless refactoring. more →
Techstrong IT, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Red Hat Embraces MCP to Enable AI Agents to Automate IT Operations
Red Hat integrates Model Context Protocol servers into RHEL and automation platforms to enable AI agents in IT operations. more →
Picking Your Winner in the Agentic AI Race
The biggest story in DevOps this year is the agentic AI revolution. Which platform will lead your pipeline? Join 3,000+ practitioners to evaluate, compare, and decide. more →
ZDNET, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
The Third Major Linux Kernel Flaw In Two Weeks Has Been Found - Thanks To AI
AI-powered tools are discovering Linux kernel vulnerabilities faster than developers can patch them, with Fragnesia being the latest critical flaw. more →
ZDNET, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Linux Is Getting A Security Wake-Up Call - Why It Was Inevitable And I'm Not Worried
Linux vulnerabilities are rising due to increased popularity and AI-assisted hacking, but the kernel community is responding rapidly. more →
Its's FOSS, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux
Testing 8 LLMs on CPU-only machines shows that models up to 3-4B parameters can run usably with proper quantization. more →
Cloud Incident Response: Forensics in Distributed Environments
This webinar addresses the unique challenges of cloud forensics, including ephemeral resources, limited access to underlying infrastructure, and multi-tenant considerations. more →
How-To Geek, Saturday, May 16th, 2026
This Is How They Know You're Using a VPN
VPNs fail to hide their use despite masking IP addresses because shared IPs, browser data, DNS leaks, and behavioral patterns can expose users. 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 →
InformationWeek, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Workplace Equity in the Age of AI
AI solutions must be accessible to frontline employees to prevent recreating workplace equity gaps seen in early intranet adoption. more →
IDC, Friday, May 15th, 2026
The Human Skills Gap in the Age of Agentic AI
Organizations need human judgment and specific trainable skills to effectively work alongside AI agents. more →
AMD, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
AMD Expands AMD Ryzen PRO 9000 Series Processor Lineup
AMD announces new Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors with 3D V-Cache technology for commercial workstations. 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 →
Barracuda Networks Blog, Monday, May 11th, 2026
cPanel Authentication Bypass Exposes the Growing Risk of Identity Centric Attacks
CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass in cPanel enables remote admin access and highlights identity as the new attack surface. more →
Barracuda Networks Blog, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
How AI And Phishing-As-A-Service Are Changing The Email Threat Landscape
AI and phishing-as-a-service platforms are escalating email threats, with nearly half of malicious activity being phishing attacks. more →
Barracuda Networks Blog, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Barracuda Brings Automated Response To Your Inbox
Barracuda Managed XDR launches Automated Threat Response for email, enabling real-time containment of threats in Microsoft 365. more →
Barracuda Networks, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
The Mythos Hype Index: Is AI really changing vulnerability discovery?
A data-driven look at whether AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is delivering on its biggest promise more →
Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
How Sopartex got better protection and reduced IT overhead
A real-world transformation in cybersecurity for a lean, mobile workforc 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 →
DataRobot Blog, Monday, May 11th, 2026
From Planning to Action: SAP Enterprise Planning Enhanced by DataRobot
SAP and DataRobot enable real-time enterprise planning decisions through AI agents that sense, reason, and act on business disruptions in minutes. more →
DataRobot Blog, Monday, May 11th, 2026
A Playbook to Run an Agent Build Club
A guide to running Build Club, a weekly live-build session where employees improvise platform builds on screen for real-time feedback. more →
DDN, Monday, May 11th, 2026
What Anthropic's 80x Quarter Tells Enterprise IT Leaders About GPU Utilization
Anthropic's unexpected 80x growth reveals that enterprise AI infrastructure must prioritize data layer architecture to prevent GPU utilization collapse. more →
ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't. more →
OpenAI, Monday, May 11th, 2026
OpenAI Launches the OpenAI Deployment Company to Help Businesses Build Around Intelligence
OpenAI launches a new deployment company to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, acquiring Tomoro to bring 150 experienced engineers. more →
OpenAI, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
What Parameter Golf Taught Us
OpenAI shares lessons from Parameter Golf, an ML competition with 1,000+ participants that revealed how AI coding agents reshape ML research and experimentation. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Our Response to the TanStack npm Supply Chain Attack
OpenAI disclosed a TanStack npm supply chain attack but found no evidence of user data or product compromise. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Building A Safe, Effective Sandbox To Enable Codex On Windows
OpenAI developed a custom sandbox for Codex on Windows using SIDs and write-restricted tokens for safe, permission-controlled code execution. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Work with Codex from Anywhere
Codex is now available in the ChatGPT mobile app for managing AI-assisted work from anywhere. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Helping ChatGPT Better Recognize Context in Sensitive Conversations
OpenAI updates ChatGPT to better recognize contextual risk signals in sensitive conversations about self-harm and suicide. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
Idira - Our Journey to Democratize Privilege Controls
Since Palo Alto Networks and CyberArk came together in February, customers have been asking me the same question: What does the future of identity security actually look like? more →
Palo Alto Networks, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Rethinking Data Security in the AI Era
Since the arrival of digital transformation and cloud migration initiatives, security teams have been struggling to keep a lid on their data. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Over the past few weeks, we have reached a critical turning point in cybersecurity. Following the launch of our Frontier AI Defense initiative, we've continued testing the latest frontier models (including Anthropic's Mythos and Claude Opus 4.7, as well as OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber) as part of the Trusted Access for Cyber program.
With such a ticking clock in front of us, acting rapidly and at-scale to support our customers is paramount. Today, we exponentially grow our scale of delivery by expanding our Frontier AI Alliance. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
By now, you've heard about the latest frontier AI models that are remarkably good at finding vulnerabilities in code and creating potential exploits.
So good, in fact, that these models have been significantly limited from general use in an attempt to give defenders time to find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers find and exploit them. more →
Perplexity, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Perplexity Computer is an autonomous agent that writes and runs code, browses the web, and connects to external services to complete tasks on your behalf.
Perplexity Computer is an autonomous agent that writes and runs code, browses the web, and connects to external services to complete tasks on your behalf. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
Rapid7 Blog, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Final Countdown: Last Chance to Join the Rapid7 Global Cybersecurity Summit
Rapid7's 2026 Global Cybersecurity Summit on May 12-13 offers final registration for sessions on SOC operations, risk prioritization, and AI in security. more →
Rapid7, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Patch Tuesday - May 2026
Microsoft releases 137 vulnerabilities in May 2026 Patch Tuesday, including critical RCE flaws in Windows Netlogon and DNS Client. more →
Rapid7, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
CVE-2026-0265: Authentication Bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
Critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS affects firewalls and Panorama appliances with Cloud Authentication Service enabled. more →
Rapid7, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
CVE-2026-20182: Critical Authentication Bypass in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (FIXED)
Critical authentication bypass in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller vdaemon service allows remote unauthenticated attackers to gain privileged access. more →
Rapid7, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
When Network Controllers Become "God Mode" for Attackers
SD-WAN controllers create concentrated risk when designed for efficiency without adequate security controls. 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 →
SAP News Center, Friday, May 15th, 2026
The Path to the Autonomous Enterprise: SAP Announces New Sustainability AI Agents
SAP announces new sustainability AI agents for general availability by end of 2026 to automate compliance and environmental impact workflows. more →
SAP News Center, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Certification in the AI Era: From Knowledge to Capability
SAP redesigns its certification program to emphasize applied AI capabilities over traditional knowledge recall. more →
Tenable, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday Addresses 118 CVEs (CVE-2026-41103)
Microsoft released 118 CVE patches in May 2026 with 16 critical and 102 important vulnerabilities, with no zero-days exploited in the wild. more →
Tenable, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
CVE-2026-46300 (Fragnesia): Linux Kernel XFRM ESP-in-TCP LPE FAQ
Fragnesia is a new Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem with a public PoC and separate patch required. more →
Tenable, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
CVE-2026-20182: Cisco SD-WAN Active Exploitation
Critical Cisco SD-WAN vulnerabilities including CVE-2026-20182 are under active exploitation by multiple threat actors. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
Veeam Blog, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
What's New in Veeam Data Platform v13.1: Practitioner Takeaways from VeeamON 2026
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 expands hypervisor coverage, enhances cyber resilience, automates AD recovery, and introduces unified command platform. more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
