Cisco, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Cisco Rethinks Privileged Infrastructure Access
Cisco introduces Privileged Infrastructure Access, using identity-bound, short-lived privileges for admins and AI agents on networks. more → · 76 clicks
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Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Defenders Need More Time to Patch with the Influx of Patching Hitting Operations
Cisco pitches Live Protect and Snort-based virtual patching on Secure Firewall to reduce exposure while critical patches are applied. more → · 76 clicks
Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
A Shared Language for Agent Defense: Introducing Project Quarry
Cisco open sources Project Quarry, a detection language for describing and finding multi-step attacks against AI agents across full session traces. more → · 71 clicks
Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Cisco IT's Endpoint Observability Strategy: Right-Sized Telemetry for Splunk Observability Cloud
Cisco IT cut endpoint telemetry volume by 75% using a right-sized observability approach in Splunk Observability Cloud. more → · 69 clicks
Cisco, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Introducing Cisco Model Foundry: Bringing AI to Our Partners
Cisco unveils Model Foundry at Partner Summit, letting partners use and fine-tune Cisco's networking and security AI models. more → · 68 clicks
The Register, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Cisco Open Sources Tool for Detecting AI Agents on Hacking Sprees
Cisco open sources Project Quarry, a rule-based engine that evaluates whole AI agent sessions to detect malicious behavior. more → · 68 clicks
OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
An Updated Model Spec for More Capable and Beneficial AI
OpenAI reorganizes its Model Spec around five core values, adds guidance on context and human agency, and retires most style rules. more → · 84 clicks
OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Credit Saison Achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise Pilot
Japanese card issuer Credit Saison reports 954% ROI from a 315-person ChatGPT Enterprise pilot, then rolled it out companywide. more → · 76 clicks
OpenAI, Monday, October 26th, 2026
How Ultrafast Cut Incident Investigation From Hours to Minutes at OpenAI
Ultrafast is a high-speed mode in Codex, and for engineers at OpenAI, it's become the default for incident response. more → · 72 clicks
OpenAI, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra
Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use alongside clearer, more natural writing. more → · 69 clicks
OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
How Ropes & Gray Is Developing AI for Transactional Diligence
Law firm Ropes & Gray is building a transactional diligence AI tool with OpenAI that takes a first pass through deal data rooms. more → · 69 clicks
Prompt Injection 101: What It Is and How to Stay Ahead
Join Javvad Malik, Lead CISO Advisor at KnowBe4, and Jack Chapman, SVP Threat Intelligence at KnowBe4, for a walk through both attack paths, direct and indirect prompt injection, and what changes when you start treating your AI agent like a new colleague instead of a piece of software. more →
The New Stack, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Why MCP Servers Should Tell Agents What to Do Next
AWS's James Ward says MCP servers should guide agents on next steps and carry session IDs so teams can trace and improve agent journeys. more → · 229 clicks
AWS, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
AWS IAM Identity Center's Identity Store Now Supports Change Notifications Through Amazon EventBridge
IAM Identity Center's Identity Store now sends real-time change events to Amazon EventBridge for users, groups and memberships. more → · 70 clicks
Cyera, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
A Guide to Data Leak Prevention in 2026
Cyera guide to data leak prevention in 2026 argues data classification must come before DLP rules, especially with AI agents. more → · 83 clicks
Cyera, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Patient Data Visibility: The Cost of Blind Spots
Cyera argues hospitals should locate and clean up patient data to cut storage costs, meet HIPAA audits, and control access by people and AI. more → · 71 clicks
Cyera, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Your Legal Team Ships Software Now. Are You Ready?
Cyera says domain experts now build software with AI, and organizations should give them a secure path rather than ban them. more → · 69 clicks
Cyera, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
The Shadow AI Governance Gap
Cyera says the shadow AI governance gap is a definition problem spanning five AI types that no single tool can see. more → · 68 clicks
Arm, Friday, October 30th, 2026
From AI Models to Deployment: Five Developer Takeaways Shaping the Future of AI
Arm lists five developer takeaways from fall 2026 AI events, from model optimization and agentic AI to deployment across cloud and edge. more → · 77 clicks
Arm, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Agentic AI Explained: How Agentic AI Changes Computing From Cloud to Edge
Arm argues agentic AI is a system-level challenge requiring coordinated memory, software, and compute from cloud to edge devices. more → · 75 clicks
Google, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon: Our Next Frontier Model
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with strong cybersecurity benchmark results. more → · 70 clicks
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
7 Free Google Courses and Certifications
Analytics Insight lists seven free Google courses and certifications covering analytics, ads, generative AI, cloud, education and development. more → · 69 clicks
SentinelOne, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
LABScon26 Replay - Keynote: A Sober Analysis of AI Impact
SentinelOne posts the LABScon26 keynote in which Harvard's James Mickens questions AI investment and proposes hardware isolation for frontier models. more → · 89 clicks
Platform Engineering Meets AI: The New Developer Experience
Techstrong Learning webinar on how AI is reshaping platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and developer experience. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Claude Haiku 5.5: New Features, Pricing and Efficient AI Workflows
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 adds a one million token context, adjustable effort levels and lower pricing than Haiku 4.5. more → · 84 clicks
Fluid Management in the AI Era
As liquid cooling adoption accelerates, operators are learning what it takes to support performance and reliability across growing deployments. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Introducing the Microsoft Copilot Harness in Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft puts the Copilot harness in public preview in Foundry Agent Service and makes long-running resilience for hosted agents GA. more → · 75 clicks
Your IoT Devices Are Talking. Do You Know Who To?
IoT Now webinar with Aeris, Orange Business, Transforma Insights and ZF SCALAR on managed IoT connectivity, roaming, eSIM and NIS2. more →
Commvault, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Recovery Starts With Visibility
Commvault's ResOps series explains why recovery depends on visibility into critical services, impact tolerances and dependencies. more → · 72 clicks
Database Security in the Age of AI: Closing Gaps Before Attackers Exploit Them
Nutanix-sponsored Redmond webcast on using Nutanix Database Service to close database patching gaps, with speakers from Alinma Bank. more →
Tierpoint, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
How to Manage Third-Party Security Risks in Your Ecosystem
Tierpoint outlines how to assess, contract for and continuously monitor vendors, citing Verizon DBIR data that third parties are in 48% of breaches. more → · 72 clicks
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 →
Arctic Wolf Networks, Monday, October 26th, 2026
PHP2Shell Is a Wake-Up Call for Every Business Leader
Arctic Wolf uses the PHP2Shell flaws to argue AI is shrinking time to exploit and leaders must invest in security basics. more → · 69 clicks
How to Harness your Security Operations Data for Enterprise Defense
In this webinar, experts discuss ways to effectively collect and analyze large amounts of security data, enabling you to surface the threat and quickly gather the necessary information to defend your enterprise. Learn how to automate data analysis to identify and block threats more quickly. more →
Databricks, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Building Live Intelligence: Databricks AI Search Supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed Tables Using Iceberg
Databricks AI Search now natively indexes Streaming Tables, Materialized Views and Managed Iceberg tables alongside Delta. more → · 69 clicks
From Demo to Production: Orchestrating Governed AI Pipelines with Amazon Bedrock and Control-M
BMC and AWS webinar on November 19 shows how Control-M and Amazon Bedrock build governed, auditable AI pipelines. more →
The New Stack, Monday, October 26th, 2026
The Sandbox Wasn't Enough: Why AI Agent Governance Requires Runtime Observability
A ClickHouse-sponsored New Stack piece argues AI agent sandboxes need runtime observability that can detect and stop agents before harm spreads. more → · 68 clicks
The Future of Cloud in 2031: Harnessing the Combination of AI and Cloud
Gartner's David Mitchell Smith looks at how the convergence of AI and cloud will shape technology strategy through 2031. more →
F5, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Security Culture Is a Team Sport, and AI Is Raising the Stakes
F5 CISO Christopher Burger says security culture depends on engaged people and that AI is compressing the time to identify risks. more → · 68 clicks
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A live demo of creating and posting LinkedIn newsletters with 12touches.com content. Free on Zoom every Tuesday at noon Eastern, same link every week, no signup. more →
