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Monday’s Briefing · April 13

FutureCIO, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026

Reducing Software Maintenance Costs With AI

Software maintenance is often overlooked, yet it remains the backbone of stability for enterprise systems. Software maintenance, as defined by Gartner, involves updating software, adding new functions, fixing bugs and solving problems. When deprioritised, organisations expose themselves to unnecessary risks, such as cyber threats, system outages, and costly emergency fixes. more →

Reducing Software Maintenance Costs With AI

LevelAct, Monday, April 6th, 2026

AI Security Risks 2026: What Every Company Must Fix Now

AI security risks 2026 are rapidly becoming one of the biggest threats to modern businesses. As organizations deploy AI across cloud platforms, DevOps pipelines, and enterprise applications, attackers are exploiting weak configurations, unsecured models, and vulnerable integrations. more →

AI Security Risks 2026: What Every Company Must Fix Now

The CTO Advisor, Friday, April 10th, 2026

Case Study: Decision Authority Drift In An AI-Assisted Writing Workflow

This case study examines Decision Authority Drift, a failure mode where AI models implicitly assume control over unassigned tasks. Using the Decision Authority Placement Model (DAPM), it outlines how to re-establish governance when increased model capability creates a mismatch between system behavior and system intent. more →

Case Study: Decision Authority Drift In An AI-Assisted Writing Workflow

Forrester, Monday, April 6th, 2026

Stop Calling IT Debt - It's A Liability

Enterprise IT runs on billions of dollars of implicit risk, yet most organizations still manage it with deterministic spreadsheets and gut‑feel prioritization. Murray Cantor - PhD mathematician, defense systems architect, and veteran of IBM's most successful high‑risk projects - thinks there's a better way. more →

Stop Calling IT Debt - It's A Liability

Help Net Security, Monday, April 6th, 2026

CISOs Grapple With AI Demands Within Flat Budgets

Security spending continues to edge upward across large organizations, though the changes remain gradual and tightly managed. The 2026 RH-ISAC CISO Benchmark reflects a steady environment where budgets expand in small steps, even as AI becomes a routine part of security operations. more →

CISOs Grapple With AI Demands Within Flat Budgets

The Register, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

The Developer Who Came In From The Cold And Melted A Mainframe

The world is rapidly becoming a more uncertain place, but The Register tries to offer readers one small point of certainty by always delivering a fresh Monday morning instalment of "Who, Me?" - the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your errors and elucidate your escapes. more →

The Developer Who Came In From The Cold And Melted A Mainframe

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Legacy Systems Are Undermining Financial Institution Cybersecurity

Most banks struggle to adopt new digital solutions because of their legacy infrastructure. As cybercriminals follow the money, financial institutions have become prime targets. Another major incentive for attackers is the vast amount of data banks store. more →

Legacy Systems Are Undermining Financial Institution Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 9th, 2026

Mythos: Just One Piece Of The Cybersecurity Puzzle

Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos, is being framed as a 'cybersecurity reckoning.' And yes, it's probably impressive. (We'll have to wait and see once it's broadly available.) But it's also missing the point. more →

Mythos: Just One Piece Of The Cybersecurity Puzzle

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Top Cloud Privileged Access Management Best Practices To Prevent Privilege Abuse

Privileged access abuse is behind most major cloud breaches. And it's not always a sophisticated attacker - sometimes it's a misconfigured service account that nobody reviewed in two years, or an IAM role inherited from an acquisition that was never cleaned up. The access was sitting there ungoverned and waiting. more →

Top Cloud Privileged Access Management Best Practices To Prevent Privilege Abuse

Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 9th, 2026

How Are NHIs Supported In Complex IT Architectures

Have you ever wondered how organizations maintain secure environments where complex IT architectures, especially when it comes to non-human identities (NHIs)? With machine identities become increasingly essential in automating processes and facilitating seamless communication between systems, their management is critical to maintaining robust cybersecurity frameworks. more →

How Are NHIs Supported In Complex IT Architectures

Security Boulevard, Monday, April 6th, 2026

How Can Agentic AI Keep You Ahead Of Cyber Threat

Have you ever thought about the silent guardians of your organization's data? While human cybersecurity professionals are pivotal, Non-Human Identities (NHIs) form an equally vital part of cybersecurity arsenal. They are the machine identities that operate behind the scenes, ensuring that data protection is not just proactive but also adaptive. more →

How Can Agentic AI Keep You Ahead Of Cyber Threat

Security Boulevard, Monday, April 6th, 2026

How Smart Are NHIs In Managing Complex Tasks

Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are playing a pivotal role in not just safeguarding digital assets but also in managing intricate tasks. But how exactly can these smart NHIs transform complex task management, especially in cloud environments? more →

How Smart Are NHIs In Managing Complex Tasks

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026

What Security Innovations Do NHIs Herald

Where machine identities outnumber human ones, how efficiently are you managing your Non-Human Identities (NHIs)? When organizations rapidly adopt cloud environments to enhance operational efficiency, the need for robust NHI management has never been more critical. NHIs-often in machine identities-are pivotal in ensuring seamless and secure operations across various networks. more →

What Security Innovations Do NHIs Herald

The Next Platform, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Broadcom And Google Benefit Mightily From Anthropic's Meteoric Growth

For so many years, the hyperscalers and cloud builders have dominated IT spending and much of the talk about system architecture. But the AI model builders, particularly Anthropic and OpenAI, are now their peers when it comes to massive infrastructure investments, and what they do - and do not do - also shapes the AI landscape. more →

Broadcom And Google Benefit Mightily From Anthropic's Meteoric Growth

Upcoming Event · Wed, Sep 30 · 11:00am

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 →

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AI Is Ready. Is Your Data? (Sept. 30th)

F5, Saturday, April 11th, 2026

Announcing F5 Insight For ADSP: Answering Six Critical Questions

Diverse operating environments and distributed apps have become commonplace. If you're like 94% of respondents to the F5 2025 State of Application Strategy Report, you operate applications in a hybrid multicloud deployment model that can include a mix of on-premises data centers, co-location facilities, and a median of four public cloud vendors-resulting in significant complexity and visibility gaps. more →

Announcing F5 Insight For ADSP: Answering Six Critical Questions

F5, Thursday, April 9th, 2026

CrowdStrike + F5: Extending Detection And Response To The Network Layer

Cybersecurity is most effective when partners work together. At CrowdStrike, we believe strong technology alliances are essential to helping customers reduce blind spots, extend protection across environments, and stop breaches faster. That belief is central to how we approach our ecosystem-and it's at the core of our partnership with F5. more →

CrowdStrike + F5: Extending Detection And Response To The Network Layer

F5, Monday, April 6th, 2026

30 Years At The Application Layer

In 1997, most people running web infrastructure were patching solutions together in real time. Traffic spikes took sites down. Servers got added manually when capacity ran out, which was usually too late. The question was never whether the web would grow. It was whether the infrastructure underneath it could keep up. more →

30 Years At The Application Layer

Fortinet, Friday, April 10th, 2026

Shadow AI: The Invisible Risk Growing Inside Your Organization

AI adoption is accelerating throughout the enterprise, and it is increasingly being used outside formal controls and approved workflows. Employees utilize publicly available generative AI (GenAI) tools to write code, summarize documents, analyze data, and automate routine tasks, often through browsers or personal accounts. more →

Shadow AI: The Invisible Risk Growing Inside Your Organization

Fortinet, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

When Cybercrime Becomes An Industry

Cybercrime is no longer a fringe activity carried out by isolated actors. Today, it has evolved into a mature, scalable business model that operates across borders, targets every sector of society, and exploits the speed and reach of the internet. more →

When Cybercrime Becomes An Industry

Upcoming Event · Wed, Oct 14 · 11:00am

Modernize for the AI Era

Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. more →

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Modernize for the AI Era (Oct. 14th)

Security Boulevard, Monday, April 6th, 2026

Protecting Your Data With Veeam

The days of using backup as a simple 'set it and forget it' insurance policy are officially over. If you're still treating your secondary storage like a digital attic where you shove old boxes and hope for the best, you are operating on borrowed time. Veeam's 2026 strategic shift makes one thing very clear: they've moved past being a mere recovery company. more →

Protecting Your Data With Veeam

veeam, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Veeam Ransomware Detection Service: AI That Proactively Detects Attacks

Ransomware attacks in 2024-2025 have become far more deliberate. Attackers often spend time stealing credentials, moving laterally, and exfiltrating data before triggering encryption. When the payload finally runs, many variants use intermittent or selective encryption, encrypting only portions of files or skipping large data segments, to disguise activity and accelerate impact. Because of this, detections that rely solely on sudden resource spikes can miss early warning signs, leaving organizations unaware until recovery becomes impossible. more →

Veeam Ransomware Detection Service: AI That Proactively Detects Attacks