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Tuesday’s Briefing · January 13

Help Net Security, Monday, January 5th, 2026

Understanding AI Insider Risk Before It Becomes A Problem

In this Help Net Security video, Greg Pollock, Head of Research and Insights at UpGuard, discusses AI use inside organizations and the risks tied to insiders. He explains two problems. One involves employees who use AI tools to speed up work but share data with unapproved services. The other involves hostile actors who use AI to gain trusted roles inside companies. more →

Understanding AI Insider Risk Before It Becomes A Problem

The Hacker News, Friday, January 9th, 2026

Cybersecurity Predictions 2026: The Hype We Can Ignore (And The Risks We Can't)

As organizations plan for 2026, cybersecurity predictions are everywhere. Yet many strategies are still shaped by headlines and speculation rather than evidence. The real challenge isn't a lack of forecasts-it's identifying which predictions reflect real, emerging risks and which can safely be ignored. more →

Cybersecurity Predictions 2026: The Hype We Can Ignore (And The Risks We Can't)

The Hacker News, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

The Future Of Cybersecurity Includes Non-Human Employees

Non-human employees are becoming the future of cybersecurity, and enterprises need to prepare accordingly. As organizations scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud automation, there is exponential growth in Non-Human Identities (NHIs), including bots, AI agents, service accounts and automation scripts. more →

The Future Of Cybersecurity Includes Non-Human Employees

Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

The Boardroom Case For Penetration Testing

Cybersecurity risk is no longer an abstract concern relegated to IT teams, it is a material business risk that boards and senior leaders must actively manage.UK government research indicates that around 43% of businesses experienced a cyber security breach or attack in the past year, underlining how common these incidents have become across sector, from small business to large enterprises. more →

The Boardroom Case For Penetration Testing

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

The Role Of Behavioral Analytics In Enhancing Cybersecurity Defense

Behavioral analytics, or BA, is becoming increasingly useful in the world of cybersecurity. With cyberthreats ever-evolving and with businesses of all shapes and sizes striving to keep up, BA is helping companies future-proof their data, networks, and other assets with greater confidence more →

The Role Of Behavioral Analytics In Enhancing Cybersecurity Defense

Security Boulevard, Saturday, January 10th, 2026

Top 10 Privileged Access Management Solutions For 2026

Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions have moved from a compliance requirement to a front-line security control. As organizations expand across hybrid cloud, SaaS, DevOps pipelines, non-human identities, and now agentic AI, privileged access has become both more pervasive and more dangerous. more →

Top 10 Privileged Access Management Solutions For 2026

Techstrong.ai, Friday, January 9th, 2026

AI Chatbot Company Character.ai Settles Lawsuits Over Teen Deaths

Character.AI has agreed to settle multiple wrongful death lawsuits alleging the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots contributed to mental health crises and suicides among young users, marking a significant development in emerging legal battles over AI safety. more →

AI Chatbot Company Character.ai Settles Lawsuits Over Teen Deaths

Techstrong.ai, Friday, January 9th, 2026

Designing Infrastructure For The Agentic Enterprise

Companies everywhere, from big banks to new startups, are facing a major shift in technology as they work to transform into an agentic enterprise - an organization that uses AI agents to do work alongside humans. The main question on the minds of tech leaders isn't about choosing the right tools for today; it's about building systems that can change easily as AI keeps advancing. more →

Designing Infrastructure For The Agentic Enterprise

Techstrong.ai, Friday, January 9th, 2026

Want To Get The Most From Your AI Investments? Start Engineering For AI

By now, we've all seen the findings from the recent MIT report: 95 percent of AI pilots are failing to generate real value. This may come as a surprise to some, given the hype surrounding AI and the amount of talent, time, and money companies are pouring into the technology. more →

Want To Get The Most From Your AI Investments? Start Engineering For AI

Techstrong.ai, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

Architecting For Agent-To-Agent Communication And AI Protocols

As the tech community begins to standardize on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the primary way for AI agents to interact with digital tools, the next evolutionary step is already taking shape. The conversation is expanding from the critical task of an agent using a tool to a far more complex and powerful paradigm: Autonomous agents interacting with other autonomous agents. more →

Architecting For Agent-To-Agent Communication And AI Protocols

Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

Detecting And Mitigating Ai-Text Threats

Digital systems are evolving into autonomous ecosystems where humans are no longer the sole creators or interpreters of information. Modern AI models can now generate text, images, audio and video that mirror human communication with striking accuracy. This creates a new layer of risk: Convincing fake statements, forged documents, synthetic identities and manipulated confirmations that can blend into everyday digital activity without raising suspicion. more →

Detecting And Mitigating Ai-Text Threats

InfoQ, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

What Testers Can Do To Ensure Software Security

A secure software development life cycle means baking security into plan, design, build, test, and maintenance, rather than sprinkling it on at the end, Sara Martinez said in her talk Ensuring Software Security at Online TestConf. more →

What Testers Can Do To Ensure Software Security

AITHORITY, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

AI Is Changing The Rules Of Sales And Marketing

While marketing and sales operations differ across industries, how these functions can be transformed with AI support has become a shared topic across sectors. This shift is no longer limited to digital businesses, retail, or banking; industrial, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical companies are now re-evaluating their marketing and sales operations as well. more →

AI Is Changing The Rules Of Sales And Marketing

Destination CRM, Friday, January 9th, 2026

AI Agents Poised To Reshape Sales, Gartner Says

By 2028, artificial intelligence agents will outnumber human sellers by tenfold, but less than 40 percent of sellers will report that AI agents have improved their productivity, according to Gartner. more →

AI Agents Poised To Reshape Sales, Gartner Says

Fortinet, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

Reimagining AI From A Security Risk Into An Asset With Fortinet

Enterprises that move toward broad AI adoption often discover that, in spite of various benefits, it also introduces new security challenges. At AI Field Day 7, Fortinet presented a clear assessment of those risks and demonstrated how the Fortinet Security Fabric and FortiAI Assist can support secure deployment of AI systems. more →

Reimagining AI From A Security Risk Into An Asset With Fortinet

Upcoming Event · Mon, Sep 21 · 1:00pm

Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure

Kubernetes has become the universal control plane for modern infrastructure - and now AI is accelerating that evolution. As organizations adopt AI native architectures, scale model training and inference, and push toward more autonomous operations, Kubernetes is emerging as the backbone for running intelligent, distributed systems at scale. more →

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Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure (Sept. 21st)

Red Hat, Friday, January 9th, 2026

Friday Five - January 9, 2026

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your we ekly digest of things that caught our eye. more →

Friday Five - January 9, 2026

Red Hat, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

Navigating Secure AI Deployment: Architecture For Enhancing AI System Security And Safety

In the previous articles, we discussed how integrating AI into business-critical systems opens up enterprises to a new set of risks with AI security and AI safety [link], and explored the evolving AI security and safety threat landscape, drawing from leading frameworks such as MITRE ATLAS, NIST, OWASP, and others [link]. In this article, we'll examine the architectural considerations for deploying AI systems that are both secure and safe. more →

Navigating Secure AI Deployment: Architecture For Enhancing AI System Security And Safety

Red Hat, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console: Your Questions Answered

Managing a hybrid environment can feel like a balancing act between disparate sets of fragmented tools used for all the different platforms you interact with. If that sounds familiar, then your team needs integrated management across your diverse hybrid infrastructure. more →

Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console: Your Questions Answered

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 8 · 2:00pm

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 →

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Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth (Oct. 8th)