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Wednesday’s Briefing · January 14

CIO, Monday, January 5th, 2026

9 IT Resolutions For 2026

From further weaving AI agents into workflows and teams to fostering greater digital and AI fluency across the workforce, CIOs share their plans for elevating their IT organizations in the year ahead. more →

9 IT Resolutions For 2026

The Hacker News, Monday, January 5th, 2026

The State Of Cybersecurity In 2025: Key Segments, Insights, And Innovations

Cybersecurity is being reshaped by forces that extend beyond individual threats or tools. As organizations operate across cloud infrastructure, distributed endpoints, and complex supply chains, security has shifted from a collection of point solutions to a question of architecture, trust, and execution speed. more →

The State Of Cybersecurity In 2025: Key Segments, Insights, And Innovations

VentureBeat, Friday, January 9th, 2026

The 11 Runtime Attacks Breaking AI Security - And How CISO s Are Stopping Them

Enterprise security teams are losing ground to AI-enabled attacks - not because defenses are weak, but because the threat model has shifted. As AI agents move into production, attackers are exploiting runtime weaknesses where breakout times are measured in seconds, patch windows in hours, and traditional security has little visibility or control. more →

The 11 Runtime Attacks Breaking AI Security - And How CISO s Are Stopping Them

Security Boulevard, Monday, January 5th, 2026

What Is A Passkey For Account Login?

Ever wonder how your phone stays logged into Spotify without asking for a password every five minutes? It's usually a bearer token doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes. more →

What Is A Passkey For Account Login?

Security Boulevard, Saturday, January 10th, 2026

What Is Application Security Testing? Detail Explanation

Your organization, the industrial domain you survive on, and almost everything you deal with rely on software applications. Be it banking portals, healthcare systems, or any other, securing those applications is paramount. more →

What Is Application Security Testing? Detail Explanation

Security Boulevard, Monday, January 5th, 2026

What Is Stealc Malware?

Stealc malware is an advanced information-stealing malware (infostealer) designed to secretly collect sensitive data from infected systems. Its primary focus is on web browsers, where it extracts saved passwords, cookies, autofill data, and session information. more →

What Is Stealc Malware?

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 9th, 2026

AI Deception Is Here: What Security Teams Must Do Now

Recent research shows that deception can emerge instrumentally in goal-directed AI agents. This means deception can arise as a side effect of goal-seeking, persisting even after safety training and often surfacing in multi-agent settings. In controlled studies, systems like Meta's CICERO demonstrated the capacity to use persuasion and, at times, misleading strategies in order to optimize outcomes. more →

AI Deception Is Here: What Security Teams Must Do Now

Techstrong.ai, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

Enter The Age Of Agentic CX: What Enterprises Must Prepare For

Customer expectations are rising at a pace most organizations can't keep up with. Customers now expect instant answers, zero-delay resolutions and consistent experiences across every channel. Yet, most CX environments still rely on fragmented systems, manual interventions and chatbots that merely 'respond', not 'resolve'.  more →

Enter The Age Of Agentic CX: What Enterprises Must Prepare For

Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

Evolving at the Speed of AI: How a CAIO Gauges Success and Educates the C-Suite

TL;DR: The 95% AI failure rate is misleading. CAIOs should reframe experiments as learning opportunities, focus on talent density over headcount, and address security risks before they become existential threats. The real challenge isn't adoption; it's managing velocity while preventing prompt injection attacks and workslop from derailing product-market fit. more →

Evolving at the Speed of AI: How a CAIO Gauges Success and Educates the C-Suite

Techstrong.ai, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

What Exactly Are These New AI Jobs, Anyway?

If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say, 'AI is going to take my job,' I would be well on my way to funding my own AI factory (who am I kidding, AI Factories are too expensive and I am not sure they will be profitable anyway). Almost as predictably though is what you hear immediately after that, the industry's favorite counter-mantra: 'Don't worry. AI is going to create many more jobs than it eliminates.' more →

What Exactly Are These New AI Jobs, Anyway?

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)

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

Why Data Sanitization Should Happen At The Enterprise-Before Assets Leave The Building

Data protection is critical in business partnerships, particularly when handling IT asset disposition and decommissioning. Increasingly, technology partners, such as IT asset disposition (ITAD) companies, are reluctant to take ownership of previously deployed devices that may still contain sensitive data, fearing potential liability if a breach occurs. more →

Why Data Sanitization Should Happen At The Enterprise-Before Assets Leave The Building

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

A Year After The Linux Lockdown, Has Anything Really Changed?

Just over a year ago, Red Hat made the decision to remove broad access to one of the most trusted Linux source code repositories. It wasn't a security failure or a technical breakdown, but it did mark a turning point for enterprise open source. more →

A Year After The Linux Lockdown, Has Anything Really Changed?

Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

AWS Boosts Prices On High-End GPU Capacity Block

Amazon Web Services has implemented a roughly 15% price increase on some of its most powerful GPU-based EC2 Capacity Block instances, a move that will ripple through enterprise machine learning budgets and may even cause concerns about the future direction of cloud pricing. more →

AWS Boosts Prices On High-End GPU Capacity Block

Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 9th, 2026

Multi-Cloud Strategies For Enhanced Business Agility

Adopting a multi-cloud approach is an imperative for organizations in today's fast-paced competitive environment to boost their business agility. A multi-cloud strategy is defined as one in which an organization depends on multiple cloud vendors or providers. more →

Multi-Cloud Strategies For Enhanced Business Agility

Techstrong.IT, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

AI Runs On Speed, But Scales On Data - And Lots Of It

AI continues to reshape infrastructure priorities, driving conversations about how organizations can meet the compute and performance needs of these increasingly powerful applications. However, behind every breakthrough model lies a hidden and growing challenge - storing the massive volumes of unstructured data that AI needs, consumes and creates. more →

AI Runs On Speed, But Scales On Data - And Lots Of It

telecompetitor, Friday, January 9th, 2026

Telecom Ceos Expect A Positive ROI On AI In Three Years

A KPMG report found that 84% of telecommunications CEOs expect a positive return on investment (ROI) on artificial intelligence (AI) within three years, including 22% who anticipate an ROI in a year or less. more →

Telecom Ceos Expect A Positive ROI On AI In Three Years

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Upcoming IT Webinars

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Upcoming IT Webinars

Tech Field Day, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

2026 Is A Bright Year For HPE And Juniper

2025 was a big year for both HPE and Juniper, but 2026 is the year when the real integration starts. In this episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by wireless experts Jonathan Davis and Keith Parsons as they look at the acquisition of Juniper Networks by HPE and what the future holds for the new combined company. more →

2026 Is A Bright Year For HPE And Juniper

Upcoming Event · Thu, Sep 24 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes (Sept. 24th)

Symantec, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

All The Single Agents

Exposed endpoints? That's gonna cost you. Big. Your laptop may seem innocent sitting at your desk, covered in stickers from your last trip, but it's a loaded weapon. more →

All The Single Agents

Tierpoint, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

What Is Cloud TCO? How to Calculate Total Cost of Ownership

Moving your workloads to the cloud can come with a wide array of improvements. Flexibility, scalability, efficiency, and innovation can all be aided by the cloud. However, if a team isn't mindful of the resources they're using, the total cost of cloud computing can become unmanageable. more →

What Is Cloud TCO? How to Calculate Total Cost of Ownership

Veeam, Monday, January 5th, 2026

Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Frameworks, Risks, And Resilience Strategies

Critical infrastructure cybersecurity protects the essential systems that keep society running: Power grids, water treatment plants, hospitals, transportation networks, and communications. These environments face constant threats from ransomware groups and state‑sponsored attackers seeking to disrupt operations or test national defenses. more →

Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Frameworks, Risks, And Resilience Strategies

Veeam, Thursday, January 8th, 2026

Why Kubernetes Security, Compliance, And Observability Need A New Mindset

Kubernetes is everywhere; it's the de facto orchestration layer for modern infrastructure. Thanks to its scalability, declarative management, and ability to dynamically allocate resources across heterogeneous environments, Kubernetes powers everything from cloud-native applications to virtual machines (VMs) and AI. more →

Why Kubernetes Security, Compliance, And Observability Need A New Mindset

Veeam, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026

Top Security Awareness Training Topics Every Company Should Cover

When employees understand how attackers think, they become your first line of defense, not your weakest link. Yet, for many organizations, security awareness training has turned into a compliance checkbox rather than a meaningful exercise in risk reduction. more →

Top Security Awareness Training Topics Every Company Should Cover

Veeam, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

Migrating VMware to OpenShift: Some Practical Guidance and Best Practices

Migrating and/or replatforming can be intimidating. And for good reason - there are often many complex and disparate systems with varying levels of tech debt, multiple teams, stakeholders, and business units involved. They need to be consulted, assist with pre- and post-migration activities, and often have aggressive timelines with little flexibility in terms of downtime or maintenance windows. more →

Migrating VMware to OpenShift: Some Practical Guidance and Best Practices