CIO, Monday, May 4th, 2026
AI Won't Fix Tech Talent Gaps - But YOU Can
AI hiring tools can't fix broken systems; CIOs must operationalize skills-first hiring through aligned infrastructure and clear accountability. more →
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Wednesday’s Briefing · May 13
TechTarget, Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
Buyer's Guide for CISOs: Cloud Security Posture Management
A comprehensive guide to CSPM tools that help organizations identify and mitigate cloud security misconfigurations and risks. more →
CIO Influence, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
CIO Influence Interview with Kyle Wickert, Field CTO at AlgoSec
Field CTO Kyle Wickert discusses evolving cybersecurity priorities, AI-driven IT transformation, and hybrid network security strategies. more →
CIO, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
CISOs Step Up to the Security Workforce Challenge
CISOs address critical cybersecurity skills shortages through training and strategic workforce planning. more →
TechTarget, Monday, May 4th, 2026
How Cyber Insurance Helped With Breach Recovery -- Or Not
Cyber insurance helps organizations recover from cyberattacks, but coverage gaps and unmet security requirements can leave companies fully exposed. more →
CIO, Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
How UKG Puts AI to Work for Frontline Employees
UKG's CIO discusses using agentic AI and voice agents to transform frontline worker experiences and democratize innovation. more →
InfoQ, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Leading Open Source Author Calls for Verification over Trust in Software Supply Chains
Daniel Stenberg advocates for software verification over trust in supply chains, citing curl's security practices. 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 →
The Register, Friday, May 8th, 2026
Custom PC Worked in the Lab, Failed on Site - and So Did the Angry Client
A technician is blamed for a PC malfunction that turns out to be caused by an unplugged network cable. more →
The Register, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Guessable Admin Password Exposes Sloppy Network Security
A CISO advisor successfully guessed a client's admin password by trying "rosebud" from Citizen Kane, highlighting poor password practices. more →
The Register, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Techie Botched the Last Thing They Did Before a Holiday
A council IT worker accidentally left an unauthorized DHCP server running on the network before taking a week off, causing chaos. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
AI for Security Infrastructure: Rebalancing Cybersecurity for the Decade Ahead
Domain-specific language models (DSLMs) mark a turning point for cybersecurity by shifting strategy from reactive "assume breach" defense to AI-driven prevention, empowering security architects to close misconfiguration gaps before they're exploited. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, May 9th, 2026
Are Magic Links Secure: A Technical Deep Dive Into Email Based Authentication
Magic links can be excellent passwordless authentication or catastrophic depending on implementation - their security hinges on token entropy, single-use enforcement, expiry, and a threat model that addresses the token, email channel, user device, and mailbox together, making them an upgrade over passwords but a downgrade from passkeys for sensitive applications. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 8th, 2026
Beyond Automation: A Dedicated DMARC Expert Support for Enterprise Teams
DMARC tools alone aren't enough - modern platforms can analyze authentication data and highlight issues, but enterprises still need dedicated DMARC experts to interpret findings, fix underlying problems, and safely move toward enforcement, with the right combination of platform and expert support enabling enforcement in roughly 55 days. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Defining AI-First Engineers and AI-Native Engineers: The New Talent Blueprint [Hiring in the AI Era (Part 2)]
The article highlights the critical shift in modern hiring toward "AI-First" engineers who use AI to amplify productivity and "AI-Native" engineers who design entire systems around AI execution, emphasizing a new talent blueprint focused on orchestration and critical judgment. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Fake Party Invites and the Rise of Social Phishing Attacks
Attackers are now impersonating invitation services to trick people into clicking malicious links and sharing sensitive information. These phishing attempts look like legitimate event invites, making them especially effective. In this episode, we discuss how these scams work and what steps you can take to stay protected. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Frameworks Don't Build Trust. Adoption Does
CSA extends its STAR assurance framework to AI, but agentic AI security vendors risk fragmenting the market by not adopting the standards themselves. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
AI Security vs AI Governance Explained
AI security and AI governance are often discussed as separate strategies, but that separation is exactly what creates risk - because governance defines rules without enforcing them, security enforces controls without identity context, and both fail without visibility into the OAuth connections and non-human identities where AI risk actually lives. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, May 9th, 2026
Best AI Governance Tools for Enterprises (2026)
AI governance has become one of the most crowded and misunderstood categories in security - most tools discover AI risk, few actually control it, and this Grip Security piece argues true enterprise governance requires discovery, risk assessment, and continuous identity-based enforcement together, not just visibility. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Securing the AI Stack: A Blueprint for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security
Traditional perimeter defense is dead in the era of autonomous AI agents - securing the AI stack now requires a complete mental reset built around MCP-aware deep context inspection, hybrid post-quantum cryptography, and policy-based controls that lock down agent intent rather than the whole infrastructure. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
The AI Vulnerability Storm Is Here. Is Your Security Program Breach Ready?
AI has collapsed mean time-to-exploit from 2.3 years in 2018 to under 20 hours in 2026 - and with defenders still operating at human speed, breach readiness through Zero Trust microsegmentation that shrinks blast radius (not faster patching) is now the only viable security posture. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, May 4th, 2026
The Shadow AI Governance Crisis: Why 80% of Fortune 500 Companies Have Already Lost Control of Their AI Infrastructure
This Deepak Gupta post (syndicated on Security Boulevard) opens with a Fortune 100 CISO's confession: "We spent three years building a Zero Trust architecture. We wrote policies for every system, every user, every access request. Then someone on the trading desk asked ChatGPT to summarize a client portfolio. more →
SecureWorld Threat Defense Virtual Conference
The conference brings together cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and solution providers to discuss emerging threats, defense strategies, AI integration, and cloud security, while offering opportunities to network and earn CPE credits. more →
InfoQ, Sunday, May 10th, 2026
MySQL 9.7: First Major LTS Since 8.4 Brings Enterprise Features to Community Edition
MySQL 9.7.0 LTS release brings enterprise features to the community edition with improved replication, Hypergraph optimizer, and security enhancements. 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 →
Contact Center Pipeline, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our May 2026 Issue
May 2026 issue explores security, compliance, and talent retention in contact centers. more →
Contact Center Pipeline Blog, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Is The Agentic AI Journey Worth the Drive?
Expert panel discusses how agentic AI is transforming contact center routing, automation, and customer interactions. more →
Contact Center Pipeline Blog, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Will AI Shrink the Contact Center?
AI should expand contact centers' strategic value rather than simply reduce headcount through automation. more →
Outlook for Data Security: Going From Reactive to Resilient
In this complimentary Gartner webinar, Gartner experts will explore the evolution to data-centric security, the role of AI-driven adaptive controls and the importance of aligning incident response with business continuity. more →
HR Dive, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
4 ways HR uses AI in hiring, according to talent professionals
Inefficient implementation, however, may be cutting into employers' ROI more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
CISO Shortage May Reflect Unrealistic Job Expectations
Report claims global CISO shortage, but interviews reveal hiring varies widely and job expansion may be the real issue. more →
HR Dive, Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
Employers 'still playing catch-up' on AI risk management, Littler report finds
Artificial intelligence topped organizational policy and regulation concerns for 2026, and more than half of respondents to the firm's report said they used the tech for HR functions. more →
Securing the Autonomous Enterprise: Discover, Govern, and Protect Non-Human Identities.
This technical briefing breaks down how to operationalize a unified security architecture to establish clarity and control over your autonomous ecosystem. more →
Help Net Security, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Claude Security Enters Public Beta With Opus 4.7 Vulnerability Scanning and Patching
Claude Security launches in public beta with AI-powered vulnerability scanning and patch generation for codebases. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenA
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 →
InfoQ, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Cloudflare Introduces Flagship: an Edge-Native Feature Flag Service Built on OpenFeature
Cloudflare launches Flagship, an edge-native feature flag service built on OpenFeature for sub-millisecond flag evaluation in Workers. more →
InfoQ, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Cloudflare Processes 10M+ Daily Insights with New Security Overview Dashboard
Cloudflare launches a revamped Security Overview dashboard that consolidates security signals into actionable insights. more →
CrowdStrike Newsroom, Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
CrowdStrike Advances Ecosystem Engagement into a Real-Time Growth Engine with New Mobile App
CrowdStrike launches Jet, a mobile app enabling partners to register deals, track progress, and receive instant rewards in real-time. more →
CrowdStrike, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
CrowdStrike Launches Falcon OverWatch for Defender
CrowdStrike announces Falcon OverWatch for Defender, extending managed threat hunting to Microsoft Defender environments. more →
CrowdStrike, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
CrowdStrike Expands Project QuiltWorks, the Cybersecurity Coalition for Securing Frontier AI Risk
CrowdStrike expands its Project QuiltWorks AI security coalition with eight new partners to address frontier AI risks at enterprise scale. more →
CrowdStrike, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch for Defender Extends Managed Threat Hunting to Microsoft Endpoint Customers
CrowdStrike launches Falcon OverWatch for Defender to provide managed threat hunting for Microsoft Defender customers. more →
CrowdStrike, Monday, May 4th, 2026
CrowdStrike Technical Risk Assessments Reveal Common Exposure Patterns
CrowdStrike's Technical Risk Assessments identify common exposure patterns in security controls across enterprises. more →
CIO, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Measuring AI-enabled Success: 3 KPIs CIOs Should Track
CIOs should track deployment velocity, employee adoption rates, and security prevention metrics to balance AI innovation with governance. more →
Micron Technology, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Industry-Leading 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
Micron announces availability of the 245TB Micron 6600 ION SSD, the world's highest capacity commercially available SSD for data centers. more →
Building a Secure AI Strategy for the Enterprise
This virtual event explores the implications of this new world order of AI agents joining the business, including AI discovery, governance, identity, and how to put in place the proper guardrails. more →
Okta, Friday, May 8th, 2026
How Customer Feedback Shaped Okta for AI Agents
Okta developed AI agent security controls through customer collaboration to provide visibility and governance. more →
Okta, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Okta For AI Agents: The Agent IdP For Any Identity Stack
Okta launches an agent identity provider to govern AI agents across enterprises without replacing existing identity infrastructure. more →
Okta, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Okta Ventures Unveils 2026 Identity 25 to Honor Pioneers Securing Identity in the Age of AI
Okta Ventures announces its third annual Identity 25 list recognizing 25 innovators leading digital identity security in the AI era. more →
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 →
ServiceNow Newsroom, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
ServiceNow Extends Agentic AI Governance From Desktops to Data Centers With NVIDIA
ServiceNow and NVIDIA expand AI governance partnership with Project Arc desktop agent and AI Control Tower integration. more →
ServiceNow Newsroom, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
ServiceNow Opens Its Full System of Action to Every AI Agent in the Enterprise
ServiceNow launches Action Fabric to enable any AI agent to execute governed enterprise workflows directly through an open Model Context Protocol Server. more →
ServiceNow Newsroom, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
ServiceNow Otto Creates the Unified AI Experience for the Enterprise
ServiceNow introduces Otto, a unified AI platform that completes work across enterprise systems and departments. more →
ServiceNow Newsroom, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
ServiceNow Turns Enterprise AI Chaos Into Control With the Platform for Governed, Autonomous Work
ServiceNow launches AI Control Tower and Otto platform to help enterprises govern and scale autonomous AI agents across workflows. more →
ServiceNow Newsroom, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
ServiceNow University Drives Career Growth With Real-Time Coaching and Simulation
ServiceNow launches AI Learning Guide and SimStudio to accelerate workforce development with personalized coaching and hands-on practice. more →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
