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Tech Industry Leaders Provide 2026 Predictions And Insights
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Security Boulevard, December 10,2025
Gartner's AI Browser Ban: Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic
The cybersecurity world loves a simple solution to a complex problem, and Gartner delivered exactly that with its recent advisory: 'Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future.' more →
Security Boulevard, December 11,2025
Hong Kong's New Critical Infrastructure Ordinance Will Be Effective By 1 January 2026 - What CIOs Need To Know
As the clock ticks down to the full enforcement of Hong Kong's Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Ordinance on January 1, 2026, designated operators of Critical Infrastructures (CI) and Critical Computer Systems (CCS) must act decisively. more →
The CTO Advisor, December 12,2025
Before You Build A Private Cloud, Ask This One Question
Most private cloud initiatives don't fail because of bad architecture. They fail because the organization was never ready to operate one. more →
CIO, December 8,2025
Why Cyber Resilience Must Be Strategic, Not A Side Project
Forget siloed security! Top CIOs are now "resilience architects" who embed cyber preparedness and ethical AI into the entire business strategy to win. more →
CIO, December 12,2025
Analytics Capability: The New Differentiator For Modern CIOs
Great analytics isn't about tools - it's about building the capability to turn data into decisions, powered by leaders, translators and strong communication. more →
Help Net Security, December 11,2025
40 Open-Source Tools Redefining How Security Teams Secure The Stack
Open source security software has become a key way for teams to get flexibility, transparency, and capability without licensing costs. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
techradar.pro, December 10,2025
Smishing's Evolution: From Consumer Scam To Enterprise Threat - How Industry Is Fighting Back
Law enforcement organizations across Europe, Asia and South America are warning of a surge in criminals using so-called 'SMS Blasters' - portable devices that can send thousands of fake SMS, bypassing network protections entirely. more →
Search Security, December 10,2025
Beyond the SBOM: What CISOs should know about CBOMs and HBOMs
SBOMs, CBOMs and HBOMS -- oh my! Learn how these bills of materials help manage supply chain risk and assess which of the three your organization needs. more →
Security Boulevard, December 11,2025
Guided Redaction In Tonic Textual: Human-Precision, Streamlined By AI
Across government teams, legal departments, and highly regulated industries like healthcare and banking, redaction workflows have remained stubbornly manual even as AI transforms how sensitive information is detected. more →
Security Boulevard, December 12,2025
How Do Secrets Rotations Drive Innovations In Security?
Are you familiar with the virtual tourists navigating your digital right now? These tourists, known as Non-Human Identities (NHIs), are machine identities pivotal in computer security, especially within cloud environments. more →
Security Boulevard, December 11,2025
How Does Staying Ahead With NHIDR Impact Your Business?
What role do Non-Human Identity and Secrets Security Management (NHIDR) play in safeguarding your organization's digital assets? more →
Security Boulevard, December 12,2025
How Secure Is Your Password? It Could Be Cracked Within An Hour
A significant portion of cyber breaches begin with one simple issue: weak passwords. With modern cracking tools capable of testing billions of combinations per second, many passwords that users consider 'strong' can be compromised in minutes - sometimes even faster. more →
Security Boulevard, December 11,2025
Identity Management In The Fragmented Digital Ecosystem: Challenges And Frameworks
Modern internet users navigate an increasingly fragmented digital ecosystem dominated by countless applications, services, brands and platforms. Engaging with online offerings often requires selecting and remembering passwords or taking other steps to verify and protect one's identity. However, following best practices has become incredibly challenging due to various factors. more →
Security Boulevard, December 11,2025
Is Facial Recognition Classified As A Passkey?
API testing: it's kinda a big deal, right? But are you sure your tests are really doing what you think they are? Unit and characterization tests are two strategies that get used a lot; but honestly, folks mix them up all the time. more →
Techstrong.ai, December 10,2025
Innovation vs. Infrastructure: AI's Growing Demand for Power
The scale of AI deployment and investment over the past two years has been astonishing. Despite concerns of a bubble and environmental questions, the potential for further innovation and economic growth from AI remains outstanding as we enter 2026. more →
Techstrong.ai, December 10,2025
How AI Is Rewriting The Role Of Finance Teams
In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights interview, Mike Lynch, principal for artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and transformation for Auditoria.AI, explains how the role of finance teams is evolving as more rote tasks are automated. more →
Techstrong.ai, December 10,2025
Why 95% Of AI Projects Fail - And How Better Data Architectures Change The Odds
In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights video, Boris Bialek, vice president and global field CTO for Industries at MongoDB, dives into the some of the example of successful artificial intelligence (AI) projects that can be found in the newly published book, "Architectures for the Intelligent AI-Ready Enterprise: Building real-world solutions with MongoDB". more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
The Next Platform, December 10,2025
Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant
We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work. 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 →
IoTNOW, December 8,2025
Is Global Cellular IoT Connectivity Ready For The Made-For-IoT Era?
A new buzz around telecoms was visible at this year's MWC Barcelona as mobile operators relish AI workloads, low latency use cases that demand 5G performance and the promise of new profits and partnerships. IoT connectivity is a big part of the enthusiasm but operators haven't kept up with the demands of the market and others have innovated to fill the gaps and deliver simple, global cellular IoT connectivity, writes George Malim. more →
IoTNOW, December 8,2025
Telcos & AI : Ride The Wave Or Risk Wipe-Out?
AI is reshaping telecoms faster than any previous technology shift, and the stakes have never been higher. more →
RCR Wireless News, December 12,2025
Next Wireless And Telecom Growth Wave Approaching, Driven By AI (Analyst Angle)
As artificial intelligence dominates headlines, boardrooms, and investor conversations, I am increasingly invited into senior-level discussions as companies try to understand what this fast-moving technology means for their future. more →
Build and Automate Your Infrastructure with Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
This webinar focuses on deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) within Microsoft Azure, utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for scalable, cross-domain infrastructure automation. more →
Contact Center Pipeline, December 12,2025
Why Contact Centers Can't Afford To Wait
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a detailed piece on AI voice agents poised to revolutionize customer service. The article paints a picture of rapid advancements in voice AI, companies using virtual agents to handle high call volumes, investors pouring billions into the space, and technology that's becoming increasingly humanlike in conversation. more →
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
Enterprise data leaders face an aggressive mandate: deploy generative AI and autonomous agents that drive real operational efficiency. Yet, as teams move past isolated pilots into production, they run into a hard architectural barrier. That barrier? Data gravity. more →
Cisco, December 11,2025
The Segmentation Cycle: A Practical Approach To Network Security
In today's landscape, organizations of all sizes are increasingly adopting the default assumption that adversaries may already be persistent within their networks. This pragmatic perspective underscores the critical need and inherent value of an active segmentation program. more →
Tech Field Day, December 8,2025
Cisco AI Networking Cluster Operations Deep Dive
In this brief article, Steve Puluka summarizes Cisco's AI Networking Cluster Operations, showcasing how advanced artificial intelligence is integrated into Cisco's network operations to enhance efficiency and analytics. more →
Datacore, December 11,2025
Kubernetes High Availability For Stateful Applications
Built on synchronous replication and transparent failover for true stateful resilience more →
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 →
KnowBe4, December 10,2025
Report: Phishing Has Surged 400% Year-Over-Year
Researchers at SpyCloud have observed a 400% year-over-year increase in successful phishing attacks, with a disproportionate number of attacks targeting corporate accounts more →
KnowBe4, December 10,2025
Knowbe4 Research Reveals 96% Of Organizations Struggle To Secure The Human Element As AI Transforms The NexGen Workforce
State of Human Risk 2025 Report Shows Increase in Both Human-Related Security Incidents and AI Application Breaches more →
NVIDIA, December 10,2025
3 Ways NVIDIA Is Powering the Industrial Revolution
NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms powered by the GPU have replaced CPUs as the engine of invention, serving the three scaling laws and what comes next in AI. more →
NVIDIA, December 10,2025
How NVIDIA H100 GPUs on CoreWeave's AI Cloud Platform Delivered a Record-Breaking Graph500 Run
The world's top-performing system for graph processing at scale was built on a commercially available cluster. more →
NVIDIA, December 11,2025
As AI Grows More Complex, Model Builders Rely On NVIDIA
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and other leading models leverage NVIDIA's tech stack to advance frontier of AI. more →
HPCwire, December 11,2025
Lenovo Announces New Modern Data Storage Solutions And Services
Lenovo announced an expansive series of new data storage, virtualization solutions and data management services, designed to help customers modernize their IT and data infrastructure for powering enterprise applications and AI ready capabilities. more →
Rapid7, December 11,2025
Rapid7 2026 Cybersecurity Trends Outlook: Geopolitical Tensions And Insider Threats Among Top Risks
Rapid7 released its top cybersecurity predictions for 2026 from executives Raj Samani, Sabeen Malik, and Rob Dooley during its Top Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 webinar. more →
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 →
siliconANGLE, December 10,2025
Powering The AI Machine: Red Hat Leverages The Cloud-Native Open-Source Toolbox To Build Solutions For Next-Gen IT
Build it . secure it . launch it . observe it. In the AI era, these four key tasks capture the essence of the cloud-native world's focus as autonomous platforms play more of a role in running today's enterprise. more →
Red Hat, December 8,2025
Accelerating Open Source Development With AI
In many open source communities, there's a fair amount of skepticism around the use of generative AI (gen AI) tools for contribution and development. There are valid reasons for concern. more →
Red Hat, December 12,2025
Friday Five - December 12, 2025
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 →
Red Hat, December 11,2025
From Incident Responder To Security Steward: My Journey To Understanding Red Hat's Open Approach To Vulnerability Management
For years, my career in cybersecurity was defined by a sense of urgency and criticality. As a leader of incident response teams, I lived on the front lines, constantly reacting to the latest software vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, and anomalies. more →
Red Hat, December 9,2025
Don't Just Automate, Validate: How To Measure And Grow Your Return On Investment
Successfully delivering automation demands technical excellence, quality code, and reliable execution. However, scaling this success requires translating those technical wins into measurable business impact that can be communicated to leadership or integrated into business strategy. more →
Red Hat, December 11,2025
Solving The Scaling Challenge: 3 Proven Strategies For Your AI Infrastructure
Every team that starts experimenting with generative AI (gen AI) eventually runs into the same wall: scaling it. Running 1 or 2 models is simple enough. Running dozens, supporting hundreds of users, and keeping GPU costs under control, is something else entirely. more →
Trend Micro, December 10,2025
Trend Micro Honors Global Leaders In Cybersecurity With 2025 Global Customer Awards
Annual program celebrates collaboration and shared success in advancing cybersecurity leadership and resilience more →
Trend Micro, December 10,2025
Trend Vision One Stacks Up Against Scattered Spider and Mustang Panda in 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations
The 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations once again put the world's leading cybersecurity platforms to the test, and Trend Vision One accepted the challenge. more →