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Wednesday’s Briefing · March 4

Help Net Security, Friday, February 27th, 2026

The CISO Role Keeps Getting Heavier

Personal liability is becoming a routine part of the CISO job. In Splunk's 2026 CISO Report, titled From Risk to Resilience in the AI Era, 78% of CISOs said they are concerned about their own liability for security incidents, up from 56% last year. more →

The CISO Role Keeps Getting Heavier

Forrester, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026

The 'Death' Of It Services Is Greatly Exaggerated

We're seeing a spate of disruptive headlines and predictions around the demise of IT services. With the progress made by AI, specifically in software development, it's easy to opine that traditional IT services are on their way out. more →

The 'Death' Of It Services Is Greatly Exaggerated

CITADEL Securities, Thursday, February 26th, 2026

The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis

The year is 2026. The unemployment rate just printed 4.28%, AI capex is 2% of GDP (650bn), AI adjacent commodities are up 65% since Jan-23 and approximately 2,800 data centers are planned for construction in the US. In spite of the current displacement narrative - job postings for software engineers are rising rapidly, up 11% YoY. more →

The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis

Platform Engineering, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026

Platform Engineering Labs Expands Formae With Multi-Cloud Support

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, adding beta support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and OVHcloud. more →

Platform Engineering Labs Expands Formae With Multi-Cloud Support

Platform Engineering, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026

Platform Intelligence and AI Agents are Modernizing TestOps at Scale

The conversation around software quality has, in recent year,s shifted quite dramatically. We used to talk about testing as a phase that happened after coding but before deployment. That time is gone because the rapid rise of AI technologies has fundamentally changed how we build software. more →

Platform Intelligence and AI Agents are Modernizing TestOps at Scale

Platform Engineering, Monday, February 23rd, 2026

Platform Engineering Decisions CIOs Can't Afford To Get Wrong

Platform engineering now directly shapes how quickly organizations can ship software, adopt AI, and respond to change. The choices leaders make around culture, metrics, and platform ownership increasingly determine whether platforms become strategic assets or long-term liabilities. more →

Platform Engineering Decisions CIOs Can't Afford To Get Wrong

Security Boulevard, Monday, February 23rd, 2026

Zero Trust Infrastructure For Multi-LLM Context Routing

Ever tried sharing a medical record with a specialist or letting a tax app see your bank data without just handing over your password? It usually ends up being a mess of "all or nothing" permissions that makes security teams lose sleep. more →

Zero Trust Infrastructure For Multi-LLM Context Routing

Security Boulevard, Friday, February 27th, 2026

Zero Trust Architecture: The Technical Blueprint

Most security content about Zero Trust stays at the philosophy level. Never trust, always verify - yes, we know. But when you're responsible for actually building and securing infrastructure, you need to know what that means in practice. more →

Zero Trust Architecture: The Technical Blueprint

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026

Why CISOs Should Prioritize Continuous Controls Monitoring In 2026

In a recent roundup of strategic initiatives for CISOs, I argued that continuous assurance is the 2026 operating model. Across all ten initiatives, the pattern was clear. Security is no longer being evaluated by effort, it's being evaluated by outcomes. more →

Why CISOs Should Prioritize Continuous Controls Monitoring In 2026

Security Boulevard, Monday, February 23rd, 2026

Using CardSpace As A Secure Password Manager

It's 2026. The "Digital Wallet" isn't a feature anymore; it's invisible plumbing. You glance at your phone, a biometric prompt flashes, and you're in. No typing, no friction. We take this magic for granted. more →

Using CardSpace As A Secure Password Manager

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026

How Does Agentic AI Help You Stay Ahead In Cybersecurity

Are you exploring the future trends making waves in cybersecurity today? One transformative technology, Agentic AI, is reshaping how organizations manage Non-Human Identities (NHI) and Secrets Security Management, allowing businesses to stay ahead of potential cyber threats. more →

How Does Agentic AI Help You Stay Ahead In Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard, Friday, February 27th, 2026

How Do Leaders Ensure AI System Safety And Compliance

When discussing AI system safety and compliance, how often do organizations overlook the integral role of Non-Human Identities (NHIs)? These often-misunderstood entities are pivotal in not only strengthening cybersecurity but also in ensuring AI systems meet rigorous compliance standards. more →

How Do Leaders Ensure AI System Safety And Compliance

Security Boulevard, Monday, February 23rd, 2026

How Are Secrets Protected In An Agentic AI-Driven Architecture

What is the role of Non-Human Identity (NHI) management in securing AI-driven architecture? With cybersecurity professionals grapple with the complexities of protecting digital environments, the management of NHIs stands as a critical strategy in enhancing security measures. Where systems autonomously make decisions, the protection of secrets and machine identities becomes paramount. more →

How Are Secrets Protected In An Agentic AI-Driven Architecture

Security Boulevard, Sunday, March 1st, 2026

How Can You Be Reassured About Your AI's Security Integrity

Where artificial intelligence is increasingly utilized across diverse sectors, the question of AI security integrity often comes to the forefront. When organizations integrate AI into their operations, ensuring safety and security becomes paramount. more →

How Can You Be Reassured About Your AI's Security Integrity

How-To Geek, Sunday, March 1st, 2026

Why The '10X Developer' Idea Is Dangerous

The thought of downsizing a team to just a few-or even just one-sounds like a dream. Why have a team of hundreds when a team of dozens with AI can do the same job? This whole idea of the '10x developer' is dangerous and there's no good outcome to it. more →

Why The '10X Developer' Idea Is Dangerous

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 1 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Cloudflare, Friday, February 27th, 2026

We Deserve A Better Streams API For Javascript

Handling data in streams is fundamental to how we build applications. To make streaming work everywhere, the WHATWG Streams Standard (informally known as "Web streams") was designed to establish a common API to work across browsers and servers. more →

We Deserve A Better Streams API For Javascript

Red Hat, Thursday, February 26th, 2026

The Nervous System Gets A Soul: Why Sovereign Cloud Is Telco's Real Second Act

For the last decade, the story of 5G has been like a body that developed a massive high speed nervous system but lacked the central brain to command it. The telecom industry spent billions on the most sophisticated nervous system the world has ever seen including fiber, towers, and low latency spectrum, only to find out that this powerful system was mostly being used to carry the impulses and commands of others. more →

The Nervous System Gets A Soul: Why Sovereign Cloud Is Telco's Real Second Act

Red Hat, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026

Red Hat AI Enterprise: Bridging The Gap From Experimentation To Production Scale

Red Hat AI Enterprise is now generally available, offering a unified AI platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI-powered applications across the hybrid cloud. With this new offering, Red Hat provides a streamlined, cost-effective path to operationalizing generative, predictive, and agentic AI at scale. more →

Red Hat AI Enterprise: Bridging The Gap From Experimentation To Production Scale