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Thursday’s Briefing · February 12

CIO, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Are CIOs The New CEOs In The Making?

With the levers CIOs have at their disposal now, it's expectation, not just ambition, to eventually secure the top spot in the organization. But the path isn't always evenly paved. more →

Are CIOs The New CEOs In The Making?

CIO, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

5 IT Shifts Every CIO Must Master This Year

This year's IT playbook is clear: Hybrid everywhere, AI guarding security, data treated like a product, automation doing the heavy lifting and compute moving to the edge. more →

5 IT Shifts Every CIO Must Master This Year

The Register, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Techie's One Ring Brought Darkness By Shorting A Server

Monday brings the shock of a return to work, a transition The Register always tries to ease by bringing you a new instalment of Who, Me?, the reader-contributed column in which your fellow readers admit to errors and disclose how they dodged the consequences. more →

Techie's One Ring Brought Darkness By Shorting A Server

The Register, Monday, February 16th, 2026

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

The Register hopes you arrive at your desk well-rested after a pleasant weekend, and not stressed out by working late as is the case in this week's instalment of "Who, Me?" - the reader contributed column that chronicles your mistakes and escapes. more →

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

Security Boulevard, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

What Is Threat Intelligence?

Threat Intelligence is the process of collecting, analyzing, and contextualizing data about existing and emerging cyber threats to produce actionable insights that help organizations prevent, detect, and respond to cyberattacks. more →

What Is Threat Intelligence?

SC Media, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Complexity Outpaces Defenders Despite Security Investment

A new Fortinet report reveals that despite increased cybersecurity spending, most organizations lack confidence in their ability to manage escalating cloud threats, with two-thirds doubting their capacity for real-time detection and response, according to Security Boulevard. more →

Complexity Outpaces Defenders Despite Security Investment

StorageReview, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

WD Maps Out 100TB+ HDD Roadmap and Performance Breakthroughs for AI Storage

At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital (now rebranded as WD) unveiled a customer-centric storage roadmap to reinvent hard drives for AI-era infrastructure, spanning 100TB+ HDDs, new performance- and power-optimized architectures, and an intelligent platform designed to improve storage economics and time-to-value. more →

WD Maps Out 100TB+ HDD Roadmap and Performance Breakthroughs for AI Storage

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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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Oct. 1st)

Techstrong.ai, Monday, January 26th, 2026

Accelerating Enterprise AI Agents With MCP For Secure, Scalable Context Sharing

AI adoption is increasing as enterprises look to implement intelligent agents to automate workflows, integrate with internal toolsets and make data-informed decisions. The glitch, however, is the real-world integration of these agents with enterprise systems. Legacy infrastructure, fractured APIs, siloed data and increasing security concerns pose challenges to the scale and speed of this transformation. more →

Accelerating Enterprise AI Agents With MCP For Secure, Scalable Context Sharing

Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, January 27th, 2026

AI Adoption Surges But Trust Gap Widens: Survey

Artificial intelligence (AI) is racing into the mainstream, but organizations are struggling to keep pace with the governance and training needed to use it responsibly, according to a new report from Informatica Inc. more →

AI Adoption Surges But Trust Gap Widens: Survey

Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026

Wi-Fi 7 Set For Fast Adoption, But AI-Driven Parts Shortages Loom

Wi-Fi 7 is set for fast adoption, with industry research firm Dell'Oro Group saying enterprise buying of Wi-Fi 7 gear has climbed sharply since early 2025. Dell'Oro characterizes current Wi-Fi 7 pricing as unusually low, providing an adoption boost that could compress refresh cycles for businesses relying on Wi-Fi 6 and 6E. more →

Wi-Fi 7 Set For Fast Adoption, But AI-Driven Parts Shortages Loom

Contact Center Pipeline, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our February 2026 Issue

Our kids say 'Back in My Day' all the time. They then go on to giggle, giggle and come up with a witty recall of what we experienced when we were younger. Funny, I think each of us could talk about 'Back in My Day' with our contact center operations. more →

Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our February 2026 Issue

Commvault, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Commvault Debuts Geo Shield For Sovereign Cloud Data

Commvault has launched Geo Shield, a new product approach designed to meet stringent data residency and sovereign cloud requirements for organizations in regulated industries, Security Brief United States reports. more →

Commvault Debuts Geo Shield For Sovereign Cloud Data

Commvault, Friday, February 6th, 2026

Security Best Practices

Backup and recovery integrations depend on secure workload credentials. A single compromised credential can open access far beyond one system, and threat actors know it. more →

Security Best Practices

Hitachi Vantara, Friday, February 6th, 2026

A Memory-Centric Approach To System Strategy: 6 Takeaways From Supercomputing 2025

Artificial intelligence workloads are reshaping how memory is produced, priced, and prioritized. Not because the supply chain has fundamentally broken, but because manufacturers are making deliberate decisions about where to place capacity and capital. Wafer lines are being steered toward high-margin, long-term AI demand, not toward broad, undifferentiated expansion. more →

A Memory-Centric Approach To System Strategy: 6 Takeaways From Supercomputing 2025

Red Hat, Friday, February 6th, 2026

Friday Five - February 6, 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 - February 6, 2026

Rubrik, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

The OpenClaw Epidemic: How Rogue Agents Can Disrupt The AI-Driven Enterprise

In the race for peak productivity, a new breed of popular autonomous AI agents has arrived. This new generation of autonomous AI actors promises to do more than just chat-they can read your emails, manage your calendar, execute terminal commands, and even move money. They are open source and can run on commodity hardware, so they are cheap to implement. more →

The OpenClaw Epidemic: How Rogue Agents Can Disrupt The AI-Driven Enterprise

Tierpoint, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Top Cybersecurity Trends In 2026: Rising Threats & Strategies

While each year brings new technologies that fuel innovation, it also introduces new complexities and security risks. In fact, TierPoint's survey of 500 IT decision-makers found that security and privacy concerns will remain the leading IT modernization challenge through 2030. more →

Top Cybersecurity Trends In 2026: Rising Threats & Strategies

Tierpoint, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

What Are Managed SOC Services?

Even the most advanced security tools rely on the right people and processes to be effective. For security managers, the challenge lies in managing alert volume, maintaining 24/7 coverage, and ensuring incidents are investigated and contained quickly without overwhelming internal teams. more →

What Are Managed SOC Services?