CIO, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Why 'Need-To-Know' Communication Fails Modern IT Teams
Keeping teams in the dark with 'select' info backfires. Real clarity isn't about being brief - it's about giving people the full story to succeed. more →
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CIO, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
What It Takes To Step Into A C-Level Technology Role
The shift from leading transformational initiatives to leading transformational organizations requires developing the ability to lead through ambiguity and influence without expertise. Here's how to level up your skillset. more →
Information Week, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Confidential Computing Resurfaces As Security Priority For CIOs
Confidential computing addresses a persistent gap in security: protecting data while it's being processed. For CIOs, the question is how, when and where to use it. more →
techradar.pro, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
How CIOs Can Create A Strong Foundation For An AI-Enabled Workplace
As with any new tech, there's a scale for AI adoption among businesses leaving some are ahead of the curve and others much further behind as they continue to resist and delay. more →
techradar.pro, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Why Traditional Metrics Are Giving CISOs A False Sense Of Security
Traditional security metrics mislead CISOs, masking real cyber risk exposure more →
Search CIO, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The ROI Of IT Training: How CIOs Can Prove Business Value
The ROI of IT training highlights its value as a strategic investment. Its improved productivity, innovation and risk reduction can justify training costs to executive teams. more →
The Register, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Security Contractor Blew The Whistle On Support Crew's Viral Indifference
Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of things you did at work that had interesting consequences. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Brad" who once worked as a security contractor. more →
The Register, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
The Company's Biggest Security Hole Lived In The Breakroom
Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're sure it has protected against a lot more exploits than it has caused. But in this case, the desire for everyone's favorite stimulant led to a massive breach. more →
The Register, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Contractor Quaffed His Way Through Y2K Compliance While The Client Scowled
Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call - the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories. To mark the occasion, The Register has revisited our mailbag of holiday-adjacent stories to tell the tale of a reader we'll Regomize as "Marcus," who told us he worked as a contractor for a "very large, very blue, blue-chip company" in the Netherlands and helped it prepare for Y2K. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
2026 SANS Identity Threats Report: Why Attacks Still Work
Identity attacks succeed because the credentials are already compromised. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Are Your NHIs Fully Supported For Optimal Performance?
How secure is your organization when it comes to managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs)? With the increasing prevalence of cyber threats, optimizing NHI performance has become a cornerstone of effective cybersecurity strategies. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Forrester Threat Intelligence Landscape: Key Takeaways For Security Leaders
Key insights from Forrester's External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Landscape, Q1 2026 and what they mean for security teams. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Workload IAM vs. Secrets Management: A Practical Decision Guide
Most organizations start their nonhuman identity security program with a secrets manager. It's a sensible first step: centralize your API keys, database passwords and tokens in an encrypted vault instead of scattering them across config files and environment variables. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Workload Identity And Access Management: The Definitive Guide
For every human identity your IAM program governs, there are roughly 82 machine identities operating outside it. Most of them authenticate with static credentials that were provisioned once and never reviewed. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Seven Identity And API Security Tools Modern SaaS Teams Should Evaluate In 2026
Modern SaaS teams need layered security covering enterprise SSO provisioning, API runtime protection, AI agent security, and passwordless authentication. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
How To Ensure Your AI Security Measures Are Scalable?
Are You Prepared for the Rise of Non-Human Identities in Cybersecurity? more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Spies Adopt AI, But Doubts Arise About Its Reliability
The intelligence was alarming. Ukraine had made a secret deal with Germany and France to deploy 5,000 to 10,000 soldiers, without insignia, to Greenland to thwart an American takeover. Denmark was re-deploying F-16 fighter jets to Greenland previously allocated to Ukraine. And in the United States, 400 Ukrainian refugees were arrested for violent protests over Greenland. Compounding concerns, this intelligence was leaked to major news outlets. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
If You Want AI ROI, Give People Time to Play
In the span of just a few months, the experience of building software has fundamentally changed. Engineers are now working alongside agents that write, refactor, test, and even reason through complex codebases. Tasks that once required days of focused effort can now be completed in hours or even minutes. more →
ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't. more →
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
From Pilot To Production: Why CIOs Need Better Failure, Not Less Of It
I've been in IT long enough to remember when Windows shipped on floppy disks and enterprise architecture meant racks, not regions. In that time, I've seen the same cycle repeat itself over and over. A new technology shows up. A pilot gets approved. The pilot goes well enough. more →
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
If Your Cloud Won't Let You Leave, It's Not the Cloud for You
Most people know what a bad relationship feels like. There are warning signs. Loss of flexibility. Decisions that get harder over time. A growing sense that leaving would be more painful than staying. more →
Techstrong.IT, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Bridging Worlds With Hammerspace And The Reality Of Multi-Cloud Mobility
There is a certain romanticism in the way we talk about the 'Global Village' of cloud computing. We like to imagine that our data is as fluid as a Slack message, drifting effortlessly between on-premises data centers, AWS regions, and Azure instances. more →
Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The Hundred-Year Cycle Of Outsourced Computing
Tom Lyon showed us, at Cloud Field Day, that history has a funny way of repeating itself, especially when we think we've invented something entirely new. We talk about the cloud like it's a modern miracle, but a look at history shows we're just replaying a script from nearly a century ago. more →
Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The Internet Archive Is Preserving The Digital Library Of Alexandria
The concept of a library of everything has existed since the original Library of Alexandria, but in our modern era, that mission has moved into the digital realm. For over 28 years, the Internet Archive has taken on the monumental task of preserving our collective digital history and heritage. more →
Migrate and Modernize your applications with Zscaler Zero Trust Security Platform on AWS
In this webinar, we'll explore how teams can identify private applications and usage patterns to inform migration planning, maintain visibility into performance during and after migration, and secure workload-to-workload communications across AWS, data centers, and multicloud environments. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The Quantum Clock Is Ticking And Your Encryption Is Running Out Of Time
Data is absolutely sacrosanct, and cryptographic systems are the beating heart of data security. Encryption protects financial transactions, secures corporate networks and safeguards healthcare records. Encryption is considered fundamentally reliable, but a technological shift is challenging this assumption. more →
Security Boulevard, Sunday, April 5th, 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Moving From Awareness To Execution
Google recently released important research that moves Q-Day - the day quantum computers will be able to 'break the Internet' - up to 2029. How should enterprises secure their systems? more →
Information Age, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Eliminating Blind Spots - Nailing The IPv6 Transition
With many organisations moving to IPv6, there could be monitoring issues and consequences for those that still use IPv4 more →
The Future of AI Pricing: What Every CIO Needs to Know
This session explores the evolution of AI pricing models and what they mean for enterprise decision making. Gartner experts examine the challenges emerging pricing approaches create for budgeting, governance and financial planning, and discuss how organizations can adapt. more →
Analytics Insight, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Best Ethical Hacking Courses And Certifications In 2026
Guide for Top Courses on Ethical Hacking in 2026 more →
SC Media, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Developing the Skills Needed for Modern Software Development - Keith Hoodlet, Ron Rasin, Shashwat Sehgal - ASW #376
The future of secure software is going through a mix of skills expected of humans and skills files created for LLMs. We might even posit that appsec as a discipline will fade (and that might not even be a bad thing!). more →
Bitdefender, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Your Biggest Cyber Risk Could Be What You Already Trust
For years, cybersecurity strategies have been built around a simple assumption: stop malicious files, stop the attack. more →
Bitdefender, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Shut The Front Door On Email Attacks: How To Scale Security Services Without Increasing Workload
Email remains the primary entry point for cyberattacks, driven largely by phishing and account compromise. For attackers, it is often the simplest and most scalable way to gain access: send enough emails, and eventually, someone clicks. What's changing is not the entry point, but the sophistication of the attacks. more →
Bitdefender, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Technical Advisory: Axios NPM Supply Chain Attack - Cross-Platform RAT Deployed Via Compromised Maintainer Account
Attackers compromised the npm account of the primary axios maintainer and published two malicious versions that silently install a cross-platform remote access trojan. more →
Bitdefender, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Fake Claude Code Leak On Github Pushes Vidar Malware
Threat actors are capitalizing on the recent exposure of Anthropic's Claude Code source to lure curious developers into downloading malware from fake GitHub repositories. more →
Cisco, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Scaling AI Demands A New Infrastructure Playbook
Moving from AI pilot to production exposes hidden bottlenecks in compute resources, networking, and security. Here's how to solve for that. 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 →
F5, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
The New Hybrid Multicloud Challenge Is Operating Without An App Delivery And Security Platform
Multicloud, or hybrid if you prefer, has been the norm for years. That part of the story is settled. What is still very much in motion is how organizations distribute applications across those environments and why those shifts matter operationally. more →
See Every Database Change Across Your Enterprise
Join Liquibase for an exclusive preview of Change Intelligence and Liquibase Secure 6.0. See how Change Intelligence brings deployments, schema drift, policy outcomes, operational history, and audit evidence into a single view, helping teams understand what changed, where it happened, what failed, and what needs attention. more →
Fortinet, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
AI Is Changing Application Threats Faster Than Teams Can Adapt
The 2026 Web Application Security Report, based on a global survey of more than 800 security professionals, quantifies what many teams are already seeing across web application security and API security environments. more →
Fortinet, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Securing The Physical World As It Comes Online
For decades, operational technology (OT) quietly powered the physical systems societies rely on every day, from energy generation and manufacturing to transport and defense. Those systems were largely isolated, designed for reliability and safety rather than connectivity. That isolation is disappearing. more →
Fortinet, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
Why The 2026 AI Cybersecurity Summit Matters
Over the past year, one thing has become impossible to ignore: the gap between AI adoption and AI security has never been wider. more →
CodeMender: AI Code Security Agent
Discover how CodeMender autonomously scans, verifies, and fixes software vulnerabilities at machine speed-enabling rapid remediation with complete developer control. more →
Google, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Give Your Laptop A New Life With ChromeOS Flex
Site selection, once viewed primarily as a matter of cost and geography, has become a far more strategic exercise. Organizations are now weighing access to talent, infrastructure resilience, regulatory environments, and factors that influence employee satisfaction and retention. In our featured article, we explore how forward-thinking companies are reimagining location strategy in a world where 'place' is no longer confined to four walls. more →
Google, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
The Latest AI News We Announced In March 2026
Here's a recap of our biggest AI updates from March 2026, including an expansion of Search Live, more ways to access Personal Intelligence and new tools that make it easier to switch to Gemini. more →
Google, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Build With Veo 3.1 Lite, Our Most Cost-Effective Video Generation Model
Our most cost-effective video generation model is now available to developers in the Gemini API. more →
Google, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Improve Coding Agents' Performance With Gemini API Docs MCP and Agent Skills.
Agents can generate outdated Gemini API code because their training data has a cutoff date. We built two complementary tools to fix this. more →
Google, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Gemma 4: Byte For Byte, The Most Capable Open Models
Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 - our most intelligent open models to date. Purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, Gemma 4 delivers an unprecedented level of intelligence-per-parameter. more →
Google, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
New Ways To Balance Cost And Reliability In The Gemini API
Introducing Flex and Priority inference: advanced controls for developers to optimize costs and reliability through a single, unified interface. more →
Lenovo, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Closing The AI ROI Gap: Security As A Lifecycle Discipline
Brakes aren't there to make you go slow. They're there so you can go fast with control. In today's AI race, security plays the same role. more →
Lenovo, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Expanding Success In The Channel Through Technical Capability
Across the channel, the role of technical expertise is changing fast. more →
Proofpoint, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Security Brief: Tax Scams Aim To Steal Funds From Taxpayers
Threat actors love to take advantage of tax season. It's peak social engineering time: combine monetary concerns with often stressful responsibilities, sprinkle in the expectation of emails about taxes from multiple organizations and you've got a recipe for cybercrime. more →
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. more →
