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Thursday’s Briefing · January 22

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026

9 Cybersecurity Questions That Define A CISO

Wil discusses the essential questions that CEOs should be asking their CISOs. He explores the importance of effective communication between technical and business perspectives, the need for investment in cybersecurity with clear ROI, and the significance of understanding risks and setting priorities. more →

9 Cybersecurity Questions That Define A CISO

theCUBE research, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026

Closing The Enterprise AI Value Gap (20:52)

According to theCUBE Research, only 5% of global enterprises are 'future-built,' that is, they have fully operationalized AI across their business. The performance gap is striking. These future-built enterprises see 1.7x higher revenue growth, 3.6x stronger shareholder returns, and 2.7x greater ROI on AI investments compared to their peers. more →

Closing The Enterprise AI Value Gap (20:52)

theCUBE research, Friday, January 16th, 2026

Will 2026 Be The Year AI Decision Intelligence Goes Mainstream? (43:56)

In this episode of Next Frontiers of AI, Scott Hebner sits down with Joel Sherlock, CEO of Causify, to make a forward-looking call: 2026 will be the year causal AI for Decision Intelligence goes mainstream. After the generative AI surge (2022-2024) and the rise of agents and agentic workflows (2025), enterprises are hitting a hard wall: fluent systems can act, but they often cannot justify or defend consequential decisions. more →

Will 2026 Be The Year AI Decision Intelligence Goes Mainstream? (43:56)

Computerworld, Monday, January 12th, 2026

What Are Ambient Agents? Why AI That Acts Will Redefine Automation At Work #355

Within the agentic AI space, there's a new generation of 'ambient agents' that are emerging - AI tools that observe, decide and then act across the enterprise without needing a prompt. In this episode of Today in Tech, host Keith Shaw interviews Bhavin Shah, CEO of Moveworks, about how these proactive agents will transform everything from IT support to HR compliance and software license management. more →

What Are Ambient Agents? Why AI That Acts Will Redefine Automation At Work #355

cxotalk.com, Monday, January 12th, 2026

Robots & Physical AI: Explained

Hexagon CTO Burkhard Boeckem separates hype from reality on physical AI, robotics, and digital twins, exploring what it actually takes to deploy autonomous systems when failure isn't an option, on CXOTalk episode 905. more →

Robots & Physical AI: Explained

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

Email Is Not Legacy. It's Infrastructure.

Email doesn't always get the respect it deserves. In a world brimming with slick collaboration platforms, instant messaging apps, and AI copilots, email is often seen as old-fashioned-a legacy system clinging on in the face of faster, flashier alternatives. more →

Email Is Not Legacy. It's Infrastructure.

SC Media, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026

Five Questions To Ask About Email Whitelists

The company just approved a significant zero-trust investment that included microsegmentation, identity-first access, and continuous verification across the network's infrastructure. The board signed off - and implementation proceeded. Now ask the CISO how many permanent exceptions exist in the company's email security whitelist? more →

Five Questions To Ask About Email Whitelists

Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 15th, 2026

How The OWASP Application Security Verification Standard Helps Improve Software Security

A short time ago, we announced our integration of OWASP ASVS into our cyber risk management platform. At a high level, this allows organizations to run more structured, repeatable security assessments for web applications and cloud-based services, while also giving security and procurement teams a consistent way to evaluate internally developed and third-party software. more →

How The OWASP Application Security Verification Standard Helps Improve Software Security

Security Boulevard, Monday, January 12th, 2026

Most Popular Cybersecurity Blogs From 2025

What were the top government technology and cybersecurity blog posts in 2025? The metrics tell us what cybersecurity and technology infrastructure topics were most popular. more →

Most Popular Cybersecurity Blogs From 2025

Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 15th, 2026

AI, Agents, And The Trust Gap

As we speak, I'm remodeling my kitchen and relied heavily on ChatGPT to research sinks, compare reviews, and determine whether I can do all the pipe-work myself. more →

AI, Agents, And The Trust Gap

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026

AI And The Corporate Capture Of Knowledge

More than a decade after Aaron Swartz's death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the JSTOR archive with the intention of making them publicly available. more →

AI And The Corporate Capture Of Knowledge

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026

AI Security Testing - Most AI Attacks Are Noise, A Few Leave Craters

Assessing the potential blast radius of AI security failures AI security failures tend to fall into two distinct risk regimes: one dominated by constant, low-impact noise, and another defined by rare but devastating events capable of reshaping an organization. more →

AI Security Testing - Most AI Attacks Are Noise, A Few Leave Craters

Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 15th, 2026

AI Security: What Enterprises Are Getting Wrong (24:43)

The CSA Alliance has released their annual report on AI and security. Alan, Anton Chuvakin and Hillary Baron discuss the state of AI security and governance, how companies are actually adopting AI (both agentic and generative) and most importantly how organizations are integrating it into their business practices in a secure manner. more →

AI Security: What Enterprises Are Getting Wrong (24:43)

Techstrong.ai, Friday, January 16th, 2026

What Is The Lesson Of Predict 2026?

Now that Predict 2026 is in the books, it is worth pausing for a moment. Not to rush ahead to the next headline or the next funding round or the next model release, but to actually take stock of what we heard, what we learned, and what it all adds up to. more →

What Is The Lesson Of Predict 2026?

Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026

Municipal Cyber Risk Unveiled: How MSPs Can Stand Guard

My hometown of Middletown, Ohio recently made local news after hackers disrupted the city's water billing system and other services. The episode raised a timely question: how are cities becoming prime targets, and what can managed service providers (MSPs) and chief information security officers (CISOs) do to protect municipalities? more →

Municipal Cyber Risk Unveiled: How MSPs Can Stand Guard

Upcoming Event · Tue, Sep 22 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System (Sept. 22nd)