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Thursday’s Briefing · January 29

Platform Engineering, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Platform Engineering Shapes Engineering Culture, Not Just Delivery

Internal platforms don't just accelerate shipping - they reshape how engineers work. By removing low-value toil and standardizing the fundamentals, platforms free teams to focus on meaningful problems, improving engagement, retention, and long-term innovation capacity. more →

Platform Engineering Shapes Engineering Culture, Not Just Delivery

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)

Security Week, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

Cyber Insights 2026: Regulations And The Tangled Mess Of Compliance Requirements

SecurityWeek's Cyber Insights 2026 examines expert opinions on the expected evolution of more than a dozen areas of cybersecurity interest over the next 12 months. We spoke to hundreds of individual experts to gain their expert opinions. Here we explore the cyber regulations and compliance outlook for 2026, with the purpose of preparing cybersecurity teams for what lies ahead this year and beyond. more →

Cyber Insights 2026: Regulations And The Tangled Mess Of Compliance Requirements

Security Boulevard, Monday, January 19th, 2026

Cybersecurity Trends To Watch In 2026

2026 is already resetting the stakes. Last year, more than 4,100 publicly disclosed data breaches were reported globally, nearly 11 a day, with the average cost reaching about $4.44 million. more →

Cybersecurity Trends To Watch In 2026

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

How Proactive Can Agentic AI Be In Threat Detection?

What role do Non-Human Identities (NHIs) play in cybersecurity? Traditional human-centric security measures are no longer sufficient. The emergence of NHIs, or machine identities, is reshaping how organizations approach security threats, particularly when integrated with Proactive Agentic AI for threat detection. more →

How Proactive Can Agentic AI Be In Threat Detection?

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Lattice-based PQC for MCP Transport Layer Security

Ever feel like we're just building sandcastles while the tide is coming in? That is basically where we are with ai security right now-especially with how we handle the Model Context Protocol (mcp). more →

Lattice-based PQC for MCP Transport Layer Security

Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Securing Generative AI: A Technical Guide To Protecting Your LLM Infrastructure

Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping enterprise IT, powering everything from developer copilots and customer support automation to advanced analytics and decision-making. As adoption accelerates, GenAI is quickly becoming embedded in business‑critical workflows. more →

Securing Generative AI: A Technical Guide To Protecting Your LLM Infrastructure

Security Boulevard, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

The New Rules Of Cyber Resilience In An AI-Driven Threat Landscape

For years, cybersecurity strategy revolved around a simple goal: keep attackers out. That mindset no longer matches reality. Today's threat landscape assumes compromise. Adversaries do not just encrypt data and demand payment. They exfiltrate it, resell it, reuse it, and weaponize it long after the initial breach. more →

The New Rules Of Cyber Resilience In An AI-Driven Threat Landscape

Tech Field Day, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Cutting-Edge AI Networking And Storage Kick Off 2026 At AI Infrastructure Field Day 4

We're kicking off 2026 with one of our most popular events, AI Infrastructure Field Day 4, running from January 28th through January 30th. The event will stream live on LinkedIn, Techstrong TV, the Tech Field Day website, and for the first time ever, on our YouTube channel, offering a front-row view of the latest in AI infrastructure. more →

Cutting-Edge AI Networking And Storage Kick Off 2026 At AI Infrastructure Field Day 4

Analytics Insight, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

How To Design An Easy Marketing Plan: 2026 Masterclass

Last year, countless business owners found themselves trapped in an exhausting cycle. Chasing every new platform, coping with each trending strategy, and spreading themselves impossibly thin. The result? Burnout without breakthrough. more →

How To Design An Easy Marketing Plan: 2026 Masterclass

Barracuda Networks, Friday, January 23rd, 2026

5 Benefits Of Aggregated Security Logs

Many organizations have, in recent years, attempted to build defense in depth by employing a 'best-of-breed' strategy - buying specialized products from multiple vendors. more →

5 Benefits Of Aggregated Security Logs

Barracuda Networks, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Email Threat Radar - January 2026

The Tycoon phishing kit is using a technique that involves building fully scannable QR codes out of HTML table cells. This enables malicious QR codes to evade detection by traditional email tools. The attack starts with a phishing email containing very little text, often just a short instruction to scan the code using a mobile device. more →

Email Threat Radar - January 2026

Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Start The Year Strong: 10 Essential Questions Every IT Team Should Address

It's a new year (and also a day ending in Y), which means it's an excellent time for you to review your security posture. Use your renewed energy to seriously analyze your vulnerabilities, detection methods and organizational procedures. Answer these 10 questions to put yourself on the best possible footing for what's likely to be another year of record-breaking cyberattacks. more →

Start The Year Strong: 10 Essential Questions Every IT Team Should Address

DDN, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

How to Build a NAND-Resilient AI Storage Architecture

For years, all-flash became the default choice for AI storage. It simplified decisions and removed performance risk when NAND pricing was stable and supply was predictable. That environment no longer exists. more →

How to Build a NAND-Resilient AI Storage Architecture

F5, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

Architecting For AI: Secure, Scalable, Multicloud

In the age of AI, your data doesn't just sit. It replicates, migrates, gets mined, retrained, and served up across more zones, clouds, and services than your architecture ever planned for. And if you're still thinking of multicloud networking as 'pick a primary and fail over,' you're already behind. more →

Architecting For AI: Secure, Scalable, Multicloud

F5, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

Rein in API sprawl with F5 and Google Cloud

Fueled by modern application architectures and AI solutions, today's digital businesses are faced with constantly expanding API connectivity. Organizations likely interact with hundreds of APIs daily-and more are being added all the time. more →

Rein in API sprawl with F5 and Google Cloud

F5, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Responsible AI: Guardrails Align Innovation With Ethics

In the 2023 movie M3GAN, a brilliant piece of artificial intelligence is brought to market with extraordinary speed and almost no meaningful ethical boundaries. Designed to learn, adapt, and protect, the system is optimized for performance and commercial success-not accountability. The result, of course, is catastrophic. more →

Responsible AI: Guardrails Align Innovation With Ethics

F5, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

The Hidden Cost Of Unmanaged AI Infrastructure

AI infrastructure teams are making one of the largest technology investments in their organization's history. Some already have GPU clusters in production. Others are still preparing to bring them online. In both cases, the challenge is the same. Once AI infrastructure is deployed, instability, inefficiency, and poor traffic control quickly translate into lost value and operational risk. more →

The Hidden Cost Of Unmanaged AI Infrastructure

Upcoming Event · Wed, Sep 30 · 11:00am

The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO

This webinar explores what CEOs expect AI to deliver across technology, finance, HR, operations, and other functions, where confidence gaps remain, and how success is being measured. Attendees will gain practical insights into how CxOs can translate AI investments into business outcomes, operate in a distributed leadership model, and meet rising CEO expectations. more →

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The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO (Sept. 30th)

Rapid7, Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

From Signals To Strategy: What Security Teams Must Prepare For In 2026

The 2026 Security Predictions webinar reinforced a simple but uncomfortable truth. The forces shaping cyber risk are not new, but they are converging faster and with greater impact than many organizations are ready for. Geopolitics, insider risk, and threat intelligence have long influenced cyber operations. What has changed is the extent to which they directly affect everyday security decisions. more →

From Signals To Strategy: What Security Teams Must Prepare For In 2026

Rubrik, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Why Identity Incidents Are So Disruptive

Identity has become one of the most fragile and business-critical systems in the enterprise. Every user, every application, and every workload depends on identity to function. Attackers continue to use malware and target data, but identity has become both a primary pathway and a direct target for disrupting organizations. Attackers log in, escalate privileges, move laterally and break access. more →

Why Identity Incidents Are So Disruptive

Tierpoint, Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

IPS vs. IDS in Cybersecurity: Creating a Layered Defense

In today's cyber threat landscape, security leaders aren't debating whether to detect or prevent attacks. They're focused on how quickly detection can be operationalized into reliable, automated prevention. As threat volumes grow and time-to-impact shrinks, security teams need controls that evolve from visibility to enforcement without introducing unnecessary risk or disruption. more →

IPS vs. IDS in Cybersecurity: Creating a Layered Defense