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Thursday’s Briefing · February 26

ComputerWeekly, Monday, February 16th, 2026

Interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Segro

With a varied IT leadership career across healthcare, retail and central government, property development brought fresh challenges for the CIO - and a chance to share his experience in an industry not renowned for digital transformation more →

Interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Segro

Help Net Security, Monday, February 16th, 2026

Security At AI Speed: The New CISO Reality

The CISO role has changed significantly over the past decade, but according to John White, EMEA Field CISO, Torq, the most disruptive shift is accountability driven by agentic AI. more →

Security At AI Speed: The New CISO Reality

Help Net Security, Friday, February 20th, 2026

The CISO View Of Fraud Risk Across The Retail Payment Ecosystem

In this Help Net Security interview, Paul Suarez, VP and CISO at Casey's, explains how his team manages patching and upgrades for fuel payment systems with long hardware lifecycles. He also discusses risks tied to QR code payments and outlines why loyalty abuse can be hard to spot. Suarez shares how Casey's monitors payment systems across stores, corporate networks, and third-party processors. more →

The CISO View Of Fraud Risk Across The Retail Payment Ecosystem

Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 19th, 2026

SPF Alignment: Why is it Important for Improving DMARC

Every day, inboxes receive millions of emails that appear to be real but are actually sent by attackers. These fake messages often use a copied domain name to trick people into trusting them. This is one of the biggest reasons email security needs more than just sending from a valid mail server. more →

SPF Alignment: Why is it Important for Improving DMARC

Platform Engineering, Monday, February 16th, 2026

Inside The Platform Engineering Execution Gap

Platform initiatives are diverging sharply in their ability to deliver visible business value, and the gap is being driven by culture, product mindset, and measurement discipline rather than technology selection. more →

Inside The Platform Engineering Execution Gap

Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 19th, 2026

Findings From The Tidal Cyber 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report

The Tidal Cyber 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report represents a groundbreaking shift in cybersecurity analysis by placing real adversary behavior at the forefront of defense strategies. Read the Full Report, or an overview of our findings below. more →

Findings From The Tidal Cyber 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

How Red Teaming Reduces Breach Risk?

Red Teaming (also called adversary simulation) is a way to test how strong an organization's security really is. In this, trained and authorized security experts act like real hackers and try to break into systems, just like attackers would in the real world. more →

How Red Teaming Reduces Breach Risk?

Techstrong.ai, Thursday, February 19th, 2026

Creating A Compute-Ready Data Asset

You have a mountain of documents. Most of them are PDFs, slide decks, or internal reports. They're great for human eyes, but for an AI system, they're basically a brick wall for your AI application, hard work to ingest. more →

Creating A Compute-Ready Data Asset

Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

How Neoclouds Are Driving More Sustainable and Cost-Efficient AI GPU Consumption

In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights interview, GMI Cloud CEO Alex Yeh explains how the rise of neocloud providers is reshaping access to GPUs required to train and run AI models. He discusses how alternative cloud infrastructure models can improve cost efficiency, optimize resource utilization, and help address sustainability challenges associated with large-scale AI workloads. more →

How Neoclouds Are Driving More Sustainable and Cost-Efficient AI GPU Consumption

Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

Why Legacy Systems Are The Hidden Constraint On AI Agent Adoption

In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights interview, SnapLogic CTO Jeremiah Stone explains why legacy systems are emerging as a major barrier to deploying AI agents at scale. He discusses the integration, data access, and architectural challenges enterprises must address to successfully operationalize AI agents across existing IT environments. more →

Why Legacy Systems Are The Hidden Constraint On AI Agent Adoption

Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

Why Postgres Is Emerging As The Default Database For AI Applications

In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights interview, pgEdge CEO Phillip Merrick explains how the open source Postgres database has become a de facto standard for deploying AI applications. He discusses Postgres' flexibility, ecosystem momentum, and its growing role in supporting distributed data architectures required for modern AI workloads. more →

Why Postgres Is Emerging As The Default Database For AI Applications

Redmond, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

How to Remotely Manage Linux VMs With RDP

Here's how to deploy a domain-joined Remote Desktop Services environment for Windows RemoteApp, including licensing requirements and session collection configuration, to publish Windows applications to non-domain and Linux clients. more →

How to Remotely Manage Linux VMs With RDP

KnowBe4, Thursday, February 19th, 2026

AI-Assisted Social Engineering Attacks Continue To Rise

Social engineering remained the top initial access vector for cyberattacks in 2025, with increasing assistance from AI tools, according to a report from ThreatDown. The researchers warn that AI will likely become a core component of social engineering attacks throughout 2026. more →

AI-Assisted Social Engineering Attacks Continue To Rise

KnowBe4, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026

Welcome To The Blur: Designing Security That Works With, Not Against, AI Adoption

There's a moment in every security professional's career when they realise the game has fundamentally changed. Mine came last Tuesday at 3:47 PM, watching my colleague Erich argue with an AI agent about expense policy while simultaneously being phished by what I'm 87% certain was another AI agent pretending to be from IT. more →

Welcome To The Blur: Designing Security That Works With, Not Against, AI Adoption

KnowBe4, Sunday, February 22nd, 2026

Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) vs Secure Email Gateway (SEG)

Cybercriminals continually evolve their techniques, leading to more successful phishing attacks. Using techniques such as text-based attacks that utilize social engineering and highly targeted spear phishing, bad actors are able to bypass traditional email security and land in their target's inbox. more →

Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) vs Secure Email Gateway (SEG)

Microsoft, Monday, February 16th, 2026

Microsoft Equips CISOs And AI Risk Leaders With A New Security Tool

Microsoft released Security Dashboard for AI in public preview for enterprise environments. The dashboard aggregates posture and real-time risk signals from Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview into a single view within security tools. more →

Microsoft Equips CISOs And AI Risk Leaders With A New Security Tool

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

AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?

Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →

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