Qmulos, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Agentic Compliance: What AI Should Automate and What Humans Must Still Decide
AI should automate compliance evidence collection while humans retain judgment and interpretation of results. more →
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InfoQ, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?
A platform team's phased, inform-then-enforce approach to cloud compliance that avoided alienating internal developers. more →
Kovrr, Monday, July 13th, 2026
What AI Governance Tools Exist in the Market Today
A survey of the AI governance tool landscape, mapping five vendor categories and the capability gaps enterprises still face. more →
Kovrr, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
The Best Cyber Risk Quantification Tools in 2026: A Buyer's Guide
A buyer's guide separating true cyber risk quantification platforms from compliance dashboards, with vendor profiles and an evaluation framework. more →
Michael Peters, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
AI Risk Management Continuum: GRC Automated Compliance Assessments 2026
[fetch failed] Discusses an AI risk management continuum for GRC programs and automated compliance assessments heading into 2026. more →
CyberSaint, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Why Continuous Compliance Breaks in Large Enterprises
Quarterly governance cycles cannot keep pace with cloud infrastructure that changes hundreds of times daily. more →
IT Security Guru, Friday, July 17th, 2026
CISOs Say Boardrooms Still Don't Grasp The Human Cyber Risk AI Is Supercharging
[fetch failed] CISOs report that boards still fail to understand the human-centric cyber risks AI is amplifying. more →
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
You've Been Heard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
436 - No Technology Fixes Bad Process W/ Bryant Lister
IT leadership delivers business value through data and process discipline, not technology implementation alone. more →
CXOTalk, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Agentic AI In Financial Services: Former UBS And SAP Group CIO
Banks run dozens of AI pilots, but almost no AI agents in production, and the gap is in controls, not models. Former UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann outlines the key conditions that must be met before agents can go live. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026
The Cost Of Delayed Patching: What Security Teams Are Missing
Exploitation now precedes patch availability, making delayed patching a board-level business risk rather than a backlog problem. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026
See It Once, Stop It Everywhere
Fortra's Bob Erdman makes the case for disciplined threat intelligence sharing through ISACs, peers and law enforcement. more →
The New York Times Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026
The Data Center Heist
[fetch failed] A New York Times Magazine long-form feature on a heist targeting a data center. more →
SecurityWeek, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Hacker Conversations: Jesse McGraw (GhostExodus), From Blackhat Hacker to Redemption
An interview tracing Jesse McGraw's path from notorious black hat hacker and federal prisoner to cybersecurity advocate. more →
Architecture & Governance Magazine, Monday, July 13th, 2026
AI Security Starts at Square One: Knowing What You Have
Organizations need AI Bills of Materials to inventory AI components as the foundation for effective AI security and governance. more →
TechTarget, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Why Conversational AI Is Redefining Your Security Perimeter
Employee trust in AI assistants is creating a new security perimeter as staff overshare sensitive company data with conversational AI tools. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Building SIEM Detections Using Sigma Rules
How UK SMEs can author portable log-based detections once in Sigma and deploy them across multiple SIEM backends. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, July 18th, 2026
Securing Model Context Protocol: A Roadmap for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure
Argues MCP traffic needs hybrid post-quantum cryptography and agent-to-agent trust before quantum decryption arrives. more →
Security Boulevard, Saturday, July 18th, 2026
5 Critical CMMC Compliance Assessments by Continuum GRC 2026
Outlines five CMMC assessments defense contractors should run to find gaps before certification. more →
Security Boulevard, Sunday, July 19th, 2026
From Principles to Practice: Actionable Blueprints for Ethical AI
Dan Lohrmann lays out concrete frameworks for turning AI ethics principles into day-to-day organizational practice. more →
Security Boulevard, Sunday, July 19th, 2026
DDoS Attack Trends in 2026: Scale, Precision, and the Gaps in Between
Five DDoS trends show enterprise defenses were sized for a threat environment that no longer exists. more →
CIOs, Avoid the AI Budget Trap: 4 Steps for Planning 2027 IT Investments
In this webinar, Gartner will explore four budgeting actions CIOs should consider as they plan 2027 IT investments. Learn which no-regret investments can strengthen AI foundations, how funding priorities vary across different AI operating models, and what temporary cost shifts should be incorporated into budget planning to help avoid structural misalignment and uncontrolled IT spending. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
AI Security in 2026: What Organizations Need to Do
Thales security leaders on how frontier AI compresses vulnerability discovery timelines and what defenders should prioritize. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Spec-Driven Development vs Vibe Coding: The Enterprise Framework for Scaling AI Software Delivery and Proving Its ROI
A framework for replacing ad hoc "vibe coding" with spec-driven AI development to cut defects and prove ROI. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
How Agentic AI Ends the Abuse Inbox Bottleneck
Agentic AI can autonomously triage user-reported phishing, eliminating the manual abuse-inbox queue that gives attackers dwell time. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
When Should an Enterprise Run AI Locally Instead of Using a Cloud LLM?
Five signals for deciding whether AI workloads belong on local infrastructure rather than a cloud LLM. more →
Kovrr, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
How to Assess and Manage AI-Related Risks
This guide walks through the full lifecycle of AI risk assessment and management, from initial discovery through financial quantification and board reporting, with practical guidance on how to build a program that scales. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Threat Modelling LLM Systems for Prompt Injection
Practical threat modeling guidance for UK SMEs securing LLM systems against direct and indirect prompt injection. more →
Gopher Security, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Why Standard Encryption Isn't Enough: The Case for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security
Post-quantum cryptography is urgently needed to protect AI infrastructure from "Store Now, Decrypt Later" harvesting attacks. more →
Gopher Security, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Building Quantum-Proof Cryptography Into Your Enterprise AI Security Architecture
Enterprises should adopt NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography now to counter Store Now, Decrypt Later attacks on AI infrastructure. more →
InfoQ, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 5, JHipster, Google ADK, OmniFish Build Of Payara, Introducing Vidocq
Weekly Java roundup covering TornadoVM 5.0's native CUDA support, JHipster 9.2.0, and the new Vidocq Jakarta EE 11 implementation. more →
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 →
CIO, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
How Do You Go From Junior to Staff Engineer When AI Writes the Code?
AI changes the mentoring interface for junior engineers rather than eliminating the path to senior and staff roles. more →
CSO Online, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
7 Skills and Traits of Elite Security Engineers
The traits that separate elite security engineers, from AI tooling fluency to systems-level thinking and business awareness. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Beyond Cloud Uptime: API Security and AI Resilience for 2026
Akamai makes the case that cloud resilience in 2026 depends on API security and AI workload protection rather than uptime metrics alone. more →
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography: What's Next for Edge Security
Akamai's Rich Salz breaks down Google's 2029 post-quantum timeline, new signature schemes, and the IETF PLANTS working group. more →
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Smash and Grab at Scale: Agentic AI Is Reshaping the Threat to Commerce
Akamai's SOTI report finds a 19% surge in malicious bot traffic against retail as agentic AI scales API abuse and infrastructure costs. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Using Microsegmentation to Contain Autonomous AI Agents
Akamai argues perimeter controls fail against autonomous AI agents and that machine-speed microsegmentation is needed to stop lateral movement. more →
Akamai Technologies, Friday, July 17th, 2026
From Recon to Free Flights: Precision Prompt Attacks on AI Agents
Akamai researchers walk through a kill chain in which attackers spoof tool output to make an AI travel agent issue free flights. more →
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 →
Anysphere, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Improvements to Cursor in Slack
Cursor's Slack integration now plans before executing, works across multiple repositories, and can pull context from other channels. 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 →
AWS, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Authenticate Legitimate AI Agent Traffic With AWS WAF Bot Control
AWS details how WAF Bot Control can verify AI agent traffic where IP-based filtering breaks down in shared multi-tenant environments. more →
AWS, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Announces Intelligent Tiering for Storage
CloudWatch Logs automatically moves log data across Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access tiers based on access patterns. more →
AWS, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.3 arrives on Amazon Bedrock with configurable reasoning effort, tool calling, structured output, and image input. more →
Couchbase CATALYST - The Agent Era is here. Is your data ready? (Oct. 20-22)
Couchbase Catalyst 2026 is the first Couchbase customer conference: three days where technology leaders, architects, and the engineers building on Couchbase meet to advance next-generation data solutions for the Agent Era. more →
Broadcom, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
A Knight's Blueprint: Accelerating Infrastructure Delivery With VCF Automation
Broadcom VCF Knight Doron Shamo explains how VCF Automation turns ticket-driven provisioning into governed self-service. more →
Broadcom, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Opportunities Ahead: An Unexpected Turn Toward A Mainframe Career
A recent graduate describes entering the mainframe field through Broadcom's Mainframe Vitality Program and IBM Z Xplore. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Introducing Apache Spark 4.2
Apache Spark 4.2 adds metric views, expanded Spark Connect, and SQL primitives for vector and geospatial analytics. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Unified Context: The Missing Layer for Enterprise AI Coworkers
Databricks introduces Genie One, an AI assistant that unifies context across scattered enterprise systems. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
What Happens in the Milliseconds After You Tap Pay
A technical walkthrough of a Databricks fraud detection app scoring card transactions in under 50 milliseconds. more →
Databricks, Friday, July 17th, 2026
Meta's Spark Muse 1.1 Is Now Available on Databricks, Fully Governed by Unity AI Gateway
Databricks launches Model Provider Services in Unity AI Gateway, bringing Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 under unified governance. more →
HPE, Monday, July 13th, 2026
HPE Releases Annual Living Progress Report as AI Uptake Makes Efficient, Secure, and Responsible Digital Infrastructure Even More Critical
HPE published its 11th annual Living Progress Report detailing FY25 progress on efficient, secure and responsible digital infrastructure. 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 →
IBM, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
IBM Launches New Power Systems and Software Built for Enterprises to Address Risk, Productivity, and Flexibility
IBM introduced Power Autonomous Operations software, an IBM Bob Premium Package for i, and the entry-level Power S1112 server. more →
FutureCIO, Monday, July 13th, 2026
IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell to Scale Advanced, AI-Driven Remediation Capabilities
IBM and Red Hat commercially launch Lightwell to automate enterprise vulnerability remediation at scale. more →
NVIDIA, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Japan's Robotics and Manufacturing Leaders Build on NVIDIA Cosmos to Advance Physical AI Frontier
NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4B-parameter on-device vision reasoning model, as Japanese manufacturers adopt its physical AI stack. more →
NVIDIA, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Japan's Enterprises and Startups Build Industry-Specialized AI With NVIDIA Nemotron Open Models
Japanese enterprises and research institutions are building Japanese-language, industry-specific AI models on NVIDIA Nemotron open models. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Japan Government, Industrial Leaders and NVIDIA Launch the World's First National AI Infrastructure
Japan launches a national AI factory built on 13,750 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs across 140 megawatts. 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 →
SentinelOne, Friday, July 17th, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 29
SentinelOne's weekly roundup covers Russian cybercrime sanctions, trojanized remote access tools, and 300 fake GitHub repos spreading infostealers. 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 →
SuperMicro, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Supermicro Expands End-to-End DCBBS Liquid Cooling Portfolio With Rear Door Heat Exchangers for High-Density AI and HPC Infrastructure
Supermicro expanded its DCBBS liquid cooling line with ten Rear Door Heat Exchanger models spanning 10kW to 120kW per door. more →
StorageReview, Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Supermicro Expands DCBBS Liquid Cooling With Ten Rear Door Heat Exchangers up to 120kW
Supermicro adds ten rear door heat exchanger models from 10kW to 120kW per door, up to 240kW per rack. more →
