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Friday’s Briefing · February 13

Cloud

The Register, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Why Native Cloud Security Falls Short

As cloud adoption accelerates, many organizations are increasingly relying on the native security features offered by cloud service providers (CSPs). The ability to manage web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption, and key management (KMS) within a single provider ecosystem appears efficient and convenient. However, when security and reliability are viewed through the lens of enterprise risk management, this convenience may come at a significant cost. more →

Why Native Cloud Security Falls Short
CxO

CIO, Friday, February 6th, 2026

What Hyperscalers' Hyper-Spending On Data Centers Tells CIOs

Capital expenditure and not new features could now become the clearest signal of cloud resilience, analysts say. As Microsoft, Google, and, on Thursday night, Amazon reported earnings for the final quarter of 2025, many were watching the bottom line - but the real story lurks behind the hyperscalers' cloud revenue and capital expenditure (capex). more →

What Hyperscalers' Hyper-Spending On Data Centers Tells CIOs

StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Recap Of The 66th IT Press Tour In Silicon Valley, Ca

Eight companies joined the 66th edition of The IT Press Tour, listed here in alphabetical order: Globus, Helikai, InfoScale, The Lustre Collective, Novodisq, Scale Computing, VergeIO and Zettalane Systems. more →

Recap Of The 66th IT Press Tour In Silicon Valley, Ca
Security

The Register, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Infrastructure Cyberattacks Are Suddenly In Fashion. We Can Buck The Trend

Barely a month into 2026, electrical power infrastructure on two continents has tested positive for cyberattacks. One fell flat as attempts to infiltrate and disrupt the Polish distribution grid were rebuffed and reported. The other, earlier attack was part of Operation Absolute Resolve, the US abduction of Venezuela's President Maduro from Caracas on January 3. more →

Infrastructure Cyberattacks Are Suddenly In Fashion. We Can Buck The Trend
Security Boulevard

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Beyond The Chatbot: Why NIST Is Rewriting The Rules For Autonomous AI

The chatbot era has ended. For two years, we've interacted with digital assistants that summarize emails and suggest recipes, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now draws a definitive line between machines that talk and machines that act. Their newly released Request for Information (RFI) signals a fundamental paradigm shift in how we must approach AI risk. more →

Beyond The Chatbot: Why NIST Is Rewriting The Rules For Autonomous AI

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026

Building A Zero-Trust Framework For Cloud Banking

As financial institutions accelerate their cloud transformations, one truth has become clear: the traditional perimeter-based security can no longer defend against the distributed nature of modern financial ecosystems. In a world of open APIs, multi-cloud ecosystems, and AI-driven customer channels, the strongest defense isn't a higher wall - it's a smarter, continuously validated network of trust. more →

Building A Zero-Trust Framework For Cloud Banking

Security Boulevard, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Is Data Center Colocation Secure? What CIOs And CISOs Need To Know

As companies look to modernize, building your own data center feels more like an unnecessary headache than a strategic move. Colocation has stepped in as the smart middle ground where you keep your hardware but skip the massive overhead of managing power and cooling. However, for most CIOs and CISOs, it always comes down to trust. more →

Is Data Center Colocation Secure? What CIOs And CISOs Need To Know
Developer

Analytics Insight, Saturday, February 7th, 2026

How To Secure Apis In 2026: 7 Essential Best Practices For Developers

APIs run quietly in the background of almost everything people do online. From ordering food and booking tickets to making digital payments or accessing government services, most modern platforms depend on multiple APIs talking to each other. Users rarely see them, but attackers certainly do. more →

How To Secure Apis In 2026: 7 Essential Best Practices For Developers

Analytics Insight, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Enterprise Tech Stack 2026: AI SEO, Data Engineering, And CRM Management

Enterprise technology planning for 2026 increasingly revolves around coherence rather than tool volume. Visibility, data flow, and customer systems now operate as a single decision layer rather than isolated functions. When these elements connect cleanly, organisations gain predictability across growth, cost control, and execution velocity. more →

Enterprise Tech Stack 2026: AI SEO, Data Engineering, And CRM Management
ERP
CRM

destination CRM, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

A Look Ahead At CRN In 2026

As the following predictions indicate, artificial intelligence and automation are table stakes in the CRM industry; their influence is either mentioned or implied in nearly every prediction by industry insiders for 2026. But another trend is AI's opposite: the need for interactions that are authentically human. Read on to see which technologies and strategies will loom large this year. more →

A Look Ahead At CRN In 2026
IT Webinars

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Upcoming IT Webinars

Upcoming Event · Mon, Sep 21 · 1:00pm

Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure

Kubernetes has become the universal control plane for modern infrastructure - and now AI is accelerating that evolution. As organizations adopt AI native architectures, scale model training and inference, and push toward more autonomous operations, Kubernetes is emerging as the backbone for running intelligent, distributed systems at scale. more →

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Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure (Sept. 21st)
Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks, Friday, February 6th, 2026

A Rise In Hacktivist Attacks Puts All Web Applications At Risk, Warns UK's NCSC

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has renewed the warning first issued with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and more than 20 other security agencies in December 2025 - that pro-Russia activist groups are targeting organizations with repeated attacks to take web services offline and disrupt operations. more →

A Rise In Hacktivist Attacks Puts All Web Applications At Risk, Warns UK's NCSC
Broadcom

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 8 · 2:00pm

Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth

As AI, cloud, and connected technologies rapidly expand the attack surface, security teams must focus on the risks that matter most. Join CISO leaders to explore how exposure management strengthens visibility, prioritization, and resilience, thus enabling organizations to innovate confidently while reducing their most critical cyber risks. more →

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Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth (Oct. 8th)
KnowBe4

KnowBe4, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

The Phishing-As-A-Service Economy Is Thriving

Commodity phishing platforms are now a central component of the cybercriminal economy, according to researchers at Flare. These platforms allow threat actors of all skill levels to carry out advanced attacks at scale. more →

The Phishing-As-A-Service Economy Is Thriving

KnowBe4, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026

Warning: A Linkedin Phishing Campaign Is Targeting Executives

A phishing campaign is abusing LinkedIn private messages to target executives and IT workers, according to researchers at ReliaQuest. The messages attempt to trick victims into opening an archive file, which will install a legitimate pentesting tool. more →

Warning: A Linkedin Phishing Campaign Is Targeting Executives

Upcoming Event · Thu, Sep 24 · 1:00pm

Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes

In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes (Sept. 24th)
Microsoft

Microsoft, Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Goes Head-To-Head With Amazon And Google

Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, Microsoft says its Maia 200 AI accelerator 'delivers 3 times the FP4 performance of the third generation Amazon Trainium, and FP8 performance above Google's seventh generation TPU.' more →

Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Goes Head-To-Head With Amazon And Google
Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Accelerating Secure AI Adoption

The rapid adoption of AI is transforming the enterprise, unlocking unprecedented productivity and accelerating workflows at a record pace. However, this velocity creates a new productivity paradox: The faster AI moves, the more it can expose the organization to entirely new categories of risk. Without specialized guardrails, unchecked AI can inadvertently bypass company policies, violate legal standards, or ignore ethical norms. more →

Accelerating Secure AI Adoption
SentinelOne

SentinelOne, Friday, February 6th, 2026

AI Security, From Data To Runtime: A Holistic Defense Approach

As organizations rush to adopt AI, they are discovering that traditional, siloed security tools cannot keep pace. The data is too vast, the infrastructure is too interconnected, and runtime environments are too dynamic. Security leaders are confronting a hard reality: AI cannot be secured with point solutions - it is just too broad. more →

AI Security, From Data To Runtime: A Holistic Defense Approach