InformationWeek, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
IT Leaders Fast-5: Ed Fox, MetTel
Ed Fox argues why AI can't rescue broken workflows -- and explains how he's scaling experimentation while curbing shadow AI at MetTel. more →
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Friday’s Briefing · March 13
The Register, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
CIOs Say AI Adoption Is Moving Faster Than They Can Manage
Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these things more →
The Register, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Dev Stunned By $82K Gemini Bill After Unknown API Key Thief Goes To Town
Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
CNET, Friday, March 6th, 2026
Motorola's Project Maxwell Pendant Is Just The Start Of Its Experimental Wearables Journey
Of all the big tech companies playing with AI wearables, Motorola might just be the boldest. more →
techradar.pro, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
AI In Networks Isn't CPU Vs. GPU: Intel Unveils 18A-Based Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ For Edge AI And Early 6G Infrastructure
288-core design targets efficiency gains across telecom and data centers more →
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Data Center Demand Surges Even As New Construction Slows
The US data center market delivered a record year in 2025, driven largely by AI and hyperscale cloud expansion. Yet even as demand reached unprecedented levels, new construction slowed for the first time in several years, highlighting growing challenges across the country. more →
Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Survey: CIOs Adopting AI Without The Guardrails To Scale
Enterprises are accelerating their investment in AI, but many leaders acknowledge they are moving faster than their organizations can safely manage. more →
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Survey Finds Rising Stress Among System Admins As Workloads Expand
A new global survey of IT professionals can be summed up in one unfortunate truth: enterprise systems remain largely stable, but the overworked people running them are feeling the strain. more →
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Survey: IT Leaders Hope AI Will Narrow Strategic Portfolio Management Gap
A global survey of 401 senior executives finds that while nearly all (95%) agree that strategic portfolio management (SPM) is critical for business success, only 44% indicate they have an effective SPM process in place today. more →
Techstrong.IT, Friday, February 27th, 2026
Green Cloud Computing - Achieving Sustainable Business Growth
As organizations migrate to the cloud platform, they have been exploring ways to better leverage its advantages while minimizing the environmental impact. To do this, organizations must utilize green cloud computing. more →
Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
AI's Electricity Use Is Driving Tech Firms To Build Private Energy Networks
Across the United States, leading tech companies are advancing plans to construct data centers that operate independently of the traditional power grid. Rather than wait years for utilities to approve new grid connections, these firms are pairing server campuses with on-site power generation, often fueled by natural gas. The result is the early formation of a parallel energy network built to serve the demands of AI. more →
The Accidental DBA, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
Baseline Vs. Guessing
Too often 'it's slow' is a guess, not a diagnosis. Without historical performance data, you have no baseline to compare against. A single moment in time doesn't tell you whether your current state is normal, trending worse, or an outlier event. more →
Analytics Insight, Friday, March 6th, 2026
Best SQL Server Data Tools For 2026: Top 10 Picks
Top 10 SQL Server Tools Helping Teams Manage Databases Efficiently in 2026 more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
6 Minutes And A Prayer: The Math Your SOC Doesn't Want You To See
Your analysts are gambling with alerts, and the math proves it. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Operational Technology (OT) Penetration Testing: Defining, Process And Tools
Operational penetration testing is a process of simulating real-world attacks on OT systems to identify vulnerabilities before cybercriminals can exploit them, either physically or remotely. more →
The New Stack, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Why Traditional ITOps Is Failing To Keep Up With The Unique Nature Of AI Incidents
Traditional ITOps is failing. Learn how to adapt your incident management strategy for the unique risks and shifts of the AI era. more →
CIO, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
AI Data Centers Are Becoming Fortresses - And That's The Point
AI data centers aren't just getting faster - they're getting attacked, which means modernization now depends as much on security as on compute power. more →
DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
How Grid-Safe Data Centers Can Help Ease The Power Crisis
Given the growing talk of cloud repatriation, we asked two CIOs: What workload would you not move to the cloud again if you were starting over today? more →
InformationWeek, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
Kill Your ITIL: Why CIOs Are Abandoning Traditional Service Management
As business demands accelerate, rigid IT frameworks increasingly hold organizations back. Here's what's replacing traditional service delivery models and why. more →
Help Net Security, Friday, March 6th, 2026
Backup Strategies Are Working, And Ransomware Gangs Are Responding With Data Theft
Business email compromise (BEC) and funds transfer fraud combined for 58% of all cyber insurance claims filed in 2025, according to data from Coalition covering more than 100,000 policyholders across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany. more →
ZDNet, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
Why Encrypted Backups May Fail In An AI-Driven Ransomware Era
Think your encrypted backups are safe? AI-driven ransomware now infiltrates networks, corrupts recovery points, and silently targets backup systems before you ever realize your data protection strategy has failed. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
5 Best B2B Data Enrichment Tools For Sales In 2026
Sales performance rarely breaks because of effort. It breaks because of misalignment. When sales data lacks depth and accuracy, prospecting becomes reactive and inefficient. more →
How to Scale AI Agents Without Losing Control
This webinar explores practical approaches for governing AI agents at scale. Learn how to embed governance into workflows, define accountability, and establish the oversight needed to maintain control as AI capabilities evolve. more →
Commvault, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Cyber Readiness Amid Geopolitical Tensions: Guidance For Our Customers, Partners, And Community
Periods of geopolitical instability, including the current conflict in the Middle East, can lead to an increase in cyber activity from both state‑linked groups and opportunistic threat actors. Government agencies and industry organizations have encouraged businesses to maintain a heightened security posture during this time. more →
Commvault, Friday, March 6th, 2026
How SMMPA Strengthened Cyber Resilience with Cleanroom Recovery
When you're responsible for powering communities across southern Minnesota, cybersecurity isn't just about protecting data. It's about making sure the lights stay on. For Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (SMMPA), implementing Commvault Cleanroom Recovery was a strategic decision that transformed their approach to cyber resilience. more →
Commvault, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
Why AI Is Breaking Your Resilience Strategy (And What To Do About It)
Learn more about a new approach to help protect and recover your data. more →
AI Security Summit 2026: State of Trust
Join CSA for the AI Security Summit 2026: State of Trust, a free two-day virtual flagship event taking place September 16-17, 2026. more →
CyberArk, Friday, March 6th, 2026
Bridging IT And OT Identity Decisions On The Factory Floor
In today's smart factories, production doesn't go quiet at shift change. Behind the scenes, modern manufacturing systems never cease. They continuously exchange data, adjust software and processes in real time, and allow vendors to connect remotely to monitor performance or deliver updates. As these interactions multiply, the number of identity-driven points grows just as quickly. more →
CyberArk, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Rethinking SaaS Access Security After Login
Most organizations have gotten very good at protecting the front door. We invest heavily in single sign-on (SSO), mandate multi-factor authentication (MFA), and lock down who can log in, from where, and under what conditions. We do everything to ensure that the right user has the right access. But one critical question often still goes unanswered: What really happens after someone logs in? more →
Datacore, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
The End Of Predictable Storage Economics: Why IT Leaders Must Rethink Refresh And Lock-In In 2026
Designing infrastructure that works on your terms. Not the market's. more →
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 →
Google, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Ask A Techspert: How Does AI Understand My Visual Searches?
Visual search has improved leaps and bounds - look no further than recent updates to Google Search. Here, a Google expert explains this progress and what technique we've used to make it happen. more →
Google, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Create New Worlds In Project Genie With These 4 Tips
Here's how to write great prompts for Project Genie, which lets you create and explore your own interactive worlds. more →
Google, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Use Canvas In AI Mode To Get Things Done And Bring Your Ideas To Life, Right In Search.
Canvas in AI Mode is now available for everyone in the U.S. in English, offering a dedicated, dynamic space to organize your plans and projects over time. And Canvas is more capable than ever, with newly added support for creative writing and coding tasks. Now, you can draft documents or create custom, interactive tools right within Search. more →
siliconANGLE, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Google Threat Intelligence Group Warns Enterprise Systems Increasingly Targeted By Zero-Day Exploits
A new report out today from Google LLC's Threat Intelligence Group finds that zero-day vulnerability exploitation remained elevated in 2025 as attackers increasingly targeted enterprise infrastructure and security appliances rather than traditional consumer software. more →
Google, Friday, March 6th, 2026
Google Gemini Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide
Google Gemini is Google's suite of generative AI features that power conversations, writing, research, and creative tools across Google's apps and devices. more →
telecompetitor, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
Google Cloud Announces New Agentic AI Tools For Telecom Companies
This week, as the Mobile World Congress begins in Barcelona, Spain, Google Cloud announced enhancements to its Cloud Spanner Graph and Vertex AI to help make agentic artificial intelligence (AI) a reality for telecom networks. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
How To Identify A Phishing Website
Our increasing dependence on the internet and, specifically, email for business and personal communication has produced the perfect environment for cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks. more →
KnowBe4, Saturday, March 7th, 2026
What Is OSINT?
OSINT stands for open-source intelligence. It is the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information from publicly available sources, such as social media, government reports, newspapers, and other public documents. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Phishing Simulation: How IT Works To Reduce Risk
Phishing isn't just increasing. It's outpacing the way many organizations test for it. Attacks have surged 400% year over year, and corporate users are now more likely to be targeted by phishing than by malware. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
How Risky Is Sending A Sensitive Work Email To The Wrong Person?
Sending a work email to the wrong person - it's something all of us have done at least once in our working lives. For some people, it's a regular occurrence. But just how risky is it? more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Phishing on Messaging Apps: How Attackers Use WhatsApp, Teams, Slack, and SMS
Messaging platforms are now a major vector for phishing and other social engineering attacks, according to a new report from NCC Group's Fox-IT. more →
The Future of AI Pricing: What Every CIO Needs to Know (Sept. 15h)
This session explores the evolution of AI pricing models and what they mean for enterprise decision making. Gartner experts examine the challenges emerging pricing approaches create for budgeting, governance and financial planning, and discuss how organizations can adapt. more →
Trend Micro, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
CISOs In A Pinch: A Security Analysis Of OpenClaw
Anthropic's Claude Code Security is a legitimate leap forward for pre-deployment vulnerability detection - and the market sell-off (Cybersecurity ETF at a 2+ year low) is an overreaction based on a category error. more →
Migrate and Modernize your applications with at 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 →
Varonis, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Copy, Paste, Ransom: Making Data Exfiltration As Easy As AzCopy
Ransomware operators are ditching the usual tools for Microsoft's own AzCopy, turning a trusted Azure utility into a data exfiltration powerhouse. more →
Varonis, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
From Hype To Culture: How We Turned AI Adoption Turned Into Everyday Impact
A practical, engineering‑led framework for turning gen AI investment into real adoption, measurable impact, and lasting culture. more →