devops.com, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Predict 2026: Why AI Will Force DevOps to Reinvent Itself
Every year at Predict, we ask a simple question. What is the big story for the year ahead? more →
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Friday’s Briefing · January 23
devops.com, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
The Next DevOps Frontier: Governing Models, Agents And Code
Anaconda CEO David DeSanto explores what it takes to make AI-native development practical, secure and scalable for modern engineering teams. more →
devops.com, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Yes, We Know AI Isn't A Person
Let's get the obvious out of the way right up front. AI isn't a person. Thank you, Captain Obvious. We're all on the same page. more →
devops.com, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Security Controls That Slow Teams Are Usually Poorly Designed
DevOps teams are rapidly adopting AI agents, coding assistants, automated reviewers, deployment bots and infrastructure automation tools. The productivity gains are real. But most organizations don't stick with one AI provider. more →
devops.com, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Your AI Agents Have A Blind Spot: What DevOps Teams Need To Know About Cross-LLM Security
DevOps teams are rapidly adopting AI agents, coding assistants, automated reviewers, deployment bots and infrastructure automation tools. The productivity gains are real. But most organizations don't stick with one AI provider. more →
Outlook for Data Security: Going From Reactive to Resilient
In this complimentary Gartner webinar, Gartner experts will explore the evolution to data-centric security, the role of AI-driven adaptive controls and the importance of aligning incident response with business continuity. more →
Platform Engineering, Friday, January 16th, 2026
Why Platform Adoption Fails - And How Successful Teams Fix It
Platform engineering rarely stalls due to technology; it stalls because of change management or because organizational misalignment prevents platforms from getting started. 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 →
Security Boulevard, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Zero-Trust Isn't Optional Anymore - It's Your AI Agent Fire Drill
Here is the ugly truth about security incidents today. The bad guys don't storm the castle breaking down the walls. Most attacks start with a login that was obtained. Once inside they see where they can go and what they can do. They enter the front door with working keys. more →
The New Stack, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
The New Threats: Attackers Don't Just Break In, They Blend In
Modern attackers are masters of disguise, exploiting implicit trust to mimic normal operations. Learn why visibility isn't a substitute for containment. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, January 12th, 2026
10 Ways To Minimize Human Error And Boost Cybersecurity In 2026
How to Minimize Human Mistakes and Improve Cybersecurity Through Methods Like MFA, AI Integration and More in 2026 more →
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Top Cybersecurity Trends To Watch In 2026's AI Economy
Cybersecurity in the AI Economy: Defending Digital Frontiers in 2026 more →
computerweekly, Friday, January 16th, 2026
NSA Urges Continuous Checks To Achieve Zero Trust
The agency leading the US government's cryptology and cyber security strategies has published its latest zero-trust guidance more →
Help Net Security, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
CISO Assistant: Open-Source Cybersecurity Management And GRC
CISO Assistant is an open-source governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform designed to help security teams document risks, controls, and framework alignment in a structured system. The community edition is maintained as a self-hosted tool for organizations that want direct access to the code and data. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Generative AI In Enterprises: Security Risks Most Companies Are Not Measuring
Generative Artificial Intelligence has rapidly moved from experimentation to widespread adoption across enterprise environments. From internal copilots and customer support chatbots to code generation and data analysis, organizations are embedding large language models into critical business workflows. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026
How AI Impacts The Cyber Market And The Future Of SIEM
Security has always moved in waves. Not because we suddenly get smarter, but because we learn from past mistakes, identify gaps, hit limits, need to protect new technologies, and then go and do our best to solve those new security challenges with the technologies at hand. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
How AI Is Reshaping Software Development And How Tech Leaders Should Measure Its Impact
Artificial intelligence is now part of modern software development. The tools available to engineers today are enabling new levels of productivity, automation, and collaboration. Leaders in technology organizations are asking the same question: how do we measure whether this investment in AI is actually effective? more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
How Can Agentic AI Enhance Data Security Protocols
Where digital interactions are increasingly automated, the importance of managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is skyrocketing. But what exactly are NHIs, and how can they impact the security protocols of your organization? more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
How Does Agentic AI Deliver Value In SOC Operations
Are Organizations Maximizing the Value of Agentic AI in SOC Operations? more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 16th, 2026
How Is AI Improving The Management Of Cloud Secrets
How Can Organizations Improve Their Security with Non-Human Identities? more →
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Infrastructure Complexity Emerges As Primary Barrier To Enterprise AI Adoption: Survey
A new survey has found that infrastructure complexity, rather than technological capability, has become the primary obstacle preventing enterprises from successfully scaling artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. more →
Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 16th, 2026
Cloud FinOps and Security: Centralized Control vs. Empowered Teams
As many organizations expedite the adoption of cloud, a single question consistently dominates the leadership table: Should cloud be treated purely as another data center with centralized control? Or should teams be fully authorized with guardrails? more →
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
The Choice Is Yours: Stop Paying The All-Flash Tax For Cold Data
Organizations today generate unprecedented volumes of data as AI systems, analytics engines, automation frameworks and digital workflows continue to expand. Yet, despite the rapid growth in data creation, the fundamental behavior of enterprise data has not changed. more →
Modernize for the AI Era
Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. more →
The Hacker News, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
4 Outdated Habits Destroying Your SOC's MTTR in 2026
It's 2026, yet many SOCs are still operating the way they did years ago, using tools and processes designed for a very different threat landscape. Given the growth in volumes and complexity of cyber threats, outdated practices no longer fully support analysts' needs, staggering investigations and incident response. more →
Forrester, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
One Way To Close Your Security Gap: Stop Running As Admin On Windows Daily.
My computing career goes back to when Windows 3.1/3.11 was the dominant desktop OS and slowly being replaced by just-launched Windows 95. Novell NetWare was at its peak for file and print services and slowly losing market share to Windows NT. more →
Network World , Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Power Shortages, Carbon Capture, And AI Automation: What's Ahead For Data Centers In 2026
Uptime Institute warns that the gap between data center construction timelines and power infrastructure availability will exacerbate industry challenges. more →
techradar.pro, Friday, January 16th, 2026
Powering The AI Data Center Boom: The Infrastructure Upgrades Behind Innovation
The AI boom is pushing data center infrastructure to extremes more →
Search ERP, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Why SNMP Remains Relevant In Enterprise Network Management
The Simple Network Management Protocol is almost 40 years old. Despite its age, it remains essential today, ensuring efficient and reliable network management. more →
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
Enterprise data leaders face an aggressive mandate: deploy generative AI and autonomous agents that drive real operational efficiency. Yet, as teams move past isolated pilots into production, they run into a hard architectural barrier. That barrier? Data gravity. more →
Backup Central, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Backup TCO: The Hidden Costs
When IT teams calculate backup TCO, they usually focus on the line items that show up on invoices: software licenses, hardware appliances, and cloud storage subscriptions. more →
Blocks & Files, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Backup That Flexes To Counter Rising Ransomware Risks
Those numbers are real, and they're not small-we're talking five, six, sometimes seven-figure purchases. But here's the problem: those visible costs are actually the minor part of what you're spending on backup infrastructure. more →
techradar.pro, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
I'm A Backup And Recovery Provider, But Here's Why You Shouldn't Just Trust Me
Why Assumed backup safety is a dangerous industrial illusion more →
SecureWorld Threat Defense Virtual Conference
The conference brings together cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and solution providers to discuss emerging threats, defense strategies, AI integration, and cloud security, while offering opportunities to network and earn CPE credits. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Best AI Tools For Digital Marketing In 2026 (Free & Paid)
From Ads to Email Marketing, the Right AI Tools Can Help Brands With Smarter Budget Planning and Content Strategies 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 →
Check Point, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Patch Now: Active Exploitation Underway For Critical HPE OneView Vulnerability
I spoke with Joshua Copeland, Director of Cybersecurity at Crescendo AI and Professor at Tulane University, about MSPs and municipalities. He's blunt: 'Municipalities aren't hit because they're interesting-they're hit because they're reachable, predictable, and unprepared.' The core remedy, he says, is simple: remove those three advantages from the attacker. more →
Check Point, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
VoidLink: The Cloud-Native Malware Framework Weaponizing Linux Infrastructure
Check Point Research has identified a new and highly advanced malware framework, VoidLink, designed specifically to operate inside modern Linux-based cloud environments. more →
CyberArk, Friday, January 16th, 2026
What's Shaping The AI Agent Security Market In 2026
The pace of technological change is relentless. Not long ago, our migration to the cloud and the automation of CI/CD pipelines dominated the conversation. 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 →
Microsoft, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
Announcing Open To Work: How To Get Ahead In The Age Of AI
The work we do, and the way we do it, is always changing. Each of us has a memory of how we once did a task regularly, the tools we used and how both the task and the tools have since changed so much they are nearly unrecognizable. more →
AI-augmented code modernization: from framework migrations to autonomous agents
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Palo Alto Networks Defines SHIELD Framework to Secure Vibecoding
Palo Alto Networks has developed a framework, dubbed SHIELD, that defines a set of best practices for securing applications developed using vibecoding techniques enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Bridging Cybersecurity And AI
In cybersecurity, vulnerability information sharing frameworks have long assumed that conventional threats exploit flaws in software or systems, and they can be resolved with patches or configuration updates. more →
Sophos, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
Laughter In The Dark: Tales Of Absurdity From The Cyber Frontline And What They Taught Us
From a quintuple-encryption ransomware attack to zany dark web schemes and AI fails, Sophos X-Ops looks back at some of our favorite weirdest incidents from the last few years - and the serious lessons behind them more →
Agentic Security Needs to Operationalize Threat Intel
Agentic AI has changed attacks for both adversaries and defenders, but AI has not changed the fundamentals of security. Triage is not the end goal for defenders; prevention is. This means hyperfast AI-powered triage is still not a solution, just one more (very necessary) tool. more →
Veeam, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Top Ransomware Attack Vectors And How To Defend Them
Ransomware isn't new, but the way attackers gain access keeps evolving. In 2025, human‑targeted tactics and cloud‑based compromise dominate the threat landscape. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
Zscaler, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Beyond Patient Zero: Why Detection Is Dead And Quarantine Is King
A recent survey found the median ransomware variant can encrypt nearly 100,000 files (about 53.93GB) in 43 minutes. more →
Zscaler, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Fortify Your Future: How Zscaler Drives A Modern Defensible Architecture For Supercharged Cyber Resilience
In today's hyper-connected world, cyber threats are not just a possibility, they're a relentless reality. From sophisticated nation-state actors to organised criminal groups, the adversaries are more advanced and persistent than ever. more →
Zscaler, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Threat Intel, Ssl Inspection And Other Considerations: A Real-World Checklist For SSE
Somewhere in the middle of your cloud-first journey, there's a moment that doesn't feel like progress. more →
Zscaler, Monday, January 12th, 2026
Top 7 Requirements For Effective AI Red Teaming
Enterprises across the globe are racing to deploy AI across every business workflow, but with accelerated adoption comes a completely new set of risks - one that conventional security tooling was never designed to mitigate. more →