HPCwire, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Gartner Says Worldwide Sovereign Cloud IaaS Spending Will Total $80B In 2026
Sovereign Cloud IaaS Spending to Shift 20% of Current Workloads from Global to Local Cloud Providers more →
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Professional Security Magazine, Saturday, February 14th, 2026
Cloud Threats And Measures
Justin Rutherford, chief technology officer at cloud managed services company OryxAlign, discusses the biggest threats to cloud security in 2026 and the measures businesses should take to enhance resilience. more →
Cloud Native Now, Monday, February 9th, 2026
How AI, Innovation And Legacy Systems Can Come Together For Modernization
The 'AI and digital maturity paradox' is a pressing reality for modern enterprises. While over 89% of organizations are actively pursuing digital transformation, nearly half struggle to maintain business stability while embracing innovation. more →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, February 13th, 2026
150+ Key Compliance Statistics: AI , Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Regulatory Trends To Know In 2026
In 2026, compliance sits at the intersection of AI adoption, expanding privacy regulations, and rising cybersecurity risk. As regulatory expectations tighten and digital systems grow more complex, organizations are under pressure to align governance, security, and operations. more →
The Missing VPN Layer In Endpoint Security
As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and the complexities of hybrid workforces, these sessions deliver expert guidance on implementing robust Zero Trust architectures, SASE strategies, and centralized VPN management. more →
siliconANGLE, Friday, February 13th, 2026
How Red Hat And The NVIDIA Ecosystem Are Standardizing AI Factories (20:57)
The Nvidia ecosystem is quickly becoming the control plane for AI infrastructure. more →
theCUBE research, Monday, February 9th, 2026
On theCUBE Pod: Investors Panic At AI 's Impact On SaaS Companies, Infrastructure Spend Keeps Rising And OpenAI Considers Ads For ChatGPT (1:01:13)
Will artificial intelligence be the death of software? Investors seem to think so. This week, fears over whether or not AI is an existential threat to software-as-a-service companies were felt across the stock market. Industry experts view the stock dip as an overreaction to the natural evolution of software. more →
The Register, Monday, February 9th, 2026
How The GNU C Compiler Became The Clippy Of Cryptography
The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers. Today's compilers boil down code into its most efficient form, but in doing so they can undo safety precautions. more →
SC Media, Monday, February 9th, 2026
CISA Gives Federal Agencies One Year To Replace Outdated Edge Devices
Looking to finally modernize and secure federal government networks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Feb. 5 gave civilian agencies one year to replace all end-of-support (EoS) edge devices. more →
Information Week, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Slamming The Door On AI -Based Cybersecurity Threats
AI is exposing blind spots in traditional security defenses. CIOs may be creating new risks as fast as they can eliminate them. Is automation the only viable response? more →
Dark Reading, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
How To Stay On Top Of Future Threats With A Cutting-Edge SoC
CISOs should focus on harnessing and securing AI and building new skills among their people. Vision and change management can transform security. more →
Architecture and Governance, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Rethinking Identity Management: From Who Has Access To What Really Matters
For years, most organizations have assumed that Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) was all about compliance. With that in mind, most of them invested heavily to ensure they remain in good books with regulators and auditors. Whether it's completing access reviews on time, signing off on certificates, generating necessary reports, you name it! Everything seemed to check out. At least on paper. In reality, things played out a bit differently. more →
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Is Traditional Cybersecurity Dead? How AI And Zero Trust Are Changing Protection
How Behavioral AI and Zero Trust Could be Shaping Cybersecurity Software more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
47 Day SSL/TLS Mandates: A Step Towards Transitioning To Automation
SSL certificates are now expiring faster than avocados. Yes... avocados. You buy them green, blink twice, and suddenly they're brown and useless. That's exactly what's happening to SSL/TLS certificates. more →
Webinar: 6 Use Cases You Didn't Think Possible on the Data Lake
Your lakehouse already holds the data. Iceberg and Delta solved openness, durability, and cost. So why does every workload with a real performance SLA still live somewhere else? more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Breaking The Data Gravity Curse In The AI Factory
Metadata is usually that dry stuff at the bottom of a file properties window that nobody looks at. You know, the file size, the creation date, the permissions. But if you're trying to build an AI factory out of a decade's worth of fragmented enterprise data, metadata is the first thing that matters. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, February 13th, 2026
What Future-Proof Methods Do Agentic AI s Use In Data Protection?
How secure is your organization's cloud environment? With the digital transformation accelerates, gaps in security are becoming increasingly noticeable. Non-Human Identities (NHIs), representing machine identities, are pivotal in these frameworks. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
The Agentic Virus: How AI Agents Become Self-Spreading Malware
In my previous post, I walked through how disconnected MCP servers and AI agents create a growing blind spot in enterprise identity. The problem: thousands of MCP deployments running with overly broad tokens, no authentication, and no connection to your identity fabric. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Securing Agentic AI Connectivity
AI agents are no longer theoretical, they are here, powerful, and being connected to business systems in ways that introduce cybersecurity risks! They're calling APIs, invoking MCPs, reasoning across systems, and acting autonomously in production environments, right now. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Roses Are Red, AI Is Wild: A Guide To AI Regulation
Every week brings a new framework, executive order, regional law, task force, or strongly worded guideline about how AI should be used (and what might happen if it isn't). more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Reducing Alert Fatigue Using AI: From Overwhelmed SOCs to Autonomous Precision
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face a growing operational challenge: overwhelming alert volumes. Modern enterprise environments generate thousands of security notifications daily across endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and application layers. more →
How-To Geek, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
The Linux Commands You Use Every Day Have A Name: Coreutils
Every Linux system is unique, and other Unix-based systems like macOS and BSD introduce even more differences. But they all have a reliable, consistent set of tools at their heart, and these tools help define the Linux experience. more →
Building a Secure AI Strategy for the Enterprise
This virtual event explores the implications of this new world order of AI agents joining the business, including AI discovery, governance, identity, and how to put in place the proper guardrails. more →
The Next Platform, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Datacenter Spending Forecast Revised Upwards - Yet Again
This is turning into a 'dog bites man' story, but the forecasts for spending in the datacenter for this year keep going up and up, and a few days ago Gartner's economists and prognosticators finished up their tea and looked at the leaves at the bottom of a cup through a polished crystal ball and predicted that datacenter spending this year would go up. more →
DataCenter Knowledge, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Beyond The Chiller: Rethinking Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) Through System-Level Energy Recovery
Power usage effectiveness needs to be approached through the lens of innovations in cooling and energy efficiency, writes Stephen Richards. more →
Help Net Security, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Edge Computing's Biggest Lie: 'We'll Patch It Later'
Edge computing is spreading fast, from factory floors to remote infrastructure. But many of these systems are hard to maintain once they are deployed. more →
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 →
Akamai-Technologies, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Understand The Shift Toward AI-Driven Interactions: A Guide To MCP
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly emerging as the answer to a pressing question facing today's leaders: How do I optimize my business for AI? Think of MCP as a Swiss Army Knife for AI: one interface, many possibilities, built from the tools your business chooses for AI to use. more →
Akamai-Technologies, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Industrialized Ransomware: Confronting The New Reality
On Easter Weekend 2025, something was amiss at one retailer's stores across the United Kingdom. Contactless payments failed. Click-and-collect orders vanished. Shelves emptied. more →
Akamai-Technologies, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Your OpenClaw Agent Doesn't Sleep. Your Laptop Does. Move It To The Cloud.
OpenClaw (formerly called Moltbot and/or Clawdbot) is blowing up right now. People are waking up to agents that coded overnight, scheduled their own tasks, and - in at least one viral case - called someone on the phone using a number that it set up by itself. more →
Akamai-Technologies, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Observing The Anatomy Of Peak Traffic
Digital peak traffic events - from live events, like sports streaming, to ecommerce flash sales and holiday surges - put extreme, real-time pressure on every layer of infrastructure because downtime and delays are so costly. more →
Check Point, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Check Point Sets Out Four-Pillar Blueprint For Securing The AI-Driven Enterprise
The ongoing AI arms race has become a central theme in cybersecurity, with both defenders and attackers rapidly adopting the technology and looking to wield it to their advantage. In many ways, it's an escalation of the typical cat-and-mouse nature of cybersecurity, though greatly accelerated and with higher stakes. 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 →
KnowBe4, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Your KnowBe4 Fresh Compliance Plus Content Updates - January 2026
The first requirements set forth for the EU AI Act start this month (February). Luckily, this regulation starts with some of the easiest components to comply with; these are related to banned activities and basic AI literacy. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Voice Phishing Kits Give Threat Actors Real-Time Control Over Attacks
Researchers at Okta warn that a series of phishing kits have emerged that are designed to help threat actors launch sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) attacks that can bypass multifactor authentication. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Uncovering The Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Bypassing M365 MFA
KnowBe4 Threat Labs has detected a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting North American businesses and professionals. more →
KnowBe4, Friday, February 13th, 2026
New Book! How AI And Quantum Impact Cyber Threats And Defenses
I am excited to announce my latest book, "How AI and Quantum Impact Cyber Threats and Defenses: Shaping Your Cyber Defense Strategies." more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Love In The Age Of AI - Why 2026 Romance Scams Are Almost Impossible To Spot
Valentine's Day is usually a time for flowers and candlelight, but in recent years the digital dating landscape has shifted from a place of hope to a high-tech minefield. While "catfishing" was once the primary concern for online daters, 2026 has ushered in a more sinister era: the completely AI-enabled romance scam. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
'Digital Mindfulness' Is Your Best Defense This Safer Internet Day
If you look back just a couple of years, the digital landscape looks almost unrecognizable. We've moved from AI being a cool new tool to it being at the heart of our online lives. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Microsoft Patches Critical Notepad Vulnerability Allowing Code Execution
As reported by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad application. This flaw allowed attackers to trick users into clicking specially crafted Markdown links, leading to the execution of local or remote programs without triggering standard Windows security warnings. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenA
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. more →
Okta, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Okta Introduces New Shadow AI Agent Discovery Features
As outlined in Silicon Angle, Okta Inc. has introduced new features designed to address the growing challenge of "shadow AI" within organizations. These additions aim to provide enterprises with greater visibility and control over artificial intelligence agents, particularly those operating outside of IT oversight. more →
Okta, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Okta Secures The Agentic Enterprise With New Tools For Discovering And Mitigating Shadow AI Risks
Okta is helping secure AI by transforming unknown AI agents from hidden risks into governed assets that enable innovation safely more →
Okta, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
How C-Suite Leaders Are Taming Shadow AI
Whether business leaders are ready or not, AI agents are transforming how companies do business. As recent studies have shown, employees are turning to AI to achieve productivity gains, even if it means doing so outside the IT department's control. more →
Okta, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Balancing AI Innovation And Security With Equals Money COO/CPO James Simcox
Innovation shouldn't have to come at the cost of security. But with AI on the scene, leaders will need to carefully balance the risk and reward to get the most out of the technology without sabotaging their defenses in the process. more →
Oxide Computer News, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Oxide Plans New Rack Attack, Packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM
Oxide says AMD's Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works more →
Oxide Computer News, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Oxide Closes $200M Series C To Scale On-Premises Cloud Computing
Thomas Tull's USIT fund and existing investors deepen commitment as Oxide secures long-term independence and focuses on customer expansion more →
Rapid7, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Measuring AI Security: Separating Signal From Panic
The conversation around AI security is full of anxiety. Every week, new headlines warn of jailbreaks, prompt injection, agents gone rogue, and the rise of LLM-enabled cybercrime. It's easy to come away with the impression that AI is fundamentally uncontrollable and dangerous, and therefore something we need to lock down before it gets out of hand. more →
Rapid7, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Carding-As-A-Service: The Underground Market Of Stolen Cards
Despite sustained efforts by the global banking and payments industry, credit card fraud continues to affect consumers and organizations on a large scale. Underground 'dump shops' play a central role in this activity, selling stolen credit and debit card data to criminals who use it to conduct unauthorized transactions and broader fraud campaigns. more →
Rapid7, Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Patch Tuesday - February 2026
Microsoft is publishing 55 vulnerabilities this February 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for six of today's vulnerabilities, and notes public disclosure for three of those. Earlier in the month, Microsoft provided patches to address three browser vulnerabilities, which are not included in the Patch Tuesday count above. 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 →
Varonis, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Dataflow Rider: How Attackers Can Abuse Shadow Resources In Google Cloud Dataflow
Discover how attackers can hijack Google Cloud Dataflow pipelines by manipulating shadow resources and learn how to secure your environment against it. more →
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
