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Friday’s Briefing · April 17

CIO, Monday, April 6th, 2026

Ten Ways To Accelerate Digital Transformation

From establishing an 'innovation engine' to building a cross-functional governance entity, IT leaders offer several strategies to help their peers expedite transformative IT initiatives in the AI era. more →

Ten Ways To Accelerate Digital Transformation

How-To Geek, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Four Open-Source Windows Apps That Are Better Than Their Paid Rivals

Open-source applications sometimes have a reputation for being slightly buggy or unpolished, and that is sometimes true. However, in many cases-including some of the most important types of apps you'll need-the free and open-source options are leagues ahead of the paid options. Here are four of my favorites. - VLC Media Player - The best multi-purpose media player - Bitwarden - Stop reusing insecure passwords - Joplin - Note taking without a paywall - OBS Studio - Recording, streaming, and more in one program Open-source applications once had a reputation for being buggy, or "not user-friendly." However, these days, many of the best apps out there are open-source and free. more →

Four Open-Source Windows Apps That Are Better Than Their Paid Rivals

Security Boulevard, Friday, April 10th, 2026

Authentication Solutions For Businesses: Benefits, Use Cases, And More

Authentication is not an afterthought. With traditional password-based systems failing to keep pace, businesses need to adopt a strategic approach to enhance security and the user experience. Cyberattacks grew by 30% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2024, while the average cost of a data breach reached a record high of $4.45 million. more →

Authentication Solutions For Businesses: Benefits, Use Cases, And More

Security Boulevard, Monday, April 6th, 2026

Best Of The Worst: The Week Your Security Tools Became The Disguise

This week's Attack of the Day posts revealed a clear pattern: attackers are deliberately routing attacks through legitimate security and platform infrastructure so the tools themselves become trust signals. TitanHQ and Cisco URL wrappers hid a malware payload. more →

Best Of The Worst: The Week Your Security Tools Became The Disguise

Security Boulevard, Monday, April 6th, 2026

How A Single Source Of Truth Streamlines Regulatory Compliance

In regulatory compliance, a single source of truth brings together the regulatory requirement and your processes and evidence of the requirement. The point is to maintain one governed record the team can use with confidence. The evidence layer is so important as it's becoming more common to be required to show how the rule was translated into action. more →

How A Single Source Of Truth Streamlines Regulatory Compliance

Security Boulevard, Monday, April 6th, 2026

Identity Security Starts Before Login

Identity security begins when a person's identity is first created and enrolled in your systems. This early moment shapes every authentication decision that follows and plays a central role in workforce impersonation risk. Increasingly, it's also where attackers focus. more →

Identity Security Starts Before Login

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026

A Guide To Orchestrating End-To-End Investigations With AI

This blog post is the third in a four-part series on Swimlane's fleet of expert AI agents and focuses on the Hero AI Investigation Agent. This agent eliminates the costly problem of context switching, which consumes significant analyst time as they pivot among multiple tools to gather context. more →

A Guide To Orchestrating End-To-End Investigations With AI

Security Boulevard, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Cybersecurity In The Age Of Instant Software

AI is rapidly changing how software is written, deployed, and used. Trends point to a future where AIs can write custom software quickly and easily: 'instant software.' more →

Cybersecurity In The Age Of Instant Software

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026

How Do Agentic AIs Deliver Value To Enterprise

Have you ever considered the invisible force quietly securing your enterprise's digital assets? These are Non-Human Identities (NHIs), playing a pivotal role in protection and management of sensitive information. But what exactly are NHIs, and how do they integrate with enterprise AI to add value? more →

How Do Agentic AIs Deliver Value To Enterprise

Security Boulevard, Monday, April 6th, 2026

How Does Agentic AI Contribute To Tech Stability

Where machine identities and cybersecurity are paramount, the concept of Agentic AI emerges as a groundbreaking factor in ensuring technological stability across industries. But what exactly does Agentic AI entail, and how can it reshape professionals tasked with safeguarding digital assets? more →

How Does Agentic AI Contribute To Tech Stability

AiThority, Friday, April 10th, 2026

AI Infrastructure: The Hidden Layer Driving Innovation

AI is one of the most important new technologies of our time. It is changing how businesses work and changing whole industries. A lot of the focus is on advanced models and applications that users can see, but there is a deeper layer that makes these new ideas possible and lets them grow. This section talks about that basic layer and why it should get the same amount of attention. more →

AI Infrastructure: The Hidden Layer Driving Innovation

FutureCIO, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

Backup Strategies That Adapt To Threats, Regulations, And More

As World Backup Day 2026 highlights the critical role of robust data protection, enterprises across Asia-Pacific are redesigning backup and recovery practices to counter escalating ransomware, multi-cloud complexity, and stringent data sovereignty rules. more →

Backup Strategies That Adapt To Threats, Regulations, And More

Broadcom, Monday, April 6th, 2026

Broadcom Launches The Arcot Smart Ruleset

New Arcot Smart Ruleset Revolutionizes the Future of Payment Authentication with Adaptive Intelligence, Precise Transaction Decisioning, and Auto-Regulatory Compliance more →

Broadcom Launches The Arcot Smart Ruleset

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)

Hitachi Vantara, Monday, April 6th, 2026

AI, Managed Services And The CIO's Balancing Act

For today's CIOs, the promise of AI comes with a paradox: delivering transformative new applications while managing infrastructure complexity that few internal IT teams are equipped to handle. more →

AI, Managed Services And The CIO's Balancing Act

Hitach Vantara, Thursday, April 9th, 2026

The Future Of Hybrid Cloud Consumption Is Flexible

Across all industries in the market, enterprises face rising pressure to modernize quickly, reduce risk, and enable data-driven innovation - all while optimizing cost and simplifying increasingly complex hybrid environments. Hybrid cloud has become the operating model for this shift, yet organizations still struggle with fragmented tools and unpredictable expenses. more →

The Future Of Hybrid Cloud Consumption Is Flexible

HPCwire, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

NVIDIA: Running AI Workloads On Rack-Scale Supercomputers

The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 and NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, are rack-scale supercomputers. They're designed with 18 tightly coupled compute trays, massive GPU fabrics, and high-bandwidth networking packaged as a unit. more →

NVIDIA: Running AI Workloads On Rack-Scale Supercomputers

SUSE, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

AI Workloads Are Containerized Workloads

AI workloads are no longer experimental projects running in isolated environments. They are now business-critical systems powering recommendations, search, automation, analytics and generative AI applications. more →

AI Workloads Are Containerized Workloads

SUSE, Thursday, April 9th, 2026

The Shift To An Agentic OS: SUSE's Approach to Linux In The Age of AI

Today, the operating system must move beyond a passive substrate. The emergence of the agentic operating system has established a new opportunity for automating safe, auditable actions across workloads. The most exciting part of this shift isn't the newness, however. It's the incredible capacity for meaningfully streamlined operations. more →

The Shift To An Agentic OS: SUSE's Approach to Linux In The Age of AI

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)