InformationWeek, Friday, February 20th, 2026
IT Mistakes That Escalate Into Serious Cyber-Risk
As tech stacks grow more complex and AI expands the attack surface, routine IT missteps are harder to detect, contain and recover from. more →
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Friday’s Briefing · February 27
ITPro, Friday, February 20th, 2026
CEOs Aren't Seeing Any AI Productivity Gains, Yet Some Tech Industry Leaders Are Still Convinced AI Will Destroy White Collar Work Within Two Years
A massive survey by National Bureau of Economic Research shows limited AI impact, but continued hopes it'll boost productivity eventually more →
Search CIO, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
5 Pillars Of An Agentic AI Strategy
Agentic AI is forcing CIOs to rethink IT strategy. Success depends on identifying key use cases, assessing data readiness, planning infrastructure and establishing governance. more →
Search Unified Communications, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Enterprise IT Decisions No Longer Wait On Decision-Makers
Learn why cost structures, vendor timelines and pricing models are forcing enterprise IT decisions earlier -- often before strategies feel fully formed. more →
The Register, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
CIOs Told: Prove Your AI Pays Off - Or Pay The Price
Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance more →
Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
As AI becomes part of production operations, engineering teams face new challenges in interpreting system behavior, automating routine tasks, and accelerating incident response. more →
theCUBE research, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
AI Frenzy, Memory Supercycle & The Enterprise ROI Reckoning #123
Watch the latest episode of theCUBE Pod, where analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante break down the biggest trends and innovations shaping the tech world. more →
theCUBE research, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Reskilling The Network Workforce For An AI-Driven Era: Part Two
In Part One of this series, we explored how AI and generational shifts in the workforce are redefining the technical skill requirements for network engineers. But the impact of AI extends well beyond technical domains. more →
Humannetech, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
The Race To Build God: AI's Existential Gamble - Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris At Davos
This week on Your Undivided Attention, Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay offer a backstage recap of what it was like to be at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting this year as the world's power brokers woke up to the risks of uncontrolled AI. more →
Metis Strategy, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Designing The Skills-First Enterprise: AI And Workforce Reinvention (25:27)
In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Ehren Powell, Chief Digital Officer of Marathon Petroleum Corporation, about leading digital transformation at one of America's largest and most complex industrial enterprises. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Conducting Secure Code Analysis with LLMs - ASW #370 (46:26)
A major premise of appsec is figuring out effective ways to answer the question, 'What security flaws are in this code?' The nature of the question doesn't really change depending on who or what wrote the code. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Firmware Backdoors Be Spying On You - PSW #91 (2:06:15)
AI says that this is the show where we turn coffee into threat intelligence and cigar smoke into packet captures. This week: a firmware backdoor living its best life inside Android tablets a fresh BeyondTrust RCE that already has scanners circling like seagulls over a french fry. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Inside Modern API Attacks: What We Learn from the 2026 API ThreatStats Report
API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came second to application security or hardening infrastructure. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Insider Threat Indicators Beyond The Firewall
Insider threats rarely start with a dramatic breach. Instead, they begin quietly. A shift in behavior. A suspicious or unauthorized external contact. An unexplained access request. A resume that looks polished, maybe too polished. A resignation that feels sudden. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Major SSL/TLS Certificate Changes 2026: Every Website Owner Must Know
Website owners should take notice of the future changes to the SSL/TLS industry that affect security, certificate management, and user trust. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Previously Compromised Data: Why Credential Exposure Never Expires
For years, organizations have framed breach risk as something finite. A breach occurs, notifications are sent, passwords are reset, and the incident is eventually considered closed. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Real-Time Risk Detection With Automated Vulnerability Assessment Tools
The global vulnerability landscape continues to expand rapidly, with thousands of new CVEs published every year. Thus, allowing hackers to weaponize newly disclosed flaws at an instant. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Secops Automation For Scalable AI Security Workflow
SecOps automation enables security teams to scale operations by automating threat detection, response, and investigation across complex environments. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
How AI Agents Are Transforming Identity Verification And Authentication Systems
Authentication systems are no longer simple gatekeepers that validate credentials and issue tokens. In modern digital ecosystems - especially SaaS and API-driven platforms - authentication operates within complex, distributed environments. Identity providers, OAuth flows, session tokens, device intelligence, and zero-trust policies all interact continuously. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
How Can Agentic AI Improve Cybersecurity In Financial Services
Where cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, the use of Agentic AI in cybersecurity is transforming how industries like financial services handle their security protocols. But what exactly does this mean for your organization's cybersecurity strategy, especially when integrating Non-Human Identities (NHIs) into your security framework? more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
The Chicken Littles Of Silicon Valley: Why AI Doomsayers Are Repeating History's Greatest Mistake
The sky has never been falling. Yet here we are again, watching a new generation of prognosticators prophecy civilizational collapse while evidence of human adaptability and economic dynamism surrounds them. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, February 16th, 2026
Why Does Agentic AI Provide A Calm Approach To Crisis Management?
Have you ever considered the hidden guardians of digital infrastructure? These are the often overlooked Non-Human Identities (NHIs), which are pivotal in managing cybersecurity threats across various industries. Understanding NHIs and their significance is imperative within the context of crisis management strategies, especially when organizations increasingly rely on cloud environments. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Why Are Cybersecurity Professionals Confident In Agentic AI Defenses?
How Are Non-Human Identities Reshaping Cloud Security Strategies? 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 →
Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
What Solidigm Showed At AI Infrastructure Field Day
At AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 (AIIFD4), one message was unmistakable: the AI era is being shaped by data, and storage is finally taking center stage. Whether you work in data center operations or you're charting an AI strategy at the executive level, you already feel the pressure. more →
Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Xsight Labs Is Raising The Bar For AI-Era Networking
Modern AI factories aren't bottlenecked by GPUs anymore; they're bottlenecked by the networks feeding them. At AIIFD4, Xsight made a compelling case that fixed-function silicon can't keep up with AI-era requirements, and then backed it up with real deployments, shipping products, and verified performance numbers. more →
CNET, Monday, February 16th, 2026
I've Been Testing VPNs for Over a Decade. These Are the 9 VPN Settings I Enable for Optimal Privacy
Your VPN's default settings might not be giving you all the protection you need, but adjust these settings to get a privacy boost. more →
ZDNET, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
New To VPNs? Everything You Need To Know About Virtual Private Networks In 2026 VPNs?
Our step-by-step guide covers the many benefits, limited downsides, and everything else you need to know before embracing this popular privacy tool. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Top Productivity Apps And Tools Every Freelancer Needs In 202
Freelancers juggle multiple roles simultaneously-marketer, accountant, project manager, and client communicator. Without structured systems, their workload quickly becomes unmanageable. The right productivity tools help maintain order in the chaos by streamlining workflows, making project visibility easy by bringing it onto one dashboard, and automating other administrative tasks. more →
Ask The Headhunter, Monday, February 16th, 2026
LinkedIn's Hiring Numbers Don't Add Up & Job Seekers Pay The Price (Old Newspaper Want Ads Did Better)
For decades Americans have been told that online job boards are the engines of modern hiring. LinkedIn, Indeed, CareerBuilder, ZipRecruiter - the whole digital carnival - all insist they're indispensable. They promise efficiency, reach, and 'data-driven hiring.' They promise to match talent with opportunity at unprecedented scale. more →
CIO, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Future-Proof Tech Skills For The Evolving AI Job Market
AI isn't killing tech jobs - it's changing them, favoring pros who pair data and cloud savvy with curiosity, empathy and business sense. 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 →
Barracuda Networks, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Back On Track: Why Recoverability Matters As A KPI
How measuring recoverability drives faster, stronger cyber incident response more →
Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
That's Not Our Admin: The Blind Spots That Open Doors To Attackers
Lessons from around 600,000 security alerts analyzed by Barracuda Managed XDR more →
Barracuda Networks, Friday, February 20th, 2026
From Anomaly To Action: AI's Role In Identity Security
Harnessing artificial intelligence to strengthen identity security and protect organizational data 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 →
Bitdefender, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Master XDR Investigations: A Deep Dive into the GravityZone XDR Demo Incident
An attacker's initial access, whether through phishing, unmanaged devices, exploited vulnerabilities, or a compromised supply chain, marks the beginning of a dangerous chain of events. more →
Migrating Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service
This session is ideal for engineering leaders, search architects, and platform teams currently operating Apache Solr who want to understand the benefits, trade-offs, and practical steps involved in migrating to a fully managed search service on AWS. more →
Citrix, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Divestitures And Carve-Outs: Untangling Spaghetti
In the world of corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) grab the big headlines. They are the high-stakes, high-visibility deals that capture the imagination. But there's another side to that coin that can be more complex, technically difficult, and demanding for the IT organization: divestitures and carve-outs. more →
Citrix, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
What Will Knowledge Work Be In 18 Months? Look At What AI Is Doing To Coding Right Now.
There's a lot of buzz about something big happening in software engineering thanks to the latest batch of AI models. However, most knowledge workers think this is just a 'coding thing' which doesn't apply to them. They're wrong. more →
IBM, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Lifting the cover on the IBM Spyre Accelerator
To address the rapid escalation in compute requirements for generative AI and foundation models, IBM Research has taken a full-stack approach to building and integrating AI compute into our system products. The IBM Spyre Accelerator emerged from this approach. more →
The Future of AI Pricing: What Every CIO Needs to Know
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 →
Proofpoint, Monday, February 16th, 2026
Not All AI Is Created Equal: Why Context And Layers Matter In Email Security
Artificial intelligence is everywhere in cybersecurity marketing today. Every vendor claims to be 'AI-powered,' 'AI-first,' or 'AI-native.' But as organizations increasingly rely on AI to protect their people and data, one uncomfortable truth is becoming clear: not all AI is created equal-and in email security, that difference matters more than ever. more →
Proofpoint, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
(Don't) TrustConnect: It's a RAT in an RMM hat
RMM tools continue to be many attackers' top choice for initial access. Such enterprise remote support software like SimpleHelp, SuperOps, Datto, N-able and others are frequently delivered via email campaigns by cybercrime actors or used as follow-on payloads once an actor achieves initial access. more →
Red Hat, Monday, February 16th, 2026
Building The Foundation For An AI-Driven, Sovereign Future With Red Hat Partners
At Red Hat, we believe the telecommunications landscape is entering its most transformative chapter yet. To thrive, telecommunications service providers must transcend their traditional role as connectivity providers to become indispensable enablers of digital autonomy. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
How LLM-D Brings Critical Resource Optimization With Softbank's AI-RAN Orchestrator
As the technical reality of AI-RAN comes into focus, many telecommunication service providers are realizing that it's no longer just about whether they can run AI and radio access network (RAN) on the same hardware - it's about how they manage AI at scale. more →
Red Hat, Monday, February 16th, 2026
How Sovereign Is Your Strategy? Introducing The Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment Tool
Digital sovereignty is the ultimate strategic lever for innovation. It propels organizations beyond compliance into true operational freedom where you, not your cloud provider, dictates your business continuity. more →
Red Hat, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Introducing Red Hat Build Of Podman Desktop: Enterprise-Ready Local Container Development Environments
The "works on my machine" problem has been a thorn in the side of IT since the dawn of distributed development workflows. As organizations accelerate their shift to cloud-native practices, a critical gap has emerged: The tools developers use on their local workstations often don't align with the enterprise security-centric, hardened Kubernetes environments in production. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Production-Ready: Red Hat's Blueprint For 2026
Every year, when I look at the landscape of the technology industry, I am reminded of why Red Hat exists. We have always thrived at the intersection of complex technology challenges and open source-based, community-driven innovation. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Red Hat Learning Subscription Course Reimagines Virtual Training
Virtual training, which flexibly delivers live, instructor-led learning, has become a core component of modern IT skills development. As demand for scalable, role-relevant training has grown, virtual training has become a trusted way to accelerate onboarding, upskill teams, and support certification goals without the constraints of physical classrooms. more →
Veeam, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Security Risks Of Model Context Protocol: What CISOs Need To Know Before Connecting AI To Enterprise Data
In this blog post, we'll break down what MCP is, where the attack surface really sits, and the practical controls CISOs should prioritize. We'll start with threat modeling, then move into access control, monitoring, and resilience so you can adopt MCP without expanding risk beyond what you can manage. more →
SecureWorld Quantum Cryptography Virtual Conference
The conference centers on helping IT and cybersecurity leaders transition from reactive concern to proactive planning regarding quantum threats. more →
