CIO Influence, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
AI Control Plane: Why CIOs Need One Layer to Govern Models, Tools and Agents
CIOs need unified AI control planes to govern models, tools, and agents across enterprise deployments. more →
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Friday’s Briefing · August 7
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
You've Been Heard, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
443 - Learn the Business. Earn the Influence w/ Andrew Schutsky (37:29)
CIO Andrew Schutsky shares how learning business fundamentals and building relationships drives IT leadership influence. more →
You've Been Heard, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
442 - Listen, Understand, Execute: The IT Leadership Edge w/ Farhan Zakir (45:04)
IT leader Farhan Zakir shares how understanding business operations and mastering communication drives IT leadership success. more →
SC Media, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Rogue AI, the Bar, Breaches, BMC, Hugging Face, Helmuth von Multke, Ike, Shieldfont - SWN #603
Security Weekly News covers OpenAI losing control of two models during an evaluation and 24,000 exposed BMCs leaking credentials. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Deep Fakes, Molten Salt, PLCs, Checkpoint, Hugging Face, CentOS, Josh Marpet and More - SWN #602
Security Weekly News segment covering deep fakes, molten salt, PLCs, Check Point, Hugging Face and CentOS with Josh Marpet. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Exploring AI Network Protocols; Vulnerability Truths and Guarantees; and the News - O'Shea Bowens, Jeremiah Grossman - ESW #469
Enterprise Security Weekly explores AI network protocols with O'Shea Bowens and questions the AI vulnerability-discovery hype with Jeremiah Grossman. more →
CXOTalk, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Why AI Pilots Stall: How to Make Enterprise AI Work
Most AI pilots never reach production, and the ones that do rarely scale. AI strategist Nate B. Jones explains why pilots stall and what the companies that succeed do differently. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
DevOps Is Drowning in Updates-and Engineering Is Paying the Price
DevOps teams struggle with information overload; structured weekly reviews help prioritize critical updates from noise. more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
AI Code Generation Raises New Quality Risks
AI-driven code generation accelerates productivity but introduces technical debt, security gaps, and quality issues. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Adoption and Fragmentation of AI in CI/CD-and Operational Readiness
AI adoption in CI/CD pipelines is growing, but most enterprises lack operational readiness and face integration challenges. 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 →
TechTarget, Monday, July 27th, 2026
The Quantum Technologies That Will Transform Enterprise IT
Quantum advances enable practical business applications in sensors, security, ML, and simulations as 52% of companies invest $5M+ annually. more →
TechRadar Pro, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
How Silicon Photonics Lights the Way for Data Centers
The semiconductor industry must scale silicon photonics production to keep pace with AI data center demand. more →
Techstrong IT, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Scality ADI: A Storage Operating Model Built for the Messy Middle of the AI Era
Scality introduces the ADI platform to unify diverse AI storage demands under a single namespace with autonomous management. more →
Techstrong IT, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
From Alert to Action: How Selector Is Quietly Rewriting the Network Observability Playbook
Selector uses AI-native observability architecture to address hybrid network monitoring without traditional alert-heavy approaches. more →
Techstrong IT, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Survey: Enterprise IT Shifts Off Premises as AI Reshapes Data Centers
Third-party data centers now host more enterprise workloads than corporate facilities for the first time, driven by AI capacity demands. more →
Techstrong IT, Monday, July 27th, 2026
How Do You Kill a Parasite?
Publishers must coordinate to demand fair treatment from Google's AI-driven search, which uses their content without adequate compensation. more →
Techstrong IT, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Navigating AI Infrastructure Incidents: Bridging the Critical Gap Between Detection and Response
AI systems require intelligent incident response automation to bridge the gap between detecting failures and mobilizing engineers. more →
CodeMender: AI Code Security Agent
Discover how CodeMender autonomously scans, verifies, and fixes software vulnerabilities at machine speed-enabling rapid remediation with complete developer control. more →
Data Center Knowledge, Friday, July 31st, 2026
AI Drives Data Center Uncertainty in Uptime's 2026 Survey
Uptime’s 2026 survey shows AI raising costs and density while narrowing management focus, as operators hedge with phased builds and struggle to forecast capacity. more →
Dark Reading, Friday, July 31st, 2026
CISA Issues Fresh SBOM Guidance. Did They Get It Right?
CISA and 16 partner agencies expand SBOM minimum elements, but critics say the framework lacks real risk-management improvements. more →
MojoAuth Blog, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
The Silent Killer: Monitoring Failed Auth Attempts Across Your Stack
Organizations must monitor failed authentication attempts to detect attacks, resolve configuration issues, and meet compliance requirements. 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 →
Computer Weekly, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Offshore Support Staff Don't Fear Artificial Intelligence
Only about 7% of offshore business support workers fear AI will harm their roles; most see it as a productivity tool. more →
Data & AI Leaders Summit (Sept. 21-23)
This three-day summit is designed for enterprise technology and business leaders responsible for turning AI potential into operational reality. It brings together leaders and practitioners to build modern data foundations, operationalize AI, and govern it for trust. more →
TechnologyAdvice, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Best AI Tools for Social Media in 2026
Sprout Social ranks best overall among AI social media tools compared on content, publishing, listening, engagement, and analytics. more →
TechnologyAdvice, Monday, July 27th, 2026
AI in Digital Marketing: Ultimate Guide for 2026
Guide to using AI for content creation, personalization, segmentation, automation, and campaign analysis in digital marketing. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
How Partners Can Defend the Network and Ease AI Anxiety
Akamai positions Guardicore Segmentation as the answer partners can give customers worried about machine-speed exploits. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Solve Multi-CDN Entitlement Drift With Edge Functions Without Losing Viewers
Akamai shows how edge functions keep entitlement decisions consistent across multiple CDNs in video delivery. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Thinking Outside the Black Box: Defenders Need Open Source AI
Akamai argues open source AI is essential for cybersecurity as it joins the Open Secure AI Alliance. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
API Security for Government Services: Protecting Citizen-Facing Applications
Akamai examines the API attack surface behind citizen-facing government applications and how to reduce it. more →
Akamai Technologies, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Operationalizing Offensive AI: An Open Framework for Modern Security
Akamai proposes an open framework for putting offensive AI capabilities to work inside security programs. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
Anysphere, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Introducing Cursor Start
Anysphere launches Cursor Start, a program aimed at developers in India. more →
Anysphere, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
How We Set Up Our Cloud Agent Environment
Anysphere details the sandbox, tooling, and environment design behind Cursor's cloud agents. more →
Cisco, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Assuming Failure: The Mindset Shift That Actually Improves Your Defensive Outcomes
Cisco argues that designing on the assumption controls will fail produces stronger resilience than optimizing prevention. more →
Cisco, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
A High-IQ Network Is Not a Smart Network. Here Is What Is Missing
Cisco explains how the emerging A2A standard lets independent network AI agents coordinate alongside MCP. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Navigating AI Tokenomics: From Cost Uncertainty to Operational Scale
Cisco frames enterprise AI cost management as an observability discipline rather than a procurement negotiation. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
AI Supply Chain Provenance Explorer for Responsible AI Governance
Cisco introduces tooling to answer what is actually inside an open model before it enters your environment. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Outdoor Wi-Fi Finally Means Business
Cisco's Wireless 9177 Series brings Wi-Fi 7 and URWB to rugged outdoor and mission-critical environments. more →
Cisco, Friday, July 31st, 2026
The Zero Trust Imperative for the Frontier AI Era
Cisco applies Zero Trust principles to agentic AI risk and frontier model threats. more →
Commvault, Monday, July 27th, 2026
What OpenAI's Hugging Face Security Incident Means for Cyber Resilience
Commvault draws recovery lessons from an AI evaluation that became a real compromise of Hugging Face infrastructure. more →
Commvault, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Sysdig Calls JadePuffer the First Documented Agentic Ransomware Attack. Here Is What It Means for Recovery
Commvault assesses recovery implications of JadePuffer, where an AI agent chained known vulnerabilities into an extortion campaign. more →
Commvault, Monday, July 27th, 2026
The Anatomy of a CVE: How Commvault Protects Its Customers
Commvault explains its vulnerability handling process from CVE assignment through customer notification. more →
Commvault, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
The Evolution of the Resilience Engineer: How Commvault Is Redefining the Backup Administrator Experience
Commvault argues AI is shifting the backup administrator role from managing infrastructure to delivering resilience outcomes. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Agents for Production Lines: Trusted Decisions in Real Time
Databricks shows how manufacturing agents make trusted real-time decisions when a production line fails mid-shift. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Bringing Real-Time Fraud Prevention to Government Benefits
Databricks describes real-time fraud prevention for federal benefits programs losing money to improper payments. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Convert Proprietary Code to Open ANSI SQL With Genie Code
Databricks introduces Genie Code to translate proprietary warehouse dialects into open ANSI SQL during migration. more →
The AppSec Overload Problem And Why Context Is the Cure
Join Alan Shimel, CEO of TechStrong, and Emma Datny, Sr. Product Marketing Manager from Checkmarx to explore how contextual risk scoring and ASPM are changing the way teams approach AppSec, and why the ones pulling ahead aren't finding more vulnerabilities, they're fixing the right ones faster. more →
DDN, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Synthesizing Golden Traces for Realistic KV Cache Evaluation in Agentic Inference Workloads
DDN shows why synthetic benchmarks misrepresent KV cache behaviour and how to build realistic traces. more →
StorageNewsletter, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Advancing AI for National Security: NVIDIA, DDN, and the Naval Postgraduate School Collaborate to Prepare Tomorrow's AI Leaders
NVIDIA, DDN, and the Naval Postgraduate School open an AI Technology Center to train military officers on frontier AI systems. more →
F5, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Chinese Open-Weight AI Models: Cybersecurity Risks and Rewards
F5 Labs finds month-to-month variation in the security posture of Chinese open-weight models. more →
Picking Your Winner in the Agentic AI Race
The biggest story in DevOps this year is the agentic AI revolution. Which platform will lead your pipeline? Join 3,000+ practitioners to evaluate, compare, and decide. more →
AIwire, Friday, July 31st, 2026
NVIDIA: Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
NVIDIA and dozens of founding partners launch the Open Secure AI Alliance to build shared open tools for cyber defense. 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 →
OpenAI, Monday, July 27th, 2026
How AI Is Expanding What People Do at Work
OpenAI research finds ChatGPT users taking on tasks outside their formal roles, reshaping job boundaries. more →
OpenAI, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Scientific Computing in the Age of Agentic AI
A field report shows scientists using AI coding agents to modernize legacy scientific computing codebases. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
How GPT-5.6 Fuses Frontier Intelligence With Frontier Efficiency
OpenAI explains how GPT-5.6 delivers more useful intelligence per dollar across models and inference. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
How Enabling Two Settings Tripled Our Scores on the ARC-AGI-3 Benchmark
OpenAI shows that retaining reasoning and enabling compaction tripled GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Accelerating Scientific Discovery With ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
OpenAI gives 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most advanced models. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Advancing the Price-Performance Frontier With GPT-5.6
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra pricing to make large-scale enterprise AI workflows viable. more →
Rubrik, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Before the Incident: Building Your M365 Minimum Viable Business Plan
Rubrik sets out the peacetime planning that decides what gets recovered first when Microsoft 365 goes down. more →
Rubrik, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Modernize Your Hypervisors, Not Your Attack Surface
Rubrik argues hypervisor diversification delivers backup coverage without visibility into what is inside the protected workloads. more →
SentinelOne, Friday, July 31st, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity, Week 31
SentinelOne's weekly roundup covers a 4,000-URL takedown against The Com and AI models reaching real systems. 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 →
UiPath, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
The Dark Testing Factory: How Testing Moves From Manual Effort to Governed Autonomy at Scale
UiPath describes an operating model where quality engineering scales testing through governed autonomy. more →
AI Trust & Governance Summit
In this expert-led virtual summit, we'll explore practical approaches for establishing governance that can help accelerate innovation while protecting your business. more →
Vertiv, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Vertiv Infrastructure Helps Bring NVIDIA AI Computing Capability to the Naval Postgraduate School
Vertiv deployed a complete, liquid-cooled infrastructure system at the Naval Postgraduate School to power and cool their new NVIDIA DGX GB300 AI setup for research, education, and digital engineering. more →
Vertiv, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Vertiv Launches Vertiv PurgeRite NearZero service
Vertiv has launched its patent-pending Vertiv PurgeRite NearZero service, which combines engineered mechanical flushing, water treatment, reverse osmosis, and continuous water-quality monitoring to recycle water and reduce environmental impact during the commissioning of closed-loop hydronic systems in North American data centers. more →