CIO, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Cox Automotive's Marianne Johnson Defines A New Leadership Model For Orchestrating Enterprise-Scale AI Transformation
The Rise of the AI Operating Executive more →
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Friday’s Briefing · September 11
CIO Dive, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Agentic AI Is Shifting The Pricing Models CIOs Rely On
Vendors are moving from per-seat to outcome-based pricing, complicating renewals and contract negotiation. more →
Computer Weekly, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Starling Bank's Deputy CIO On Using AI For Coding, Learning New Subjects, And Stress-Testing His Own Thinking
CIO Interview: Frederic Laurent, Deputy CIO, Starling Bank more →
CSO Online, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Stop Playing With The CISO Role. Fix Cybersecurity Leadership
Argues business alignment is an org-design problem, and proposes a business-facing CSO sitting above the technical CISO. more →
CSO Online, Friday, September 4th, 2026
The Democratization Of Cyber Warfare - And What It Means For CISOs
AI is collapsing the skill barrier to nation-state-grade attacks, forcing defenders toward autonomous response. more →
InformationWeek, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Ten Summer IT Stories Covering AI Implementation Challenges, Leadership Decisions, And Hardware Constraints Facing CIOs
AI, Leadership, Hardware: 10 IT Stories That Defined Summer 2026 more →
DevOps.com, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Your DevOps Pipeline Is Already a Sustainability Program
Right-sizing, pipeline efficiency and progressive rollouts cut carbon as a side effect of good engineering. 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 →
SC Media, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
AI Agents Pose Insider Threat Risks Beyond Identity Management, Requiring Behavioral Monitoring At Machine Speed
The Next Insider Threat Doesn't Have a Pulse more →
SecureWorld, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Enterprises Say Their AI Agents Are Secure; The Data Say Otherwise
94% of leaders are confident their agents lack excess access; only 33% have actually scoped least privilege. more →
The Register, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
To Keep The AI Hacking Genie Bottled Up, Try One-Way Networks
Borrowing SCIF-style data diodes could stop frontier models escaping training environments onto the internet. 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 →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, August 31st, 2026
The FSB Chair Warns Frontier AI Poses Systemic Financial Risks Through Cyberattacks And Inflated Valuations
Global Financial Watchdog Warns of Catastrophic Risks From Advanced AI Models more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
OpenAI Builds Automatic Shutdown Technology After AI Agents Gained Unauthorized Access To Hugging Face Infrastructure
OpenAI Builds Automated Shutdown Tools After AI Agent Security Breach more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Prophecy Launches An AI Agent Built On Claude Code Enabling Natural Language Data Queries Without SQL
Prophecy Adds AI Agents to Data Integration and Analytics Platform more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Enterprise AI Costs Stem From Architectural Inefficiencies, Not Model Pricing
The Enterprise AI Token Reckoning Isn't About Model Prices, It's About Architecture more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
AI Empowers Individual Patients To Synthesize Fragmented Medical Data And Research For Treatment Decisions
The Rise of Patient-Led Intelligence in Medicine more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, September 4th, 2026
AI Infrastructure Success Depends On Network Optimization As Much As Raw Compute Power
For Massive Models, You Need More Than Just Massive Compute more →
Data Center Knowledge, Monday, August 31st, 2026
SSTs Convert Medium-Voltage AC To 800V DC For AI Data Centers, Promising Efficiency But Facing Maturity Questions
Solid-State Transformers Power Next-Gen AI Data Centers more →
eSecurity Planet, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Why Vulnerability Management Must Move Beyond CVSS
CVSS scores ignore exploitation likelihood and environment, so context-driven prioritization is needed to cut remediation noise. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
A Framework For C-Suite Leaders To Implement Predictive Maintenance Through Structured Planning And Collaboration
5 Steps for Implementing Predictive Maintenance more →
TechTarget, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
AI Helps CIOs Future-Proof IT Infrastructure Via Monitoring, Prediction, Performance Testing, Security, And Code Generation
How Businesses Can Future-Proof IT Infrastructure With AI more →
The Register, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Terminated Employee Cost Company Hundreds Of Thousands Because Nobody Revoked Access
A joiner-mover-leaver gap between HR and IT let a fired employee delete files, lock accounts and corrupt a database. more →
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 →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Enterprise IT Shifts Focus From AI Model Training To Cost-Effective Inference Amid Hardware Supply Constraints
AI Costs Push Enterprise IT Toward Efficient Inference more →
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. more →
Analytics Insight, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Linked Helper Automates LinkedIn Prospecting With AI Targeting, Personalized Messaging, And CRM Integration
Outreach Automation on LinkedIn With Linked Helper: How to Set It Up for Maximum Results more →
Heinz Marketing, Monday, August 31st, 2026
A Weekly B2B Marketing Roundup Covering AI Buyers, Creator Influence, And Customer Value Recognition
B2B Reads: AI Salespeople, Creator Trust, and the Value Gap more →
AWS, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd Instances Powered by AWS Graviton5 Processors Are Now Generally Available
AWS launches memory-optimized EC2 R9g and R9gd instances on Graviton5, claiming up to 25% better compute performance than R8g. more →
AWS, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Agentic Security: Detection and Response at Machine Speed
AWS argues autonomous AI agents are the biggest shift in security posture since cloud and outlines machine-speed detection and response. more →
AWS, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Incident Response Guide for AWS CloudTrail Investigations - Part 2
Part two continues AWS's CloudTrail investigation guide, building on the S3 ransomware and cryptomining scenarios from part one. 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 →
Cisco, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Post-Quantum Key Exchange on Cisco Routers - IPsec Series, Part 9
Cisco demonstrates a phased migration from classical to PPK to hybrid ML-KEM-768 key exchange on Cisco 8000 routers with zero outage. more →
Cisco, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Your Agent Trusts Things You Never Approved
Cisco maps supply chain compromise patterns onto AI agents, which inherit trust in packages, build tools and base images nobody vetted. more →
Cisco, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
The Backbone of Modern AI Data Centers: Networking the Gray Space
Cisco explains how unifying data center white space and gray space networking improves AI facility uptime, security and efficiency. more →
Cisco, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Crypto Agility: Why PQC Is Not a One-Time Upgrade
Cisco argues post-quantum cryptography requires ongoing crypto agility in infrastructure, not a single migration project. more →
Cisco, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Cisco and the DISA STIG: Turning Zero Trust Policy Into Repeatable Practice - Part 1: Cisco ISE
Cisco walks DoD teams through the updated DISA STIG for Identity Services Engine to turn Zero Trust policy into enforceable controls. more →
Cisco, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Frontier AI Just Raised the Stakes, and the Old Playbook Won't Hold Up
Cisco argues frontier AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, making layered defenses and faster remediation more urgent than ever. more →
CoreWeave, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Why Open Models Can Win on Enterprise Cost and Control
CoreWeave argues open-weight models like Kimi K3 win on inference cost plus control over fine-tuning, distillation and guardrails. more →
Couchbase CATALYST - The Agent Era is here. Is your data ready? (Oct. 20-22)
Couchbase Catalyst 2026 is the first Couchbase customer conference: three days where technology leaders, architects, and the engineers building on Couchbase meet to advance next-generation data solutions for the Agent Era. more →
Huntress, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Huntress API Update: New Endpoints, Webhooks, and Automation
The Huntress API has grown from six read-only endpoints into a full integration platform with webhooks and MCP support. 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 →
Lenovo, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Lenovo Showcases Up to 45% Cost Savings with VMware Cloud Foundation Advanced Memory Tiering
At VMware Explore 2026 Lenovo showed VCF Advanced Memory Tiering on ThinkAgile VX cutting costs up to 45% vs all-DRAM. more →
Lenovo, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Lenovo Expands the Yoga Portfolio with New AI PCs and Tablets Built for Creators
Lenovo added two NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops, two pen-first tablets and a Smart Canvas concept to the Yoga line at IFA 2026. more →
Lenovo, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Lenovo Expands Personal AI with Colorful New IdeaPad Vibe Series and IdeaCentre All-in-One AI PCs
Lenovo widened its consumer AI PC range at IFA 2026 with the IdeaPad Vibe laptops and IdeaCentre all-in-one desktops. more →
Lenovo, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Lenovo Advances Hybrid AI for Business with New Think-Family Devices, Displays, and Security Solutions
Lenovo unveiled a commercial portfolio spanning AI PCs, displays and enterprise security to support hybrid AI deployments. more →
Micron, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
The Memory Wall in the Agentic AI Era
Micron's Jeremy Werner argues memory, not compute, is the next binding constraint on agentic AI systems. more →
Micron, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Redefining Local AI Computing
Micron looks at how on-device generative AI that reasons, plans and remembers changes client memory requirements. more →
Micron, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Unlocking the Token Economy: Micron Powers AI's KV Cache
Micron explains how the KV cache underpins AI inference economics and where memory and storage relieve the bottleneck. more →
Modernize Your PKI for the Agentic Era without Starting Over
How to enhance existing PKI investments, including Microsoft ADCS, and build a crypto-agile, Agentic AI ready foundation. Attendees will learn how to reduce operational risk, overheads and complexity, preserve valuable infrastructure and expertise, and create a streamlined, better-governed PKI landscape that is easier to manage today, supports Agentic AI initiatives and evolve toward a post-quantum future. more →
Perplexity, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Fast Embeddings on GPUs
Perplexity engineering details the GPU serving infrastructure behind its embedding and ranking models for AI-native search. 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 →
Red Hat, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
5 Ways to Augment Security Risk Management in the AI Era
Red Hat offers five approaches for correlating and triaging high-volume security alerts when vulnerabilities are exploited within hours. more →
Red Hat, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
How Ask Red Hat Earns Trust in Enterprise AI Troubleshooting
Red Hat explains the design decisions behind Ask Red Hat, its conversational AI for support and documentation troubleshooting. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Red Hat Satellite 6.20 Limited Availability: Early Access Registration Now Open
Red Hat opens early access registration for Satellite 6.20, which brings containerized deployment and post-quantum cryptography. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
What Risk-Aware Model Deployment Looks Like in Regulated Industries
Red Hat argues AI models headed for production need adversarial stress testing, not just model cards and benchmark scores. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
The Last Mile Problem in Agentic AI: Why Tool Calling Reliability Is Harder Than It Looks
Red Hat argues tool-call execution, not model reasoning, is where agentic AI systems quietly break in production. more →
Red Hat, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Modernizing Virtualization in Higher Education: How Automated Node Recovery Protects Data Integrity
Red Hat and Brigham Young University describe a low-disruption path off legacy virtualization using OpenShift and automated node recovery. more →
ServiceNow, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Future Signals: The Human-AI Bridge
ServiceNow's futures director reads five signals showing the most valuable work now sits between human judgment and machine execution. more →
ServiceNow, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Talent Readiness: Your New Workforce Strategy
ServiceNow's Workforce Skills research proposes four shifts toward a perpetually ready workforce as AI automates tasks. more →
ServiceNow, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
AI Won't Save CRM if Workflows Are Still Broken
ServiceNow argues CRM differentiation has moved downstream to action, citing a decade of flat customer satisfaction scores. more →
ServiceNow, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
When AI Does CRM Homework, Sellers Can Sell More
ServiceNow argues autonomous CRM should absorb updates, quotes and approvals so sellers spend their time on customers. more →
ServiceNow, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
AI Containment Failures Expose a Deep Architecture Problem
ServiceNow's cybersecurity GVP examines three frontier lab containment failures in three weeks and what they say about AI controls. more →
Private Cloud Infrastructure for the VMware Exit: Reduce RAM, Shrink Storage, Extend Server Life
This session examines how the model works, where the savings come from, and how to evaluate it as you plan your move off VMware. It includes a live migration of a running VMware workload into Private Cloud Infrastructure, so you see the move performed, not described. more →
Symantec, Monday, August 31st, 2026
6 Use Cases Security Practitioners Can Tackle with XDR
Symantec walks through six common security challenges, starting with cross-domain detection, and how CBX addresses each of them. more →
Symantec, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
The DLP Network Discover Cluster Is Always Watching (So Your Team Doesn't Have To)
Symantec explains how DLP Network High Speed Discovery keeps multi-day scans running when Worker Nodes fail or restart. more →
Tierpoint, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
What Is a Neocloud? Understanding GPUaaS for AI Workloads
TierPoint explains neoclouds, GPU-as-a-service providers built for AI, and how high-density colocation underpins their growth. more →
Train Employees on Cost-Optimized Best Practices for GenAI
Gartner experts will discuss approaches for selecting the right models for the right tasks, establishing context-specific training programs, improving prompt design practices and creating accessible prompt repositories. The session also examines how usage monitoring and governance can help organizations identify key cost drivers, manage consumption and optimize GenAI investments as adoption grows. more →
Veeam, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Backup vs Sync: What Small Businesses Keep Getting Wrong
Veeam explains why file sync keeps data accessible but not protected, and why sync spreads corruption as fast as good files. more →
Veeam, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
What to Back Up First: SMB Data Priorities
Veeam argues small businesses should order backups by business impact, starting with financial, customer and compliance data. more →
Veeam, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Your OpenShift Environment Grew. Did Your Backup Strategy?
Veeam addresses the Day 2 problem of managing backup policy at scale across mixed VM and container workloads on OpenShift. more →
Seeing Is Believing: Observability as the Backbone of Trustworthy AI
This webinar explores the principles and practices of AI observability: what to monitor, how to measure it, and how to respond. We'll break down what meaningful observability looks like across the AI lifecycle - and why it's foundational for governance, risk mitigation, and long-term success. more →
