ZDNet, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Nearly 70% of Workers Use AI Regularly Now - but Many Get No Time to Upskill
A Workera report finds 67.8% of employees now use AI regularly, but 56% get no work time allocated to upskill. more →
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Friday’s Briefing · October 2
The AI-Powered Modernization Playbook for Financial Services Secure Migration, Modernization & the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle
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 →
Help Net Security, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
The Latest Deepfake Numbers Give CISOs Plenty to Worry About
Gartner survey finds 41% of CISOs hit by audio deepfake social engineering incidents in the past year. more →
TechTarget, Monday, September 21st, 2026
What CISOs Need to Know About AIOps Security
AIOps cuts resolution times and alerts sharply but opens new security risks CISOs must actively manage. more →
InformationWeek, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
What IT Leaders Are Reading: Top Books and Podcasts
CIOs and CTOs share book, podcast, and article recommendations on leadership, AI, engineering, and security. more →
TechTarget, Monday, September 21st, 2026
What the AI Safety Fallout Means for Enterprise CISOs
CISOs must treat autonomous AI agents as identity-verified 'artificial insiders,' not just theoretical risks. more →
Dark Reading, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
3 Cyber Threats That Defined the Summer of 2026
Dark Reading's Reporters' Notebook recaps the OpenAI-Hugging Face agent breach, Fairlife ransomware, and water utility hacks. more →
You've Been Heard, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
AI Still Needs Architects and Developers w/ George Hicker #456 (52:02)
George Hicker argues AI speeds up business builds but IT architects and developers remain essential for governance. more →
theCUBE Research, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
AI's Next Infrastructure Constraint: Moving the Data (23:08)
Zayo's 2026 Bandwidth Report finds data movement, not compute, is becoming AI infrastructure's key bottleneck. more →
InformationWeek, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
InformationWeek Podcast: How CISOs Address AI API Security Blind Spots
AlphaSense CISO discusses how AI APIs' probabilistic behavior creates new enterprise security blind spots. more →
InfoQ, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Securing AI Agents: Identity, Authorization, and the DPACT Framework
InfoQ podcast unpacks the DPACT framework for securing autonomous AI agents' identity and authority. more →
You've Been Heard, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Your IT Roadmap Needs a Top Five w/ Teresa Duran #457 (71:05)
Teresa Duran says CIOs win influence by trading five-year roadmaps for a focused top-five list tied to business goals. more →
The Register, Friday, September 25th, 2026
BOFH: The Helldesk Opens Its Third Eye and Ascends to a Higher Plane of Troubleshooting
BOFH satirizes 'holistic' troubleshooting after the Boss demands a softer approach to fixing a virus-hit laptop. more →
The Register, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Boss Bought Cheap 'Printer' From a Catalog and Was Left Without a Leg to Stand On
A reader recalls a boss who ordered discount 'printers' from a catalog that turned out to be just the stands. more →
The Register, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Project Leader Thought His Team Understood the Plan, Ended Up Fixing Their 'Interpretation' of It
A 1990s Hong Kong rollout goes wrong when a team nods along but implements its own version of the plan. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
5 ERP Integration Challenges That COOs Need to Be Aware Of
COOs face five ERP integration obstacles: data compatibility, cost, resistance, security, and process misalignment. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
AI in ERP: How It Makes Users' Lives Easier
AI-powered ERP systems let employees use natural language instead of navigating menus to get work done. more →
CIO, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Avoiding the ERP Hangover
CIOs must plan beyond ERP go-live to avoid stalled momentum, urging capability owners and workforce shifts. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Questions to Ask ERP Vendors Before Using AI Agents
Five questions executives should ask ERP vendors about AI agents covering value, audit trails, security, and scale. more →
OrionX, Monday, September 21st, 2026
HPC News Bytes - September 21, 2026
A roundup covering critical minerals for AI, open weights vs open source, memory sovereignty, and quantum computing. more →
Tech Spotlight - What AI Means for Identity Security
In this session, Nathan O'Bryan (5x Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Solutions Master, 30+ year veteran Active Directory administrator) will cover how changes in technology have shaped the way IT departments do Identity and Access Management. more →
TechTarget, Monday, September 21st, 2026
A Practical Guide to AI Governance in Contact Centers
Contact centers need formal AI governance frameworks to manage automated systems that act at scale without human oversight. 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 →
Analytics Insight, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
7 IoT Trends Reshaping Industrial Connectivity in 2026
Seven trends - hybrid connectivity, private 5G, edge AI, digital twins, and zero trust - are reshaping industrial IoT. more →
IoT Now, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
IoT Now Magazine Q3 2026
IoT Now's Q3 2026 issue covers edge computing choices, platform pitfalls, satellite IoT rankings, and physical AI gaps. more →
AWS, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with Multi-Region Strong Consistency Now Supports Additional AWS Regions and Cross-Continent Configurations
Amazon DynamoDB's multi-Region strong consistency global tables now support five more regions and cross-continent setups, totaling 15. more →
AWS, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports Post-Quantum TLS Key Exchange
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange for versions 18 and higher. more →
AWS, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
AWS Glue Data Quality Delivers Context-Specific Rule Recommendations in Seconds
AWS Glue Data Quality now uses generative AI to recommend data quality rules for every column in seconds via a new Advanced mode. more →
AWS, Monday, September 21st, 2026
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center Mobile Apps, Amazon Connect Talent GA, Amazon Corretto 27, and More (September 21, 2026)
AWS's weekly roundup covers a new Builder Center mobile app, community polls, a $28,000 hackathon, and Amazon Connect Talent's GA launch. more →
AWS, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna Are Now Generally Available on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock with up to 1M tokens of context. 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 →
Cyera, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
AI Audit Readiness: Secure & Govern AI with Cyera
Cyera describes how its AI security platform embeds continuous inventory, classification, and governance to ease AI audit readiness. more →
Cyera, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Modern On-Prem Data Security: Evolving Beyond Legacy Tools
Cyera argues on-premises data needs modern DSPM, since legacy tools scan too slowly and most orgs still store data on-prem. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
The Genie One MCP Is Now Generally Available
Databricks made the Genie One MCP server generally available to all customers, now managed within Unity Gateway. 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 →
datadog, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Cut AI Agent Cost and Improve Accuracy with Code Execution in the Datadog MCP Server
Datadog added a Code Execution toolset to its MCP Server, cutting AI agent tool calls and context use in multisignal investigations. more →
datadog, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Extend Datadog RUM and Product Analytics to Shopify and Salesforce
Datadog extended RUM and Product Analytics to monitor Shopify checkout journeys and Salesforce Experience Cloud customer experiences. more →
datadog, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Find Answers in Your Logs Faster with Datadog's Tap to Parse
Datadog's new Tap to Parse feature extracts searchable fields from unstructured logs across Log Explorer and Observability Pipelines. more →
datadog, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Teaching a 9B Model to Investigate Production Alerts
Datadog fine-tuned a 9B-parameter Qwen3.5 model to investigate production alerts, matching most of GLM-5.3's accuracy far more cheaply. more →
datadog, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Understand the Top Paths Users Take to Convert or Drop Off with Journey Paths
Datadog's new Journey Paths feature in Product Analytics shows the top paths users take to convert or drop off between funnel steps. more →
datadog, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Using TypeSafe's Jev for Evals in Datadog Agent Observability
Datadog described wiring TypeSafe's Jev model into online evals on live spans and offline evals in Datadog experiments using one rubric. more →
Fortinet, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Cloud Intrusions Now Move at Machine Speed
Fortinet's 2026 Cloud-Native Threat Landscape Report shows attackers using AI and automation to compress cloud exploit timelines to hours. more →
Fortinet, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Sovereign AI Meets Quantum-Ready Defense With FortiNDR
Fortinet added post-quantum readiness, agentic AI investigation, and dynamic deception features to its FortiNDR platform. more →
Fortinet, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Uncovering a SectopRAT Variant Embedded in Legitimate Software
FortiGuard Labs found the SectopRAT trojan hidden inside legitimate Italian audio software using DLL tampering and multi-layer obfuscation. 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 →
Google, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Unlock 3x QPS and Microsecond Latency with Memorystore for Valkey 9.1
Google Cloud released Memorystore for Valkey 9.1, delivering up to 3x QPS at microsecond latency versus Memorystore for Redis Cluster. more →
Google, Friday, September 25th, 2026
What's New with Google Cloud
Google Cloud's weekly roundup features an Apigee webinar on MCP governance plus new tutorials for Apigee trace debugging and local testing. more →
Harness, Friday, September 25th, 2026
AI Writes Code Fast. Can You Trust What Gets Deployed?
Harness argues that as AI accelerates code generation, verifying and trusting what actually reaches production has become the real bottleneck. more →
Harness, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
AWS Cost Optimization: 15 Tactics for This Quarter
Harness lists 15 AWS cost optimization tactics across compute, storage, networking, and monitoring, ranked by effort and savings potential. more →
Harness, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Best AI Security Solutions in 2026: A Buyer's Guide
Harness published a buyer's guide comparing AI security solutions across LLM security, model monitoring, and AI-powered SOC tooling. more →
Harness, Friday, September 25th, 2026
CI/CD Security Best Practices: A 2026 Pipeline Checklist
Harness outlines a 2026 CI/CD security checklist: secrets management, scoped access, dependency scanning, signed artifacts, audit logging. more →
Harness, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies for 2026 to Reduce Spend
Harness lays out 2026 cloud cost optimization strategies: spend allocation, safe Kubernetes rightsizing, idle shutdown, and commitments. more →
Harness, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Dynamic AI Discovery & Runtime Security for AgentCore
Harness integrated with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway to give security teams visibility and real-time threat detection for AI agents. more →
Huntress, Monday, September 21st, 2026
The Tale of Two INC Ransom Notes: A Ransomware Timeline
Huntress reconstructed an INC ransomware attack timeline, including BYOVD driver abuse to disable defenses, despite limited initial telemetry. 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 →
KnowBe4, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
AI-Generated Phishing Pages Are Impersonating Antivirus Services
Malwarebytes found AI-generated phishing pages impersonating Avast renewal notices to trick victims into calling fake support and installing malware. more →
KnowBe4, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Are Your AI Assistants the Next Attack Surface?
KnowBe4 demonstrated an indirect prompt injection attack that used Gemini in Gmail to exfiltrate a one-time password from an unrelated email. more →
KnowBe4, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Millions of Phishing Emails Use ASCII Smuggling to Bypass Security Filters
Microsoft found a massive phishing campaign hiding financial keywords like 'funding' using invisible Unicode tag characters to evade filters. more →
KnowBe4, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Quantum Readiness Day: How to Prepare for Post-Quantum Security
A CISO advisor argues Quantum Readiness Day should push organizations to treat post-quantum migration as an ongoing governance program. more →
KnowBe4, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Warning: New Phishing Kit Targets Sales Teams
A new 'GhostCode' phishing kit uses fake sales inquiries and device-code phishing to steal OAuth tokens and bypass MFA, per eSentire. more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
Microsoft, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 Comes to Microsoft Foundry for Long-Running Coding and Knowledge Work
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic's most capable model to enterprise coding and knowledge-work agents. more →
Microsoft, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For Production Agents in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft made GPT-6 Sol and Luna generally available in Foundry alongside GPT-6 Astra, rounding out a lineup for different agent workload needs. more →
Microsoft, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Introducing the New Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot
Microsoft is overhauling Copilot with three new capabilities: a unified Home hub, a Code building tool, and a persistent proactive Autopilot agent. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Your Architecture Diagram Is Not Your Resilience
Microsoft's Mark Russinovich argues resilience must be continuously validated, since diagrams can look sound while operations drift. more →
Proofpoint, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Proofpoint Breaks Down the Divide Between Data Security and AI Security with the Industry's First Unified Agentic System
Proofpoint unveiled a unified system linking AI-agent intent and data-access risk in one shared graph, run by three autonomous agents. more →
Proofpoint, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Proofpoint Stops the Attacks Traditional Defenses Miss in the AI Era
Proofpoint launched Agentic Collaboration Security, using intent-based detection and staged AI reasoning to stop attacks before and after delivery. more →
Riverbed, Monday, September 21st, 2026
What Is Intelligent Network Observability?
Riverbed describes Intelligent Network Observability, which pairs high-fidelity network data with AI correlation to speed diagnosis. more →
The High Stakes Dilemma: Protection Strategies for 2026-27
Out-of-control data can cause cybersecurity breaches, privacy law violations, AI hallucinations, higher storage costs, and more. In this virtual event, learn why and how to begin to clean up shop. more →
SuperMicro, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Supermicro Now Shipping NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Racks
Supermicro begins shipping NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks integrated with its liquid-cooled DCBBS infrastructure. 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 →
Varonis, Friday, September 25th, 2026
AI Security Fundamentals: The Real Industry Shift Taking Place
Varonis says 'security for AI' isn't a separate discipline, and AI adoption often exposes pre-existing security gaps. more →
Varonis, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Introducing Varonis Triage Agent: An Autonomous Incident Responder to Amplify MDDR Service
Varonis launched an AI Triage Agent that investigates security alerts like an analyst for its MDDR service. more →
Varonis, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Meet AvisLoader: A Windows Loader Built to Outlast a Takedown
Varonis Threat Labs found a new Windows loader, AvisLoader, that uses encrypted P2P messaging to resist takedowns. more →
Closing the Loop on AI Coders: 3,200 Vulns Fixed with Zero Human Triage
If you're an engineering leader trying to figure out whether 'AI fixes vulnerabilities automatically' is a real operating model or a demo, this is the mechanism and the data, not the pitch. more →
Vertiv, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Vertiv Coolant Distribution Unit Qualified as NVIDIA DSX Ready for AI Factory Infrastructure
Vertiv's 2.3 MW CoolChip coolant distribution unit becomes the first CDU qualified as NVIDIA DSX Ready. more →
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 →
Zscaler, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Fairlife Had Eleven Days of Runway. Most Food Plants Can't Buy a Shift.
Zscaler examines why food manufacturers face rising ransomware risk and less buffer time than Fairlife had this summer. more →
Zscaler, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
How to Secure Branch Networks Against Machine-Speed, AI-Driven Cyber Threats
Zscaler argues Anthropic's Mythos disclosure means unpatched device backlogs can now be chained into AI-built attacks. more →
Zscaler, Monday, September 21st, 2026
Lessons from Recent Outages: How Smart Enterprises Stay Ready
Zscaler describes how its ZDX tool pinpointed a Salesforce application issue within minutes during a September outage. more →
Zscaler, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
Why Zero Trust Must Extend to AI Workloads
Zscaler argues static firewalls and IP-based policy can't secure AI workloads' traffic volume and identity needs. more →