CIO, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
What Separates True Enterprise Leaders From Strong Tech Execs
AlTi Global CTO Phil Dundas explains how trust, context and capability-building define enterprise leadership. more →
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Friday’s Briefing · October 9
CIO, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
AI Won't Replace CIOs. It Will Expose the Ones Who Can't Lead People
An executive coach argues AI is raising the bar on people leadership for CIOs faster than many can adapt. more →
CIO, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Modernization Without Disruption: Rethinking the Rip-and-Replace Mindset
Park Place Technologies CTO Chris Carreiro argues CIOs should modernize selectively rather than replace infrastructure simply because it is old. more →
CIO, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Who Should Own AI? I Started With an Incomplete Answer
A chief AI transformation officer explains why AI ownership needs one accountable executive spanning technology, governance and people. more →
CIO, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Who Should Own Analytics: IT, the Business or Both?
A consultant recommends IT own data engineering, the business own analytics, and a small bridging team keep the two aligned. more →
CIO Dive, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
CIOs Need Transparent View of AI Deployment
BCG says CIOs should act as chief integration officers, tying spreading AI spend to measurable business value. more →
CSO Online, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Rolling the Cyber Dice With Open-Source and Open-Weight AI Models
Weighs the security risks of cheaper open-weight AI models, including hidden backdoors and data poisoning, and how to contain them. more →
InfoQ, Saturday, October 3rd, 2026
AI Agents Are Disrupting Open Source Security Disclosure
AI agents turn small public clues into exploits quickly, weakening embargoes and pushing open source toward faster patching. more →
Infosecurity Magazine, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
AI Is Finding More Vulnerabilities but Open Source Needs More People to Fix Them
OpenSSL reports AI-driven vulnerability reports rising from about 9 to 70 a month, straining the experts needed to triage and fix them. 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 →
Futurum, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
AI Proves Value, but Only 13% of Organizations Scale It
Futurum reviews a BearingPoint study finding most AI adopters see impact but only 13% scale AI as their business case planned. more →
Expert Panel: Operational AI: Monitoring, Governing, and Scaling Production AI Systems
In this TDWI Expert Panel, industry experts examine how today's leading organizations monitor AI performance, governing models, and agents to ensure reliability, manage operational risk, and scale AI systems across the enterprise. more →
CSO Online, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
The MFA You Have Isn't the MFA You Think You Have
Explains why push and OTP-based MFA fail against targeted attackers and why phishing-resistant FIDO2 and passkeys close the gap. more →
Dark Reading, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Is Your Organization Ready for 2027's AI Accountability Era?
Gartner and Omdia advise CISOs to govern AI agents by action privileges, counter deepfakes and prepare for AI-driven supply chain risk. more →
Fast Company, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
AI Agents Can Now Erase the Evidence of What They've Done
A new study finds nine of 10 popular coding-agent setups could tamper with or delete their own activity logs. more →
Help Net Security, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
AI Agents Keep Access to Company Data After Their Work Is Done
Survey finds most firms have AI data-access policies but few can enforce them in real time or trace agent access to an approver. more →
Infosecurity Magazine, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
AI-Found Vulnerabilities More Likely to Enable Remote Code Execution (RCE), Google Says
Google research finds half of likely AI-discovered flaws enable remote code execution and exploited vulnerabilities rose sharply in 2026. more →
IT Security Guru, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Why AI Won't Fix Your Cybersecurity Problem
Logicalis's James Gillies says AI will expose existing security weaknesses, so fix visibility, identity and response first. more →
StorageSwiss, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Hybrid Storage Failed Once. Will It Fail Again?
Soaring flash prices revive hybrid storage, and George Crump says success depends on where tiering logic runs. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
How the 'Great Storage Squeeze' Impacts Infrastructure Strategies
Omdia research shows the 2026 flash and DRAM shortage is forcing IT leaders to rethink storage planning, procurement and data retention. more →
ERP Today, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Why Data Sovereignty Is Becoming an Enterprise Architecture Question
Data sovereignty now covers control over operators, jurisdictions and dependencies, not just where data is stored, making it an architecture issue. more →
CIO, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
6 ERP Trends for 2026 and Beyond: CIOs Rethink Core Systems
An ERP upgrade 'supercycle' driven by AI, cloud and end-of-support deadlines is pushing CIOs to modernize core systems. more →
InformationWeek, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Even Now, ERP Implementations Can Make or Break CIOs
Myles Suer says ERP remains career-defining for CIOs, and agentic AI makes data maturity and change management more important. more →
Speed to Power: Building for Reliable Operations
Drawing on 25+ years of mission-critical commissioning and complex energy infrastructure experience, Veolia experts will share strategies for reducing risk, protecting uptime and maximizing the value of every available megawatt. A real-world case study of a 350 MW microgrid supporting a hyperscale AI data center campus will show these strategies in action. more →
Quantum Computing Report, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
How a Large IT Consulting Company Works With Quantum
CGI explains how it matches client use cases to quantum hardware as enterprise demand shifts from exploration to applied work. more →
eWeek, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
DOE Wants Quantum Computing Judged by Science, Not Qubit Counts
DOE's three-phase quantum roadmap targets a scientifically useful error-corrected computer by 2028, backed by a $215M contest. more →
InformationWeek, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
How CISOs Prepare to Tackle the Post-Quantum Cryptography Future
CISOs from Mimecast, Everpure and others share how they are preparing for post-quantum cryptography by 2030. more →
SecurityWeek, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Enterprises Struggle to Prepare for AI and Quantum Threats, PwC Says
PwC finds leaders feel least prepared for attacks on their own AI systems, and few trust fully autonomous AI defense. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Meta Smart Glasses vs VR Glasses: Features, Technology and Use Cases
Analytics Insight contrasts Meta's AI smart glasses for everyday tasks with its immersive VR glasses. more →
Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint
Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. Bold sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? more →
AWS, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-Powered Intelligence to Optimize Your Cloud Environment (Preview)
AWS previews Well-Architected Agent, an AI service that analyzes environments and delivers goal-aligned fixes across 65+ services. more →
AWS, Monday, September 28th, 2026
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands Harness, and More (September 28, 2026)
AWS's weekly roundup covers GPT-6 Sol and Luna and Claude Opus 5.5 arriving on Amazon Bedrock, plus Strands harness and more. more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
AWS Benchmark Aims to Reduce Number of False Positives Found by AI Vulnerability Scanners
AWS's Deception Benchmark shows AI models catch most real vulnerabilities but flag 41-99% of safe code. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
Check Point, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
SASE in the AI Era: Why Secure Global Connectivity Matters More Than Ever
Check Point explains how AI adoption strains region-by-region network and security stacks and why unified SASE matters. more →
Agentic Security Needs to Operationalize Threat Intel
Agentic AI has changed attacks for both adversaries and defenders, but AI has not changed the fundamentals of security. Triage is not the end goal for defenders; prevention is. This means hyperfast AI-powered triage is still not a solution, just one more (very necessary) tool. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Beyond Operational Obsolescence: The New Paradigm of IT Management in the AI Era
Cisco says static, annual-update IT operating models have become a systemic risk as AI and hybrid infrastructure accelerate. more →
Cisco, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
30 Years on the Frontlines of the Internet: Why I'm Optimistic About AI
A Cisco security leader reflects on 30 years of internet security and why the gap between innovation and defense is no reason to fear AI. more →
Cisco, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Beyond Intelligence: How Trust Is the Benchmark That Matters in AI
Cisco argues trust, not raw model intelligence, is now the key AI benchmark as agents gain autonomy to act on users' behalf. more →
Cisco, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
The Talent Gap Is a Business Risk - not Just an HR Problem
Cisco's partner blog argues skills shortages are an operational business risk that ripples across partners, suppliers and customers. more →
Cisco, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
How Webex by Cisco Is Reimagining Work in the AI Era
Cisco collaboration chief Snorre Kjesbu discusses AI's impact on work and previews WebexOne in Austin, Oct. 5-8. more →
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 →
Databricks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Connecting Customer Context to Measurable ROI with Agentic Marketing
Databricks explains how agentic marketing ties identity resolution, customer context and incrementality measurement into one loop. more →
Databricks, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
How to Choose Your First Genie Agents for Maximum Impact
A five-criteria rubric for picking which Databricks Genie Agents to build first so adoption scales rather than stalls. more →
Databricks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
How Genie One Reshapes Work for Finance Teams
Databricks Genie One gives finance teams a governed AI coworker for variance analysis, scenario modeling and forecasting. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
How to Scale Agentic Applications Without Creating AI Sprawl
Databricks argues enterprises need shared infrastructure for context, models, tools, governance and observability as agents multiply. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Introducing ai_decide: Make Fast Decisions on Your Governed Data
Databricks' new ai_decide function returns fast, low-cost structured decisions from text, in SQL batches or via REST. more →
Databricks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
IP Functions Are Generally Available, Bringing High-Performance Network Analytics to the Lakehouse
Databricks made native IPv4/IPv6 and CIDR functions generally available, with Photon-optimized joins up to 3.1x faster. more →
F5, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
One Control Plane for Apps and AI
F5 introduces BIG-IP Virtual Edition on Equinix Network Edge to apply consistent policies to traditional and AI apps. more →
F5, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Your AI Is Now an Attack Surface. Are You Ready to Secure It?
F5 explains why agentic AI makes nondeterministic AI behavior itself part of the enterprise attack surface. more →
Glean, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Jev and the Return of the Zero-Shot Classifier
Glean explains Jev, a model for typed decisions, and benchmarks it on classification, routing, reranking and citation judging. more →
Beyond the Coding Agent: How the Software Delivery Agent Closes the Gap to Production (Oct. 15)
Join Harness for a look at how the Software Delivery Agent takes every code, infrastructure, and database change safely through production, at machine speed, under the policies your team defines. more →
Lenovo, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Advancing AI Responsibly with Lenovo
Lenovo's CTO, security chief and legal chief set out its approach to AI governance and AI that augments human work. more →
Lenovo, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Lenovo's AI Adoption and Change Management Model Helps Drive 36% Higher Daily Copilot Use
Lenovo's internal AI adoption model of manager involvement, role-specific enablement and measurement drove 36% higher daily Copilot use. more →
Lenovo, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Lenovo's Expanded Services Portfolio Helps Organizations Realize Value from Hybrid AI Factories in as Little as 90 Days
Lenovo advisory, implementation and support services aim to deliver value from hybrid AI factories in as little as 90 days. 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 →
Network Intelligence News, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
What Happens After an Alert Gets Flagged: Inside Rainier's Investigate & Detect
Rainier's investigation module writes AI case narratives, enriches entities, maps MITRE ATT&CK and audits SIEM rules with Detection Lens. more →
Network Intelligence News, Monday, September 28th, 2026
How AI Alert Triage Works in an Agentic SOC: Inside Rainier's Alerts & Triage Engine
A look inside Rainier's agentic SOC triage engine, which groups, suppresses and auto-resolves alerts, cutting L1 effort by about 70%. more →
Network Intelligence News, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Inside Kamet's Attack Box: What the AI Agent Actually Runs
Network Intelligence details Kamet, an AI pentest agent driving a real Kali Linux box with BloodHound, proxy and 118+ tools. more →
Network Intelligence News, Monday, September 28th, 2026
What Is Denali? An Evidence-Led AI Asset Inventory for the Enterprise
Denali is an open source, provider-neutral platform that builds an evidence-backed inventory of an enterprise's AI agents, models and MCP servers. more →
Network Intelligence News, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
What Is CTEM? A Practical Guide to Continuous Threat Exposure Management
A practical guide to CTEM's five stages and why prioritizing by reachability and business impact beats CVSS-only scoring. 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 →
Okta, Friday, October 2nd, 2026
The Agent Is Not the User: Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Okta to Secure AI Agent Identity
Okta shows how Cross App Access and ID-JAG carry user identity through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents' outbound tool calls. more →
Okta, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Make Okta Authentication Policy Changes with Confidence: Introducing Policy Branches
Okta Policy Branches brings Git-style branching, live-traffic testing and one-click rollback to app sign-in policies. more →
Okta, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Securing Privileged Access to Databases with Okta
Okta argues PAM must extend from servers to databases and describes securing database access with Okta Privileged Access. more →
Okta, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Resource Access Certifications for AI Agents: Reduce the Agent Attack Surface. Close the Audit Gap.
Okta adds access certifications for AI agents, letting teams review and revoke what resources agents can reach and prove it to auditors. more →
theCUBE Research, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Oktane 2026: Agentic AI Pushes Identity Beyond Access Control
Okta extends identity into governing AI agents, but theCUBE Research says its Blueprint leaves recovery unresolved. more →
SC Media, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Okta: Fake IT Workers Are Getting Stealthier Than Ever
Okta warns AI-aided 'workforce infiltration' by fake remote IT workers is growing and now extends beyond North Korea. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
OperTraitors: How Kubernetes Operators Betray Your Security Posture
Unit 42 releases OperTraitor, an open source LLM tool that flags over-privileged Kubernetes operators acting as silent backdoors. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Introducing CLARA Agent: Instant Cloud & AI Risk Insights Available on Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise
Palo Alto Networks' CLARA Agent brings Strata Cloud Manager posture data into Gemini Enterprise as plain-language cloud and AI risk answers. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Why OT Resilience Is Now a Boardroom Imperative
Palo Alto Networks telemetry shows a 332% surge in internet-exposed OT devices, making industrial cyber risk a board-level issue. more →
Palo Alto Networks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Observability's AI Moment
Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex XCOR, an AI-native observability platform with an AI SRE that automatically finds root causes. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Multiplayer AI: The Shift from Smarter Individuals to a Smarter Company
Slack's GM describes Slack evolving into an AI work operating system where agents work as shared teammates in the open. more →
Technology Risk Excellence: What High-Performing CIOs Do Differently
This webinar will reveal what high-performing CIOs do differently to strengthen technology risk management, resilience, cybersecurity readiness and AI risk governance. more →
SustainableIT, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Sustainability at Scale in the GenAI Era with Dr. Katia Chaban (46:32)
Host Sanjay Podder speaks with Dr. Katia Chaban about uniting IT and sustainability through circular economy practices. more →
SustainableIT, Monday, September 28th, 2026
IT Standards for Environmental, Social, and Governance Sustainability
Technology is the critical path to business sustainability, and IT leaders have a unique opportunity to transform their functions, enterprises and industries for a sustainable future. The more than 200 IT-tailored ESG standards featured below provide a cross-industry, consistent set of topics and metrics for measuring, tracking and reporting technology’s ESG impact. more →
Symantec, Monday, September 28th, 2026
The Image That Isn't - Stopping SVG-Borne Attacks
Symantec explains how attackers hide phishing and malware in SVG files and how layered protections break the chain. more →
Symantec, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Symantec CBX Is Here
Symantec CBX, a cloud-based XDR unifying endpoint, web and data protection, is now available worldwide. more →
Symantec, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
A Practical Guide to Symantec PAM Secondary Sites
Symantec advises where to place PAM secondary sites and how many nodes each needs for performance and resilience. more →
Symantec, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Warlock Ransomware Attackers Hit Water and Telecom Operators
Symantec says the China-nexus group behind Warlock ransomware hit water and telecom operators via SharePoint flaws. more →
Veeam, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Stop Calling It Cloud Storage: What Actually Makes a Backup Copy Attack-Resistant
Veeam argues offsite, air-gapped, immutable and recoverable are distinct backup properties that APAC organizations often conflate. more →
Veeam, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Backup Software Hidden Costs Nobody Mentions
Veeam breaks down eight hidden backup software costs, from per-core licensing and storage math to egress fees and lock-in. more →
Veeam, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Start With What You Can Prove: Measuring the National Resilience Strategy
Veeam argues data resilience offers ready, measurable metrics for implementing the America First Resilience Strategy. more →
Engineered for What's Next: Rubrik and AWS Cyber Resiliency for Enterprise Workloads
Join speakers from Rubrik and AWS to explore how leveraging Rubrik and AWS minimizes security blind spots, reduces blast radiuses, and enables rapid recovery. Discover how to turn your data into an advantage that lets you build and scale with certainty - no matter what comes next. more →
Vertiv, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Discover technical insights involving liquid cooling in data centers
As AI workloads increase power density, there is a growing need to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional air-cooling systems. Liquid cooling offers an efficient approach to managing the thermal requirements of high-density racks. more →
Fortinet: Security Operations Summit: Modernize SecOps. Operate AI-Native
Modernize your SecOps with agentic AI. Join the SecOps Virtual Summit for insights on AI-powered threats, cyber defense best practices, and the latest Fortinet innovations. more →
