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AI Inference Is Getting Cheaper, but Your Agents Are Getting More Expensive
Why Your AI Project Will Probably Fail (and the 3 Warning Signs I Wish I'd Known)
Survey: Enterprise AI Analytics Faces Gap Between Testing and Deployment
LinuxSecurity HOWTO: The Modern Linux Security Operations Playbook
The CISO Now Owns Physical Security. Here's What That Means for the Channel
RAM, GPU, and Storage for Agentic AI: How Much You Actually Need
Kioxia's New 10M IOPS PCIe 6.0 SSD Is So Fast It Rivals Legacy DDR3 RAM
Enterprise SSD Prices Run at 6.5x Last Year: VDURA Pegs a 30TB TLC Drive at $22,600
Model Context Protocol in Action: When MCP Meets Real Infrastructure
What Comes Next: Operating and Evolving the Production AI Factory
Why Agentic Inference Needs Prefix-Aware Routing Infrastructure
North Korean Hackers Target LinkedIn Users With Fake Job Offers
Ransomware Has Changed and Your Defenses Need to Change With It
Report: One-Quarter of Breaches Are Enabled by AI-Driven Attacks
The Rise of the Non-Human Insider: When AI Agents Become the Threat
Report: Americans Lose an Estimated $148 Billion to Scams Each Year
C2Looper: A New Backdoor Likely Tied to Ransomware With GitHub C2
The Fix Has Been Out for a Year. The Controller Is Still Exposed.
Securing The Intelligent Edge: AI, IoT, And The New Front Lines Of Operational Risk (Sept. 17th)
From Reactive to Autonomous: The New IT and Security Playbook (Sept. 3rd)
No Data Privacy, No Innovation: Research That Proves Compliance is Essential to AI (Sept. 8th)
The Dos and Don'ts of a Cybersecurity Awareness Month People Actually Remember (Sept. 10th)
AI Inference Is Getting Cheaper, but Your Agents Are Getting More Expensive
Gartner expects token costs to fall 95% by 2030 while agentic workflow inference costs rise more than fivefold by 2028. more →
Why Data Quality Dictates Security Operations Success
Controlled experiments find enriched network telemetry outperforms basic logs across SOC investigation benchmarks. more →
5 Ways Businesses Can Curb AI Spending as Unit Costs Rise
Enterprise Times offers five controls covering real-time visibility, smarter GPU use and FinOps practice for AI spend. more →
4 Ways Data Management Influences AI Outcomes
No Jitter argues agentic AI is only as effective as the data infrastructure beneath it. more →
Why Your AI Project Will Probably Fail (and the 3 Warning Signs I Wish I'd Known)
MIT research finds 95% of generative AI pilots produce no measurable return, with organizational failures driving most collapses. more →
Survey: Enterprise AI Analytics Faces Gap Between Testing and Deployment
A WisdomAI survey finds 93% of enterprise data leaders using or experimenting with AI for analytics, with deployment lagging. more →
Java News Roundup: Simple JSON API, GlassFish, Jakarta EE, JNoSQL, Open Liberty, LangChain4j
Weekly Java update covering the Simple JSON API for JDK 28, GlassFish 9.0 and LangChain4j 1.19.0. more →
Linux Kernel 7.2 Officially Released, This Is What's New
Linux 7.2 lands with cache-aware load balancing, initial HDMI 2.1 FRL in AMDGPU and Rust on S/390. more →
How to Manage Vulnerabilities Across Multiple Linux Distributions
Cross-distro Linux security needs unified tooling, risk-based prioritization and automated remediation. more →
LinuxSecurity HOWTO: The Modern Linux Security Operations Playbook
A consolidated Linux security operations guide covering hardening, logging, incident response and advisory handling. more →
The CISO Now Owns Physical Security. Here's What That Means for the Channel
Physical security budgets have moved to CISOs, changing who partners sell to and what they must be able to discuss. more →
RAM, GPU, and Storage for Agentic AI: How Much You Actually Need
StorageReview provides a lab-verified sizing guide covering VRAM, system RAM, storage and KV cache math for local AI. more →
Kioxia's New 10M IOPS PCIe 6.0 SSD Is So Fast It Rivals Legacy DDR3 RAM
Kioxia unveils a PCIe 6.0 SSD hitting 10M IOPS with performance approaching legacy DDR3 memory. more →
Energy-Efficient Storage Architecture in the AI Era
AI workloads make power the binding constraint, requiring energy-conscious storage design. more →
7 Expert-Recommended Data Observability Tools
Commercial data observability tools help teams monitor data quality, security and pipelines with vendor support. more →
Best Enterprise SSDs in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
StorageReview ranks six data center drives across mixed-use, read-intensive, high-capacity and EDSFF categories on lab data. more →
Enterprise SSD Prices Run at 6.5x Last Year: VDURA Pegs a 30TB TLC Drive at $22,600
VDURA's Flash Volatility Index shows enterprise SSD prices holding at 6.5x year-ago levels, 18.6x HDD capacity cost. more →
The Culture Funnel: You Can't Align What Isn't in the Data
Cohere argues cultural awareness must be built into AI models from the start, because language coverage alone fails users. more →
Model Context Protocol in Action: When MCP Meets Real Infrastructure
CoreWeave examines the limitations that surface when Model Context Protocol agents move from chat into operational workflows. more →
What Comes Next: Operating and Evolving the Production AI Factory
CoreWeave and NVIDIA cover the operational phase of the AI factory lifecycle after validation and build-out. more →
Why Agentic Inference Needs Prefix-Aware Routing Infrastructure
CoreWeave explains why agentic workloads, which reuse most of each request's context, need prefix-aware caching and routing. more →
Why People Remember Jaws but Forget Your Security Training
KnowBe4 argues engaging, high-production security content drives recall and behavior change where compliance training fails. more →
North Korean Hackers Target LinkedIn Users With Fake Job Offers
KnowBe4 reports the North Korean actor Famous Chollima posing as LinkedIn recruiters to push ClickFix malware commands. more →
Ransomware Has Changed and Your Defenses Need to Change With It
KnowBe4's Erich Kron argues ransomware is now a business disruption model built on stolen identities and social engineering. more →
Report: One-Quarter of Breaches Are Enabled by AI-Driven Attacks
An IBM-commissioned study finds 25% of malicious breaches are now AI-driven, costing an average $6 million each. more →
The Rise of the Non-Human Insider: When AI Agents Become the Threat
KnowBe4 argues machine identities now outnumber humans 82 to 1, making authenticated AI agents a serious insider risk. more →
Report: Americans Lose an Estimated $148 Billion to Scams Each Year
A Consumer Federation of America report puts annual US online scam losses at $148 billion, over seven times reported figures. more →
Offering Zero Data Retention for Frontier Models
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing. more →
Stampli Cuts Launch Hours by 68% Using ChatGPT Work
Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days against a fixed deadline. more →
Securing Software at the Speed of AI
Palantir's product security team describes building an agentic multi-agent source-code review capability. more →
C2Looper: A New Backdoor Likely Tied to Ransomware With GitHub C2
Zscaler ThreatLabz details C2Looper, a Rust-based backdoor using GitHub for command and control and delivered via ClickFix. more →
Securing the Unsecurable: OT, IoT, and the Factory Floor
Zscaler examines securing connected manufacturing where uptime and availability are the only metrics operators accept. more →
Aligning ITAR Compliance to Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchanges
Zscaler maps ITAR compliance requirements across its Commercial, FedRAMP Moderate and FedRAMP High platform tiers. more →
The Fix Has Been Out for a Year. The Controller Is Still Exposed.
Zscaler finds thousands of refrigeration controllers still unpatched months after fixes shipped, because outages spoil product. more →
Zero Trust Can't Stop at a Claim. You Need to Prove It.
Zscaler argues policies describing intent tell you nothing about behavior, using a bank executive's AI ban as the example. more →
Securing The Intelligent Edge: AI, IoT, And The New Front Lines Of Operational Risk (Sept. 17th)
In this executive briefing, Forrester Senior Analyst Paddy Harrington draws on his latest research to help technology leaders navigate the critical intersection of AI-driven threats and operational resilience. more →
The Human Risk Management Blueprint (Sept. 1st)
Join this session for a breakdown on how to shift from measuring passive compliance to actively modifying human risk. You'll learn how to transition your workforce into a proactive security perimeter that can neutralize AI-driven deception. more →
From Reactive to Autonomous: The New IT and Security Playbook (Sept. 3rd)
The window between vulnerability discovery and weaponized exploit has collapsed from weeks to minutes. Static dashboards and fragmented workflows are now a liability. This webinar explores what it means to move from reactive, manual IT and Security operations to an autonomous model, where real-time endpoint intelligence drives action before threats materialize. more →
Is your AppSec program Mythos Ready? (Sept. 3rd)
In this session, you'll learn what you need to do TODAY to make your AppSec program 'Mythos ready,' including addressing testing gaps, ensuring you have visibility and control if your software supply chain, and how AI fits with your existing AST tools and practices. You'll also see how Black Duck can help you reduce risk and respond faster to new vulnerabilities. more →
No Data Privacy, No Innovation: Research That Proves Compliance is Essential to AI (Sept. 8th)
AI/ML investment is surging, and enterprises are pouring resources into innovation. But when innovation and compliance collide, which one wins? According to the Perforce Delphix 2026 State of AI and Data Privacy Report, 98% say they are confident in their ability to protect sensitive data in AI/ML workflows. Yet 84% still allow data compliance exceptions. more →
The Dos and Don'ts of a Cybersecurity Awareness Month People Actually Remember (Sept. 10th)
Join Dale Hackett, Systems Administrator and Information Security Administrator with EXP Services, and Javvad Malik, KnowBe4 CISO Advisor, for real dos and don'ts from teams who've run their own Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Plus, how KnowBe4's Kit can help you launch your campaign without starting from a blank page. more →
AI Has Moved Your Competitive Moat: How Leaders Can Turn Threat Into Advantage
Experts Explain How to Develop a Framework for Cyber-Fraud Fusion (Aug. 27th)
Robots vs Robots: Fighting AI-Powered Email Attacks (Sept. 1st)
Signal vs Noise: A comparison of AI Code Review Tools (Sept. 1st)
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