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Data Center Energy Constraints and Moratoriums Are Mounting: Expect to See Stalled AI Projects
Data Center Outages Are Less Frequent but More Expensive, Uptime Finds
The Biggest Mistake Organizations Make About Digital Sovereignty
Building Resilience Responsibly: Commvault's FY26 Sustainability Report
The Most Dangerous Silos in Your Organization Aren't Your Data Silos
From Threat Intelligence to Action: The First Cybercrime Bounty is Now Live
Cybersecurity Skills Gap: More than Just a Workforce Challenge
Hybrid Search for Oracle AI Agent Memory: Combining Semantic Recall with Exact Match
Oracle AI Database Containers for DevOps: From Oracle Container Registry to Kubernetes
Build an Analytics Platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Healthcare and Life Sciences
From Reactive to Autonomous: The New IT and Security Playbook (Sept. 3rd)
The AppSec Overload Problem And Why Context Is the Cure (Sept. 15th)
SecureWorld Quantum Cryptography Virtual Conference (Sept. 23rd)
Prevention at Machine Speed: Hunting Beyond Known Detections (Aug. 13th)
0-Day to 10x Discovery: Security at the Speed of Mythos (Aug. 20th)
Best Neo4j Monitoring Solutions: Complete 2026 Guide
A comparison of Neo4j monitoring tools including Ops Manager, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and Halin. more →
ITSM Trends: Where to Invest vs. Where to Wait
Five ITSM trends including AI adoption, FinOps integration, ESM expansion, and XLAs reshape IT service delivery. more →
Data Center Energy Constraints and Moratoriums Are Mounting: Expect to See Stalled AI Projects
Energy shortages and construction moratoriums threaten to slow AI deployment across the US. more →
Data Center Outages Are Less Frequent but More Expensive, Uptime Finds
Outage frequency has declined for five years, but 57% of major incidents now exceed $100,000 in cost. more →
NCSC Guidance on Recovery
The UK's NCSC releases guidance for organizations responding to highly disruptive cyber attacks. more →
CISO Conversation: Russ Kirby - Passion Is the Antidote to Burnout
Ping Identity's CISO discusses passion, leadership, and AI concerns driving cybersecurity careers. more →
CSS: The Hidden Threat Lurking in Your Inbox
Researchers warn CSS alone is now powerful enough to build working keyloggers and exfiltrate webmail data. more →
Why You Need a Reliable AI Agent Kill Switch
Organizations must implement kill switches to control rogue AI agents that exceed their intended scope. more →
AI Threat Report: Rogue Agents, Workflow Attacks
AI models escaping sandboxes and malicious agents infiltrating workflows pose emerging security risks. more →
15 TP-Link Bugs Expose Risks in Zero-Trust Provisioning
Forescout researchers disclose 15 TP-Link Omada flaws that question blind trust in zero-touch provisioning. more →
Scaling the Future: Why Ethernet is the Backbone of AI Supercomputing
Cisco makes the case that Ethernet and its programmable Silicon One are the backbone of AI supercomputing. more →
The Intelligent Store is Taking Shape
Cisco describes how AI infrastructure lets retailers build stores that observe, reason, and respond in real time. more →
Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The Programmable Wallet for the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare announces Cloudflare Wallets, giving AI agents native payments and verifiable identity via the x402 protocol. more →
How Cloudflare Enforces Engineering Standards Using AI
Cloudflare built the Cloudflare Codex so AI agents enforce engineering standards across the development lifecycle. more →
The Agent Development Lifecycle Has Arrived on Cloudflare
Cloudflare introduces the Agent Development Lifecycle and the platform primitives that support it. more →
Catching Rogue AI Behavior with Identity-Aware Analytics
Cloudflare's identity-aware AI Gateway enters open beta with User Insights for spotting rogue AI behavior. more →
Cloudflare OS: An Open Platform for Agents, Apps, and Work
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OS, an open-source platform for building apps and safely accessing internal systems. more →
How We're Rethinking Work at Cloudflare with Cloudflare OS
Cloudflare describes how it rebuilt its own internal ways of working on top of Cloudflare OS. more →
The Biggest Mistake Organizations Make About Digital Sovereignty
Commvault argues that digital sovereignty strategies starting with data centers are solving the wrong problem. more →
Building Resilience Responsibly: Commvault's FY26 Sustainability Report
Commvault publishes its FY26 Sustainability Report covering cyber resilience, governance, and environmental efficiency. more →
The Most Dangerous Silos in Your Organization Aren't Your Data Silos
Commvault cites new IDC research arguing organizational silos, not data silos, are what complicate recovery. more →
Trust - the Great Disappearing Act (or Not)
Commvault explores how AI is reshaping trust and why continuous verification matters for secure innovation. more →
Your Predictive AI Foundation is the Fastest Path to Agentic AI Value
DataRobot argues existing predictive AI investments are the fastest route to agentic AI value. more →
From Threat Intelligence to Action: The First Cybercrime Bounty is Now Live
Crime Stoppers International and Fortinet launch the first live cybercrime bounty, Operation Silent Vector I. more →
QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Used to Deploy FDMTP Implant
FortiGuard Labs analyzes a QuickFox VPN supply chain attack delivering the FDMTP implant selectively. more →
Cybersecurity Skills Gap: More than Just a Workforce Challenge
Fortinet's 2026 Skills Gap Report frames the security staffing shortage as a business risk. more →
Responding to the Next Frontier of Critical Cyber Capabilities
OpenAI shares preliminary cyber evaluations for Astra and the safeguards it is strengthening in response. more →
Hybrid Search for Oracle AI Agent Memory: Combining Semantic Recall with Exact Match
Oracle explains hybrid search for AI Agent Memory, combining semantic recall with exact matching. more →
Vector Search Sizing Guidelines for OpenSearch
Oracle publishes vector search sizing guidelines for OCI Search with OpenSearch. more →
Oracle AI Database Containers for DevOps: From Oracle Container Registry to Kubernetes
Oracle shows how to run AI Database containers from Oracle Container Registry on Kubernetes. more →
Post-Quantum Cryptography in Long-Term Support JDK Releases
Oracle lays out its roadmap for bringing post-quantum cryptography into long-term support JDK releases. more →
Build an Analytics Platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Oracle details building a governed healthcare and life sciences analytics platform on OCI. more →
What's New in Oracle AI? August 2026 Edition
Oracle's August 2026 AI roundup covers expanded model options and updates across its OCI AI services. 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 →
The AppSec Overload Problem And Why Context Is the Cure (Sept. 15th)
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 →
SecureWorld Quantum Cryptography Virtual Conference (Sept. 23rd)
The conference centers on helping IT and cybersecurity leaders transition from reactive concern to proactive planning regarding quantum threats more →
Prevention at Machine Speed: Hunting Beyond Known Detections (Aug. 13th)
AI broke the SOC at both ends. Attackers now move faster than an analyst can open the case, and the techniques that matter most surface in a threat research blog long before anyone writes them into a rule. Detect-and-respond still matters, but it now sits between two jobs that matter more: stopping decisive actions at the point of execution, and hunting for what your defenses were never built to see. more →
0-Day to 10x Discovery: Security at the Speed of Mythos (Aug. 20th)
This session covers why faster discovery alone doesn't solve the problem - your triage, remediation, and deployment capacity haven't scaled to match - and shares a five-step framework (Understand Exposure, Prioritize, Remediate, Protect Production, Verify) for building a security program that can keep pace, including a real-world example of a financial services company that cut patch cycle time from 5 days to under 2 hours. more →
Consistency Is a Sales Skill — and Your Newsletter Proves It
How to Use LinkedIn Newsletters to Stay Top-Of-Mind (Aug. 18th)
Rapid Identity Recovery: Lessons from Frontline Incident Response (Aug. 18th)
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