Digital CxO, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Your AI Doesn't Need More Data. It Needs More Context
Enterprises must organize fragmented customer evidence into connected journey data to enable AI to support better CX decisions. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · August 4
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
Analytics Insight, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Why Cloud Computing Skills Are Becoming Essential for Modern IT Professionals
Cloud computing expertise is now critical for IT professionals due to widespread business adoption and growing career opportunities. more →
Cloud Native Now, Monday, July 27th, 2026
The Foundation Was Already Poured
Cloud native infrastructure provides the essential foundations that enterprise AI systems inherit rather than replace. more →
TechTarget, Monday, July 27th, 2026
A CISO's Guide to Security Data Lakes
A security data lake gives organizations a centralized repository of security information, but it can pose governance and operational risks. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
What CISOs Should Take From the Hugging Face-OpenAI Incident
Security experts say the lesson isn't to abandon sandboxing, but to strengthen the security controls around surrounding systems as AI tests their limits more →
TechTarget, Sunday, July 26th, 2026
A Primer on Modernization Strategies for Legacy Systems
Legacy systems are more than just a drag on efficiency or merely older programs; they are strategic inhibitors that prevent resilience, innovation and growth. more →
TechTarget, Friday, July 31st, 2026
CIOs Face IT Knowledge Loss as Baby Boomers Retire
CIOs must treat knowledge loss from retiring experienced employees as an enterprise risk alongside technical debt and cybersecurity. more →
TechTarget, Monday, July 27th, 2026
When Should CIOs Care About Quantum Computing?
Legacy systems are more than just a drag on efficiency or merely older programs; they are strategic inhibitors that prevent resilience, innovation and growth. more →
TechTarget, Friday, July 31st, 2026
How CIOs Can Avoid the AI Surprise Bill
What starts as a small AI experiment can quickly spiral into budget-busting invoices -- here's how CIOs are taking control before costs explode. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Your Agent Doesn't Need a Better Sandbox. It Needs a Better Platform
AI agents require comprehensive platform governance beyond sandboxes to safely manage autonomous workloads. more →
Platform Engineering, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
The Platform Engineer's Guide to Human-in-the-Loop Agentic Workflows
Framework for implementing selective human approval checkpoints in AI agent workflows to balance autonomy with safety. more →
Platform Engineering, Friday, July 31st, 2026
The Platform Engineering Trap: Why Developer Experience Is Becoming the Most Important Reliability Metric
Platform legibility and developer experience are emerging as reliability metrics that matter more than traditional infrastructure measures. more →
Platform Engineering, Friday, July 31st, 2026
The Platform Engineering Illusion: Why Most Internal Developer Platforms Fail Before Developers Ever Use Them
Internal developer platforms fail because they prioritize infrastructure elegance over user needs and lack product discipline. more →
Silverfort, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Duo Alternatives: Comparing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Solutions for Higher Security
Guide comparing MFA solutions including Silverfort, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, and others as alternatives to Cisco Duo. more →
SecurityWeek, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
US and Allies Update SBOM Guidance
US and 13 allied nations released updated SBOM minimum elements guidance to reflect evolving supply chain security needs. more →
IT Security Guru, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Securing What Matters: Why Cyber Resilience Needs Prioritisation
Vulnerability prioritisation, not patching everything, is the route to cyber resilience amid overwhelming UK threat volumes. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Sunday, July 26th, 2026
Ransomware Is More Disruptive and Recovery Readiness Matters More Than Ever
Ransomware continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and it is challenging the most common cybersecurity assumptions. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Sunday, July 26th, 2026
AI Moved Into the Dev Workflow. Security Didn't.
AI-native coding environments generate production-bound code faster than security review processes were designed to track. more →
Computer Weekly, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Gartner: Why Cyber Security Must Shift to Outcomes Against AI-Led Attacks
Anthropic's revelation that a model broke out of its test environment three times and accessed external systems, shows the power of these models more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Top 7 Quantum Computing Threats to AI Infrastructure in 2026
Quantum computing poses immediate threats to AI infrastructure through data theft and encryption vulnerabilities by 2026. more →
SecureWorld Threat Defense Virtual Conference
The conference brings together cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and solution providers to discuss emerging threats, defense strategies, AI integration, and cloud security, while offering opportunities to network and earn CPE credits. more →
Tech Field Day, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Data Needs Some Help to Get the Most From AI Inference Presented by CTERA
CTERA discusses preparing unstructured corporate data for AI agents through tagging and automated extraction. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Modern IT Threats Demand Continuous Resilience
Organizations must adopt continuous resilience practices to maintain operations amid evolving cyber threats and disruptions. more →
Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security
In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control. more →
AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
AWS Security Hub MCP App Brings Exposure Findings Into Your AI-Assisted Workflow (Preview)
AWS previews a local MCP server that pulls Security Hub exposure findings directly into Claude Desktop for investigation. more →
AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
AWS Shield Advanced Is Embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS Managed Rule Group: What Changes and How to Prepare
AWS explains how Shield Advanced customers should migrate to the WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group. more →
AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Beyond RAG: Task-Aware Knowledge Compression for Enterprise AI on AWS
AWS shows how compressing knowledge bases into task-specific representations beats retrieval on analytical work. more →
AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Amazon Neptune Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control for IAM
Neptune adds tag-based access control so IAM and SCP conditions can gate data-plane operations. more →
AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
AWS Glue Data Quality Now Supports Anomaly Detection and Writing Results to the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Glue Data Quality adds anomaly detection for catalog-based evaluations and can write results back to catalog tables. more →
AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Restoring TDE Databases on Multi-AZ Instances
Native backup and restore of TDE-enabled SQL Server databases now works on Multi-AZ instances and read replicas. more →
Bitdefender, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Britain's Big Push to Make the Internet Safer
Bitdefender examines UK legislation shifting online safety burden from individuals to platforms and providers. more →
CIO Influence, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Bitdefender Adds Managed Detection and Response Services to Its European Sovereign Acceleration Program
Bitdefender expands its European Sovereign Acceleration Program to include MDR services fully operated within EU boundaries. more →
Check Point, Monday, July 27th, 2026
27th July Threat Intelligence Report
Check Point's weekly bulletin covers a ransomware attack on Japanese food logistics firm Nichirei and other incidents. more →
Check Point, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
AI Agent Security Just Had Its Catalyst Moment
Check Point reads the Hugging Face incident as the moment agent runtime governance became unavoidable. more →
Check Point, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Your AI Governance Policy Should Survive Your Next Model Change
Check Point argues AI governance controls should be tied to data and workflow, not to a specific model version. more →
Check Point, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Introducing the Industry's First AI Network Firewall
Check Point launches a firewall built to inspect prompts, model calls, and agent actions as first-class network traffic. more →
Check Point, Friday, July 31st, 2026
AI Escaped a Sandbox. That Is Not What Should Worry You
Check Point argues the real lesson of the OpenAI and Anthropic testing incidents is about evaluation boundaries, not escape. 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 →
Cohere, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Introducing North Automations: Intelligent Workflow Orchestration
Cohere adds agentic workflow orchestration to North, letting enterprises automate multi-step processes. more →
CodeMender: AI Code Security Agent
Discover how CodeMender autonomously scans, verifies, and fixes software vulnerabilities at machine speed-enabling rapid remediation with complete developer control. more →
Glean, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Enterprise Context Starts With Indexing, But It Does Not End There
Glean argues indexing enterprise content is necessary but insufficient for useful AI context. more →
Glean, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
What Organizations Closing the AI Impact Gap Do Differently
Glean identifies the practices separating organizations getting measurable AI returns from those that are not. more →
Glean, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Agent Orchestration Platforms Compared
Glean compares the current agent orchestration platform landscape and the trade-offs between approaches. 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 →
TechRepublic, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
HP's Intel Business PC Lineup Targets Flexible Work
HP's 2026 commercial PC refresh pairs Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips with form factors aimed at hybrid work. more →
The State of Data and AI Governance
The State of Data and AI Governance webinar will examine the organizational, cultural, and technical foundations required to govern data while enabling AI effectively. This includes the frameworks, roles, processes, and technologies needed to ensure trust, compliance, and responsible use at scale. more →
Leidos, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Leidos Demonstrates Tactical Cyber Detection Capability During Valiant Shield 2026
Leidos showed real-time cyber threat detection for connected mission systems during the Valiant Shield exercise. more →
Leidos, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Leidos Introduces New AI Platform to Find, Fix Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Leidos launches Parcata, a platform that autonomously finds and remediates software vulnerabilities. more →
Microsoft, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Rethinking Security for the Age of AI
Microsoft introduces Project Perception, arguing the falling cost of offence requires a new cyber stack. more →
Microsoft, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Enhancing AI Security Through Global AI Red Teaming
Microsoft's External Red Team Alliance brings universities and regional experts into frontier AI red teaming. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Better Security Starts With Better Questions
Microsoft argues security leaders make better decisions by improving the questions they ask of AI and their teams. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
What Is New in Microsoft Security: July 2026
Microsoft's monthly security roundup covers securing AI environments and strengthening AI-era foundations. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
The Next Measure of AI Momentum Is Work Transformed
Microsoft argues AI progress should now be measured by work redesigned rather than seats deployed. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Optimizing the Frontier Performance Curve
Microsoft AI discusses pushing the trade-off curve between frontier model capability and inference cost. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
How avatarin Built a 24/7 Retail Agent With GPT-Realtime
avatarin's GPT-Realtime agent gave Yamada Denki shoppers multilingual support, reaching 30,000 users in two weeks. more →
OpenAI, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based operation using ChatGPT for investment, romance, and impersonation scams. more →
OpenAI, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Building Abundant Intelligence
OpenAI sets out its full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, affordable, and widely useful. more →
OpenAI, Saturday, August 1st, 2026
Ten Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
OpenAI reports new results on long-standing open problems spanning geometry, cryptography, and complexity. more →
Oxide Computer Company, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Oxide Joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing
Oxide joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing, using Claude Mythos 5 to hunt vulnerabilities across its full hardware and software stack. more →
Threat Exposure Analytics: Measuring and Communicating Security Risk
This webinar provides trend executive reporting tips that connect technical findings to business impact. Security leaders will gain practical approaches for implementing analytics programs that transform exposure data into actionable insights and compelling risk narratives. more →
Snowflake, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Observability at Scale: Whatnot at Snowflake Summit
Whatnot describes using Snowflake observability and AI analytics to support hyper-growth. more →
Snowflake, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Enterprise AI Security: Agentic Controls and MCP Governance
Snowflake announces Cortex AI Gateway and MCP governance tooling at Black Hat 2026. more →
Snowflake, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Adaptive Compute: Now GA Across Select AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Regions
Snowflake Adaptive Compute reaches general availability across all three major clouds. more →
Snowflake, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Apache Iceberg Lakehouse: Snowflake and Google Cloud
Snowflake and Google Cloud detail building an open, AI-ready lakehouse on Apache Iceberg. more →
Snowflake, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Observe on Apache Iceberg: Unlocking Open Observability
Observe by Snowflake enters private preview storing telemetry as open Iceberg tables in customer S3 buckets. more →
Snowflake, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Run Apache Spark on Snowflake With CoCo
Snowflake's CoCo spark-migration skill moves Apache Spark pipelines onto Snowpark Connect. more →
HPCwire, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Supermicro Expands DCBBS With Precision-Engineered AI Rack Series to Accelerate Deployment and Time-to-Online
Supermicro adds a purpose-built rack portfolio to its DCBBS lineup for high-density, liquid-cooled AI data center deployments. more →
From Manual to Automated: How WHOOP Transformed Vulnerability Response
At this virtual event, TNS host Jennifer Riggins talks with WHOOP Staff Engineer Vinay Raghu and Datadog Senior Product Manager Amber Tunnell about how WHOOP built this automated vulnerability-response workflow using Datadog Bits AI and Workflow Automation. more →
Sysdig, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Introducing the SysQL Skill: Ask Your Security Graph Anything
Sysdig brings its security graph into Claude Code so analysts can query blast radius in plain language. more →
Sysdig, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Introducing the Runtime Remediation Skill for Headless Cloud Security
Sysdig's Runtime Remediation Skill turns a runtime alert into an ordered, auditable response with analyst confirmation. more →