InformationWeek, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Enterprises must balance building custom AI agents with buying prebuilt solutions, prioritizing orchestration and operationalization over the build-versus-buy decision itself. more →
The Register, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Local LLMs have become practical coding assistants that could reduce cloud compute demands as AI companies raise prices. more →
Open Source For You, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Open source AI models captured 38% of enterprise token volume, driving a 67% year-over-year cost reduction to $6.07 per million tokens. more →
AIwire, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
SANS Institute releases a five-stage AI Security Maturity Model to help organizations implement governance controls. more →
Analytics Insight, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Top AI tools like ChatGPT, Canva, and Fireflies help professionals automate tasks and boost productivity. more →
In this free, full-day virtual event entitled What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI, you'll learn about the emerging threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud today, and how to ensure you have a comprehensive view and insight into your cloud infrastructure. more →
Cloud Native Now, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
A guide to deploying production-ready GitOps with Argo CD on Oracle Kubernetes Engine using OCI-native services for secure multi-cluster orchestration. more →
Cloud Native Now, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Cloud-native DevOps combines microservices, containers, and automation to enable faster, more reliable software delivery. more →
Computerworld, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Google's new Googlebook laptops combine Android and ChromeOS but leave critical questions unanswered about OS architecture and manufacturer control. more →
Cloud Native Now, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Observability has become essential for managing modern cloud-native systems by enabling teams to understand system behavior and quickly resolve issues. more →
Cloud Native Now, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Production Kubernetes requires extensive additional components beyond core orchestration, forcing teams to choose between vendor platforms and custom internal solutions. more →
Cloud Native Now, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Red Hat launches on-premises telemetry for Lightspeed cost management to address data sovereignty and regulatory compliance requirements. more →
Cloud Native Now, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Article examining six primary attack surfaces in CI/CD pipelines and how automated trust becomes a security vulnerability in cloud-native environments. more →
LevelAct, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Enterprise DevOps teams are adopting AI to manage increasingly complex infrastructure and automate operational workflows. more →
DevOps.com, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Migrations succeed by measuring semantic correctness through drift, not just measuring progress. more →
DevOps.com, Monday, May 11th, 2026
NetDevOps adoption barriers are primarily organizational and people-related, not technical, requiring evolution of existing staff rather than hiring unicorns. more →
DevOps.com, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Open source components comprise 90% of modern applications, creating supply chain vulnerabilities through outdated dependencies and malicious code injection. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
Organizations must shift from annual security audits to continuous security integration throughout CI/CD pipelines to effectively combat evolving threats. more →
DevOps.com, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Organizations should contribute to open source software for practical business benefits, not just altruism. more →
DevOps.com, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Record actual API behavior instead of assumptions to create more effective regression tests that catch real-world failures. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Organizations must integrate AI-driven security, compliance, and modern infrastructure into unified platforms to manage evolving cyber threats. more →
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
If you're treating your Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments like standard API traffic, you're basically leaving the front door to your AI infrastructure wide open. You might think you're secure, but you're just waiting for a disaster. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 15th, 2026
If you're still banking on the idea that today's encryption will protect your data indefinitely, you're already behind the curve. By 2026, post-quantum resilience won't be a niche subject for academic cryptographers-it'll be a baseline requirement for anyone running AI infrastructure. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Permiso Security today revealed it has extended its identity management platform to include an ability to discover artificial intelligence (AI) agents and the runtime environments on which they are deployed. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Passwordless authentication is quickly becoming the safest way to protect AI sales tools and the sensitive data inside them. Sales platforms now hold everything from pipeline forecasts to competitive insights, and weak login practices leave those assets exposed far more often than teams realize. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Find out how data center operators can protect critical building-management systems and cyber-physical infrastructure from AI-powered threats, as well as comply with evolving regulations. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Synack has made available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that cybersecurity researchers can use to automate a wide range of penetration testing tasks. more →
Computer Weekly, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Survey finds 81% of developers spend more time reviewing AI-generated code despite productivity gains. more →
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 →
CIO, Friday, May 15th, 2026
CMMI is a process improvement model that helps organizations streamline development and create efficient, productive cultures. more →
The Register, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Datacenters are becoming more resilient overall, but failures last longer and cost more when they occur. more →
SecurityWeek, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
DPU-based security architecture eliminates the tradeoff between data center security and performance. more →
HPCwire, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
GenAI boom disrupts hardware supply chains, causing processor and memory prices to soar 300-900%. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Guide to scheduling business continuity management system activities for ISO 22301:2019 compliance with a downloadable template. more →
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
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Join Klara's Allan Jude and Clyso's Dan van der Ster for a technical look at how each system works, which workloads suit which technology, and what you trade away when you scale out versus scale up. We'll cover the environments where the choice is obvious, and the ones where it isn't. more →
Cisco, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
An Open Specification for Agentic Security Evaluation more →
Cisco, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
The recent announcement of the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol, developed by OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Broadcom, represents a major advancement in AI infrastructure. This deployment shows that full bisection bandwidth and near-perfect uptime are achievable at a scale of over 100,000 GPUs, a key milestone for training advanced models. more →
Cisco, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
In the modern security operations center (SOC), the biggest challenge isn't always a lack of data - it's the lack of meaning. Analysts are often drowning in telemetry, trying to distinguish the calculated movements of a threat actor trying to blend in with normal traffic from the noise of a global network. more →
Cisco, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Cisco outlines how AI-enabled cyber attacks are evolving and provides defensive recommendations for organizations. more →
Citrix Blogs, Monday, May 11th, 2026
Citrix announces Platform Flex, a persona-based platform offering flexible licensing and secure access to address enterprise workforce diversity. more →
Citrix Blogs, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Citrix DaaS Flex is a managed, persona-based Desktop-as-a-Service offering that modernizes enterprise desktop environments without increasing infrastructure burden. more →
Cohere, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Explores the final phases of enterprise AI maturity, focusing on strategic integration and AI-native transformation. more →
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 →
Computer Weekly, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
Hitachi Vantara's global head of strategy discusses integrating sustainability with business goals using long-term planning and Japanese principles. more →
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 →
IBM, Monday, May 11th, 2026
IBM addresses challenges of deploying AI agents at enterprise scale while maintaining governance and control. more →
IBM Press Release, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
IBM launches two managed services for AI inference and virtualization on IBM Cloud. more →
IBM, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
IBM launches a global Sports Tech Startup Challenge to find AI startups transforming the sports industry, starting with a showcase at Web Summit Vancouver. more →
IBM, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
IBM launches Forward Deployed Units (FDUs), small senior teams combining human experts with AI agents to rapidly deploy enterprise AI solutions. more →
IBM Research, Monday, May 11th, 2026
MIT and IBM expand their research lab to include quantum computing alongside AI research. more →
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 →
Leidos, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
Leidos awarded $2.7 billion Army contract to advance hypersonic weapons from prototyping to production. more →
Leidos, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Leidos will manufacture 3,000 low-cost containerized cruise missiles under a Department of War framework agreement. more →
SAP News Center, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
SAP introduces Joule Studio, a fully managed platform for building and managing AI agents, applications, and workflows at enterprise scale. more →
SAP News Center, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
SAP introduces AI-driven assistants and agents to automate supply chain operations while keeping humans in control. more →
SAP News Center, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
SAP introduces Enterprise Planning to enable continuous financial decision-making through AI agents rather than periodic planning cycles. more →
SAP News Center, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
SAP introduces Autonomous Spend Management with AI-powered Joule Assistants to transform procurement and finance operations. more →
SAP News Center, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
SAP introduces Autonomous CX, integrating agentic AI into core business processes to align customer experience with operational execution. more →
SAP News Center, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
SAP announces Autonomous HCM innovations with AI assistants to automate HR processes while keeping humans in control of strategic decisions. more →
Scale AI, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Scale AI celebrates a decade of building reliable AI infrastructure focused on data quality and human feedback. more →
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 →
Sophos, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
Discover the causes and consequences of identity threats based on a survey of 5,000 organizations across 17 countries. more →
Sophos, Monday, May 11th, 2026
OpenAI's May 7 release of GPT-5.5 and the limited preview of GPT-5.5-Cyber put frontier AI in verified defenders' hands. more →
Sophos, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
State of Identity Security 2026 report finds human error and poor non-human identity management are the root causes of most attacks, as agentic AI accelerates the risk more →
This webinar explores what CEOs expect AI to deliver across technology, finance, HR, operations, and other functions, where confidence gaps remain, and how success is being measured. Attendees will gain practical insights into how CxOs can translate AI investments into business outcomes, operate in a distributed leadership model, and meet rising CEO expectations. more →
Zscaler Blog, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Organizations must shift from reactive patching to Modern Defensible Architecture using Zero Trust and deception to counter AI-driven threats. more →
Zscaler Blog, Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Organizations must secure their network foundation by reducing attack surface and eliminating lateral movement before deploying AI at scale. more →