SC Media, Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
Generative AI & Cybersecurity: Risks, Ethics, and Governance Every CISO Must Know - WC #1
A webcast exploring how CISOs can balance generative AI innovation with risk management and governance. more →
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CIO Influence, Monday, April 27th, 2026
Goals Are Not Strategy and IT Is Paying the Price
Organizations must develop adaptive IT strategies with contingency plans rather than rigid goal-focused approaches to navigate changing business conditions. more →
SC Media, Monday, April 27th, 2026
Governance and Compliance Are Still the Biggest Barriers to AI Success
Governance and compliance challenges remain the primary obstacles to AI adoption for most organizations. more →
Techfunnel, Monday, April 27th, 2026
How Companies Stay Competitive Through Continuous Innovation
Companies must embrace continuous innovation through small daily improvements rather than waiting for breakthrough ideas to remain competitive. more →
The New Stack, Monday, April 27th, 2026
Meet the Executives Vibe-Coding Their Own Tools
Executives are building their own tools instead of outsourcing to avoid frustration with external developers. more →
TechRadar, Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
Quantum Can Wait: Why CISOs Should Focus On Today's Preventable Cyber Risks
CISOs should prioritize addressing current security fundamentals over preparing for quantum computing threats expected in the 2030s. more →
Futurum, Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
Scale-Across AI Networking With Co-Packaged Optics
Scale-across AI networking designs using co-packaged optics enable data centers to overcome power and cooling constraints. 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 That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business.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 →
Platform Engineering, Friday, May 1st, 2026
Abstracting AI Infrastructure: Native GPU Scaling for Internal Developer Platforms
Native GPU scaling via keda-gpu-scaler bypasses Prometheus for real-time LLM inference autoscaling in Kubernetes. more →
InfoQ, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Driving and Measuring the Impact of Platform Engineering
Platform engineering requires a socio-technical approach with holistic impact measurement across all stakeholders. more →
The New Stack, Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
How AI Transforms Your Role as a Platform Engineer
An article exploring how artificial intelligence is changing platform engineering roles and responsibilities. more →
Cloud Native: The AI Stack
The same stack. Infinite possibilities -- AI-native applications are built on the same technologies, practices, and platforms that cloud native pioneered. From infrastructure to intelligence, it's all cloud native. more →
SecurityWeek, Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
Cyber Insurance Data Gives CISOs New Ammo for Budget Talks
Cyber insurance data helps CISOs translate technical security risks into financial terms for board budget discussions. more →
TechRadar, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Encryption Breaking Technology Is Now 20x Cheaper And CEOs Should Be Very Worried
Recent quantum computing research suggests breaking cryptography is now far cheaper, prompting urgent organizational action. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
IP Spoofing Explained: How to Detect and Prevent IP Spoofing Attacks
IP spoofing is a cyber attack technique where attackers mask their real IP address to bypass security measures and launch various attacks. more →
SC Media, Monday, April 27th, 2026
Operating at the Speed of the Adversary
Organizations must rapidly implement zero trust and reduce internet exposure to defend against AI-driven vulnerability discovery and exploitation. more →
TechRadar, Friday, May 1st, 2026
QR Code Phishing Surges 146% As Microsoft Detects And Analyzes 8.3 Billion Phishing Threats In Q1 2026
Microsoft reports a 146% surge in QR code phishing attacks among 8.3 billion detected threats in Q1 2026. more →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Machine Identity Management Starts With Private PKI
Private PKI is essential for automating machine identity management and certificate lifecycle in modern cloud-native environments. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Security Data Lake vs SIEM vs Data Pipeline
SIEMs detect and alert, data lakes store large volumes long-term, and data pipelines normalize and route security data between them. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
The Top 3 Ways Criminals Use AI in Cyber Attacks
Criminals exploit AI to automate attacks on SaaS environments through agent manipulation, social engineering, and accelerated reconnaissance. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 1st, 2026
Time to Rethink Privileged Access for Machines and AI Agents
Legacy PAM systems must evolve to manage machine identities and AI agents in modern cloud-native environments. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 1st, 2026
Ultimate Guide to PCI Compliance for SaaS Companies
A comprehensive guide to implementing PCI DSS compliance for SaaS companies handling payment card information. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Wasn't Visibility Supposed to Fix This?
Visibility alone doesn't solve security remediation; organizations need context, orchestration, and execution alignment. more →
The New Stack, Monday, April 27th, 2026
Why Developers Are Betting on Postgres for AI
Developers are increasingly choosing PostgreSQL as their database for AI applications due to its reliability and capabilities. more →
AI Threat Readiness: Deep Dive Workshop
Your AI Systems Are Already Under Attack. Is Your Team Ready to Respond? more →
ZDNET, Monday, April 27th, 2026
77% of IT Managers Say Their AI Agents Are Out of Control - 5 Ways to Rein in Yours
Most IT managers lack control over AI agents, requiring robust governance strategies. more →
AIwire, Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
Open Compute Project: Delivering an Open Data Center Ecosystem for AI
OCP announces new contributions and alliances to build open, standardized AI data center infrastructure. more →
HPCwire, Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
Re-Architecting Archive at Scale: Object-Based Tape and the Limits of Cloud Storage
Organizations must balance object-based tape and cloud storage for sustainable long-term data archival at zettabyte scale. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
SNMP vs. CMIP: What's the Difference?
SNMP and CMIP are network management protocols with different design philosophies: SNMP prioritizes simplicity while CMIP emphasizes flexibility. more →
TechTarget, Friday, May 1st, 2026
Tape's Strategic Role in Modern Data Protection
Tape backup is experiencing a resurgence due to cybersecurity regulations and the need for offline, immutable data protection. more →
Data Center Knowledge, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
The Breaking Points: Cooling Struggles to Keep Pace With AI Power Density
AI workload scaling is pushing cooling from a design consideration to a critical deployment bottleneck. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
How Do Risk Assessment Costs Vary and Why?
Risk assessment costs extend beyond direct expenses to include staff time, technology, and indirect disruption impacts, requiring organizations to understand total cost of risk. more →
Tech Spotlight - What AI Means for Identity Security
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 →
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Upcoming IT Webinars
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The Gartner 2026 CEO Technology Agenda: How AI Drives Growth, Leadership Moves Beyond the CIO
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 →
AMD News, April 27,2026
AI PC Adoption Accelerates as Enterprises Prepare for Agentic AI, IDC White Paper Finds
IDC research shows 81% of organizations are planning, piloting or deploying AI PCs as agentic AI adoption accelerates. more →
Techradar, Sunday, May 3rd, 2026
AMD Takes Aim At Rivals With Open Space AI Pitch As It Warns Against Vendor Lock-in Risks in Orbit
AMD advocates for open platforms and modular design in space AI to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure interoperability across multiple contractors. more →
Anthropic, April 29,2026
Evaluating Claude's Bioinformatics Research Capabilities With BioMysteryBench
Anthropic introduces BioMysteryBench, a benchmark for evaluating Claude's bioinformatics capabilities on real-world datasets. more →
SecurityWeek, April 30,2026
Anthropic Unveils Claude Security to Counter AI-Powered Exploit Surge
Anthropic releases Claude Security in public beta to help defenders identify and patch vulnerabilities faster using AI. more →
Dark Reading, April 30,2026
Anthropic's Mythos Has Landed: Here's What Comes Next for Cyber
Anthropic's new Claude Mythos AI model can find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities at scale, prompting industry concerns and the formation of Project Glasswing. 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 →
StorageNewsletter, April 27,2026
Hitachi Vantara Releases FY2025 Sustainability Report, Highlighting Leadership in Energy-Efficient Infrastructure for AI-Driven Workloads
Hitachi Vantara released its FY2025 Sustainability Report showcasing energy-efficient infrastructure innovations for AI workloads. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
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 →
AIwire, April 29,2026
NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for AI Agents
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal AI model combining vision, audio, and language for efficient agentic workflows. more →
InfoQ, April 30,2026
NVIDIA Launches Ising Open Models for Quantum Computing
NVIDIA releases open-source Ising models for quantum processor calibration and error correction using machine learning. more →
The New Stack, May 1,2026
How SUSE Positions Itself as the Infrastructure Layer for the AI Era
SUSE positions itself as a critical infrastructure provider for the AI era. 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 →
