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Friday’s Briefing · December 19

Security Boulevard, December 12,2025

3 Compliance Processes To Automate In 2026

For years, compliance has been one of the most resource-intensive responsibilities for cybersecurity teams. Despite growing investments in tools, the day-to-day reality of compliance is still dominated by manual, duplicative tasks. more →

3 Compliance Processes To Automate In 2026

ComputerWeekly.com, December 12,2025

3 Notable Software Development Trends For 2026 And Beyond

The software development market is a highly dynamic environment. We can see more and more companies investing in software to support their business processes and customer interactions, which contributes to the year-to-year growth of the software development market size. more →

3 Notable Software Development Trends For 2026 And Beyond

devops.com, December 10,2025

Why Privacy-Safe Logging Remains One Of The Hardest Problems In DevOps

As cloud-native architectures scale and regulatory pressure intensifies, organizations are finally recognizing that their logging pipelines contain sensitive. Logs fuel observability, debugging, compliance investigations, and incident response, yet they also remain one of the least governed data streams in the enterprise. more →

Why Privacy-Safe Logging Remains One Of The Hardest Problems In DevOps

Security Boulevard, December 11,2025

The Great Masquerade: How AI Agents Are Spoofing Their Way In

For decades, there was a general 'gentleman's agreement' on the web regarding automated traffic. Good bots (like search engine crawlers) identified themselves clearly with specific user agent strings (e.g., 'Googlebot') and respected rules laid out in robots.txt. Bad bots masqueraded as legitimate users to scrape content, probe for vulnerabilities, or launch attacks. more →

The Great Masquerade: How AI Agents Are Spoofing Their Way In

Security Boulevard, December 12,2025

What Tech Leaders Need To Know About MCP Authentication In 2025

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) went from Anthropic's internal project to industry standard in just twelve months. Now governed by the Linux Foundation, backed by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AWS, and downloaded over 97 million times monthly, MCP has become the universal language for connecting AI agents to your enterprise tools. more →

What Tech Leaders Need To Know About MCP Authentication In 2025

Upcoming Event · Wed, Oct 14 · 11:00am

The AI-Powered Modernization Playbook for Financial Services Secure Migration, Modernization & the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle

Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. more →

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The AI-Powered Modernization Playbook for Financial Services Secure Migration, Modernization & the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (Oct. 14th)

Techstrong.ai, December 11,2025

'Braking' The AI Trust Barrier

Most of us don't mistrust AI because it is new or smart. We mistrust it because it often acts certain when it should be cautious, confident when it should be curious, and quick when it should first ask us about our intentions. That creates a trust gap: the important space between confidence, care, and action. more →

'Braking' The AI Trust Barrier

Tech Field Day, December 10,2025

AI And The Edge

In the recent article by Ned Bellavance, the focus is on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge, exploring how this combination enhances computing capabilities and drives efficiency in real-world applications. more →

AI And The Edge

Tech Field Day, December 8,2025

Cisco AI Cluster Networking Design

Steve Puluka's latest post provides a quick look at Cisco's innovative approach to AI Cluster Networking Design, highlighting how Cisco is optimizing network infrastructure to better support AI and machine learning workloads. more →

Cisco AI Cluster Networking Design

destination CRM, December 9,2025

What Is CRM In 2026? 12 Vendor Executives Weigh In

For the fourth year in a row, the CRM Playaz hosted a group of leading vendor executives, industry analysts, startup and institutional investors, and thought leaders for an unscripted, organic conversation about where CRM/CX goes in the year ahead. more →

What Is CRM In 2026? 12 Vendor Executives Weigh In

destination CRM, December 12,2025

What Is CRM In 2026: Will A Bursting AI Bubble Change The Game?

As part of the CRM Playaz "What is CRM in 2026?" excutive conversation series, for the first time we added a panel of folks investing at different levels into the enterprise application space, as well as in AI startups that are heavily impacting CRM/CX technologies. more →

What Is CRM In 2026: Will A Bursting AI Bubble Change The Game?

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 22 · 1:00pm

Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes

Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes (Oct. 22nd)

Google, December 11,2025

4 Highlights From Google Beam In 2025

In 2021, we introduced Project Starline with the ambitious goal of making remote communication feel like you'd instantly traveled across distances to be together. more →

4 Highlights From Google Beam In 2025

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 1 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Oct. 1st)