Kovrr, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Top AI Governance Tools for Shadow and Agentic Risks
Enterprises need integrated AI governance platforms to manage shadow AI and autonomous agentic risks. more →
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michaelpeters.org, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
SOC 2 Automation: Continuum GRC Continuous Compliance Assessments
SOC 2 automation with continuous monitoring is replacing periodic audits for managing ongoing compliance demands. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
How to Use AI to Enforce Data Governance Policies
AI can automate data governance enforcement, shifting organizations from reactive reviews to proactive real-time policy control. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, July 11th, 2026
How AI Is Changing the Way Enterprises Detect Compliance and Configuration Risk
Enterprises are moving from audit-based compliance to continuous, AI-powered configuration and risk intelligence. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
2026 AI Risk Monitoring: Continuum GRC Cybersecurity Audits
AI risk monitoring is becoming essential to scale cybersecurity audits and governance across complex frameworks in 2026. more →
Outlook for Data Security: Going From Reactive to Resilient
In this complimentary Gartner webinar, Gartner experts will explore the evolution to data-centric security, the role of AI-driven adaptive controls and the importance of aligning incident response with business continuity. more →
IT Security Guru, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Pentesting Is Dead, Long Live Pentesting
Traditional annual pentests are obsolete as AI-speed threats drive a shift to continuous, programmatic testing. more →
Doppel Blog, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Why Security Awareness Needs to Be a Response, Not a Calendar Event
Static calendar-based security training fails; responsive, threat-driven human risk management builds real resilience. more →
TechTarget (SearchSecurity), Monday, July 6th, 2026
The AI Vulnerability Storm Is Here: Is Your Security Program Ready?
AI collapses the vulnerability-to-exploit timeline to hours, forcing a fundamental rethink of security programs. more →
D3 Security Blog, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Does "AI SOC" Solve Alert Fatigue?
AI SOC can end alert fatigue only if it fully investigates, triages, and responds rather than merely summarizes. more →
TechTarget (SearchITOperations), Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Top IT Security Challenges in Modern Infrastructures
Seven major security challenges, from AI-powered attacks to human error, threaten modern distributed IT environments. more →
Clear Path Security, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Preparing Your Organisation for Security Incidents
Advance planning, clear roles, and regular testing minimize disruption when security incidents strike. more →
SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Storage Gets Promoted in the Agentic AI Era
Agentic AI's massive context memory needs are making storage a strategic part of the inference engine. more →
HighFens, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Why AI Storage Standards Matter for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
SNIA's open storage standards make storage a first-order AI design decision that cuts GPU idle time. more →
Blocks & Files, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Backblaze: High-Capacity Disk Drives Are Looking Good
Backblaze's latest drive stats show high-capacity 20TB-plus drives delivering strong reliability. more →
Backblaze Blog, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2026
Backblaze's Q1 2026 drive report, delayed by a data anomaly, shows high-capacity drives excelling. more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
When the Have-Nots Become the Haves
China's shift from open-source AI to potential export restrictions mirrors how underdogs embrace openness then close it. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Why Enterprise Knowledge Is Becoming More Valuable Than AI Models
As models commoditize, enterprises' organized internal knowledge becomes the real AI advantage. more →
InfoQ, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Switching From PostgreSQL to ClickHouse for Improved Performance and Scalability
Momentic migrated caching from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse, scaling to 20 billion entries at ~250ms latency. more →
Same Curve, Twice the Speed: Why AI Cost Management Isn't Cloud FinOps 2.0
In this session, we'll break down what actually separates AI cost management from cloud cost management: different unit economics, different owners, different attribution models, and a waste rate of 25% of cloud and AI spend, which took cloud a decade to reach and AI hit almost overnight. more →
Cloud Native Now, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Most Container Images You Pull Today Are Already Full of Vulnerabilities
In an interview, Minimus co-founder John Morello explains why container images stay full of unpatched vulnerabilities. more →
Deepak Gupta (guptadeepak.com), Friday, July 10th, 2026
Building Customer Identity at Scale: Lessons from 1 Billion Users
Eight lessons on building CIAM infrastructure that serves over a billion users while balancing trust and scale. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, July 11th, 2026
Top 10 Data Center Efficiency Monitoring Companies in 2026
A roundup of 2026's leading data center efficiency monitoring vendors using AI and real-time analytics. more →
OSTechNix, Friday, July 10th, 2026
How Network Time Protocol (NTP) Works: Clock Synchronization Explained
An explainer on how NTP synchronizes device clocks across IP networks using timestamps and stratum hierarchy. more →
Computer Weekly, Friday, July 10th, 2026
AI Is Making the Mainframe Harder to Retire, Not Easier
AI is reinforcing the business case for mainframes, with most organizations modernizing rather than retiring them. 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 →
TechTarget, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
The Board-Level Economics of Downtime
Downtime is now a board-level strategic issue, not just an IT cost. more →
ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
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 →
AMD, Monday, July 6th, 2026
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Now Available at Micro Center
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo local-AI development system is now available at Micro Center starting at $3,999. 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 →
Anthropic, Monday, July 6th, 2026
The Making of Claude Code
The inside story of how Claude Code evolved from an internal CLI into Anthropic's flagship coding agent. more →
Anthropic, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Inviting Hard Questions
Anthropic invites the public to submit their hardest questions about AI and commits to publicly tracking its responses. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5: New Features, API Access, and Supported Platforms Explained
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 emphasizes reliability, better coding, and lower hallucination rates. more →
Agentic Security Needs to Operationalize Threat Intel
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 →
Anysphere, Monday, July 6th, 2026
CFOs and the New Economics of AI
Cursor launches a CFO Council to help finance leaders connect AI investments to measurable business returns. more →
Anysphere, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Introducing Grok 4.5
Cursor released Grok 4.5, a mixture-of-experts model built for long-running, tool-heavy tasks beyond software engineering. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
5 Smart Ways to Use AI for Certification Exam Prep
Cisco outlines five practical ways candidates can use AI tools to prepare more efficiently for certification exams. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Unifying Operations With Cisco Cloud Control
Cisco introduces Cloud Control, a unified platform consolidating data center operations across multiple tools and domains. more →
Cisco, Friday, July 10th, 2026
The Fundamentals of AI: Making AI Practical
The final part of Cisco's AI series covers the engineering techniques that turn research models into deployable products. more →
SiliconANGLE, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Cisco Brings Enterprise AI Infrastructure to the Edge: CUBEd Award Winner
Cisco's Unified Edge converges compute, networking, and storage for enterprise AI at the edge. more →
Databricks, Monday, July 6th, 2026
Barracuda Makes Security Logs Conversational With Genie
Barracuda uses Databricks Genie to let analysts query security logs in natural language instead of SQL. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
How Imperial College London Is Accelerating Dementia Research With a Modern Data Platform
Imperial College London modernized its dementia research data platform on Databricks, cutting integration time from months to weeks. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Contextual Policies in Omnigent: Using Session State to Better Govern AI Agents
Databricks introduces Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness enabling contextual, session-aware policies for AI agents. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Navigating a Synapse Migration to Databricks
Databricks offers a practical playbook for migrating from Azure Synapse to the Databricks Lakehouse. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Benchmarking Coding Agents on Databricks' Multi-Million Line Codebase
Databricks benchmarks coding agents on real tasks from its own multi-million-line codebase, finding the harness matters most. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Ask, Build, Compose: What Our 5th Genie Hackathon Taught Us About Databricks Genie
Databricks' fifth Genie hackathon showcased projects across agents, code, and composed autonomous systems. more →
Fortinet, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
The AI Era Needs a New SASE. Here's What That Actually Looks Like.
Fortinet explains what a SASE architecture built for the AI era should actually include. more →
The High Stakes Dilemma: Protection Strategies for 2026-27
Out-of-control data can cause cybersecurity breaches, privacy law violations, AI hallucinations, higher storage costs, and more. In this virtual event, learn why and how to begin to clean up shop. more →
IBM, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
IBM Launches Compact z17 and LinuxONE Systems to Address Data Center Space and Cost Constraints
IBM launches compact, rack-mount z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems to help data centers save space and cut costs. more →
IBM, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
IBM Advances Enterprise AI Software Development With Multi-Agent Capabilities and Specialized Modernization Workflows
IBM upgrades its Bob agentic development platform with multi-agent capabilities and specialized modernization workflows for enterprises. more →
Techstrong IT, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
IBM Extends Mainframe Reach Deeper Into the Data Center
IBM launches rack-mountable z17 and LinuxONE 5 configs to fit mainframes into standard data centers. more →
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
Mistral AI, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Introducing Robostral Navigate
Mistral unveils Robostral Navigate, an 8B model letting robots navigate complex spaces with a single RGB camera. more →
Mistral AI, Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Your Prompts and Skills Need a System of Record
Mistral Studio adds version control and governance so AI prompts and skills become traceable production assets. more →
Proofpoint, Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
One Email Closer to the Edge: UNK_MassTraction & the Physics of Exploitation
Proofpoint threat researchers detail UNK_MassTraction, a campaign exploiting email edge devices to compromise targets. more →
Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint
Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. Bold sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? more →
Thursday, July 9th, 2026
Rival Espionage Actors Converge on Pakistani Law Enforcement
One Target, Two Flags - Rival Espionage Actors Converge On Pakistani Law Enforcement more →
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 →
