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#340, Issue 3 Part 10: Articles Posted Week: 2026-07-13 - 2026-07-19
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How to Build an Endpoint Hardening and Exposure Management Program
Thinking Fast and Slow in the SOC: The Case for Combining Autonomous AI With Analyst Copilots
19 AgentOps Tools for Monitoring AI Activity, Issues, and Costs
Top 5 AI Attack Surface Monitoring Platforms for CISOs in 2026
AI-Generated Code Has Made Security Debt a Governance Problem
Why SBOMs, Signing, and Provenance Still Don't Tell You if Software Is Safe
Passwordless and Passkeys in 2026: What the Adoption Data Shows
Account Takeover and Credential Stuffing: The 2026 Threat Landscape
11 Emerging Security Risks With MCP and How Post-Quantum Standards Can Help
Google Mandiant Warns of Exposed Serverless Functions as Attack Vector
7 Best Software Tools for Managing Unstructured Data in 2026
A Hard Drive Reliability Check on 341,263 Drives, From 4TB to Past 20TB
Introducing Precursor: Detecting Agentic Behavior With Continuous Client-Side Signals
A Broken DNSSEC Rollover Took Down .al. Now 1.1.1.1 Tells You When Validation Is Bypassed
Cloudflare WAF Protects WordPress Applications From Two High-Severity Vulnerabilities
F5 Advances Frontier AI Cyber Resilience With New Fleet Management Capabilities
The Operational Reality of AI-Era Security and How We're Helping You Meet It
Announcing New Fleet Management Capabilities Within F5 Insight for ADSP
Zero Trust for Agentic AI: Managing Non-Human Identities at Scale (Aug. 4th)
When Attackers Have AI: Defending the Private Cloud (Aug. 12th)
AR-VR
Top AR and VR Technology Trends You Need to Know in 2026
AI-powered AR and immersive VR are moving into enterprise operations across healthcare, retail, education and manufacturing. more →
Operations
How to Build an Endpoint Hardening and Exposure Management Program
Explains how to turn endpoint hardening from a one-off checklist into a governed, measurable ongoing program. more →
Thinking Fast and Slow in the SOC: The Case for Combining Autonomous AI With Analyst Copilots
Applies Kahneman's fast/slow thinking model to security operations, pairing autonomous AI triage with analyst copilots. more →
14 Steps To Implement IT Automation at Enterprise Scale
A 14-step framework for rolling out IT automation across an enterprise, emphasizing governance and phased adoption over technology alone. more →
19 AgentOps Tools for Monitoring AI Activity, Issues, and Costs
Reviews 19 AgentOps platforms for observing AI agent performance, cost, and failure modes in production. more →
Security Case Management: A Complete Guide for AI SOC Teams
A guide to structuring SOC incident handling as managed cases from intake through closure, augmented by agentic AI. more →
Top 5 AI Attack Surface Monitoring Platforms for CISOs in 2026
Compares five platforms built to monitor AI attack surfaces, a gap traditional security scanners cannot cover. more →
Security
AI-Generated Code Has Made Security Debt a Governance Problem
Security leaders must move beyond approving AI coding tools to governance frameworks that manage machine-speed risk creation. more →
Why SBOMs, Signing, and Provenance Still Don't Tell You if Software Is Safe
SBOMs, signing, and provenance reveal what software contains but not what it does at runtime, calling for behavioral verification. more →
Passwordless and Passkeys in 2026: What the Adoption Data Shows
Passkeys have reached mainstream adoption with 5 billion in active use and 75% consumer enablement, yet most organizations still run passwords in. more →
Account Takeover and Credential Stuffing: The 2026 Threat Landscape
Credential stuffing exploits password reuse to hijack accounts, and eliminating reusable passwords via passkeys is the most effective defense. more →
11 Emerging Security Risks With MCP and How Post-Quantum Standards Can Help
Eleven security risks in Model Context Protocol deployments are examined alongside post-quantum cryptography as a mitigation path. more →
Google Mandiant Warns of Exposed Serverless Functions as Attack Vector
Mandiant warns that unauthenticated, publicly exposed serverless functions are becoming a major cloud attack vector amid rapid AI adoption. more →
Storage
7 Best Software Tools for Managing Unstructured Data in 2026
A ranked guide to seven platforms for storing, moving and preparing unstructured data, led by Flexor's AI Context Engine. more →
Building Cyber-Resilient Storage Beyond Backup
Backup alone is no longer enough; cyber-resilient storage adds high-performance architectures and AI monitoring for fast recovery. more →
A Hard Drive Reliability Check on 341,263 Drives, From 4TB to Past 20TB
Backblaze's Q1 2026 report on 341,263 drives shows a 1.24% annualized failure rate, with 20TB+ drives performing strongly. more →
Cloudflare
Introducing Precursor: Detecting Agentic Behavior With Continuous Client-Side Signals
Precursor is a session-based behavioral verification engine that detects advanced bots with less friction for real users. more →
A Broken DNSSEC Rollover Took Down .al. Now 1.1.1.1 Tells You When Validation Is Bypassed
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 now returns EDE 33 to signal when a Negative Trust Anchor bypassed DNSSEC validation. more →
Cloudflare WAF Protects WordPress Applications From Two High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Cloudflare deployed WAF rules protecting all customers against two newly disclosed high-severity WordPress flaws. more →
Commvault
Resilience Over Panic: Four Steps for the Age of Frontier AI
Commvault proposes mean time to clean recovery as the key resilience metric as frontier AI compresses attacker timelines. more →
AI: Agents of Good, Meet Agents of Evil
Commvault warns that autonomous AI agents expand the attack surface and that most failures come from unintended consequences. more →
F5
Five Capabilities Every Digital Sovereignty Strategy Needs
F5 identifies five capabilities organizations need to build a workable digital sovereignty strategy without losing flexibility. more →
F5 Advances Frontier AI Cyber Resilience With New Fleet Management Capabilities
F5 adds fleet management to F5 Insight so enterprises can update and patch BIG-IP fleets faster and more safely. more →
The Operational Reality of AI-Era Security and How We're Helping You Meet It
F5's CTOO outlines how AI-accelerated exploits force faster patch cycles and what F5 is shipping to support them. more →
Announcing New Fleet Management Capabilities Within F5 Insight for ADSP
F5 Insight for ADSP v1.2 adds batch BIG-IP updates with guided workflows and parallel execution across 100 instances. more →
AI App Delivery Top 10: Incompatible Delivery Policies
F5 explains how mismatched delivery policies across environments turn into AI outage generators under real-world load. more →
Lenovo
Agentic AI Is Putting Hardware Back in the Spotlight
Lenovo argues agentic AI is exposing the limits of cloud-only assumptions and pushing the endpoint device back into the AI conversation. more →
Sysdig
No Single Pane of Glass: Anatomy of an Azure Permission Takeover
Sysdig traced a full Azure tenant takeover in about an hour from one leaked service principal credential across five permission systems. more →
The CISO's Guide to Headless Cloud Security
Sysdig argues security architecture must go headless and API-first because agentic attackers now compromise cloud environments in minutes. more →
CxO Security Events
Black Hat USA 2026 (Aug. 1st to 6th)
The premier cybersecurity event of the year returns to Mandalay Bay with a re-engineered, six-day program built to ignite innovation, push boundaries, and bring the global security community together like never before. more →
ADR vs. EDR: Why EDR Isn't Enough in the AI Era (Aug. 19th)
Join Raven CEO and Co-Founder Roi Abitboul, Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder Omer Yair, and Futurum's Fernando Montenegro for a practical discussion on ADR vs. EDR. more →
Outlook for Cybersecurity Threat Landscape: Prioritizing Threats With Gartner's ThreatScape (Aug. 4th)
This session introduces the Gartner ThreatScape framework, which combines insights from security leaders with threat intelligence analysis to help organizations identify and prioritize key threats. Gartner experts outline how to interpret threat trends and respond with practical, business-aligned actions. more →
Zero Trust for Agentic AI: Managing Non-Human Identities at Scale (Aug. 4th)
This webinar explains why legacy IAM and perimeter security break down in agentic architectures and how zero trust provides a scalable fix. Learn how zero-trust identity secures autonomous agents without slowing innovation. more →
When Attackers Have AI: Defending the Private Cloud (Aug. 12th)
This session shows how to build real resilience with capabilities you likely already own: limit lateral movement with segmentation and identity isolation, see what attackers are doing with audit logging that stays out of their reach, and de-risk change with snapshots, staged rollouts, and tested recovery. more →
Upcoming Webinars
Monday, July 27th, 2026
Expert Panel: Next-Level Data Quality: Accuracy, Consistency and Trust (July 27th)
From Pilot to Production: AI That Actually Works (July 27th)
Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Migrating Self-Managed Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service (July 28th)
Plan Before You Build: Deterministic Planning Patterns For AI Agents (July 28th)
Rethinking The Ran As Al, Cloud And Openness Converge (July 28th)
Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
AI Sec Essentials: What Every Developer, Manager, and Executive Needs to Know (July 29th)
Beyond the Hype: 2026 AI in ITSM Market Study Key Findings (July 29th)
I Came From the Future. Your Job Doesn't Exist There (July 29th)
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