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Building a Reliable Data Governance Foundation for Digital Expansion
Vulnerability Management in the Age of AI: From Scanning to Resilience
Cyber Resilience Takes Center Stage as AI Reshapes the CISO Role
The AI Bubble Won't Burst Because AI Fails - It Will Burst If the Economics Fail
The Rise of Consumer Agents: AI's New Frontier in Commerce and Customer Trust
Why Infrastructure Is Becoming the Next Competitive Advantage in AI
Building a Type-Safe MCP Server in TypeScript for Enterprise Data Access
The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026: From Model Risks to Agentic Security
Akamai Cloud Keeps Strengthening the Foundation (Updated August 2026)
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Now Supports up to 10,000 Collections Per Collection Group
AWS Certificate Manager Supports Switching From e-mail to DNS Validation
AWS Clean Rooms Supports Exporting Privacy-Enhanced Analysis Logs for SQL
AWS Client VPN Now Supports CLI, Administration Controls, and Faster Connections
From Reactive to Autonomous: The New IT and Security Playbook (Sept. 3rd)
No Data Privacy, No Innovation: Research That Proves Compliance is Essential to AI (Sept. 8th)
The AppSec Overload Problem And Why Context Is the Cure (Sept. 15th)
Backup
10 Best Online Backup Services for Secure Data Storage in 2026
Comparison of ten leading online backup services rated on recovery reliability, encryption, and pricing for 2026. more →
CxO
Building a Reliable Data Governance Foundation for Digital Expansion
Strong data governance protects brand reputation during digital expansion by eliminating duplicates and unifying communications. more →
Triple Ops Threat: Sovereignty, Security, and Governance
Enterprise AI success depends on operational foundations covering identity, security, and governance rather than model capability alone. more →
Vulnerability Management in the Age of AI: From Scanning to Resilience
Organizations must prioritize remediation over scanning to close the gap between finding and fixing vulnerabilities. more →
Why the Best Tech Leaders Get Their Hands Dirty
Tech leaders must gain hands-on experience with emerging technologies to credibly guide organizations through constant change. more →
Cyber Resilience Takes Center Stage as AI Reshapes the CISO Role
CISOs evolve beyond prevention to prioritize recovery as AI reshapes security priorities and governance. more →
The AI Bubble Won't Burst Because AI Fails - It Will Burst If the Economics Fail
The AI infrastructure bubble depends on economics, not technology, with returns hinging on capital deployment versus utilization. more →
Storage
SSD Prices Still Rocketing Up Faster Than Disk
Enterprise SSDs are about 6.5x more expensive than a year ago, versus 2.5x for hard drives. more →
Best Enterprise SSDs in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
A ranked buyer's guide restricted to drives actually run through the StorageReview lab. more →
Techstrong.ai
When Intelligence Learns to Invent Itself
AI systems that improve their own development processes may reshape scientific progress and civilization. more →
When the Data Center Comes Home
Palm Beach County rejects an AI data center expansion, but existing approvals remain as environmental concerns mount. more →
The Rise of Consumer Agents: AI's New Frontier in Commerce and Customer Trust
Brands now have to design digital experiences for software acting on a customer's behalf. more →
Why Enterprise AI Gets Stuck Before It Scales
Enterprise AI stalls when systems lack integration across legacy infrastructure and undocumented workflows. more →
Why Infrastructure Is Becoming the Next Competitive Advantage in AI
AI infrastructure, not just model quality, determines competitive success in production systems. more →
Building a Type-Safe MCP Server in TypeScript for Enterprise Data Access
Production MCP servers require workflow-based design, schema validation, and integration testing beyond basic API wrapping. more →
Akamai Technologies
The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026: From Model Risks to Agentic Security
Akamai reviews the 2026 OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and its shift toward agentic AI risks. more →
Akamai Cloud Keeps Strengthening the Foundation (Updated August 2026)
Akamai details Q2 2026 platform upgrades across networking, identity, Kubernetes, storage and observability. more →
AWS
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Now Supports up to 10,000 Collections Per Collection Group
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless raises the ceiling to 10,000 collections per collection group, up from 1,500. more →
Amazon RDS for MariaDB Now Supports MariaDB 12.3
Amazon RDS for MariaDB adds support for MariaDB 12.3, the community's latest long-term support release. more →
AWS Certificate Manager Supports Switching From e-mail to DNS Validation
AWS Certificate Manager lets customers switch existing public certificates from email to DNS validation. more →
AWS Clean Rooms Supports Exporting Privacy-Enhanced Analysis Logs for SQL
AWS Clean Rooms can export privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQL queries to Amazon S3. more →
AWS Client VPN Now Supports CLI, Administration Controls, and Faster Connections
A rebuilt AWS VPN Client v6.0.x adds CLI support, enterprise admin controls and faster connections. more →
AWS Identity and Access Management Streamlines Assignment of IAM Roles to Workforce Users With Account Access Manager
AWS IAM's new account access manager assigns IAM roles to workforce users and groups from IAM Identity Center. more →
Commvault
Designing for Digital Sovereignty Starts With the Right Questions
A Commvault STRIVE episode explores digital sovereignty questions with Osmium Data Group's Max Mortillaro. more →
Frontier AI Is Changing More Than Cybersecurity
Commvault argues frontier AI's bigger impact is on enterprise complexity, not just on cybersecurity. more →
How Commvault Leverages Frontier AI to Strengthen Software
Commvault describes folding AI-assisted vulnerability discovery into its existing risk-based security programme. more →
What We Learned From IDC's New Research on ResOps
Commvault summarises IDC research on resilience operations and why technology controls alone fall short. more →
Oracle
Oracle Set to Bring Quantum Computing to OCI for Hybrid AI Workloads
Oracle will host Quantinuum's 98-qubit Helios system in an OCI AI data center alongside GPU and HPC resources. more →
Symantec
You Can't Patch Your Way Out of AI
Symantec argues patching faster is the wrong response to AI-accelerated attacks and urges resilience instead. more →
AI-Ready PAM: When Your Identity Security Solution Talks Back
Symantec proposes using MCP so AI can query privileged access management data in natural language. more →
CxO Security Events
The Human Risk Management Blueprint (Sept. 1st)
Join this session for a breakdown on how to shift from measuring passive compliance to actively modifying human risk. You'll learn how to transition your workforce into a proactive security perimeter that can neutralize AI-driven deception. more →
From Reactive to Autonomous: The New IT and Security Playbook (Sept. 3rd)
The window between vulnerability discovery and weaponized exploit has collapsed from weeks to minutes. Static dashboards and fragmented workflows are now a liability. This webinar explores what it means to move from reactive, manual IT and Security operations to an autonomous model, where real-time endpoint intelligence drives action before threats materialize. more →
Is your AppSec program Mythos Ready? (Sept. 3rd)
In this session, you'll learn what you need to do TODAY to make your AppSec program 'Mythos ready,' including addressing testing gaps, ensuring you have visibility and control if your software supply chain, and how AI fits with your existing AST tools and practices. You'll also see how Black Duck can help you reduce risk and respond faster to new vulnerabilities. more →
No Data Privacy, No Innovation: Research That Proves Compliance is Essential to AI (Sept. 8th)
AI/ML investment is surging, and enterprises are pouring resources into innovation. But when innovation and compliance collide, which one wins? According to the Perforce Delphix 2026 State of AI and Data Privacy Report, 98% say they are confident in their ability to protect sensitive data in AI/ML workflows. Yet 84% still allow data compliance exceptions. more →
The AppSec Overload Problem And Why Context Is the Cure (Sept. 15th)
Join Alan Shimel, CEO of TechStrong, and Emma Datny, Sr. Product Marketing Manager from Checkmarx to explore how contextual risk scoring and ASPM are changing the way teams approach AppSec, and why the ones pulling ahead aren't finding more vulnerabilities, they're fixing the right ones faster. more →
Migrate and Modernize your applications with at Zscaler Zero Trust Security Platform on AWS (Sept. 17th)
In this webinar, we'll explore how teams can identify private applications and usage patterns to inform migration planning, maintain visibility into performance during and after migration, and secure workload-to-workload communications across AWS, data centers, and multicloud environments. more →
Upcoming Webinars
Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Thursday, August 20th, 2026
0-Day to 10x Discovery: Security at the Speed of Mythos (Aug. 20th)
Securing The Intelligent Edge: AI, IoT, And The New Front Lines Of Operational Risk (Aug. 20th)
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Raliegh-Durham (Aug. 20th)
Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
M-Trends 2026: The Cascading Impact of Third-Party SaaS, Cloud, and Software Compromises (Aug. 25th)
The Priorities Defining CIO Success for 2027: Breaking Insights From the CIO Survey (Aug. 25th)
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Chicago, IL (Aug. 25th)
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