DC: CxO, Security Boulevard - NHI, HR, Networks, AWS, Veeam, Zscaler, Cloudflare, Webinars (Mon. Feb 2nd PM)
Articles Posted Week: Jan. 26th, 2026 — Feb. 1st, 2026 (334/4/2)
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CxO
AI Identity Threats Top Executive Concern, Preparedness Lags
As CIOs Focus On AI Integration, New AI Tools Complicate The Agenda In 2026
3 Things Cost-Optimized CIOs Should Focus On To Achieve Maximum Value
Security Boulevard - NHI
HR
Networks
AWS News
Veeam News
Zscaler News
The ‘Control’ Trap: 3 Reasons Your Legacy Firewall Can’t Keep Up (And Why You Think It Can)
AI is Now Default Enterprise Accelerator: Takeaways from ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report
Cloudflare News
This webinar provides a technical deep dive into three fundamental storage deployment models - on-premises, cloud, and hybrid - examining their architectures and operational trade-offs through the lens of two key concepts: indirection (accessing data through mapping layers that provide flexibility and abstraction) and redirection (rerouting data requests to enable failover, load balancing, and optimized performance). Register
CxO
The CIO Career Path Paradox
In this excerpt from her book The CIO Paradox, Martha Heller finds the career lessons of executives who moved beyond IT remain relevant today. Among them: be ready to step up. Diversify your experiences, accomplishments, and skills. And seize opportunities to lead other functions before reaching for the CEO ring....more
AI Identity Threats Top Executive Concern, Preparedness Lags
A new report from The Identity Underground reveals a stark disconnect, with 54% of executives naming AI-enhanced identity threats as their top concern for 2026, yet only 3% feel “very prepared” to defend against such attacks, according to Channel Insider....more
Measuring Agentic AI Posture: A New Metric For CISOs
In cybersecurity, we live by our metrics. We measure Mean Time to Respond (MTTR), Dwell Time, and Patch Cadence. These numbers indicate to the Board how quickly we respond when issues arise....more
As CIOs Focus On AI Integration, New AI Tools Complicate The Agenda In 2026
As CIOs pivot from AI pilots to production, new embedded AI tools are complicating efforts to integrate existing investments....more
3 Things Cost-Optimized CIOs Should Focus On To Achieve Maximum Value
Digital leaders must prioritize initiatives that produce measurable business impact. That’s obvious enough, and AI can help CIOs deliver the valuable solutions the C-suite requires. But difficulties lurk just beneath the surface....more
Security Boulevard - NHI
What Role Does NHI Play In Secure Tech Environments
The digital transformation of industries has raised numerous questions about safeguarding sensitive information. How do organizations effectively manage machine identities to create secure environments? Enter the concept of Non-Human Identities (NHIs), a linchpin in fortifying tech security, especially when businesses transition to cloud-based systems....more
Why Is Disaster Recovery Vital With NHI
When considering disaster recovery and cybersecurity in cloud environments, have you thought about the role of Non-Human Identities (NHIs)?...more
Agentic AI And Non Human Identities Demand A Paradigm Shift In Security: Lessons From NHIcon 2026
In the race to innovate, software has repeatedly reinvented how we define identity, trust, and access. In the 1990’s, the web made every server a perimeter. In the 2010’s, the cloud made every identity a workload. Here in 2026, agentic AI makes every action autonomous....more
Can NHIs Management Fit Within Tight Cybersecurity Budgets?
Have you ever considered how machine identities, or Non-Human Identities (NHIs), fit into your cybersecurity strategy?...more
Join us, your technology colleagues, and Chief Cloud Architect at Visa, Altaz Bhanji at this Technology Executive Dinner. A cloud technology strategist and cybersecurity expert, Altaz will cut through the noise in 'GenAI in the Cloud | Hype, Hysteria, or Hope?', drawing on deep experience across AWS, enterprise transformation, and secure cloud architecture to help leaders understand what GenAI really means for the future of business and technology. Register
HR
Why Does It Take So Long To Hire Technical Talent?
A constantly shifting skills landscape has made hiring tech talent a long-term problem, but employers can do more than simply ‘post and pray,’ experts said....more
Networks
Network Engineers Take On NetDevOps Roles To Advance Stalled Automation Efforts
As network automation matures, a new breed of hybrid professionals with network engineering and software development skills is emerging. But for enterprises, landing these IT pros isn’t about finding unicorns. It’s about evolving existing teams and changing how networks are operated....more
Top 11 Network Outages And Application Failures Of 2025
ThousandEyes released its list of the 11 most notable Internet outages and application issues of 2025, along with recommendations to help network teams improve resilience....more
Explore The Business Benefits Of Content-Centric Networking
Content-centric networking gives enterprises an alternative to traditional IP networking, introducing new ways to enhance performance and improve overall efficiency....more
AWS News
AWS adds IPv6 Support To IAM Identity Center Through Dual-Stack Endpoints
Amazon Web Services has added IPv6 support to IAM Identity Center through new dual-stack endpoints. The update allows identity services to operate over IPv6 networks while continuing to support IPv4....more
Veeam News
From Packets To Prompts: How Security Is Changing With AI And Why LLM Firewalls Matter
Security evolves alongside what we build. When we built networks, we got network firewalls. When we built web applications, we added web application firewalls (WAFs), API gateways, and application-layer controls....more
Zscaler News
The ‘Control’ Trap: 3 Reasons Your Legacy Firewall Can’t Keep Up (And Why You Think It Can)
There is a specific kind of psychological comfort associated with on-premises firewall appliances....more
AI is Now Default Enterprise Accelerator: Takeaways from ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are no longer emerging capabilities inside enterprise environments. In 2025, they became a persistent operating layer for how work gets done....more
Cloudflare News
Google’s AI Advantage: Why Crawler Separation Is The Only Path To A Fair Internet
Earlier this week, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened its consultation on a package of proposed conduct requirements for Google. The consultation invites comments on the proposed requirements before the CMA imposes any final measures....more
Building Vertical Microfrontends On Cloudflare’s Platform
Today, we’re introducing a new Worker template for Vertical Microfrontends (VMFE). This template allows you to map multiple independent Cloudflare Workers to a single domain, enabling teams to work in complete silos - shipping marketing, docs, and dashboards independently - while presenting a single, seamless application to the user....more
In this talk, we will retrace that investigation. Starting from live exploitation artifacts, we will show how we correlated repositories across multiple tenants, fingerprinted vulnerable internet-facing servers, and pieced together the attack chain. Register
Upcoming Webinars
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Autonomous IT: Transforming Operations and Security in Real Time with AI (Feb. 10th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
ITEXPO (February 10-12) Ft. Lauderdale- 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM Thursday, Friday 12th
Autonomous IT: Transforming Operations and Security in Real Time with AI (Feb. 10th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Enterprise Communications Summit @ ITEXPO (February 10-12) Ft. Lauderdale- 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM Thursday, Friday 12th
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Technology Executive Dinner - Boston, MA (Feb. 11th)- 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Modernizing Mainframe Applications: From Monolithic Code to Modular Architecture (Feb. 12th)- 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
How Agentic AI Transforms the Role of Storage (Feb. 12th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
From Live Exploitation to Zero-Day Discovery: Investigating Attacks on Gogs (Feb. 12th)- 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Building a Platform for Velocity: Accelerating Adoption with Internal Developer Portals (Feb. 17th)- 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Deepfake: Empowering Your Users to Recognize What AI Can Fake (Feb. 17th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
TechTalk Tuesday (Feb. 17th)- 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
From Reliable to Self-Optimizing: An AIOps Roadmap for Data Center Networking (Feb. 17th)- 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Rethinking Virtual Desktops for the AI Era (Feb. 17th)- 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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