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#337, Issue 1 Part 1: Articles Posted Week: 30 Mar, 2026 - 5 Apr, 2026
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CxO
CISO Spotlight: Dimitris Georgiou on Building Security that Serves People First
How Analytics And AI Are Reshaping The Boundaries Of IT Leadership
Tech Field Day
Technology
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2026 - Scaling Up Optical Network Density
AMD Stopped Being The Underdog-Now We Need To Stop Treating It That Way
Breaking Down SPARC Emulation Technology: Zero Code Re-Write
Database
Email
Email Authentication In 2026: What Every Organization Still Gets Wrong
Email Deliverability Testing: From Single Checks To Continuous Monitoring
Breaking The Trade-Off: Full Email Security Without Deployment Friction
Datacore News
Veeam News
Safeguarding The Access Plane: How Access Impacts Modern Identity
Stop Ransomware Sooner: Introducing Veeam Ransomware Detection Service
Announcing Veeam Intelligence MCP Server: Unlocking Conversational AI Cross-Platform Resilience
Bitdefender News
Tenable News
What’s New In Tenable Cloud Security: Custom Policies, AWS ABAC, And Research-Driven Protection
The Developer Credential Economy: Why Exposure Data Is The New Front Line In The Supply Chain War
CxO
Bad CIOs Are Good For The Business
By any conventional measure, a bad CIO is a liability. Missed transformation milestones, spiralling cloud costs, unresolved cyber risks and restless business stakeholders are familiar symptoms....more
CISO Spotlight: Dimitris Georgiou on Building Security that Serves People First
Dimitris Georgiou has been a self-professed computer geek since the early 80s. At university, he studied the convergence of educational technology with computer science as part of his psychology MA - finding, to his disbelief, that systems were perilously insecure....more
The ROI Of IT Training: How CIOs Can Prove Business Value
The ROI of IT training highlights its value as a strategic investment. Its improved productivity, innovation and risk reduction can justify training costs to executive teams....more
How CXOs Can Use AI to Boost Leadership Skills
How CXOs are Using AI to Redefine Leadership, Strategy, Decision-Making, and Organizational Growth...more
How Analytics And AI Are Reshaping The Boundaries Of IT Leadership
IT leadership isn’t just about tech anymore; it’s about knowing where building systems ends and making accountable, AI-driven decisions begins....more
Tech Field Day
AI Meets The Future Of Networking At Networking Field Day 40
AI is redefining not just applications, but the very networks they run on, that transformation comes into focus at Networking Field Day 40 April 8th through 10, 2026. This milestone event gathers industry leaders to explore how networking must evolve to support AI-driven infrastructure, from data centers to cloud-scale operations....more
The Internet Still Delivers Massive Public Good
The Internet is often characterized as full of cat pictures and manipulative social media, yet the Internet is home to thousands of websites and communities that deliver massive public benefit....more
Technology
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2026 - Scaling Up Optical Network Density
OFC 2026 was held a couple of weeks ago, and since then, I have had a chance to reflect on what was shown and what I saw from the perspective of an Optical Transport industry analyst. The simple conclusion is that the next direction for optical networking is to scale up in density....more
AMD Stopped Being The Underdog-Now We Need To Stop Treating It That Way
I’m getting tired of the narrative that paints AMD as this forever underdog. It used to be true, and in some ways, it still is true, but AMD isn’t the weak non-entity some people keep treating it as, and it’s important that we let go of that mindset completely....more
Breaking Down SPARC Emulation Technology: Zero Code Re-Write
Run legacy applications without rewriting: How SPARC emulation preserves code while modernizing infrastructure....more
Database
Database Design Errors: 10 Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
Database Design Mistakes: Critical Errors That Hurt Performance and Scalability...more
Email
Email Authentication In 2026: What Every Organization Still Gets Wrong
Despite decades of efforts to the contrary, email remains one of the primary means of entry for cyberattacks, with vectors ranging from phishing to business email compromise (BEC). Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that most breaches still involve a human element, such as account credentials stolen through phishing....more
Email Deliverability Testing: From Single Checks To Continuous Monitoring
Email deliverability is often reduced to a simple question: Did the email send?...more
Breaking The Trade-Off: Full Email Security Without Deployment Friction
For many years, organizations have had to accept a compromise in email security: They’ve had to balance speed versus depth....more
Datacore News
DataCore Launches Swarm Appliance To Address Cyber Resilience And Compliance For The Edge
Veeam News
Safeguarding The Access Plane: How Access Impacts Modern Identity
Stop Ransomware Sooner: Introducing Veeam Ransomware Detection Service
Announcing Veeam Intelligence MCP Server: Unlocking Conversational AI Cross-Platform Resilience
Bitdefender News
Your Biggest Cyber Risk Could Be What You Already Trust
Shut The Front Door On Email Attacks: How To Scale Security Services Without Increasing Workload
Technical Advisory: Axios NPM Supply Chain Attack - Cross-Platform RAT Deployed Via Compromised Maintainer Account
Fake Claude Code Leak On Github Pushes Vidar Malware
Tenable News
What’s New In Tenable Cloud Security: Custom Policies, AWS ABAC, And Research-Driven Protection
The Developer Credential Economy: Why Exposure Data Is The New Front Line In The Supply Chain War
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