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#339, Issue 2 Part 9 Articles Posted Week: 2026-06-08 – 2026-06-14
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CISO Diaries: Jigar Shah on Why Trust May Be the Most Valuable Asset in the AI Era
The New Face of Cybercrime: When the Criminal Isn’t the Hacker
Zero Trust Security in 2026: Why Authentication Alone Is Not Enough
Top 10 PAM Solutions for Securing Machine Identities and AI Agents
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and NIST CSF 2.0: A Full-Stack Cyber Resilience Architecture
Unstructured Storage for Kubernetes Unleashed With HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000
Unlimited Scale in Real-Time With SingleStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000
Introducing Visions: Accelerating Operational Efficiency Through Unified Platform Experience
Inside AI-Powered Data Classification: What Actually Matters
Shifting From Data Hoarding to Active Defense: Navigating the New Era of OMB M-26-14
Securing Canada’s Digital Future: Why PBMM Matters Beyond Government
Securing Enterprise AI in Practice: Why Governance Starts and Ends with Agents (June 15th)
More AI Code, Less Certainty: Why Production Measurement Is the New Code Review (June 23rd)
The New IT Mandate: Governing, Connecting, and Scaling Enterprise AI (June 24th)
AI And Cybersecurity: Securing AI While Strengthening Defense (June 25th)
35 Million Lines, Zero Build-Breakers: How Adyen Scaled DevSecOps (June 23rd)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026: 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM
Developer
9 Open-Source AI Coding Agents Worth Self-Hosting
Nine open-source AI coding agents you can self-host for privacy, model choice, and control. more →
How Long Before We Stop Reading the Code?
AI is breaking traditional code review, pushing the human checkpoint upstream to intent, specs, and acceptance criteria. more →
Security Boulevard
CISO Diaries: Jigar Shah on Why Trust May Be the Most Valuable Asset in the AI Era
Veteran security leader Jigar Shah argues trust is the most valuable asset for organizations in the AI era. more →
Executive Identity Exposure Has Become a Board-Level Issue
Executives’ digital and household data exposure is now a governance concern demanding board-level attention. more →
The New Face of Cybercrime: When the Criminal Isn’t the Hacker
Prosecutors now pursue the financial and operational players in cybercrime, not just the hackers. more →
Using Incidents and Alerts to Improve Defence
Correlating incidents and alerts in real time turns raw security events into actionable, faster defense. more →
Zero Trust Security in 2026: Why Authentication Alone Is Not Enough
In 2026 zero trust requires continuous device and exposure checks, not just authentication at login. more →
Top 10 PAM Solutions for Securing Machine Identities and AI Agents
A ranked guide to the leading privileged access management tools for securing machine identities and AI agents. more →
Security Boulevard - AI
Why the Security Controls Built Into LLMs Aren’t Enough
Built-in LLM safeguards are insufficient; enterprises must enforce independent, purpose-built security controls around their AI use. more →
AI Security Frameworks: How to Build Quantum-Resistant Infrastructure
AI stacks must migrate to post-quantum cryptography to survive Store Now, Decrypt Later (SNDL) attacks and emerging audit mandates. more →
Top 8 AI App Dev Platforms in 2026
A scored comparison of eight AI app development platforms across code-first, agent-driven, cloud, and visual styles. more →
Top 8 AI App Security Software in 2026
A comparison of eight AI application security platforms addressing prompt injection, model scanning, and LLM runtime protection. more →
HPE
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and NIST CSF 2.0: A Full-Stack Cyber Resilience Architecture
HPE’s B10000 storage integrates virtualization, replication, and backup into a cyber resilience architecture aligned with NIST CSF 2.0. more →
Unstructured Storage for Kubernetes Unleashed With HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000
HPE adds NFS file support to Alletra Storage MP X10000 via CSI Driver 3.2.0 for unified cloud-native AI storage. more →
Unlimited Scale in Real-Time With SingleStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000
HPE and SingleStore show that pairing an HTAP database with high-performance object storage delivers real-time analytics at scale. more →
Unlock Backup & Recovery In Microsoft Environments: Winning Strategies Revealed (June 24th)
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
KnowBe4
How to Secure AI Agents: 4 Best Practices
KnowBe4 shares four best practices for securing AI agents against over-permissioned access. more →
Microsoft
Microsoft Launches Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026
Microsoft unveils Azure Logic Apps Automation, a managed SaaS platform for building production automations without integration developers. more →
Visual Studio Code 1.123 Brings Deeper AI Integration and Smarter Agent Tools
VS Code 1.123 adds 1M-token context windows, session sync, Chronicle, and multi-session agent support. more →
Palo Alto Networks
Introducing Visions: Accelerating Operational Efficiency Through Unified Platform Experience
Palo Alto Networks introduces Visions navigation in Strata Cloud Manager for efficient operations. more →
Beyond Human Oversight: Adapting to the Frontier AI Era
Palo Alto Networks discusses adapting security as frontier AI moves beyond human oversight. more →
Inside AI-Powered Data Classification: What Actually Matters
Palo Alto Networks explains what actually matters in AI-powered data classification. more →
Shifting From Data Hoarding to Active Defense: Navigating the New Era of OMB M-26-14
Palo Alto Networks unpacks OMB M-26-14’s shift from data hoarding to active defense. more →
The Frontier AI SOC Has Arrived
Palo Alto Networks brings frontier AI models natively into Cortex for the AI-driven SOC. more →
Securing Canada’s Digital Future: Why PBMM Matters Beyond Government
Palo Alto Networks explains why Canada’s PBMM framework matters beyond government. more →
AI Events
Securing Enterprise AI in Practice: Why Governance Starts and Ends with Agents (June 15th)
AI agent security incidents are no longer anecdotal vulnerabilities - they present a persistent risk surface that threatens traditional identity, application, and network security as agents span across workflows. At the same time, agents have proven to be where organizations can drive the most value from their AI development. more →
How to Conduct AI-Native Bug Discovery & Triage (June 18th)
In this workshop, award-winning offensive security researcher Tyler Nighswander will contrast AI-native codebase scanning to traditional methods like rules-based SAST and human pentesting in order to not only find bugs, but also assess the exploitability and severity of bugs in the real world. He will then walk through actual results in critical open source projects to demonstrate the vast difference in practice between properly implemented AI versus other methods. more →
Next Gen Data Governance for the AI Era (June 23rd)
In this webinar, our experts will explore practical ways to align CIO and CDO priorities and explain how to turn governance into an enabler of AI, not a constraint. more →
More AI Code, Less Certainty: Why Production Measurement Is the New Code Review (June 23rd)
In this webinar, we’ll explore why production measurement is becoming the new gold standard for validating AI-generated software. You’ll learn how progressive delivery, feature flags, guardrail metrics, experimentation, and automated rollback help teams release AI-assisted changes safely, observe real-world impact, and make decisions based on outcomes instead of reviewer confidence alone. more →
The New IT Mandate: Governing, Connecting, and Scaling Enterprise AI (June 24th)
Join Chris Ferraro, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Celigo, for a practical session on how forward-thinking IT organizations are building the operational foundation for enterprise AI-without becoming innovation bottlenecks. more →
AI And Cybersecurity: Securing AI While Strengthening Defense (June 25th)
In this webinar, we will explore the inconvenient truths of agentic AI in production, including the often‑underestimated total cost of ownership and the specialized skills required to manage and govern agentic systems effectively. You’ll gain a clearer understanding of what it truly takes to run agentic AI at scale - and how to prepare your organization before costs and complexity spiral. more →
Why Password Managers Fail to Secure and How You Can Take Back Control (June 25th)
Thursday, June 25th, 2026: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
More AI Code, Less Certainty: Why Production Measurement Is the New Code Review (June 23rd)
Data and Analytics 2030: The Vision for an AI-Native Enterprise (June 23rd)
35 Million Lines, Zero Build-Breakers: How Adyen Scaled DevSecOps (June 23rd)
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
The New IT Mandate: Governing, Connecting, and Scaling Enterprise AI (June 24th)
eCom Hot Sauce 15X5 Amazon Hacks Webinar on June 24 (June 24th)
Unlock Backup & Recovery In Microsoft Environments: Winning Strategies Revealed (June 24th)
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