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#337, Issue 1 Part 5: Articles Posted Week: 30 Mar, 2026 - 5 Apr, 2026
IT News You Can Use - Full Weekly Issue - Vol 337 Issue 1
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Security
Why October 1, 2026, Could Be The Day SSL/TLS Certificates ‘Break The Internet’
Why Most Companies Detect Cyber Breaches Too Late And What It Reveals About Modern Security Failures
Seven Tabletop Exercise Scenarios Every Cybersecurity Team Should Practice In 2026
97% Of Enterprises Expect A Major AI Agent Security Incident Within The Year
B2B Authentication Provider Comparison: Features, Pricing & SSO Support (2026)
AI
DevOps.com
Google News
Dell News
The Cyber Resilience Gap: Why Confidence Outpaces Capability
The New Edge In Higher Education: Operational Excellence For Complex Research Environments
Barracuda Networks News
CrowdStrike News
Trend Micro News
Security
Why October 1, 2026, Could Be The Day SSL/TLS Certificates ‘Break The Internet’
As SSL/TLS certificate lifespans shrink, IT departments must adapt to faster renewal cycles. This shift toward shorter lifecycles, driven by a need for better security, will soon create immense operational pressure....more
Why Most Companies Detect Cyber Breaches Too Late And What It Reveals About Modern Security Failures
Delayed detection is not a technical issue-it is a strategic gap that exposes businesses to greater damage...more
Seven Tabletop Exercise Scenarios Every Cybersecurity Team Should Practice In 2026
As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, the need for comprehensive preparedness has never been more critical. Tabletop exercises are essential for testing and refining incident response plans, enhancing coordination between departments, and staying ahead of malicious actors....more
97% Of Enterprises Expect A Major AI Agent Security Incident Within The Year
The threat is no longer hypothetical. AI agents - autonomous systems capable of planning, reasoning and acting across digital environments - are already operating inside enterprise systems. They’re retrieving data, triggering transactions, and interacting across services through legitimate credentials and approved workflows. According to new research from Arkose Labs, nearly every enterprise security leader knows what comes next....more
B2B Authentication Provider Comparison: Features, Pricing & SSO Support (2026)
Enterprise SaaS buyers now expect SSO and SCIM support by default....more
AI
Take Control Of Your AI Voyage - Your Customers Deserve It
Every week seems to bring another AI milestone. In 2026 alone, we’ve seen the rise of powerful AI agents that can write code, manage workflows, analyze documents, and increasingly act on our behalf. Adoption by consumers, business buyers, and employees continues to surge....more
How Model Context Protocol (MCP) Exploits Actually Work
Traditional cyberattacks typically involve one of two strategies: bypassing authentication or exploiting software vulnerabilities. MCP-based systems introduce a different category of risk....more
2026: The Year Enterprise AI Finally Gets To Work
AI agents are finally redefining productivity and operational efficiency across industries...more
The Sandbox Solution: Closing The AI Testing Gap
Testing AI agents against real cloud infrastructure is expensive, slow and often unreliable. In this interview from KubeCon Europe, Mike Vizard speaks with Waldemar Hummer, CEO of LocalStack, about how high-fidelity sandboxes are helping development teams close the gap between writing AI-driven applications and validating that they actually work as intended....more
Prompt Engineering 2.0: Why Static Prompts Are Dead In 2026
For the past two years, ‘prompt engineering’ has been one of the most talked-about skills in AI. Entire workflows were built around crafting the perfect input-carefully structured prompts designed to extract the best possible output from large language models....more
DevOps.com
Giving AI Agents The Keys To Real Infrastructure
AI coding assistants can generate pull requests faster than most teams can review them, and that mismatch is creating a new kind of bottleneck across engineering organizations....more
How AI is Shaping Modern DevOps and DevSecOps
AI is no longer a side experiment in software delivery. Gartner estimates that by 2028, three-quarters of enterprise software engineers will use AI code assistants, up from less than 10% in early 2023....more
Iceberg Won The Format War - Now Comes The Hard Part
Apache Iceberg has effectively won the open table format conversation. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks - every major platform has thrown its weight behind it....more
Google News
Create, Edit And Share Videos At No Cost In Google Vids
New AI capabilities are coming to Google Vids, powered by Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1, including high-quality video generation at no cost, custom music creation and more....more
What Google’s Turboquant Can And Can’t Do For AI’s Spiraling Cost
Google’s real-time quantization could be important for running local AI. Here’s why....more
Dell News
The Cyber Resilience Gap: Why Confidence Outpaces Capability
The New Edge In Higher Education: Operational Excellence For Complex Research Environments
The Top Storage Concerns Dell PowerStore Solves
Barracuda Networks News
Audit Finds Application Security Issues Are Worse Than Ever
World Backup Day: Is The 3-2-1 Backup Rule Still Relevant?
Empathy, AI And Channel Partners: Insights From Barracuda’s CEO
CrowdStrike News
Crowdstrike Next-Gen SIEM Can Now Ingest Microsoft Defender Telemetry
Trend Micro News
The Real Risk Of Vibecoding
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