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#341, Issue 1 Part 8: Articles Posted Week: 2026-07-27 - 2026-08-02
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SSOJet vs WorkOS vs Auth0 vs Okta: The 2026 Decision Framework
How to Verify Full TLS Certificate Chains Against CRLs via OpenSSL CLI
Enterprise MFA vs Passwordless vs SSO: What Enterprise Buyers Actually Need in 2026
Enterprise Authentication Trends 2026: What's Actually Changing
Balancing Speed and Safety: A Control Framework for AI Coding Agents
Amazon OpenSearch Service Now Supports OpenSearch Version 3.7
AWS Direct Connect Now Supports BGP Route Visibility on Virtual Interfaces
AWS Lambda Now Supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023
AWS Lambda's Self-Managed Code Storage Lifts the Account Quota, Not the Function Size Limit
Falcon Cloud Security July 2026 Release: Helping Security Teams Move Faster in the Cloud
Falcon Platform IOAs Arrive in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to Identify New Threats
Falcon AIDR Now Protects Copilot Studio Agents and Claude Code
Your Premium Storage Has Better Things to Do: Introducing Veeam Vault Archive
Adverse Cyber Extortion Outcomes Happen More Often Than Victims Are Told
How Aussie Broadband Built Kubernetes Resilience at Scale and What Comes Next
How Ready Is Your Organization for Agentic AI and AI Agents? (Aug. 5th)
When AI Becomes an Insider: Rethinking Risk in Critical Infrastructure (Aug. 18th)
Security Boulevard
Your Employees Have One Digital Identity
Enterprises must adopt fuzed identity intelligence to address risks spanning employees' personal and corporate digital footprints. more →
The Model Wasn't Rogue. The Control Plane Was
OpenAI models breached Hugging Face during evaluation; the incident reveals control plane failures, not AI autonomy. more →
SSOJet vs WorkOS vs Auth0 vs Okta: The 2026 Decision Framework
Comparison framework for four enterprise SSO vendors based on company stage and pricing. more →
How to Verify Full TLS Certificate Chains Against CRLs via OpenSSL CLI
Learn to verify TLS certificate revocation status across entire chains using OpenSSL command-line tools. more →
Enterprise MFA vs Passwordless vs SSO: What Enterprise Buyers Actually Need in 2026
MFA, passwordless authentication, and SSO solve different login problems and work together in enterprise security stacks. more →
Enterprise Authentication Trends 2026: What's Actually Changing
Machine identities vastly outnumber humans in enterprises; agent identity, passkey adoption, and OAuth 2.1 status clarified. more →
Storage
AI Is Storage's Biggest Opportunity - and Biggest Threat
AI revolutionizes storage with faster data access and better security, but also introduces risks from rogue agents and sophisticated attacks. more →
How Cloud Architecture Is Reinventing Primary Storage for the AI Era
Primary storage is being redefined as software-managed and globally distributed rather than tied to hardware or proximity to compute. more →
Tech Field Day
Data Needs Some Help to Get the Most From AI Inference Presented by CTERA
CTERA discusses preparing unstructured corporate data for AI agents through tagging and automated extraction. more →
AWS
Balancing Speed and Safety: A Control Framework for AI Coding Agents
AWS proposes a control framework for AI coding agents that can open dozens of pull requests across repositories in an afternoon. more →
Amazon OpenSearch Service Now Supports OpenSearch Version 3.7
OpenSearch 3.7 brings 1-bit scalar quantization on Faiss and Lucene, cutting vector storage and memory needs. more →
AWS Direct Connect Now Supports BGP Route Visibility on Virtual Interfaces
Direct Connect customers can now see which routes AWS accepted from and advertised to their on-premises routers. more →
Amazon CloudWatch Announces Managed Prometheus Collectors
CloudWatch can now scrape Prometheus metrics from EKS, EC2, ECS, MSK, and OpenSearch without customer-managed agents. more →
AWS Lambda Now Supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023
Lambda adds AL2023 runtimes for older Java versions so customers can decouple OS and language upgrades. more →
AWS Lambda's Self-Managed Code Storage Lifts the Account Quota, Not the Function Size Limit
AWS Lambda can now load deployment packages from customer-owned S3 buckets, removing the per-Region code storage quota. more →
CoreWeave
Your Agent Is Only as Good as Your Infrastructure
CoreWeave opens a three-part series arguing agent performance depends on infrastructure, not just model quality. more →
Why AI Factories Need Proof Before Production
CoreWeave and NVIDIA describe validating an integrated AI factory stack before customers deploy on it. more →
CrowdStrike
Falcon Cloud Security July 2026 Release: Helping Security Teams Move Faster in the Cloud
CrowdStrike details the July Falcon Cloud Security release aimed at shortening cloud investigation cycles. more →
Falcon Platform IOAs Arrive in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to Identify New Threats
CrowdStrike brings platform indicators of attack into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM for behaviour-based detection across logs. more →
Falcon AIDR Now Protects Copilot Studio Agents and Claude Code
CrowdStrike extends Falcon AI Detection and Response coverage to Copilot Studio agents and Claude Code. more →
NVIDIA
NVIDIA: Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
NVIDIA and dozens of founding partners launch the Open Secure AI Alliance to build shared open tools for cyber defense. more →
UiPath
The Dark Testing Factory: How Testing Moves From Manual Effort to Governed Autonomy at Scale
UiPath describes an operating model where quality engineering scales testing through governed autonomy. more →
Varonis
When AI Assistant Share Links Become Public Exposure
Varonis finds AI assistant share links behave more publicly than the private hand-off users assume. more →
Data Security Scanning Performance: Why Full Coverage Does Not Mean Slow Scans
Varonis explains why API rate limits, not scan design, set the ceiling on data security scanning speed. more →
Veeam
Veeam Data Platform v13.1: Identity Resilience, Cyber Resilience, and AI That Improves Day 2 Operations
Veeam ships v13.1 with automated Active Directory Forest Recovery, post-quantum cryptography, and agentic operations. more →
Your Premium Storage Has Better Things to Do: Introducing Veeam Vault Archive
Veeam launches Vault Archive as unstructured data growth collides with a supply-constrained hard drive market. more →
Adverse Cyber Extortion Outcomes Happen More Often Than Victims Are Told
Veeam's Q2 data challenges the advice that paying ransomware operators reliably resolves an incident. more →
How Aussie Broadband Built Kubernetes Resilience at Scale and What Comes Next
Aussie Broadband describes building Kubernetes data protection as the platform became baseline infrastructure. more →
How Can You Trust AI Agents? Veeam Can Help
Veeam is folding acquired Securiti technology into its platform to govern and verify what AI agents can do with enterprise data. more →
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 Now Available, Helping Organizations Recover Clean and Fast From Cyber Disruption
Veeam ships Data Platform v13.1 with six new hypervisors, NAS malware scanning, and pre-restore threat validation. more →
AI Events
The New AI-Augmented Contract Tech Stack (Aug. 3rd)
Join this session and cut through the noise, avoid common pitfalls, and design a contract tech stack that delivers business value. Transition from operator to architect as a general counsel more →
How Ready Is Your Organization for Agentic AI and AI Agents? (Aug. 5th)
In this session, you will learn how to evaluate readiness across five core pillars and move beyond 'can we build it' to 'how do we use it responsibly.' You will also explore how to apply an AI agent acceleration canvas to define a focused 90-day plan that deploys targeted use cases while managing risk. more →
AI Risk Summit - Half Moon Bay, California (Aug. 11-12)
Attend AI Risk Summit to hear directly from leaders at some of the world's largest enterprises as they share how they're identifying, mitigating, and managing AI risks within their organizations. more →
When AI Becomes an Insider: Rethinking Risk in Critical Infrastructure (Aug. 18th)
In this 60-minute fireside chat, Dawn Haley, Senior Manager of Threat Intelligence & Investigations at Duke Energy, joins Scott Hooper, Enterprise Sales Director at DTEX, to share practical perspectives on how critical infrastructure organizations are adapting insider risk strategies as AI becomes more embedded into everyday work, security operations, and business workflows. more →
The Six five Summit - AI UNLEASHED: 2026 (Aug 25 - Aug 27)
The Six Five Summit: AI Unleashed 2026 delivers 3 days of exclusive, on-demand programming built for leaders ready to move beyond AI experimentation and into real deployment. more →
AI Trust & Governance Summit (Sept. 15th)
In this expert-led virtual summit, we'll explore practical approaches for establishing governance that can help accelerate innovation while protecting your business. more →
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