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#338, Issue 2 Part 5: Articles Posted Week: May 11th, 2026 - May 17th, 2026
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Security
Weaponized AI: The New Frontier of Fraud and Identity Spoofing
GTIG Says Future AI-Generated Exploits May Be Far Harder To Detect
Security Boulevard - AI
Gartner's Workload IAM Architecture Is a Big Step Forward for AI Agent Security
How to Secure Model Context Protocol Deployments Against Quantum Threats
Is Your AI Infrastructure Ready for 2026? A Guide to Post-Quantum Resilience
Permiso Security Adds Ability to Discover and Secure AI Agents
Telco
HR
DevOps.com
Capturing Real API Behavior for Regression Testing: Architecture and Implementation
The Five Biggest Mistakes Organizations Make When Implementing SRE
Glean News
Cisco News
Dell News
Barracuda Networks News
Cloudflare News
Sophos News
The State of Identity Security 2026: Identity is the new perimeter
GPT-5.5-Cyber is here. What it means for defenders operating at the frontier.
71% of Organizations Suffered At Least One Identity Breach in the Past Year
Perplexity News
Security
CISO's Guide: How to Test an Incident Response Plan
Guide to testing incident response plans through tabletop exercises, functional exercises, simulations, and red team activities....more
Weaponized AI: The New Frontier of Fraud and Identity Spoofing
Enterprises must adopt agile AI-driven defenses to combat the exponential rise in AI-generated fraud and synthetic identity attacks....more
G7 Countries Release AI SBOM Guidance
G7 government agencies published joint guidance for creating software bill of materials (SBOM) for AI systems....more
GTIG Says Future AI-Generated Exploits May Be Far Harder To Detect
Google's Threat Intelligence Group warns that AI-generated exploits will become harder to detect as they evolve....more
Security Boulevard - AI
Gartner's Workload IAM Architecture Is a Big Step Forward for AI Agent Security
AI agents are often described as a new identity problem. That is true, but it is only half the story....more
How to Secure Model Context Protocol Deployments Against Quantum Threats
If you're treating your Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments like standard API traffic, you're basically leaving the front door to your AI infrastructure wide open. You might think you're secure, but you're just waiting for a disaster....more
Is Your AI Infrastructure Ready for 2026? A Guide to Post-Quantum Resilience
If you're still banking on the idea that today's encryption will protect your data indefinitely, you're already behind the curve. By 2026, post-quantum resilience won't be a niche subject for academic cryptographers-it'll be a baseline requirement for anyone running AI infrastructure....more
Permiso Security Adds Ability to Discover and Secure AI Agents
Permiso Security today revealed it has extended its identity management platform to include an ability to discover artificial intelligence (AI) agents and the runtime environments on which they are deployed....more
Securing AI Sales Tools: Why Passwordless Authentication Is Critical for Protecting Your CRM and Sales Intelligence Data
Passwordless authentication is quickly becoming the safest way to protect AI sales tools and the sensitive data inside them. Sales platforms now hold everything from pipeline forecasts to competitive insights, and weak login practices leave those assets exposed far more often than teams realize....more
Telco
Telecom AI Monetization: Key Lessons from FutureNet 2026
Telecom operators must monetize AI through orchestrated digital infrastructure and trusted, SLA-backed services rather than raw connectivity....more
HR
Workplace Equity in the Age of AI
AI solutions must be accessible to frontline employees to prevent recreating workplace equity gaps seen in early intranet adoption....more
The Human Skills Gap in the Age of Agentic AI
Organizations need human judgment and specific trainable skills to effectively work alongside AI agents....more
DevOps.com
Open Source Contribution is About More Than Just Altruism
Organizations should contribute to open source software for practical business benefits, not just altruism....more
Capturing Real API Behavior for Regression Testing: Architecture and Implementation
Record actual API behavior instead of assumptions to create more effective regression tests that catch real-world failures....more
The Five Biggest Mistakes Organizations Make When Implementing SRE
SRE implementations often fail due to cultural misalignment, poor hiring, ignored SLOs, premature AI adoption, and tool proliferation without operational discipline....more
Glean News
Introducing the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC)
Glean introduces the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), a structured framework for building enterprise AI agents that drive measurable ROI....more
Cisco News
Announcing Foundry Security Spec
An Open Specification for Agentic Security Evaluation...more
Inside the SOC: AI-powered DNS defense against ransomware
In the modern security operations center (SOC), the biggest challenge isn't always a lack of data - it's the lack of meaning. Analysts are often drowning in telemetry, trying to distinguish the calculated movements of a threat actor trying to blend in with normal traffic from the noise of a global network....more
MRC and SRv6: How Foundational Networking Innovations Are Enabling the Next Generation of AI Supercomputers
The recent announcement of the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol, developed by OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Broadcom, represents a major advancement in AI infrastructure. This deployment shows that full bisection bandwidth and near-perfect uptime are achievable at a scale of over 100,000 GPUs, a key milestone for training advanced models....more
Dell News
Building Trust Through Proactive Security at Dell
Discover how Hari, Senior Manager of IAM at Dell, leads his team to build proactive security, resiliency, and customer trust from the ground up....more
Why a Cyber Resilience Control Plane Redefines Infrastructure Defense
Fragmented signals leave teams flying blind. A cyber resilience control plane unifies signal intelligence across the storage and data layer and triggers coordinated action to contain threats....more
AI Agents Meet Enterprise Reality
Move beyond AI pilots. See how enterprises deploy production-ready agent workforces on infrastructure they own and control....more
Barracuda Networks News
The Mythos Hype Index: Is AI really changing vulnerability discovery?
A data-driven look at whether AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is delivering on its biggest promise...more
How Sopartex got better protection and reduced IT overhead
A real-world transformation in cybersecurity for a lean, mobile workforc...more
Cloudflare News
Inside the SOC: AI-powered DNS defense against ransomware
In the modern security operations center (SOC), the biggest challenge isn't always a lack of data - it's the lack of meaning. Analysts are often drowning in telemetry, trying to distinguish the calculated movements of a threat actor trying to blend in with normal traffic from the noise of a global network....more
Sophos News
The State of Identity Security 2026: Identity is the new perimeter
Discover the causes and consequences of identity threats based on a survey of 5,000 organizations across 17 countries....more
GPT-5.5-Cyber is here. What it means for defenders operating at the frontier.
OpenAI's May 7 release of GPT-5.5 and the limited preview of GPT-5.5-Cyber put frontier AI in verified defenders' hands....more
71% of Organizations Suffered At Least One Identity Breach in the Past Year
State of Identity Security 2026 report finds human error and poor non-human identity management are the root causes of most attacks, as agentic AI accelerates the risk...more
Perplexity News
Perplexity Computer is an autonomous agent that writes and runs code, browses the web, and connects to external services to complete tasks on your behalf.
Perplexity Computer is an autonomous agent that writes and runs code, browses the web, and connects to external services to complete tasks on your behalf....more
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