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Articles Posted Week: Jan. 19th, 2026 — Jan. 25th, 2026 (334/3/4)
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Security
Navigating And Closing The Cybersecurity Gaps In Financial Services
Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Empowering Proactive Cybersecurity With Seceon
Security Boulevard - NHI
Techstrong.IT
From AIOps Hype to Reality: Building Self-Healing Infrastructure in 2026
Futurum Group Survey Sees DIAI Market Reaching $541.1B in 2026
Careers
NVIDIA News
Red Hat News
From Manual To Agentic: Streamlining IT Processes With Red Hat OpenShift AI
AI Quickstarts: An Easy And Practical Way To Get Started With Red Hat AI
Event-Driven Ansible: Simplified Event Routing With Event Streams
Akamai Technologies News
Command Injection In Vivotek Legacy Firmware: What You Need To Know
Your New Marketing Assistant: The AI Expert In Akamai Campaign Builder
In this exclusive webinar, Tanium and The Futurum Group reveal findings from a new market research study that explores how enterprises are adapting by moving toward Autonomous IT. Register
Security
Navigating And Closing The Cybersecurity Gaps In Financial Services
Dan Nichols, Chief Technology Officer at virtualDCS, on why cloud resilience in the financial services sector hinges on shared accountability and an assume-breach philosophy...more
Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Empowering Proactive Cybersecurity With Seceon
As businesses continue their digital transformation journeys, they are exposed to an ever-expanding attack surface. With the proliferation of cloud environments, remote work, and the increasing use of IoT devices, the complexity of cybersecurity threats has intensified....more
SASE Maturity Gap
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has quickly become one of the most talked‑about frameworks in enterprise networking and security, says Dave McGrail, Head of Business Consultancy at Xalient....more
We Asked Cybersecurity Experts For Their 2026 Predictions
This year, the landscape of cybersecurity will never be the same. Here’s what to watch for, from data surges to AI malware....more
Security Boulevard - NHI
How To Scale NHIs Safely And Efficiently?
Scaling Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is a complex endeavor, particularly in dynamic industries such as financial services, healthcare, and technology-driven sectors that rely heavily on cloud computing. Where NHIs serve as the backbone for automation, the question becomes: how can organizations use NHI management to achieve efficient scaling while ensuring robust security measures?...more
What Makes NHIs Safe For My Company?
Have you ever considered who-or rather, what-is accessing your company’s data? While we often focus on human users in cybersecurity strategies, non-human identities (NHIs) play a pivotal role in security architecture today....more
Why Invest In Advanced NHIs Management?
What are Non-Human Identities (NHIs), and why do they hold the key to revolutionizing cloud security for organizations across various industries?...more
Techstrong.IT
Data Is Pulling The Cloud Forward
To understand 2026, let’s start with what happened in 2025. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud didn’t just grow; they grew at scale. Combined, they crossed well north of $300B in annual cloud revenue, still expanding around 20-30% year over year....more
From AIOps Hype to Reality: Building Self-Healing Infrastructure in 2026
Three years ago, I sat in a conference room watching a vendor demo ‘self-healing infrastructure’ that would ‘eliminate downtime forever’. Fast forward to today, and I’m still getting paged for the same EC2 instance running out of memory....more
In this technical session, experts from Anvilogic and Databricks will walk through a practical migration strategy for modern security operations. Register
Futurum Group Survey Sees DIAI Market Reaching $541.1B in 2026
The global data intelligence, analytics, and infrastructure (DIAI) market is projected to grow at a 17% compound annual growth rate through 2028 off a base of $541.1 billion in 2026 to exceed $1.2 trillion by 2031, according to a forecast published today by the Futurum Group....more
Careers
Top 5 AI Certifications For ‘Freshers’
What Are AI Certifications?: AI certifications are structured learning credentials that validate foundational and practical skills in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data handling, and real-world problem-solving....more
Work-From-Office Mandate? Expect Top Talent Turnover, Culture Rot
Organizations requiring IT workers to commute to an office need to ground decisions in value creation, focus on data-driven results, and avoid badge-swipe metrics, employment experts say....more
NVIDIA News
How to Get Started With Visual Generative AI on NVIDIA RTX PCs
Learn how to run advanced image and video generation locally with ComfyUI and LTX-2 on RTX PCs....more
Red Hat News
From Manual To Agentic: Streamlining IT Processes With Red Hat OpenShift AI
Many organizations are considering generative AI (gen AI) as a means of reducing the time employees spend filing IT requests and the time IT teams spend closing these requests. To this end, we’ve created an it-self-service-agent AI quickstart that shows you how to automate IT processes within your organization using agentic AI on Red Hat OpenShift AI....more
Friday Five - January 23, 2026
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye....more
AI Quickstarts: An Easy And Practical Way To Get Started With Red Hat AI
Ready to accelerate your AI journey? AI quickstarts are officially here! AI quickstarts are a new catalog of ready-to-run, industry-specific use cases that put the power of open source AI directly into your hands. These are a playground you can use to master Red Hat AI and sharpen the skills needed to take your AI ideas from experimentation to production....more
Event-Driven Ansible: Simplified Event Routing With Event Streams
The systems running an organization’s infrastructure and applications are interconnected, creating an environment of controlled chaos where events in one area can ripple unpredictably through others....more
Akamai Technologies News
Command Injection In Vivotek Legacy Firmware: What You Need To Know
The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) conducted a comprehensive analysis of Vivotek legacy firmware to address the rising threat of botnet-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks facilitated by legacy Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Our goal was to identify and mitigate additional and previously unknown vulnerabilities that could be exploited to gain remote command injection access....more
Your New Marketing Assistant: The AI Expert In Akamai Campaign Builder
If you’ve used Akamai Campaign Builder before, then you already know it’s designed to make your life easier. From pre-built campaigns and co-branded collateral to microsite templates and social-ready content, it’s your one-stop shop for partner marketing....more
Since the dawn of application security a quarter-century ago, the discipline has been defined by the combination of two necessary but insufficient approaches to finding and fixing vulnerabilities in software: static analysis (SAST) and dynamic analysis (DAST). Almost every AppSec organization must employ some version of both tactics, as they can each help to mitigate the other's well-known drawbacks. Register
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