DC: Security, Tech Field Day, AI, DevOps, Compliance, F5, IBM, CrowdStrike, Webinars (Wed. Feb 4th AM)
Articles Posted Week: Jan. 26th, 2026 — Feb. 1st, 2026 (334/4/5)
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Security
Cyber Insights 2026: Offensive Security; Where It Is And Where It’s Going
Cyber Insights 2026: Quantum Computing And The Potential Synergy With Advanced AI
Tech Field Day
AI
DevOps
Compliance
F5 News
Classifier-Based Vs. LLM-Driven Guardrails: What Actually Works At AI Runtime
Why Sub-Optimal Application Delivery Architecture Costs More Than You Think
IBM News
CrowdStrike News
At the end of the webinar, you'll understand what the code changes mean in the broader context of what the entire application does. If you're a developer, an engineering manager, a DevOps engineer, or a platform engineer, this webinar is for you! Register
Security
Cyber Insights 2026: Offensive Security; Where It Is And Where It’s Going
Cyber red teaming will change more in the next 24 months than it has in the past ten years. Malicious attacks are increasing in frequency, sophistication and damage. Defenders need to find and harden system weaknesses before attackers can attack them. That requires red teams to do more, faster....more
Cyber Insights 2026: Quantum Computing And The Potential Synergy With Advanced AI
It’s hard not to have a dystopian view on the long term future effect of powerful quantum computers wedded to advanced artificial intelligence. But at least we have a few years to prepare....more
Cybersecurity And Business Needs: A CISO’s 2026 Outlook
Uncover the 2026 cybersecurity predictions, trends, tools and strategies CISOs need to navigate evolving business and threat landscapes....more
5 Deepfake Detection Tools To Protect Enterprise Users
Deepfakes are wreaking havoc worldwide -- and they’re likely just getting started. To fight fire with fire, CISOs should consider AI-enabled deepfake detection tools....more
Review: AI Strategy And Security
School districts implement multifactor authentication to protect their environments....more
Tech Field Day
AI Needs Resource Efficiency
As we build out AI infrastructure and applications we need resource efficiency, continuously buying more horsepower cannot go on forever. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Pete Welcher, Gina Rosenthal, Andy Banta, and Alastair Cooke hoping for a more efficient AI future....more
AI
AI Is Changing The Way We Think About Databases
The database is no longer just where data lives, but where context gets assembled. And in AI, context is everything....more
When AI Fails: The New Reality Of Incident Management
As AI failures emerge, ITOps teams must adapt with new processes, cross-functional teams, and mature communication....more
How AI-Powered Learning Affects The IT Skills Gap
While AI helped create the current IT skills gap, AI-powered learning can also shrink it. The right tools can help IT leaders improve skills development and anticipate challenges....more
DevOps
AI DevOps vs. SRE Agents: Compare AI Incident Response Tool
Learn what these new AI ops agents do, how they work, their limitations, and what you need to consider before implementation....more
In this webinar, you'll uncover practical strategies for modernizing mainframe code. Backed by fresh polling data and expert insights, we will explore critical topics, including transforming monolithic architectures, adopting selective modernization practices, and transitioning to modular, reusable components. Register
Compliance
The 7 Essential Elements Of A Compliance Framework You Need To Know
Regulatory expectations continue to expand. Oversight bodies increasingly look beyond documentation to how organizations manage compliance risk in practice. In this environment, compliance functions best when supported by a structured framework....more
F5 News
Classifier-Based Vs. LLM-Driven Guardrails: What Actually Works At AI Runtime
Not all AI guardrails work the same way. That difference is becoming harder to ignore. As organizations add enforcement at inference, meaning the moment a model processes a prompt and generates a response, two approaches are often conflated....more
MCP: The Key To AI-Ready Application Delivery
Modern applications are evolving quickly. AI-powered components embedded directly into the user experience complicate what used to be a predictable flow of web and API traffic....more
Why Sub-Optimal Application Delivery Architecture Costs More Than You Think
Applications are at the core of business. They power customer experiences, employee productivity, and revenue-generating digital services. At the same time, the architectures for delivering these applications often have not kept pace with how applications are built, deployed, and consumed today....more
IBM News
IBM: A Glimpse At Computing’s Quantum-Centric Future
Researchers are already combining CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs into demonstrations of quantum-centric supercomputing....more
IBM Releases IBM Storage Ceph 9.0
IBM Storage Ceph can deliver File, Block and Object storage services from within one single technology stack, supporting clients to cut CAPEX and OPEX....more
IBM Says AI Is Insane In The Mainframe As Z17 Sales Surge
IBM’s leader has trumpeted an AI-on-the-mainframe future as generative AI fills in the COBOL gap left by earlier generations of techies....more
CrowdStrike News
Data Protection Day 2026: From Compliance To Resilience
The AI era is redefining data protection. As identity abuse and global cyber threats accelerate, data protection must evolve from a legal formality to operational resilience....more
How Agentic Tool Chain Attacks Threaten AI Agent Security
AI agents are rapidly transforming enterprise operations. Unlike traditional software that follows fixed code paths, AI agents interpret prompts, form plans, select tools, and react to results in a continuous loop. At the heart of this capability is the agent’s ability to actively select and execute capabilities based on natural language descriptions, schemas, and examples....more
As the threat landscape evolves and AI accelerates the pace and sophistication of cyberattacks, organizations are under mounting pressure to respond with greater speed, scale, and precision. 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
Upcoming Webinars
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Making Software Delivery Resilient with Autonomous Recovery(Feb. 5th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Attack Surface Management: Discovering and Securing Unknown (Feb. 5th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Technology Executive Dinner - Chicago, IL (Feb. 5th)- 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM CT
Deepfake Training: Empowering Your Users to Recognize What AI Can Fake (Feb. 5th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Autonomous IT: Transforming Operations and Security in Real Time with AI (Feb. 10th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
ITEXPO (February 10-12) Ft. Lauderdale- 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM Thursday, Friday 12th
Autonomous IT: Transforming Operations and Security in Real Time with AI (Feb. 10th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Enterprise Communications Summit @ ITEXPO (February 10-12) Ft. Lauderdale- 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM Thursday, Friday 12th
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Technology Executive Dinner - Boston, MA (Feb. 11th)- 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Modernizing Mainframe Applications: From Monolithic Code to Modular Architecture (Feb. 12th)- 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
How Agentic AI Transforms the Role of Storage (Feb. 12th)- 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
From Live Exploitation to Zero-Day Discovery: Investigating Attacks on Gogs (Feb. 12th)- 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
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This piece realy made me think about the IT skills gap. What if AI-powered learning could predict and bridge future skill needs, creating a more adaptive educational landscape for everyone?