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Articles Posted Week: Jan. 12th, 2026 — Jan. 18th, 2026 (334/2/9)
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Storage
Security Boulevard
Identity Management Challenges In Pharma & Biotech SaaS Platforms (And How To Solve Them)
Identity Under Siege: What The Salt Typhoon Campaign Reveals About Trusted Access Risks
OAuth Authorization Server Setup: Implementation Guide & Configuration
Passwordless Authentication vs MFA: Security, UX & Implementation Compared
Platform Engineering
ERP
Backup
Microsoft News
Trellix News
CyberArk News
Sophos News
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Storage
7 Storage Vendors Responding To Growing AI Demands
AI workloads are beginning to influence the products that storage vendors are offering. These are seven notable examples of storage vendors that are shifting their strategies....more
Security Boulevard
Identity Management Challenges In Pharma & Biotech SaaS Platforms (And How To Solve Them)
Pharmaceutical and biotech organizations are rapidly adopting SaaS platforms to support drug discovery, clinical development, manufacturing, quality management, and commercialization....more
Identity Under Siege: What The Salt Typhoon Campaign Reveals About Trusted Access Risks
A recent disclosure confirms that email accounts belonging to U.S. congressional staff were compromised as part of the Salt Typhoon cyber-espionage campaign, targeting personnel supporting key House committees and exploiting trusted identities rather than software vulnerabilities, according to TechRadar....more
OAuth Authorization Server Setup: Implementation Guide & Configuration
Ever wonder why setting up an auth server feels like building a plane while flying it? It’s basically the brain of your identity architecture....more
Passwordless Authentication vs MFA: Security, UX & Implementation Compared
Honestly, if i have to deal with one more “Forgot Password” ticket this week, i might just lose it. We’ve been stuck in this loop for decades, but 2025 feels like the year the industry finally stops just talking about ditching passwords and actually does it....more
Rethinking Microsegmentation During A VMware Exit
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and the subsequent shift to subscription-based licensing and bundled offerings have forced many organizations to re-evaluate their long-term reliance on the VMware ecosystem....more
Platform Engineering
Why Platform Adoption Fails - And How Successful Teams Fix It
Platform engineering rarely stalls due to technology; it stalls because of change management or because organizational misalignment prevents platforms from getting started....more
ERP
How Enterprise Software Planning Is Taking Shape For 2026
See what’s influencing enterprise software decisions, from governance and cost pressure to AI adoption and operating model constraints, as organizations plan for the year ahead....more
8 CIO Recommendations For ERP Implementation In 2026: Think Agentic
Agentic AI is changing ERP into an intelligent workforce in 2026. Engage vendors early, think through how humans and agents will work together, and establish a risk mitigation framework....more
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Ready To Grow: Upgrading ERP Systems
Is there a perfect ERP (enterprise resource planning) system?’ an article from SAP asked....more
ERP Trends That Leaders Should Plan For In 2026
Agentic AI use in ERP will continue to increase, although using AI in general brings some potential issues that CIOs and COOs should be aware of. Learn more about 2026 ERP trends....more
Backup
I’m A Backup And Recovery Provider, But Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Just Trust Me
Why Assumed backup safety is a dangerous industrial illusion...more
Backup TCO: The Hidden Costs
When IT teams calculate backup TCO, they usually focus on the line items that show up on invoices: software licenses, hardware appliances, and cloud storage subscriptions....more
Backup That Flexes To Counter Rising Ransomware Risks
Those numbers are real, and they’re not small-we’re talking five, six, sometimes seven-figure purchases. But here’s the problem: those visible costs are actually the minor part of what you’re spending on backup infrastructure....more
Microsoft News
Announcing Open To Work: How To Get Ahead In The Age Of AI
The work we do, and the way we do it, is always changing. Each of us has a memory of how we once did a task regularly, the tools we used and how both the task and the tools have since changed so much they are nearly unrecognizable....more
Trellix News
The Unfriending Truth: How To Spot A Facebook Phishing Scam Before It’s Too Late
As one of the world’s largest social media platforms, with over 3 billion active users, Facebook is a frequent target for phishing scams. Hackers aim to hijack user accounts to exploit people in their network. The goal is to steal the victim’s credentials so the attackers can take over the account, spread scams, steal personal data, or commit identity fraud....more
CyberArk News
What’s Shaping The AI Agent Security Market In 2026
The pace of technological change is relentless. Not long ago, our migration to the cloud and the automation of CI/CD pipelines dominated the conversation....more
Sophos News
Laughter In The Dark: Tales Of Absurdity From The Cyber Frontline And What They Taught Us
From a quintuple-encryption ransomware attack to zany dark web schemes and AI fails, Sophos X-Ops looks back at some of our favorite weirdest incidents from the last few years - and the serious lessons behind them...more
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It's interesting how AI is everywhere, even securty. Great read!