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#341, Issue 1 Part 9: Articles Posted Week: 2026-07-27 - 2026-08-02
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Solve Multi-CDN Entitlement Drift With Edge Functions Without Losing Viewers
Thinking Outside the Black Box: Defenders Need Open Source AI
API Security for Government Services: Protecting Citizen-Facing Applications
Operationalizing Offensive AI: An Open Framework for Modern Security
Assuming Failure: The Mindset Shift That Actually Improves Your Defensive Outcomes
A High-IQ Network Is Not a Smart Network. Here Is What Is Missing
Navigating AI Tokenomics: From Cost Uncertainty to Operational Scale
AI Supply Chain Provenance Explorer for Responsible AI Governance
Zero Trust for Agentic AI: Managing Non-Human Identities at Scale (Aug. 4th)
When Attackers Have AI: Defending the Private Cloud (Aug. 12th)
Rapid Identity Recovery: Lessons from Frontline Incident Response (Aug. 18th)
Technology
The Quantum Technologies That Will Transform Enterprise IT
Quantum advances enable practical business applications in sensors, security, ML, and simulations as 52% of companies invest $5M+ annually. more →
How Silicon Photonics Lights the Way for Data Centers
The semiconductor industry must scale silicon photonics production to keep pace with AI data center demand. more →
Techstrong.ai
Yenta's Tuchas and the Convenient Openness of AI
Tech giants advocate AI openness strategically, each seeking to commoditize competitors' layers while protecting their own. more →
Cutting Talent Won't Fund Your AI. Your Cloud Bill Will
Companies should recover wasted cloud spending rather than cut jobs to fund AI investments. more →
AI Agents Are Running Your Business. Who's Protecting Them?
Enterprises must prioritize AI agent resilience with recovery mechanisms, not just prevention, as autonomous systems run critical functions. more →
Survey Surfaces Massive Amounts of Wasted Spending on AI
Harness survey reveals 26% of enterprise AI spending generates no measurable return. more →
MLVC: Microsoft Builds an ML Video Codec for NPUs
Microsoft open sources MLVC, a neural video codec using NPUs to cut bandwidth to roughly one-eighth of traditional codecs. more →
Telco
The Business Case to Prioritize UC Interoperability
Organizations must prioritize UC interoperability strategies to manage multi-platform collaboration tools and reduce costs. more →
Akamai Technologies
How Partners Can Defend the Network and Ease AI Anxiety
Akamai positions Guardicore Segmentation as the answer partners can give customers worried about machine-speed exploits. more →
Solve Multi-CDN Entitlement Drift With Edge Functions Without Losing Viewers
Akamai shows how edge functions keep entitlement decisions consistent across multiple CDNs in video delivery. more →
Thinking Outside the Black Box: Defenders Need Open Source AI
Akamai argues open source AI is essential for cybersecurity as it joins the Open Secure AI Alliance. more →
API Security for Government Services: Protecting Citizen-Facing Applications
Akamai examines the API attack surface behind citizen-facing government applications and how to reduce it. more →
Operationalizing Offensive AI: An Open Framework for Modern Security
Akamai proposes an open framework for putting offensive AI capabilities to work inside security programs. more →
Cisco
Assuming Failure: The Mindset Shift That Actually Improves Your Defensive Outcomes
Cisco argues that designing on the assumption controls will fail produces stronger resilience than optimizing prevention. more →
A High-IQ Network Is Not a Smart Network. Here Is What Is Missing
Cisco explains how the emerging A2A standard lets independent network AI agents coordinate alongside MCP. more →
Navigating AI Tokenomics: From Cost Uncertainty to Operational Scale
Cisco frames enterprise AI cost management as an observability discipline rather than a procurement negotiation. more →
AI Supply Chain Provenance Explorer for Responsible AI Governance
Cisco introduces tooling to answer what is actually inside an open model before it enters your environment. more →
Outdoor Wi-Fi Finally Means Business
Cisco's Wireless 9177 Series brings Wi-Fi 7 and URWB to rugged outdoor and mission-critical environments. more →
The Zero Trust Imperative for the Frontier AI Era
Cisco applies Zero Trust principles to agentic AI risk and frontier model threats. more →
Databricks
Agents for Production Lines: Trusted Decisions in Real Time
Databricks shows how manufacturing agents make trusted real-time decisions when a production line fails mid-shift. more →
Bringing Real-Time Fraud Prevention to Government Benefits
Databricks describes real-time fraud prevention for federal benefits programs losing money to improper payments. more →
Convert Proprietary Code to Open ANSI SQL With Genie Code
Databricks introduces Genie Code to translate proprietary warehouse dialects into open ANSI SQL during migration. more →
DDN
Synthesizing Golden Traces for Realistic KV Cache Evaluation in Agentic Inference Workloads
DDN shows why synthetic benchmarks misrepresent KV cache behaviour and how to build realistic traces. more →
Advancing AI for National Security: NVIDIA, DDN, and the Naval Postgraduate School Collaborate to Prepare Tomorrow's AI Leaders
NVIDIA, DDN, and the Naval Postgraduate School open an AI Technology Center to train military officers on frontier AI systems. more →
Okta
Build a Flask App With Okta for Secure OIDC Login and Authorized API Calls
Okta walks Python developers through adding OIDC login and authorized backend API calls to a Flask app. more →
Vertiv-News
Vertiv Infrastructure Helps Bring NVIDIA AI Computing Capability to the Naval Postgraduate School
Vertiv deployed a complete, liquid-cooled infrastructure system at the Naval Postgraduate School to power and cool their new NVIDIA DGX GB300 AI setup for research, education, and digital engineering. more →
Vertiv Launches Vertiv PurgeRite NearZero service
Vertiv has launched its patent-pending Vertiv PurgeRite NearZero service, which combines engineered mechanical flushing, water treatment, reverse osmosis, and continuous water-quality monitoring to recycle water and reduce environmental impact during the commissioning of closed-loop hydronic systems in North American data centers. more →
CxO Security Events
Outlook for Cybersecurity Threat Landscape: Prioritizing Threats With Gartner's ThreatScape (Aug. 4th)
This session introduces the Gartner ThreatScape framework, which combines insights from security leaders with threat intelligence analysis to help organizations identify and prioritize key threats. Gartner experts outline how to interpret threat trends and respond with practical, business-aligned actions. more →
Zero Trust for Agentic AI: Managing Non-Human Identities at Scale (Aug. 4th)
This webinar explains why legacy IAM and perimeter security break down in agentic architectures and how zero trust provides a scalable fix. Learn how zero-trust identity secures autonomous agents without slowing innovation. more →
Security Operations Transformation Summit (Aug. 11-12)
The Security Operations Transformation Summit equips security leaders and practitioners with actionable strategies to modernize their security operations centers. This focused two-day virtual event delivers practical insights on implementing AI-powered automation and creating integrated SecOps strategies. more →
When Attackers Have AI: Defending the Private Cloud (Aug. 12th)
This session shows how to build real resilience with capabilities you likely already own: limit lateral movement with segmentation and identity isolation, see what attackers are doing with audit logging that stays out of their reach, and de-risk change with snapshots, staged rollouts, and tested recovery. more →
Rapid Identity Recovery: Lessons from Frontline Incident Response (Aug. 18th)
Recovering identity after a ransomware attack is a complicated task. Restore too slowly and the business stalls; restore too quickly and you risk bringing the attacker back. more →
ADR vs. EDR: Why EDR Isn't Enough in the AI Era (Aug. 19th)
Join Raven CEO and Co-Founder Roi Abitboul, Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder Omer Yair, and Futurum's Fernando Montenegro for a practical discussion on ADR vs. EDR. more →
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