The New Stack, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
AI Agents Need to Be Replaceable Without Losing Your Work
When AI agents crash mid-task, durable records and tool boundaries let replacement agents resume work safely without duplicate actions. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · November 3
TechRadar, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
AI Isn't Replacing Thinking; It's Changing Where We Need to Think
Qlik's James Fisher argues AI shifts work from producing answers to verifying them, making data quality, governance and judgment key. more →
Network World, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Gartner Warns $3.5T in AI Infrastructure Spending Could Be at Risk by 2030
Gartner warns over $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could face impairment by 2030 and predicts neocloud consolidation. more →
Kovrr, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
How to Identify and Track AI Use Across Business Units
Kovrr outlines layered methods for discovering and continuously governing AI tool use across business units. more →
Kratikal, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
ISO 42001 Checklist: A Gap Analysis Guide for Responsible AI
Kratikal outlines an ISO 42001 checklist and six-step gap analysis process for assessing AI governance against the standard. more →
InfoWorld, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Six Elements of Resilient AI Orchestration Platforms
InfoWorld outlines six elements of resilient AI orchestration platforms for managing agents at scale, from evals to runtime governance. more →
InformationWeek, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
When Auditors Come for Your AI Algorithms
Auditors are coming for AI. Gartner, PwC and KPMG explain how to build records, controls and accountability that make AI decisions defensible. more →
InfoWorld, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Digital Sovereignty as a Design Requirement
David Linthicum argues digital sovereignty covers who controls data, keys, operations and jurisdiction, and must be designed into cloud architecture. more →
InformationWeek, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Cadillac F1 CIO Turns Greenfield IT Into a Win
Cadillac F1 CIO Chris Green explains building an IT team from scratch, using AI and ERP tools to handle large data demands before its debut. more →
InformationWeek, Friday, October 30th, 2026
FedEx CISO: Vet AI Agents With Guardrails First
FedEx CISO Gene Sun says AI agents must be registered, cleared by security and traceable to humans, even as FedEx expands their use. more →
Solutions Review, Saturday, October 31st, 2026
The CISO's AI Priority List: What Changes and What Doesn't
Gigamon CISO Grant Yacomeni argues AI calls for stronger governance and visibility, but not a new security playbook or neglected basics. more →
Back to the Beginning: Why AI's Impact on Data Security Makes the Endpoint the Battlefield Once Again
How AI has moved more work and data to the agent: agent actions, data transformations and egress paths. more →
InformationWeek, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
InformationWeek Podcast: Is AI the Best Watchdog for the Supply Chain?
CISOs from Infor and New Charter Technologies and a Smith & Associates COO debate whether AI is the best watchdog for supply chain risk. more →
You've Been Heard, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
466 - Talk Business First, Then Tech w/Fletus Poston III (54:59)
3D Systems IT and security director Fletus Poston III explains why IT leaders should lead with business value before technology. more →
You've Been Heard, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
467- Show Me the Riser Room w/Zack Miller (64:57)
Catalent infrastructure leader Zack Miller discusses starting site assessments at the riser room and aligning networks with business needs. more →
InfoQ, Friday, October 30th, 2026
AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report 2026
InfoQ podcast panel discusses 2026 trends in AI, ML and data engineering, including small language models, agents, evaluations and physical AI. more →
O'Reilly, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Getting Smarter, Not Just Faster
O'Reilly CTO Andrew Odewahn describes a research agent linked to company systems via MCP to help the organization get smarter, not just faster. more →
Dark Reading, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Rethinking Cybersecurity Awareness in the AI Era
Dark Reading's Reporters' Notebook video looks at how AI is reshaping awareness training, AI-themed lures and university AI security courses. more →
DevOps.com, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Why More AI-Generated Tests Don't Mean Better Testing
George Ukkuru argues QA teams should judge AI-generated tests by an AI Trust Score covering quality and coverage, not by test counts. more →
Solution Spotlight: An Inside Look at Enterprise Technologies
Solutions Review's free Solution Spotlight webinar with Planview shows how organizations apply AI across the portfolio to turn strategy into value. more →
kratikal, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Your Vendor's Unpatched CVE Is Your Problem Too: Tracking Third-Party Findings and SLAs
Kratikal explains why a vendor's unpatched CVE is the customer's risk and how to track vendor findings and enforce remediation SLAs. more →
Plug & Play: Live AI Workflows in Action Q4
Forget static demos and slide decks. Plug & Play Sessions are all about showing, not telling. In this hands-on webinar series, you'll see tech leaders walk through their AI product in real time, highlighting exactly how it works in the wild: setup, workflows, integrations, all in just 30 minutes. more →
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
API Security Testing Checklist for Development Teams
A practical API security testing checklist covering inventory, authentication, authorization, input validation and CI/CD automation. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Cyber Resilience Requires More than a Backup
Scality's Paul Speciale argues cyber resilience depends on fast, trusted restores at scale, not just immutable backups. more →
Security Boulevard, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
How to Assess & Manage AI-Related Risks
Kovrr outlines how organizations can inventory, assess, quantify and monitor AI-related risks and report them to the board. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
The AI Security Gap: Why Faster Development Requires Continuous Pentesting
Argues AI-accelerated development outpaces periodic pentests and calls for continuous pentesting integrated into CI/CD pipelines. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, October 26th, 2026
The Model Has Preferences, but the Harness Got Controls - Part 1
Anton Chuvakin argues the agent harness, not the AI model, must serve as the security boundary for AI agents. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Why Operational Resilience Starts With Zero-Trust Networks
Security Boulevard argues operational resilience starts with zero-trust networks and outlines a phased implementation path. more →
Network World, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Is It Time to Retire VPNs?
Zeus Kerravala argues relentless VPN exploits and AI-speed vulnerability discovery make it time to retire VPNs in favor of zero trust. more →
Network World, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Key Security Concepts NetOps Must Understand to Proactively Support SecOps
NetOps teams can better support SecOps by mastering zero trust, least privilege, automated patching, vulnerability checks and AI governance. more →
Dell'Oro Group, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
It Is Not Just About Faster NICs
Dell'Oro Group argues server network adapters should be judged on performance, programmability and power efficiency, not just port speed. more →
The Register, Saturday, October 31st, 2026
Backbone of a Beast: Charting NVIDIA's Rise to Networking Titan
The Register traces how NVIDIA's $6.9 billion Mellanox purchase made it the top datacenter Ethernet vendor, with networking revenue above Cisco's. more →
CIO, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
The AI Notetaker Risk Is Now an Everywhere Problem
AI notetakers have moved from meeting bots to watches and wearables, creating new recording, manipulation and governance risks for CIOs. more →
Context Over Compute: The Overlooked Lever for AI ROI
This webinar reframes context engineering as a business decision rather than a purely technical one. We'll unpack where context investment delivers outsized returns compared to model upgrades, how to identify where context gaps are silently draining value from existing AI initiatives, and how leading teams are prioritizing context work to accelerate time-to-value. more →
The Register, Friday, October 30th, 2026
NHS Quango Warns of Risk to GP Patient Data After Website Vendor Collapse
NHS England warned GPs about patient data risks after website supplier Silicon Practice Digital Health Solutions went into administration. more →
Build Reliable OpenShift Across Data Centers Faster
Webinar on why OpenShift Virtualization projects stall on bare metal and how one enterprise got repeatable installs across data centers. more →
The New Stack, Monday, October 26th, 2026
The Next 10 Years of KubeVirt
A decade after Red Hat founded it, KubeVirt is expanding into GPUs, confidential VMs and pluggable virtualization stacks on Kubernetes. more →
Enterprise AI in Action: Building With Mistral's Platform
This session will explore how Mistral Studio, Vibe and Forge give teams the building blocks for specialized AI solutions built on Mistral's highly customizable open-weight models. You'll learn about real use cases powered by Mistral across industries such as financial services, public sector, manufacturing and more. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Silent Agents Are Already on Your Site
Akamai argues websites should govern unverified AI agents by purpose and endpoint rather than blocking or allowing them outright. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Akamai Launches AI Inference Service and Agent Execution Environment
Akamai launches Akamai Inference, a managed model-serving service, and Agent Sandbox, an isolated runtime for AI agent code. more →
Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Akamai Adds Pair of Managed AI Services to Securely Access Custom Models
Akamai launched two managed AI services in beta, Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox, for running open-weight models and AI agents. more →
SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Akamai Expands Its AI Cloud Platform With Dedicated Inference and Agent Execution Environments
Akamai adds Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox to its AI Cloud platform for edge model serving and isolated agent execution. more →
Atlassian, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
A Fresh Look for Bitbucket Pipelines
Bitbucket Pipelines gets a visual refresh with light-mode logs, step status filters and easier log navigation; configurations are unchanged. more →
Atlassian, Friday, October 30th, 2026
How Enterprise Admins Are Taking Control of Cloud Performance ... and Why It Matters
Atlassian explains its System Health tools that give Cloud admins visibility into site performance under the Shared Responsibility Model. more →
Atlassian, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Introducing the Context Quality Score (CQS): A New Framework for Measuring and Optimizing AI Context
Atlassian introduces the Context Quality Score, rating enterprise data for AI on completeness, connectedness and relevance. more →
Atlassian, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Jira's Autumn 2026 Release: Faster Views, Visible Agents, and Consistency by Default
Atlassian's Jira autumn 2026 release speeds up boards, adds agent visibility and usage reporting via the AMP protocol, and new admin defaults. more →
Atlassian, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Tackling Agent Sprawl Across the Enterprise
Atlassian argues agent sprawl is an identity and accountability risk and recommends governing AI agents with central policies and visibility. more →
The AI Audit Trail: Proving AI-Generated Code Is Safe to Ship
This session gets above the daily cycle of model and tool announcements and turns practical. Futurum analyst Mitch Ashley and Veracode's Chris Wysopal separate what is real from what is noise, then walk through what proof actually looks like for AI-generated code. We cover the audit trail security leaders need, the controls that hold up under scrutiny, and the steps AppSec teams can take today. more →
Barracuda Networks, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Top 7 Email Security Threats Facing Businesses in 2026
Barracuda lists the top seven email security threats businesses face in 2026 and recommends layered defenses. more →
Barracuda Networks, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
What Is an AI Worm?
Barracuda explains AI worms, self-replicating malware that uses AI to find weaknesses and adapt as it spreads. more →
Forrester, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Couchbase Converges The Agent Data Stack Around Operational Data
Forrester says Couchbase is extending its operational data platform to the agent data stack, including managed agent memory and tool connectivity. more →
The CIO Adoption Journey for Physical AI Solutions
Gartner's Tsuneo Fujiwara guides CIOs through adopting physical AI, from picking use cases and running pilots to scaling deployments. more →
Databricks, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Building Live Intelligence: Databricks AI Search Supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed Tables Using Iceberg
Databricks AI Search now natively indexes Streaming Tables, Materialized Views and Managed Iceberg tables alongside Delta. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Vital Skills: Upskilling Genie Code With Healthcare and Life Sciences Skills
Databricks releases Vital Skills, open-source Agent Skills that give Genie Code healthcare and life sciences expertise. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
BigQuery to Databricks: A Strategic Framework
Databricks outlines a phased framework for migrating from Google BigQuery to the Databricks Lakehouse. more →
Databricks, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Announcing General Availability of Real-Time Mode for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Databricks
Databricks announces general availability of Real-Time Mode for Spark Declarative Pipelines, with millisecond end-to-end streaming latency. more →
Databricks, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Deliberate Decisions and Enterprise AI Value
Databricks summarizes a DataIQ report on five leadership disciplines for turning enterprise AI ambition into sustained value. more →
Databricks, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Smarter Cost Controls for Serverless
Databricks adds serverless cost controls including rate limits now, with shared budgets coming, alongside tagging, access controls and budget alerts. more →
Datadog, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Match Monitoring Depth to Workload Needs with Infrastructure Basic
Datadog Infrastructure Basic offers lightweight host monitoring for lower-priority workloads without full application instrumentation. more →
Datadog, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Trace Voice Agents with Datadog Agent Observability
Datadog Agent Observability can now capture audio in traces for voice agents built on the OpenAI Realtime API, and adds Amazon Nova 2 Sonic tracing. more →
Dynatrace, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
What's New in Dynatrace SaaS Version 1.349
Dynatrace SaaS 1.349 adds autonomous SRE agents in workflows, causal AI for OpenTelemetry services and a Jira Service Management connector. more →
Dynatrace, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Dynatrace Unifies AI Observability Ingest Across Coding Agents, OneAgent, and OpenInference
Dynatrace expands AI Observability ingest to coding agents, OneAgent Python instrumentation and OpenInference frameworks in one gen_ai data model. more →
Dynatrace, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Surface Vulnerabilities in Your AI Services
Dynatrace adds a ready-made dashboard showing runtime vulnerabilities in AI services, combining Runtime Vulnerability Analytics and AI Observability. more →
CloudFest Americas - Miami
A new era begins: CloudFest USA steps forward as CloudFest Americas. The business platform that unites Cloud, hosting, and infrastructure leaders from across North, Central, and South America into one globally-connected community experience. more →
Google, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
How GKE Networking Scales to Support High Densities of Concurrent AI Agents
Google explains how GKE Dataplane V2 handles network identity scaling to support very large numbers of concurrent AI agent sandboxes. more →
Google, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
How to Troubleshoot GKE Workloads Faster with VPC Flow Logs
Google explains how VPC Flow Logs add GKE pod, workload, namespace and service metadata to traffic records for faster troubleshooting. more →
Google, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Innovate on Your Own Business Terms: Google Cloud Spend Caps Now Generally Available
Google Cloud spend caps on Budgets are generally available, with a new API, live cost reports and automated guardrails. more →
Google, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Introducing the AlloyDB Omni Web UI for Easier Cluster Observability
Google made the read-only AlloyDB Omni Web UI generally available for Red Hat and containers to monitor self-managed PostgreSQL clusters. more →
Google, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Querying Databricks Apache Iceberg Tables with the Borderless Lakehouse
Google's borderless Lakehouse lets BigQuery query Databricks-managed Apache Iceberg tables in place without copying data. more →
Google, Friday, October 30th, 2026
What's New in AI Infrastructure and Orchestration in October
Google Cloud's October AI infrastructure roundup highlights the new Agent Compute Engine for sandboxed, governed AI agents. more →
CIO, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Why sovereign AI is the next boardroom mandate
CIO.com says sovereign AI is now a board issue, driven by breach risk, vendor lock-in and the need for local context, despite real costs. more →
The Economics of Infrastructure Modernization
In this session, Evolve Cloud Services will examine the economics of moving Microsoft workloads toward open-source & license-free infrastructure and databases, and container-based architectures on AWS. We'll discuss how to establish a baseline for current infrastructure and licensing costs, identify modernization opportunities, evaluate the trade-offs of different target architectures, and build a defensible TCO and ROI case for modernization. more →
Huntress, Monday, October 26th, 2026
AI, Scripts, Operator: Inside the ConnectWise Attack
Huntress analyzes the ConnectWise Cloud Backup credential abuse, finding signs consistent with an AI agent using scripted tooling. more →
Huntress, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Camera Management Software Compromise Leads to Malware Deployment
Huntress reports attackers compromising camera management software for initial access, then sideloading malicious DLLs to deploy malware. more →
Huntress, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Managed for Malice: How Attackers Turn MDM into Remote Access
Huntress reports attackers abusing legitimate MDM platforms such as Hexnode and Rippling to deploy rogue RMM tools and keep remote access. more →
Huntress, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Reports of SIEM's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Huntress argues SIEM is not dead but the ingest-based pricing model is, and discusses AI and smarter logging strategy. more →
Nerdio, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Most Enterprises Already Run More Than One Virtual Desktop Platform. Is Your Operating Model Built for That?
Nerdio cites research that 71% of enterprises run two or more virtual desktop platforms and says operating models should plan for that. more →
Beyond The Security Rating: Building a Third-Party Risk Score You Can Defend
This session shows how to build a third-party risk score that a security team can defend. We'll walk through a model that combines inside-out control data with outside-in signals from perimeter scanning, threat intelligence, and vulnerability monitoring, and weights each control by its mapping to Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs). more →
Network Intelligence, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Compliance Automation: Fixing the ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Evidence Grind
Network Intelligence argues continuous compliance automation should replace manual ISO 27001 and SOC 2 evidence collection. more →
Network Intelligence, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Dark Web Monitoring: What Early Warning Actually Looks Like
Effective dark web monitoring needs broad coverage including stealer logs, searchable archives and prioritized, actionable findings. more →
OpenText, Monday, October 26th, 2026
NetSuite Supply Chain Integration That Scales as Your Business Grows
OpenText says NetSuite growth challenges come from partner connections and promotes its Business Network Cloud for NetSuite. more →
OpenText, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
ERP Modernization Is More Than a Migration
OpenText argues SAP S/4HANA migrations should reduce complexity and prepare content for AI rather than just move legacy systems. more →
OpenText, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Compliance Never Stops. Neither Should Your Business
OpenText argues CFOs need continuous, automated compliance for EDI and trading partner requirements to avoid chargebacks and payment delays. more →
OpenText, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Fortify Agentic Analyzer 26.4: Shaped by Your Feedback
Fortify Agentic Analyzer 26.4 joins the regular Fortify release cadence and adds feedback-driven features such as non-baselined differential scans. more →
OpenText, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Shrink the Move, Retire What You Leave Behind with SAP Data Archiving
OpenText explains how SAP data archiving and application decommissioning shrink an S/4HANA migration and retire legacy systems. more →
OpenText, Friday, October 30th, 2026
Six Content Cloud Takeaways from OpenText World 2026
OpenText product marketing leads share six Content Cloud takeaways from OpenText World 2026, centered on content readiness for AI agents. more →
Proofpoint, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Proofpoint Introduces Flex to Help Customers Invest with Confidence as Security Needs Evolve
Proofpoint's new Flex model lets qualifying customers reallocate committed security spend across its solutions at contract anniversaries. more →
The Frontier AI Threat: Closing the Mobile Gap in Your Exposure Management Strategy
Join Lookout's Chief Technology Officer, David Richardson, to explore how the mobile attack surface has evolved in the AI era. We will discuss how to protect the modern workforce by addressing the three core pillars of mobile AI security, heavily focusing on continuous exposure management and governance. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
RCS Messaging on Salesforce: A Practitioner's Guide
Salesforce's practitioner guide to RCS messaging explains how to configure an RCS Agent and why RCS beats SMS and MMS. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Startups, Did You Know That Agentforce Coworker Can Do This?
Salesforce lists lesser-known ways Agentforce Coworker, a CRM-grounded AI teammate, helps startups and small businesses. more →
Salesforce, Friday, October 30th, 2026
The Humane Agentic Enterprise: How to Thrive with AI at Work
Salesforce research on 17 interviews and 2,714 Dreamforce responses examines how workers keep their skills while using agentic AI. more →
What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI
In this free, full-day virtual event entitled What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI, you'll learn about the emerging threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud today, and how to ensure you have a comprehensive view and insight into your cloud infrastructure. more →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, October 26th, 2026
From Pilot to Production: Getting AI Transformation Unstuck
A Softchoice architect explains why enterprise AI stalls between pilot and production and outlines a maturity path to an AI-native enterprise. more →
Fortinet: Security Operations Summit: Modernize SecOps. Operate AI-Native
Modernize your SecOps with agentic AI. Join the SecOps Virtual Summit for insights on AI-powered threats, cyber defense best practices, and the latest Fortinet innovations. more →
Spectra Logic, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Spectra Logic Introduces Storage Reclaim to Help Organizations Recover Flash and Disk Capacity They Already Own
Spectra Logic launched Storage Reclaim, which moves inactive data off flash and disk to a protected tier so firms can delay buying more capacity. more →
StorageReview, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Spectra Logic Storage Reclaim Packages Tape, BlackPearl, and Data Movers Into Six Configurations From 1PB to 24PB to Free Flash
Spectra Logic launches Storage Reclaim, bundling tape, BlackPearl and data movers in six configurations from 1PB to 24PB to free up flash. more →
Varonis, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Varonis' Takeaways From Forrester's 2026 Email, Messaging, and Collaboration Security Solutions Landscape Report
Varonis summarizes Forrester's Q4 2026 email and collaboration security landscape, which names AI agents the top disruptor. more →
Agentic Lifecycle Management with AWS
Techstrong Learning webinar on securing AI agents using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on AWS EKS. more →
