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#335, Issue 3 Part 2: Articles Posted Week: Feb 16th, 2026 — Feb 22nd, 2026
IT News You Can Use - Full Weekly Issue - Vol 335 Issue 3
Security
Security Boulevard - AI
Agentic AI In Cybersecurity Is A Smarter, Faster Path To Resilience
AI-Driven Threat Detection For Quantum-Enabled Side-Channel Attacks
AI-Empowered Cybersecurity: Key Events And Emerging Trends In 2025
Can Agentic AI Operate Independently Of Continuous Human Oversight?
AI
Why Intelligence Without Authority Cannot Deliver Enterprise Value
Purpose-Built AI Agents Will Replace General-Purpose Promises
Operations
ASP.NET to .NET Core Migration: What CIOs and CTOs Need to Know
The Essential Shift Every ITOps Leader Must Make To Survive An Unrelenting Stream Of Incidents
Google News
Microsoft News
Microsoft Equips CISOs And AI Risk Leaders With A New Security Tool
The New Performance Bottleneck: How More Gpu Memory Unlocks Next Gen Gaming And AI PCs
Rubrik News
CrowdStrike News
Exposing Insider Threats Through Data Protection, Identity, And HR Context
Introducing ‘AI Unlocked: Decoding Prompt Injection,’ A New Interactive Challenge
Security
API Threats Grow In Scale As AI Expands The Blast Radius
New research shows attackers increasingly abusing APIs at machine speed as AI-driven systems widen exposure and amplify impact....more
Firewall Penetration Testing: Definition, Process And Tools
Firewall penetration testing examines the firewall as a security control and identifies the weaknesses that allow unwanted traffic to reach internal systems....more
80% Of Att&Ck Mitre Techniques Now Dedicated To Evasion And Persistence
Defenders might be bummed, but not surprised, to know that adversaries have shifted from immediate disruption to long-lived access, according to research from Picus Labs....more
How Modern Security Platforms Organize Rule
How should security rules be organized? At first glance, this sounds like a simple data-modeling choice. In practice, it defines the daily reality of security operations: how quickly incidents can be debugged, how safely policies can evolve, how easily new offices or user communities can be onboarded, and whether growth leads to clarity-or chaos....more
Securing Our Critical Infrastructure With Zero Trust
We are seeing a steady rise in cyberattacks against critical infrastructure and it’s not surprising. Many of these systems rely on legacy software riddled with known vulnerabilities. When these systems fail, the impact moves quickly from networks to operations, and from operations to public safety....more
Security Boulevard - AI
Agentic AI In Cybersecurity Is A Smarter, Faster Path To Resilience
Generative AI is known for its creativity, quickly producing content and images with impressive accuracy. But there’s another side to AI, the kind that autonomously gets things done. This is where Agentic AI comes in....more
AI-Driven Threat Detection For Quantum-Enabled Side-Channel Attacks
Ever wonder if your encrypted data is actually “talking” behind your back? It sounds like some sci-fi spy movie, but quantum computers are making side-channel attacks-where hackers listen to the physical “noise” of hardware-a massive problem for ai infrastructure....more
AI-Empowered Cybersecurity: Key Events And Emerging Trends In 2025
In September 2025, Anthropic disclosed a groundbreaking incident-the world’s first autonomous AI-driven cyberattack. This event, documented as the first large-scale cyber offensive primarily executed by AI with minimal human intervention, underscored the immense threat posed by AI agents in malicious applications....more
Can Agentic AI Operate Independently Of Continuous Human Oversight?
Have you ever pondered how non-human identities (NHIs) play a role? Where organizations migrate to cloud-based systems, security is dramatically shifting. NHIs, essentially machine identities, are rapidly becoming crucial to maintaining robust security protocols....more
AI
Why Intelligence Without Authority Cannot Deliver Enterprise Value
Enterprises have built intelligence layers that can observe, predict, and recommend, but they have stopped short of allowing AI to execute decisions end-to-end. Here is what’s needed to overcome this....more
Purpose-Built AI Agents Will Replace General-Purpose Promises
The AI experimentation phase is over. Organizations spent 2024 and 2025 deploying copilots, testing agents, and letting employees try every AI tool that promised productivity gains....more
Operations
ASP.NET to .NET Core Migration: What CIOs and CTOs Need to Know
Many enterprise applications still run on ASP.NET (.NET Framework). They are stable. They are functional. They generate revenue. But they are also increasingly expensive, difficult to scale, and misaligned with modern cloud-native architecture....more
Must-Have Investments For Security-Aware & Productive Teams
No matter its size, any business that strives for success faces challenges from two sides. On the one hand, productivity optimization remains a prerequisite for growth. On the other, the scale and complexity of cyber threats are only increasing....more
The Essential Shift Every ITOps Leader Must Make To Survive An Unrelenting Stream Of Incidents
Learn how ITOps leaders use AI and automation to survive modern incident streams, reduce downtime costs, prevent burnout, and modernize incident management....more
The Myth of ‘Always On’: Confronting Data Center SPOFs
True resilience depends as much on disciplined operations - training, staffing, procedures, and realistic scenario planning - as on engineering....more
Google News
A New Way To Express Yourself: Gemini Can Now Create Music
The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images in beta....more
New Features In Chrome For Work, Life And Everything In Between
From split view to new PDF annotation capabilities, see how we’re making Chrome more helpful than ever....more
Microsoft News
Microsoft Equips CISOs And AI Risk Leaders With A New Security Tool
Microsoft released Security Dashboard for AI in public preview for enterprise environments. The dashboard aggregates posture and real-time risk signals from Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview into a single view within security tools....more
The New Performance Bottleneck: How More Gpu Memory Unlocks Next Gen Gaming And AI PCs
The next era of PC performance will be defined not by more compute, but by memory scale. The rising size of game assets and AI models has outpaced GPU memory capacity, until now....more
Rubrik News
Rubrik Agent Cloud Reaches GA With Policy Controls For Agent Prompts/Responses
Rubrik has announced the general availability of Rubrik Agent Cloud, describing it as a layer between enterprise applications, AI agents, and the underlying large language models, aimed at bringing monitoring, governance, and remediation controls to agent operations....more
Introducing Rubrik Agent Cloud: Control Your Agents With AI
We’re living through a pivotal moment in enterprise technology. Organizations are graduating from early experiments with AI and starting to allocate multi-million dollar budgets to the development of agentic AI....more
CrowdStrike News
Exposing Insider Threats Through Data Protection, Identity, And HR Context
Insider threats pose a growing risk to organizations. Whether insiders take malicious actions, exhibit negligent behavior, or make accidental errors, they have the potential to cause significant harm to an organization’s assets, sensitive data, and reputation....more
Introducing ‘AI Unlocked: Decoding Prompt Injection,’ A New Interactive Challenge
A new hands-on AI security challenge, designed to improve understanding of the prompt injection attack landscape, is now available worldwide....more
