This Week in Technology

This Week in Technology

By Eric Corcoran
Posted in Technology Week in Review
On February 13, 2026

Monday 2/9

Endpoint Scarcity, Security Pressure: Why CISOs Are Reassessing the Risk at the Edge (IGEL)

As storage and memory constraints intensify, organizations are being forced to reassess whether traditional endpoint operating systems and refresh cycles still make financial and operational sense. Anchoring productivity, security, and user experience to increasingly resource-intensive endpoints create growing risk, not only to budgets, but also to business continuity.

https://www.igel.com/blog/when-hardware-gets-scarce-endpoint-strategy-becomes-a-boardroom-topic/

Contain the SSO blast radius: Identity security beyond MFA (CyberArk)

Many security stacks evaluate risk at login and then go quiet. Modern identity security can identify what happens after access is granted: privilege elevation, access to high-value resources, and suspicious API calls.

https://www.cyberark.com/resources/blog/contain-the-sso-blast-radius-identity-security-beyond-mfa

Tuesday 2/10

Practical Guide to Optimizing LLM Inference on Nutanix (Nutanix)

Unlike conventional application workloads, scaling LLM inference isn’t instantaneous. Each instance of the LLM inference endpoint must individually load the model weights and initialize its runtime dependencies, making startup computationally heavy and time-consuming due to several factors.

https://www.nutanix.com/blog/practical-guide-to-optimizing-llm-inference-on-nutanix

CIS Safeguard 8.5: Collect Detailed Audit Logs

https://www.gothamtg.com/blog/cis-safeguard-85-collect-detailed-audit-logs

Taming integration chaos (the core of M&A failure) (Citrix)

To effectively address the PMI challenge, leaders must first gain a clear understanding of its complexity. Integration chaos is not a single issue; rather, it is a collection of interconnected, compounding challenges that can rapidly overwhelm even the most capable IT organization.

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2026/02/05/taming-integration-chaos-the-core-of-ma-failure/

Wednesday 2/11

AI Governance for the Agentic Era (Cyera)

Agentic AI has enormous potential but comes with real risk. The only sustainable way for security, data, and IT leaders to unlock the full value of the agentic future is to make agentic AI security and responsible AI governance focal points of their AI strategy.

https://www.cyera.com/blog/ai-governance-for-the-agentic-era

Thursday 2/12

Microsoft February 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 6 zero-days, 58 flaws (Bleeping Computer)

This month's Patch Tuesday fixes six actively exploited vulnerabilities, three of which are publicly disclosed.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-february-2026-patch-tuesday-fixes-6-zero-days-58-flaws/

Global Cyber Attacks Rise in January 2026 Amid Increasing Ransomware Activity and Expanding GenAI Risks (Check Point)

January’s findings point to a threat landscape entering 2026 with heightened speed, sophistication, and volatility. Attackers are refining tactics, exploiting systemic weaknesses across industries, and increasingly blending ransomware, data extortion, and GenAI-enabled exposure.

https://blog.checkpoint.com/research/global-cyber-attacks-rise-in-january-2026-amid-increasing-ransomware-activity-and-expanding-genai-risks/

Friday 2/13

Secure-by-Design: Microsoft and Rubrik’s Engineered Cyber Resilience Architecture (Rubrik)

Cyber resilience cannot be addressed independently of the underlying cloud architecture and why it requires coordination between the platform and the systems that protect and recover data. Both must employ ‘Secure-By-Design’ principals. 

https://www.rubrik.com/blog/technology/26/2/architecting-cyber-resilience-how-microsoft-and-rubrik-employ-a-secure-by-design-approach

What’s new in Nerdio Manager for Enterprise v7.6 (Nerdio)

This release focuses on improving how administrators onboard environments, manage host pools and images, deploy applications, and monitor both virtual and physical endpoints.

https://getnerdio.com/blog/whats-new-in-nerdio-manager-for-enterprise-v7-6/

As organisations accelerate AI adoption, risk management needs to keep up (CyberCX)

In the past, machine learning was mainly used by data scientists and analysts to analyse large amounts of data. Now, Generative AI (GenAI) technologies and tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and CoPilot have put AI into the hands of everyone in almost every workplace. This is causing organisations to rethink how they work.

https://cybercx.com/blog/as-organisations-accelerate-ai-adoption-risk-management-needs-to-keep-up/