Does your district have a Cyber Incident Response Plan or playbook for an emergency that blocks access to all school IT infrastructure? -- THE Journal

This is an informal poll meant to gauge the attitudes of THE Journal's readership.

CSA Names Identity, AI Top Cloud Threats

Cloud Security Alliance's 2026 Top Threats report ranks identity as the leading cloud security concern, followed by two new AI-related risks.
AI Attacks Push Organizations Toward Autonomous Cybersecurity Defense

Artificial intelligence is raising the stakes of cyber conflict as attackers use the technology to accelerate reconnaissance, uncover vulnerabilities, and launch attacks faster than many security teams can respond, according to a new report from agentic AI security company Kai.
Report: Enterprise AI Workloads Are Tipping Toward Private Cloud

Broadcom's 2026 Private Coud Outlook report says enterprise AI is moving from experimentation into production, with private cloud emerging as the preferred deployment environment for AI inference among surveyed organizations.
Google Moving AI Agents into Mainstream Product Portfolio

At its recent I/O developer conference, Google positioned artificial intelligence agents not as a distant research project, but as a product strategy spanning Search, personal assistants, productivity software, developer tools, and smart glasses.