Simplify MSP Technician Authentication with Duo Delegated Access
Cisco Duo unveiled Delegated Access, a feature that lets Managed Service Provider (MSP) technicians authenticate to client applications using a single Duo user account. The solution centralizes MFA policy, logs, and monitoring on the parent account while granting access to sub‑accounts. By removing the need for duplicate user provisioning, MSPs can cut licensing costs and simplify user management. The offering integrates with Duo’s 100+ application catalog, positioning it as a scalable identity‑centric tool for MSP operations.
Basic Security Issues Outpace Complex Threats, Says CXO Advisor
One of the big advantage we have here at CXO Advisor is threat intel. We talk to security leaders across industries every week and the same concerns surface independently. Interestingly, it's not the complex theoretical threats, it's the basics: AI...
Interview with Summer Collins, Chief AI and Data Director of One NZ
In a recent MIT CISR interview, Summer Collins, One NZ’s Chief AI and Data Director, detailed the telco’s enterprise‑wide push to embed artificial intelligence into its core operations. The initiative centers on a unified data platform, AI‑driven customer service tools,...
Interview Highlights with Summer Collins, Chief AI and Data Director of One NZ
One New Zealand is undertaking a company‑wide transformation to embed artificial intelligence into every layer of its operations, as explained by Chief AI and Data Director Summer Collins. The initiative centralises data from network, customer, and service systems onto a...
App Sprawl Bogs Down Operations, Fuels Shadow IT Growth
Torii’s 2026 SaaS Benchmark Report reveals that large enterprises now run an average of 2,191 applications, with more than 61% of those tools operating without formal IT approval. AI experimentation is intensifying the problem, as employees juggle roughly 40 apps...
Planning for AI Induced Economic Volatility
Enterprise adoption of large‑language models is moving from pilot projects in 2025 to production in 2026 and full‑scale deployment by 2027, enabling multi‑step, agentic workflows that can cut head‑office labor by up to 30 %. While individual firms gain margin improvements,...
PCI Council Says Threats to Payments Systems Are Speeding Up
The PCI Security Standards Council published its inaugural 2025 annual report, the first since its 2006 founding, outlining a surge in payment‑system threats and the council’s expanding role. The report highlights accelerated attacks leveraging AI, ransomware incidents such as BridgePay,...
JPMorgan’s $20 Billion Tech Bet Could Shrink FinTech’s Innovation Edge
JPMorgan Chase disclosed a $19‑$20 billion annual technology budget, earmarked for AI, cloud infrastructure, and data integration. More than 80% of its applications now run on modern platforms, with over 70% in public or private clouds, enabling real‑time processing and automated...
Vast Data Integrates AI OS Into Nvidia GPU-Powered Servers
Vast Data and Nvidia have launched the CNode‑X, a GPU‑powered server that embeds the Vast Data AI Operating System directly onto Nvidia hardware. The integrated solution is optimized for AI pipelines, high‑performance analytics, vector search, retrieval‑augmented generation and agentic workloads....
AI Bridges Contact Center Data to Automated Service Tickets
Your Contact Center is generating a goldmine of unstructured data, but if it isn't hitting your Service Management platform, your Product and IT teams are flying blind. AI is the bridge that turns a customer complaint into an automated internal...
NASA Seeks IBM Partner to Manage Agency's Software Portfolio
NASA has issued a request for information (RFI) to find an IBM Platinum Partner that will manage its extensive software portfolio. The agency intends to establish a five‑year blanket purchase agreement covering licenses, subscription support, expert lab services, and remote...
SPS Commerce Introduces MAX, Embedded AI for Supply Chain Workflows
SPS Commerce has launched MAX, an AI‑driven set of capabilities embedded in its supply‑chain network that currently operates in an advisory mode, surfacing anomalies and recommending actions within existing EDI workflows. The system is designed to improve supplier compliance, order...
Georgia Tech Researchers Highlight Vulnerabilities in Threat Intelligence Sharing
Georgia Tech researchers have uncovered critical weaknesses in the global threat‑intelligence supply chain, highlighting how inconsistent data quality and limited sharing impede rapid response. Their study, presented at the NDSS Symposium, found that while 67% of vendors sandbox suspicious binaries,...
AI Survey 2026: The Rise of Agentic AI Adoption in ITSM
The 2026 AI Survey targets the rapid rise of Agentic AI within IT service management, launching just four months after the 2025 edition to capture fast‑moving adoption trends. Agentic AI is defined across low, mid, and high autonomy levels, emphasizing...
AI-Driven Attacks Exploit Simple FortiGate Misconfigurations Globally
New threat intel shows a financially motivated threat actor using commercial generative AI tools to compromise more than 600 FortiGate devices across 55+ countries by exploiting exposed management ports and weak credentials, not zero-day vulnerabilities. AI is amplifying basic security...
Privacy Must Be Built Into AI Data Workflows
RT High-level policies aren't enough. It's time for audits, training, DSPM, and privacy-by-design in AI workflows. If privacy isn't built into how data moves, you're hoping - not leading. #DataGovernance #AI #CIO @Star_CIO https://t.co/Naq82FuMWZ
AI-Powered CVE Research: Winning the Race Against Emerging Vulnerabilities
Praetorian unveiled its AI‑driven CVE Researcher pipeline, automating the end‑to‑end analysis of new vulnerabilities from CISA’s KEV catalog. The system ingests a CVE ID and outputs research reports, technology reconnaissance, asset correlation, and validated Nuclei detection templates within minutes. Reported...
AI Delivers Value when Embedded, Governed Like Core Systems
RT AI value doesn't live in slideware or labs. It shows up when agents are embedded in day-to-day work, governed like core systems, and held to the same standards as any critical operation. #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI @Star_CIO https://t.co/VtuS5rQ0ZG
Dennis Venter Resigns as iOCO Co-CEO
Dennis Venter has stepped down as co‑CEO and board member of JSE‑listed iOCO with immediate effect, citing other business interests. He and fellow co‑CEO Rhys Summerton, appointed in February 2025, led a turnaround that lifted EBITDA 68 % to R516 million and...
Cyberattacks Eclipse Inflation, Recession as SMBs' Top 2026 Threat
Cyberattacks Overtake Inflation and Recession Concerns as the #1 Threat to SMBs in 2026, New VikingCloud Research Finds https://t.co/O8FsxVZLOe
Netskope NewEdge AI Fast Path Reduces Latency for Enterprise AI Workloads
Netskope introduced NewEdge AI Fast Path, a suite of network‑optimizing capabilities that route AI traffic through low‑latency, secure paths across public, private and neo‑cloud environments. The service cuts time‑to‑first‑token for conversational models, speeds up multi‑prompt agentic workflows, and enhances retrieval‑augmented...
SentinelOne Addresses Identity Risk Across Endpoints, Browsers, and AI Workflows
SentinelOne launched the Singularity Identity portfolio to protect non‑human identities such as AI agents, service accounts, APIs, and workloads. The solution moves beyond static authentication, requiring continuous validation of intent across endpoints, browsers, and AI workflows. By tying identity data...
Veza Expands Platform with AI Access Agents for Enterprise Identity Governance
Veza announced the launch of Veza Access Agents, AI‑driven tools that automate identity and access governance for both human users and autonomous AI agents. The agents, built on AWS Bedrock, provide natural‑language interfaces for risk queries, permission visualizations, and AI‑assisted...
Rewiring Leadership for the New Age
In the digital era, leadership is moving from command‑and‑control to orchestrating a trustworthy ecosystem of people, machines, and processes. The article outlines an "agentic" model that distributes decision rights, adopts policy‑first delegation, and embeds transparency and ethical guardrails. Structural changes...
Prioritize AI ROI Over Pilot Count for CIOs
RT Boards are asking, Where is the ROI? not How many pilots do you have? This session is about moving from experimentation theater to outcome‑driven AI portfolios. #CIO #AI @Star_CIO https://t.co/xfrVmpSIJN
CloudCasa Expands Red Hat OpenShift Data Protection Across Edge and Hybrid Cloud
CloudCasa has upgraded its backup and recovery platform to better serve Red Hat OpenShift deployments across core, edge, and hybrid cloud environments. The update adds native SMB protocol support as a backup target, letting customers use existing SMB storage or operator‑deployed...
Jira’s Latest Update Allows AI Agents and Humans to Work Side by Side
Atlassian introduced “Agents in Jira,” allowing AI agents to be assigned, tracked, and managed alongside human users within the Jira dashboard. The feature, now in open beta, lets teams assign tickets to AI, set deadlines, and monitor progress with the...
Why 'Call This Number' TOAD Emails Beat Gateways
Researchers at StrongestLayer analyzed about 5,000 phishing emails that evaded secure email gateways between December 2025 and early 2026. They found that telephone‑oriented attack delivery (TOAD), which consists solely of a phone number, represented roughly 28 % of all bypasses and...
Scality RING Becomes Back-End Object Store for WEKA NeuralMesh
Scality and WEKA announced that Scality RING will serve as the back‑end object store for WEKA’s NeuralMesh high‑performance AI file system. The partnership leverages NeuralMesh’s SSD‑based front‑end with RING’s cost‑efficient, disk‑based object tier, delivering up to ten times faster performance than...
Wynn Resorts Hit by Cyberattack, $1.5M Ransom Demanded
Wynn Resorts reportedly cyberattacked and asked to pay $1.5M ransom | Casinos & Gaming | Business https://t.co/x191MhE93X
TCN Secures Arum Approved Status for Operator Platform
TCN’s cloud‑based contact‑center solution Operator has earned Arum Approved System status after an independent assessment, confirming it meets rigorous operational, compliance and scalability standards for regulated credit and collections environments. The certification highlights Operator’s omnichannel capabilities, rules‑based automation and configurable...
Digital Health Rewired 2026 Programme Published
The Digital Health Rewired 2026 conference programme, featuring ten themed stages, has been released. More than 300 senior health‑IT leaders, including NHS CEOs, CIOs, CCIOs and CNIOs, will present sessions on digital transformation, cyber security, AI, and electronic patient records....
State of AI: Widely Used for Planning -- Drives the Business at Just 25% of Firms
AI adoption remains uneven, with only a quarter of surveyed firms naming AI as a primary driver of business strategy by the end of 2025, though that share more than doubled from early 2025. Fifty‑five percent say AI influences strategic...
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'Richter Scale' Model Measures Magnitude of OT Cyber Incidents
The Operational Technology Incident (OTI) Impact Score, unveiled at the S4x26 conference, offers a Richter‑scale‑style metric for gauging OT cyber‑attack consequences. It combines severity, reach, and duration into a single figure, with assessments delivered via an online portal within 12...
Legacy Friction: Modern AI Meets Outdated Iron Infrastructure
The Legacy Friction: Integrating Intelligence into Iron - the structural, technical, and cultural resistance that occurs when you try to integrate 21st-century autonomous intelligence into 20th-century physical iron. https://t.co/6dgJ5aZe4w
Rethinking ERP Transformation: A Governance Centric Framework for Sustainable Value Realization
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects continue to suffer cost overruns and muted business value, not because of technology limits but due to weak governance structures. Rajesh Arangamany proposes a five‑layer, governance‑centric framework that aligns strategic objectives, capability models, architectural accountability,...
Arctic Wolf Snaps up Sevco Security to Bolster Exposure Management
Arctic Wolf announced the acquisition of Texas‑based Sevco Security, a cloud‑native exposure assessment specialist, for an undisclosed amount. Sevco’s platform, recognized as a Gartner Visionary in 2025, will be folded into Arctic Wolf’s Aurora platform to unify asset intelligence, vulnerability...
How Data Centers Are Adapting to Extreme Weather
U.S. data‑center operators are confronting a surge in extreme weather events, from floods and wildfires to record heat and cold spells. Scenario analyses from S&P Global and the World Economic Forum estimate climate‑driven costs could equal 9.5% of total data‑center...
$10,000 Bounty Offered if You Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Them Sharing Your Data with Amazon
Ring’s new “Search Party” AI feature sparked privacy outrage after a Super Bowl ad, prompting a backlash against the company’s data‑sharing practices. In response, the nonprofit Fulu Foundation announced a $10,000 bounty for anyone who can modify Ring doorbells to...
Close Your Workforce’s AI Skills Gap by Designing an Adaptive Organization - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SLALOM
The 2026 Slalom AI Research Report shows a paradox: 68 % of leaders feel they can keep pace with AI, yet 93 % cite underdeveloped skills and inadequate training as major barriers. Deploying AI tools alone isn’t delivering results; the capability gap...
Why ‘Buy vs Build’ Is the Wrong Question for AI Strategy
Artificial intelligence is now a strategic priority, yet many enterprises chase hype instead of defining clear use cases, driven by a 63% fear‑of‑missing‑out. The traditional buy‑vs‑build debate is less relevant than asking what problem AI should solve. A blended approach—combining...
The Missing Link Moves Into Infosys’ North Sydney Office
Cyber‑security specialist The Missing Link, acquired by Infosys in May 2025, has moved from Artarmon to Infosys’ North Sydney office. The relocation creates an upgraded Global Security Operations Centre offering 24/7 monitoring and services aligned with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Essential Eight....
Mustek Warns Chip-Supply Crisis Far From Over
Mustek warned that memory and storage shortages driven by rapid AI infrastructure expansion will persist until 2027, tightening component availability and pricing. The South African distributor said its integrated distribution model helps stabilise supply but margins remain pressured. Mustek also...
AI’s Priority Shift and Impact for ERP Systems
Artificial intelligence is moving from experimental pilots to a core, existential priority in enterprise resource planning, with Aptean positioning its AppCentral platform as the foundation for industry‑specific AI integration. The platform embeds AI agents, natural‑language queries and intelligent workflows directly...
South Africa’s Draft AI Policy Headed to Cabinet
South Africa’s draft artificial intelligence policy is set to be discussed by the economic cluster ministerial council next month before moving to a cabinet committee, with a gazette for public comment slated for March. The framework, built on 14 pillars...
Tanium Augments APAC Leadership with New Promotions
Tanium announced a series of senior appointments to strengthen its Asia Pacific leadership. James Greenwood was promoted to area vice‑president of solution engineering, while Yasir Yousuff became vice‑president of marketing for the APJ region. The company also added Satyen Desai as...
RWS Global Deploys Box’s AI Tools to Streamline Contract Workflow
RWS Global partnered with Box to embed AI‑driven tools into its contract lifecycle, leveraging Box Enterprise Advanced, Box Doc Gen, and Box Sign. The new no‑code workflow automates document generation, legal approval, and e‑signature, cutting processing time from roughly 20 minutes to...
Risky Business #826 -- A Week of AI Mishaps and Skulduggery
In this episode of Risky Business, host Patrick Gray and panelists James Wilson and Adam Wallow dissect a wave of AI-driven cyber incidents, from a threat actor leveraging AI to mass‑compromise Fortinet devices to Chinese labs attempting large‑scale model distillation...
Ransomware Is the Invoice for Compounding Technical Debt
Ransomware attacks are increasingly being framed as the overdue invoice for years of accumulated technical debt. Experts highlight that identity sprawl, inconsistent patching, and legacy backup systems create fertile ground for ransomware to cripple organisations. A Rubrik survey found 95%...
Sektor Signs up Concentric AI to A/NZ Distie Portfolio
Sektor has entered a distribution agreement with AI and data‑security‑governance vendor Concentric AI to serve the Australian and New Zealand market. As an authorised distributor, Sektor will equip its channel partners with enablement, go‑to‑market support and local expertise, positioning Concentric AI’s platform for...