Beyond the Hype: 9 Cybersecurity Realities CIOs Must Face at RSAC 2026

Enterprises must rethink cybersecurity strategies in 2026, driven by advancements in AI and quantum technologies. The upcoming RSAC conference will highlight key areas to watch, including AI applications, network security, simplification of solutions, post-quantum cryptography, and evolving identity management. These aspects reflect the complexity and urgency of current cybersecurity challenges.

CIO In The Know – AI or not to AI. That is the question…and how.

It seems every conversation touches on AI. AI is everywhere. At the same time, CIOs and CEOs are growing in their fatigue with AI conversations. Part of the problem is that vendors are adding ‘AI’ to everything and making it hard to…

CIO In The Know – CIOs, Buckle Up: The First 120 Days of 2025 Just Redefined Your Roadmap

The first four months of 2025 have significantly altered the CIO landscape, emphasizing the need for transformational leadership amid disruptions in AI, governance, and cybersecurity. CIOs are now focusing on data strategy and emerging AI agent discussions while grappling with complex regulatory environments. A mid-year Playbook update may be necessary to navigate these changes.

Ephemeral Agents: The next horizon coming for agentic AI

As technology innovation accelerates at a breakneck pace, enterprises struggle to consume the technology already in front of them. First it was generative AI, then agentic. Now, there is a new horizon to the agentic era…ephemeral agents. Ephemeral agents will drive…

Five things I am looking for this week at RSAC

This week is the annual RSAC Conference (RSAC) at Moscone Center in San Francisco. RSAC is a massive cybersecurity-focused conference with everything you could imagine in the world of cybersecurity in one place. I’ve attended RSAC for many years and while solutions…

AI Agent Sprawl: Managing Opportunity and Risk in the Enterprise

AI agents are all the rage among enterprise leaders. The capabilities and potential that agents bring…especially in the era of agentic AI are significant. Companies such as Salesforce, SAP, and many others are working hard to build intelligence into their agents. Historically,…

CIO In The Know – The multiple ways AI is maturing and CIOs are shifting gears into other subjects

Starting the last two months of 2024 takes us into a maturing of the AI conversation with both vendors and enterprise alike. Investment in AI continues for both as well.  Enterprises are largely moving from an experimentation phase to finding…

Lumen Black Lotus Labs outlines Raptor Train bot network impacting SOHO and IoT devices

Prior to the pandemic, remote and home networks were a relatively small concern from a risk perspective. During the pandemic, this risk skyrocketed as employees were required to rely on their home network as an extension of their corporate network.…

Lessons learned from the CrowdStrike and Microsoft outage

By now, most in IT have heard of the global impact from the CrowdStrike software bug. Essentially, a ‘content update’, not a change in software code caused Microsoft Windows based systems to crash. The impact was incredibly swift and widespread causing…