My Take
MY TAKE: AI agents force a rethink of enterprise service lines as vendors move up the tech tack
ORLANDO — Companies are pulling AI agents into their daily operations through a dozen side doors. Related: SaaS and AI agents converge One of them was in focus at KB4-CON, KnowBe4’s annual ...
LW ROUNDTABLE: Microsoft Edge normalizes credential exposure — security pros push back
By design. Two words that have done an awful lot of heavy lifting in the cybersecurity industry over the years. They tend to surface whenever a vendor wants to wave off a ...
RSAC 2026: No easy fixes for expanding AI attack surface, but a coordinated response is emerging
SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-four thousand cybersecurity practitioners converged on Moscone Center this week with an urgent question: how do you secure a network when everything — the technology, the threats, the tools ...
MY TAKE: A decade of cyber collaboration, built under Obama, is now hostage to a political grudge
SAN FRANCISCO — I was in the room at Stanford in February 2015 when President Obama used the bully pulpit to launch what became a decade of hard-won public-private collaboration in cybersecurity ...
MY TAKE: As RSAC 2026 opens, AI has bifurcated cybersecurity into two wars—the clock is running
SAN FRANCISCO — RSAC 2026 opens here Monday at Moscone Center, with upwards of 40,000 cybersecurity professionals, executives, and policy leaders, myself among them, filing in to take stock of an industry ...
MY TAKE: The AI magic is back — whether it endured depends on Amazon’s next moves
I ran an experiment this week that I did not expect to be instructive, and it was. Related: How ChatGPT is becoming Microsoft Office The setup was simple. I had been working ...
MY TAKE: ChatGPT is turning into Microsoft Office — and power users are paying the price
Something has been shifting inside the tools millions of us use every day, and it’s worth naming out loud. Related: AI is becoming a daily routine Over the past several months I’ve ...
MY TAKE: The Pentagon punished Anthropic for red lines it accepted from OpenAI hours later
KINGSTON, Wash. — On Friday afternoon, President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic’s AI technology. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed by designating the company a “supply-chain risk to national ...
MY TAKE: Transparent vs. opaque — edit Claude’s personalized memory, or trust ChatGPT’s blindly?
After two years of daily ChatGPT use, I recently started experimenting with Claude, Anthropic’s competing AI assistant. Related: Microsofts see a ‘protopian’ AI future Claude is four to five times slower generating ...
MY TAKE: From ‘holy mackeral’ to ‘daily routine’ — AI vendors maneuver to commandeer your life
An email from Claude landed in my inbox Friday morning with a subject line that stopped me cold: “Using Claude for your everyday life.” Related: AI’s fortune teller effect Not “Unlock the ...
