My Take
RSAC Strategic Reel: Cyber experts on the front lines unpack ‘Shadow AI,’ ‘Ground Truth’
The response to our first LastWatchdog Strategic Reel has been energizing — and telling. Related: What is a cyber kill chain? The appetite for crisp, credible insight is alive and well. As ...
INTRODUCING: LastWatchdog strategic LinkedIN reels – insights from the ground floor at RSAC 2025
Every year at RSAC, the cybersecurity conversation swells with new terms, emerging threats, and fresh takes on familiar problems. What exactly is ‘agentic AI?’ At RSAC 2025, the volume knob turned to ...
MY TAKE: RSAC 2025’s big takeaway — GenAI is growing up fast, but still needs human direction
SAN FRANCISCO — The cybersecurity industry showed up here in force last week: 44,000 attendees, 730 speakers, 650 exhibitors and 400 members of the media flooding Moscone Convention Center in the City ...
MY TAKE: RSAC 2025 – Conversing with vendors hanging out in the Marriott Marquis mezzanine
SAN FRANCISCO — Sometimes, the best insights come not from the keynote stage, but from the hotel lobby. Related: RSAC 2025 top takeaways In between sessions at RSAC 2025, I slipped over ...
MY TAKE: Notes on how GenAI is shifting tension lines in cybersecurity on the eve of RSAC 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — The first rule of reporting is to follow the tension lines—the places where old assumptions no longer quite hold. Related: GenAI disrupting tech jobs I’ve been feeling that tension ...
MY TAKE: The CVE program crisis isn’t over — it’s a wake-up call for cybersecurity’s supply chain
Just hours before it was set to expire on April 16, the federal contract funding MITRE’s stewardship of the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) program was given a temporary extension by CISA ...
My Take: Is Amazon’s Alexa+ a Gutenberg moment — or a corporate rerun of history’s greatest co-opt?
Last Friday morning, April 11, I was making my way home from NTT Research’s Upgrade 2025 innovation conference in San Francisco, when it struck me that we’re at a watershed moment. I ...
My Take: NTT’s physicists confront the mystery Big Tech keep dodging — what are we really creating?
SAN FRANCISCO — If large language AI models are shaping our digital reality, then who—exactly—is shaping those models? And how the heck are they doing it? Related: What exactly is GenAI? Those ...
My Take: Here’s why Google’s $32B Wiz grab is the latest Big Tech leap sure to further erode privacy
We’ve seen this movie before. Alphabet, Google’s parent company’s, $32 billion bid for Wiz isn’t just about security and privacy. It’s the latest round in Big Tech’s long-running game of business leapfrog—where ...
My Take: Will decentralizing connected systems redistribute wealth or reinforce Big Tech’s grip?
For the past 25 years, I’ve watched the digital world evolve from the early days of the Internet to the behemoth it is today. Related: Self-healing devices on the horizon What started ...
