Cybersecurity

Midnight for Cookies: First-Party Data and Clean Rooms The era of third-party cookies—a foundation for digital advertising’s reach, targeting, and measurement—is ending. Safari and Firefox have blocked them for years, mobile identifiers are curtailed, and the largest browser is steadily moving toward a post-cookie world with Privacy Sandbox APIs. For marketers, publishers, and technology teams, […]

Countdown to Recovery: Ransomware Resilience Playbook Ransomware is no longer a purely technical incident; it is a whole-of-business crisis that compresses legal, financial, operational, and reputational risk into hours. The fastest way to reduce its impact is not by chasing every new strain but by preparing to outpace the attacker’s kill chain with your own […]

Data Mesh, Done Right: Guardrails, SLAs, Governance The promise of data mesh is compelling: empower domain teams to publish trustworthy, interoperable data products that scale without the bottlenecks of a central data team. Yet the same decentralization that enables speed and autonomy can, if unmanaged, create chaos—duplicated pipelines, inconsistent definitions, unbounded costs, and compliance risk. […]

Knowledge Graphs + RAG: Enterprise Search That Works Enterprise search should feel like a conversation with a colleague who knows the company’s data, understands its context, and cites their sources. In reality, it often feels like rummaging through a poorly labeled filing cabinet. Retrievers don’t retrieve what matters, large language models hallucinate, and users lose […]

Deepfake Defense: C2PA, Watermarks, and Brand Trust Deepfakes have crossed the threshold from curious internet oddity to a persistent operational risk. Generative models can synthesize photorealistic images, clone voices in a few minutes, and fabricate video that looks like it was captured on a flagship phone. The cost to produce convincing forgeries has collapsed; the […]

Naughty or Nice: Identity Proofing vs. Synthetic Fraud Why the “Naughty or Nice” List Matters in Modern Digital Identity Every digital business runs an invisible holiday list. On one side are the “nice” customers—real people worth welcoming with a fast, friendly experience. On the other side are the “naughty”—fraudsters, botnets, and synthetic identities designed to […]

Wrap Your Keys Tight: Post-Quantum Crypto Readiness “Harvest now, decrypt later” has shifted from a clever phrase to an urgent motivator. Adversaries are stockpiling today’s encrypted traffic and long-lived sensitive data in expectation of tomorrow’s cryptographically relevant quantum computers. That future remains uncertain in exact timing but increasingly certain in kind: progress in quantum error […]

Santa’s Single Source of Truth: Master Data Management, Identity Resolution, and Data Quality for AI-Ready CRM and Customer Journeys Why Santa Needs a Single Source of Truth Every December, Santa faces a classic data problem at global scale: billions of interactions across letters, emails, chats with elves, social posts, wish lists scribbled in crayon, shopping […]

Grinch Traps for the SOC: Honeytokens, Canary Credentials, and Deception Layers to Cut Dwell Time and Accelerate Incident Response Introduction: Turning Intruders’ Curiosity Against Them Adversaries thrive on stealth. They move laterally, blend with normal traffic, and live off the land. Meanwhile, Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face an onslaught of noisy telemetry, limited staffing, and […]

From Santa’s Workshop to Your Doorstep: Edge AI, IoT, and Computer Vision for Real-Time Retail Fulfillment, BOPIS, and Inventory Accuracy Introduction: The Workshop Goes Digital Every holiday season, retailers transform into modern versions of Santa’s workshop: orders fly in, pickers rush through aisles like elves, curbside lanes clog with sleighs (okay, SUVs), and warehouses hum […]

Shrinking the Blast Radius: PCI DSS 4.0 Scope Reduction with Tokenization, Isolated Payment Microservices, and Serverless for Modern SaaS and Ecommerce The payments attack surface has changed dramatically in the last decade. Traditional monoliths have given way to polyglot microservices, headless storefronts, composable commerce, and global SaaS platforms. Meanwhile, attackers increasingly target client-side scripts, supply […]

Beyond Chatbots: Contact Center AI for Agent Assist, PCI/HIPAA Compliance, and Measurable CSAT Gains The last decade of contact center transformation has been dominated by chatbots and IVRs designed to deflect calls and cut costs. That wave produced undeniable value, but the next order-of-magnitude impact is happening inside the live conversation: augmenting human agents in […]

From MFA Fatigue to Token Theft: ITDR and Just-In-Time Access as the Backbone of Zero-Trust Security Introduction Identity has become the control plane of modern enterprises. Applications, data, and infrastructure live across clouds and devices, while users move between home networks, airports, and coffee shops. In that world, a username, a set of access tokens, […]

Double-Entry for the Cloud: Unifying FinOps and GreenOps to Measure the True Cost of AI AI has exploded into daily operations, from customer support agents to code copilots and anomaly detectors. But as organizations scale models and inference, their cloud bills and environmental footprints scale too. Finance and sustainability teams often speak different languages and […]

Don’t Ship a Black Box: AI Observability with Evals, Ground Truth, and OpenTelemetry for Reliable Enterprise Copilots Enterprise copilots promise faster decisions, fewer repetitive tasks, and richer insights. But without deep observability, they also risk hallucinations, compliance violations, or silent degradation as data and models drift. The difference between a demo and dependable production is […]

From Prompts to Profits: The Unit Economics of AI—FinOps for LLM Inference, Orchestration, and Retrieval LLM features can delight users and transform workflows, but they also introduce a new kind of cloud bill—one that scales with tokens, context windows, retrieval depth, and latency targets in ways that traditional FinOps practices only partially cover. Treating prompts […]

From Tickets to Golden Paths: Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Portals, and the ROI of Developer Experience The era of shipping software through ticket queues is over. As organizations scale, the complexity of cloud-native systems, security requirements, and release velocity turns ad hoc operations into a drag on innovation. Platform engineering emerged to tame that complexity, […]

Machine Identities Are the New Perimeter: How Netflix, Uber, and Google Use mTLS, SPIFFE, and Workload Identity to Enable Zero Trust for Service-to-Service APIs Why Machine Identity Became the Perimeter In modern, distributed systems, the idea of a protected, static network boundary has faded. Services run in containers and serverless runtimes, autoscale across zones and […]

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: SBOMs, SLSA & Sigstore for Verifiable Software Supply Chains Why verifiable supply chains matter now Modern software is assembled more than it is written. We stitch together open source modules, container base images, operating system packages, CI plugins, and cloud build services across organizational boundaries. That composability accelerates delivery, but it also […]

From Principles to Pipelines: Operationalizing the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF Across Enterprise MLOps, CRM, and Customer Service Why operationalizing AI governance is an enterprise execution problem The last few years have moved AI risk from a philosophical debate to a concrete set of obligations. Two frameworks anchor this shift: the European Union’s […]