For decades, cybersecurity benefited from a constraint that was easy to take for granted: Attackers were limited by human capabilities. Finding vulnerabilities and developing reliable exploits required expertise. Reconnaissance, lateral movement, and adaptation took time and effort. That friction created something valuable for security practitioners: a window in which they could identify and assess risk,…
I have audited enough celebrated technology rollouts to notice a quiet omission across the industry: nobody talks much about what happens to the unit economics once the pilot ends and the software enters daily production. I have anonymized the company and changed identifying details for confidentiality, but the operating economics and workflow behaviors below are…
In my experience, where you place product management is as critical as whom you hire and how you train them. A team expected to serve the whole organization needs the influence and independence to act for the whole organization. My view comes from working in companies ranging from trillion-dollar enterprises to startups, and from ongoing…
Eager to incorporate agentic AI into their work, employees are taking matters into their own hands, creating their own AI agents, regardless of organizational approval, and a not insignificant number of those creations could have devastating consequences if IT leaders don’t get ahead of the trend. According to a recent survey by engineering staffing firm…
Over 20-plus years in the enterprise trenches, I’ve watched multi-million-dollar technology transformations stumble over the same blind spot. We spend months debating cloud architectures, database benchmarks and vendor feature matrices. But the tech itself? That’s rarely where the real bleeding happens. The real pain arrives later, in the messy organizational wake: Who actually controls this…
I argued in my last column, The case and model for real-time AI cost visibility at the infrastructure layer, that the AI measurement problem looks to be finally solved as a technical matter, and that companies can now manage AI as a strategic investment rather than a pay-and-pray experiment. That’s the defining shift for the…