Defense in depth and AI: Strengthening cybersecurity with NIST CSF 2.0

Reading Time: 7 minutes In brief: Artificial intelligence is transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. Learn how to use NIST CSF 2.0 to adapt your defense-in-depth strategy, strengthen resilience, and securely adopt AI. Every great defensive coordinator studies the opponent and adjusts before kickoff. But what happens when the opposing team can analyze every…

Responsible AI adoption: 5 questions every board, CEO, and CIO should ask

Reading Time: 6 minutes In brief: AI is making its way into everyday decisions, workflows, and budgets. The challenge for leaders is how to adopt AI responsibly. Five questions can expose the gaps: Do you know where teams use AI? Who owns the outcomes? Are your employees AI literate? How will you prove its value?…

Login with [anything]: native OIDC login comes to Symfony 8.2

Before diving into this new feature, a few words about OIDC itself. OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0: where OAuth 2.0 grants access to a resource via an access token, OIDC tells you who the user is.  “Log in with Google”, “Log in with your company account”, “Log in with…

CrowdStrike Falcon Flex: Optimize security spending without sacrificing agility

Reading Time: 3 minutes In brief: Cybersecurity threats move faster than budget approvals and procurement cycles. CrowdStrike Falcon Flex enables security teams to adapt investments and activate new capabilities as priorities change. Together, Falcon Flex and SHI help organizations optimize spending, accelerate adoption, and strengthen security outcomes over time. Cybersecurity moves at machine speed. Traditional…

Water utility cyberattacks highlight OT cybersecurity risks

Recent attacks against U.S. drinking water and wastewater utilities highlight a growing challenge across critical infrastructure. Operational technology (OT) environments were designed for reliability and availability, not protection from cyber threats. As facilities modernize and increase connectivity, legacy systems and devices exposed to the public internet create pathways for unauthorized access and disruption. Threats to…

Speed to power: Why behind-the-meter power generation provides competitive edge in the AI era

Reading Time: 11 minutes In brief: Power is becoming the primary data center constraint on AI growth. Learn how behind-the-meter power generation, speed-to-power strategies, and AI-ready infrastructure help organizations scale AI successfully. Power is becoming one of the defining constraints on AI growth. For the past several years, enterprise AI progress has been shaped—and limited—by…

Breakout time is over: Key takeaways from CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2026

Reading Time: 6 minutes In brief: CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2026 highlighted a fundamental shift in cybersecurity: AI-powered attacks now occur at inference speed, leaving security teams little time to respond manually. Learn how CrowdStrike is using frontier AI research, agentic security operations, runtime enforcement, and identity controls to help organizations defend against this new generation of…

Why AI literacy is becoming a board-level AI governance issue

Reading Time: 8 minutes In brief: The EU AI Act makes AI literacy part of responsible AI governance. For organizations with EU customers, employees, partners, vendors, or AI outputs used in the EU, that means understanding where AI is being used, who is using it, and whether employees have the role-specific knowledge to use it safely, ethically, and effectively. This is no longer a…

How technology solutions partnerships close federal IT modernization outcome gaps

Federal agencies are not short on IT modernization goals. The harder part is making each technology decision hold up across everything surrounding it: existing systems, security requirements, budget constraints, procurement timelines, vendor ecosystems, and the people who must make the work stick. For federal technology managers, even a reasonable purchase can become a long-term problem…

In search of AI value: The first rule of tokenomics is ‘Don’t count tokens’

Reading Time: 7 minutes In brief: The AI value and cost conversation is maturing. It’s no longer about counting tokens. It’s about understanding the hidden IT infrastructure costs that fuel true AI value through better outcomes. If AI were a TV series, it has so far aired for three seasons. In season one—the Adoption Era—the…