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Volume 343, Issue 3 · 7 articles
Sperber Landscape CIO Jennifer Terrill on embedding IT in the business, AI prompt libraries, tokenomics and a 90-day plan for new CIOs.
Jennifer Terrill, CIO of Sperber Landscape Companies, which has about 3,500 employees nationwide, describes a career spanning fintech, banking, retail as CIO of True Religion, payments and a mortuary company she took from paper to digital.
She says her superpower is solving problems by embedding herself in the business, explains why field crews need technology that takes few clicks, and advises IT leaders to ask to sit in on meetings they are left out of.
On AI, she describes an experimental phase built on a prompt library and brain files and warns that costs are shifting from SaaS subscriptions to tokens.
Cisco President Jeetu Patel on adapting people, accountability and budgets as AI agents take on engineering and operational work.
In CXOTalk episode 934, Michael Krigsman talks with Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer of Cisco, about how large enterprises are assigning daily work to AI agents alongside human teams.
Drawing on Cisco's experience with AI agents writing product code, Patel discusses how successful adopters adjust management practices, employee roles and accountability.
He explains why leaders must plan AI token costs alongside human staffing budgets, and what organizational decisions CIOs, CEOs and boards face as agents absorb more of the work.
The episode is underwritten by Cornerstone OnDemand.
Application Security Weekly: Guardsquare's Ryan Lloyd and Jan Seredynski walk through the updated OWASP Mobile App Security guidance.
In Application Security Weekly #405, Guardsquare's chief product officer Ryan Lloyd and security researcher Jan Seredynski discuss the updated OWASP Mobile Application Security project, which organizes guidance into common weaknesses (MASWE), a verification standard for developers (MASVS) and a testing guide (MASTG).
They cover how organizations can apply it, the difficulty of managing mobile frameworks and environments, how agents and LLMs affect mobile security, and what future versions may say about apps that call or are written by LLMs.
They also explain how developers can contribute to OWASP.
The segment is sponsored by Guardsquare.
theCUBE analysts and Oracle executives on enforcing data security beneath AI agents and building cyber resilience in up front.
From theCUBE's coverage of Oracle's AI Cyberattacks Are Escalating virtual event, analysts Krista Case and Dave Vellante say agentic AI makes security an architectural concern and resilience must be built in up front.
Oracle's Juan Loaiza argues data security should be enforced in the database, so an agent acting for a user can only see that user's data regardless of prompt tricks.
Oracle's Vipin Samar stresses a fleet-wide view across users and data, citing Data Safe and Database Security Central.
The piece notes SiliconANGLE's disclosure that the coverage is sponsored by Oracle.
Enterprise Security Weekly: ThreatLocker's CTO on controlling local AI coding agents, plus Anthropic replicant research and the week's news.
In Enterprise Security Weekly #481, ThreatLocker CTO Michael Jenkins discusses securing local endpoint AI agents such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Google Antigravity, which readily download libraries and untrusted software to reach their goals; he argues execution control and ringfencing can contain the risk.
The hosts then debate Anthropic research on AI worms distributing inference across smart TVs.
The news segment covers ShinyHunters' history, backdoored Ledger wallets, exposed Danfoss refrigeration controls and a Patch Tuesday of more than 1,400 fixes.
The interview segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker.
TeamViewer's CISO and Xactly's CTO discuss what AI can and can't do to find and fix cloud misconfigurations, and why humans stay in the loop.
Jan Bee, CISO at TeamViewer, and Kandarp Desai, CTO at Xactly, discuss cloud misconfigurations, which span layers of clusters, buckets, load balancers and virtual machines that must work together.
AI helps with anomaly detection and spotting suspect behavior, but it can over-report alerts or misunderstand how systems function, so humans remain a critical part of the loop.
The guests cover common causes of misconfigurations, how AI changes the speed of awareness, the consequences of leaving problems unchecked and whether leadership now expects faster fixes.
They also play InformationWeek's Questionable Ideas tabletop exercise.
Traffic Tech's tech leader Jeff Posluns on business-owned projects, persistent capability funding and putting tech risk on the risk register.
Jeff Posluns, who runs technology at logistics firm Traffic Tech, argues that no project should start without a business owner who defines outcomes.
He advocates persistent funding of business capabilities, with run and lifecycle costs approved alongside the build, so technical debt does not stay invisible after go-live.
Technology risk is business risk, so he puts it on the enterprise risk register with named owners to avoid risks being accepted by default.
He sets measures and stop points up front, insists CIOs need real technical depth, and answers unreasonable requests as the Department of Risk with a GRC assessment.
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