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Use of agentic AI erodes GDPR compliance as we know it. Wipro's 'privacy by design' comes into its own
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (878+ words) In the UK and EU where data privacy is regulated, the AI shift from static tools to autonomous "interlocutors" that decompose tasks, call external services, and act on users" behalf, means that existing compliance procedures for GDPR are creaking." Traditional…...
Vector search is table stakes - Open Search Foundation bets on data sovereignty and enterprise trust instead
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (632+ words) Every open source project reaches a moment where community enthusiasm meets enterprise procurement requirements, and the two do not naturally fit. For the Open Search Software Foundation, that moment has arrived. These are obvious questions that open source, being such…...
AI Bots - a new risk and opportunity for CIOs to manage
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (732+ words) A new risk from bots crawling the web estate is beginning to impact digital leaders. Bot crawling is as old as the internet. But now AI is creating a tsunami of bot activity and adding costs to CIOs" budgets. Digital…...
Risky business? AI agents are asking for your SSH keys. 21, 000 exposed instances tell their own cautionary tale. ..
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (734+ words) The most dangerous systems may not be the ones breaking rules, but the ones following them perfectly. That paradox is playing out in a recent security incident involving Open Claw, an open-source AI agent designed for autonomous task execution and…...
Service Now's $7. 75 billion Armis acquisition - betting that security and trust, not just capability, will determine who wins enterprise AI
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (316+ words) At $7. 75 billion, this is Service Now's largest deal by a considerable margin. And a deal of this size signals how the vendor is seeing the enterprise AI market playing out: capability without trust is useless. And trust requires comprehensive security…...
Cloudsmith warns - most teams won't meet the EU Cyber Resilience Act's software supply chain deadline
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (476+ words) Alison Sickelka, VP of Product at Cloudsmith, summed up the underlying dynamic at the company's Kube Con announcement:" During the event I sat down with Sickelka and Nigel Douglas, Cloudsmith's Head of Developer Relations, to get into the details. Douglas…...
AI is forcing a rethink of data privacy - governance is the missing piece
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (939+ words) When organizations talk about data privacy, the focus is still largely on security breaches and leaks. But heading further into 2026, the bigger risk lies in how AI is increasingly being used to automate processes and tasks. Coupled with the growing…...
Mean time to innocence - Splunk's case for why your observability data is as much a political problem as a technical one
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (1009+ words) Look up "observability" in a dictionary and you will find "the capacity for being observed" " a meaning that predates IT by nearly two centuries. What you will not find is an agreed-upon definition of what the cloud native industry actually…...
A firm like ours will never replace lawyers with AI' - but Goughs' IT chief has his ear to the ground
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (826+ words) Like many legal firms, Goughs - a 130-staff family law, commercial, and property services outfit in Wiltshire, England - was pushed into urgent digital modernization during the pandemic. With hindsight, he wishes he'd used the pandemic to embrace the cloud more decisively…...
Open SSF's CRob on why open source security is still a people problem - and why AI is making it worse before it makes it better
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1078+ words) Christopher "CRob" Robinson has been in technology long enough to have replaced thin net cable with cat five and installed TCP/IP on lawyers' desktops. That foundational understanding of how systems interconnect is, he argues, what makes AI-driven threats so…...