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Friday’s Briefing · September 12

SC Media, Thursday, September 4th, 2025

Why Model Context Protocols Are The Next AI Security Blind Spot

AI agents are moving from novelty to infrastructure at record speed. In the race to make them more capable, developers are bolting on Model Context Protocols (MCPs) - plugins that act as connectors between agents and the APIs, tools, or execution environments they control. more →

Why Model Context Protocols Are The Next AI Security Blind Spot

Architecture and Governance, Friday, September 5th, 2025

AI Adoption Is Like Handling Fire

The first is the FOMO tribe those driven by the fear of missing out. They rush into the AI race without truly understanding it beyond a handful of GPT prompts. You'll find them attending every AI conference, spending heavily, and often relying on 'YouTube and WhatsApp scholars' as decision-makers. more →

AI Adoption Is Like Handling Fire

Platform Engineering, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

If You Have A Platform Engineering Project, You'Re Doing It Wrong

It's September 2025, and the writing's on the wall for anyone still running platform engineering as a series of bespoke, hand-rolled projects. The 'build it yourself' ethos that shaped the early days of internal developer platforms (IDPs) now feels almost quaint. Why? Because the market - and the demands on tech teams - has moved on at lightning speed. more →

If You Have A Platform Engineering Project, You'Re Doing It Wrong

Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Can AI Parse Packet Captures?

I have to admit that if Ward Cobley of VIAVI ever decides to start a second career as a comedian he's going to do very well. His delivery is spot on and the subject he discussed at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2025 was humorous in a non-traditional way. It did get me to start thinking about the limitations of LLMs when it comes to packet capture analysis. more →

Can AI Parse Packet Captures?

Tech Field Day, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Agentic AI Spells The End Of Dial Twiddlers

If you haven't already, start working with Generative AI now and make sure to control your ongoing costs. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Russ Fellows, Mitch Lewis, and Brian Martin, all from Signal65, and is hosted by Alastair Cooke. more →

Agentic AI Spells The End Of Dial Twiddlers

Sustainability and ESG, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

What Is Sustainable Marketing?

Sustainable marketing is a purpose-driven strategy that promotes products, services and brand values aligned with long-term environmental, social and economic well-being. more →

What Is Sustainable Marketing?

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 22 · 1:00pm

Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes

In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes (Oct. 22nd)

Tenable, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Building A Cloud Security Strategy With Aws Native Tools

Are you an Amazon Web Services customer looking to build a cloud security strategy? If so, you've got an array of choices. Learn about their strengths and gaps - and why you need to augment them with a CNAPP like Tenable Cloud Security. more →

Building A Cloud Security Strategy With Aws Native Tools

Zscaler, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

How To Prevent Generative AI Data Leakage

Generative AI is transforming industries worldwide with tools like chatbots, coding assistants, and document analyzers. At the same time, with greater use of AI comes greater risk of AI data leakage and unauthorized sharing. more →

How To Prevent Generative AI Data Leakage

Upcoming Event · Tue, Oct 13 · 1:00pm

Modernization That Ships with AI

Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →

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Modernization That Ships with AI (Oct. 13th)