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Louis Columbus
@louiscolumbus.bsky.social
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VentureBeat contributor on cybersecurity; husband & dad; writer and speaker on AI, cybersecurity, ERP, and zero trust.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louiscolumbus/
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Top Ten Insights from Forrester’s 2026 Cybersecurity Budget Benchmarks linkedin.com/pulse/top-te... #CyberSecurity #GenerativeAI #SecurityBudgets #RiskManagement #ZeroTrust #QuantumSecurity #Deepfakes #Forrester #CISO #CyberResilience
Top Ten Insights from Forrester’s 2026 Cybersecurity Budget Benchmarks
"With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities," states Forrester's 2026 Budget Planning Guide. The resear...
linkedin.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
Why 60% of CISOs are betting big on generative AI, despite early challenges www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-60... #Cybersecurity #GenerativeAI #CISO #ThreatIntelligence #GartnerResearch #AI #NIST #RiskManagement
Why 60% of CISOs are betting big on generative AI, despite early challenges
The global threatscape is becoming dominated by all forms of weaponized LLMs, AI, and conversational agents, all aimed at launching lethal attacks that cripple companies and entire supply chains in mi...
www.linkedin.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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ninjaowl.ai
Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy
Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web
Plus: The Jaguar Land Rover hack sets an expensive new record, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser raises security fears, Starlink cuts off scam compounds, and more.
www.wired.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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rachelcourtland.com
Interested in writing for MIT Technology Review (@technologyreview.com)? Here's our pitch guide. Now with 2026 magazine themes! www.technologyreview.com/how-to-pitch...
How to pitch MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review welcomes pitches from freelance writers across a broad range of topics. We encourage writers of all skill levels, and from all backgrounds, to pitch us. We are especially interes...
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July 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
Security leaders lose visibility as consultants deploy shadow AI copilots to stay employed venturebeat.com/security/sha... #ai #genai #shadowAI
Security leaders lose visibility as consultants deploy shadow AI copilots to stay employed
Fearing sweeping layoffs driven by AI and automation, elite consultants and high performers are turning to shadow AI for a competitive edge.
venturebeat.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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opsmatters.com
The latest update for #Tines includes "Is the future of the SOC autonomous? A Q&A with #Forrester's Allie Mellen" and "RegScale's Travis Howerton on taking the pain out of #compliance in highly-regulated industries".

#cybersecurity #nocodesecurity #appsec https://opsmtrs.com/3LFedhc
Tines
The world’s best companies – from startups to the Fortune 10 – trust Tines with their mission-critical security workflows.
opsmtrs.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
Shrink exploit windows, slash MTTP: Why ring deployment is now a must for enterprise defense
venturebeat.com/security/rin... #AI #cybersecurity #patching #SOC #CISO
Shrink exploit windows, slash MTTP: Why ring deployment is now a must for enterprise defense
Ring deployment slashes MTTP and legacy CVE risk. Learn how Ivanti and Southstar Bank are modernizing patch strategy with real-time intel.
venturebeat.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
The walled garden cracks: Nadella bets Microsoft’s Copilots—and Azure’s next act—on A2A/MCP interoperability venturebeat.com/ai/the-walle... $MSFT #Azure #AgenticAI #agenticautomation
The walled garden cracks: Nadella bets Microsoft’s Copilots—and Azure’s next act—on A2A/MCP interoperability
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s endorsement of Google DeepMind‘s A2A open protocol and Anthropic's MCP is huge sign the industry is moving to an open garden.
venturebeat.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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marcocasassamont.bsky.social
Insightful article and insights from RSA2025 and SVP Report about state of cybersecurity, agentic AI and AI/ML model protection ...
venturebeat.com/security/rsa... #cybersecurity #AI #AIagents #AIMLmodelProtection #CISO
RSAC 2025: Why the AI agent era means more demand for CISOS
RSAC 2025 made one thing clear: AI agents are entering security workflows, but boards want proof they work.
venturebeat.com
May 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
RSAC 2025: Why the AI agent era means more demand for CISOS venturebeat.com/security/rsa... #AI #CISO #cybersecurity #RSAC2025
RSAC 2025: Why the AI agent era means more demand for CISOS
RSAC 2025 made one thing clear: AI agents are entering security workflows, but boards want proof they work.
venturebeat.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
#Manufacturers have had a bumpy ride this year, give them credit for navigating turbulence while continuing to manage and grow revenue. www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ma...
May 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This is riveting
May 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
#RSAC2025 Starter Pack. Red Bull? check. Party invites? check. Best booth giveaways including whack-the-attack? check. #cybersecurity #humor
April 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
From friction to flow: Why Swissport scrapped its VPN maze for Cato’s SASE fabric venturebeat.com/security/swi... #CatoNetworks, #DigitalTransformation #NetworkSecurity #SASE #SecureAccess #Swissport #ZeroTrust
From friction to flow: Why Swissport scrapped its VPN maze for Cato’s SASE fabric
Swissport ditches legacy tech, deploying a global, Zero Trust SASE architecture with Cato Networks securing 26,000 users, unlocking real-time control.
venturebeat.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
Amex GBT’s CISO Builds an AI-driven threat detection engine that slashes response latency linkedin.com/posts/louisc... #Cybersecurity #AIsecurity #MachineSpeed #CISO #ThreatManagement
Amex GBT puts AI at the center of SOC automation, threat modeling… | Louis C.
𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐱 𝐆𝐁𝐓’𝐬 𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐎 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 🥷 Adversaries are relentless in the pace at which they’re weaponizing AI and launching machine-to-machine at...
linkedin.com
April 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
Identity as the new perimeter: National Oilwell Varco’s approach to stopping the 79% of attacks that are malware-free #CISO #cybersecurity #zerotrust www.linkedin.com/posts/louisc...
Identity as the new perimeter: National Oilwell Varco’s approach to… | Louis C.
𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐢𝐥𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐂𝐈𝐎 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐜𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝟑𝟓𝐗   Cyber threats continue to evolve faster than legacy security platforms can respond, especially when 79% of attacks no...
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April 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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shadowserver.bsky.social
Attention!

Check your Compromised Website Report for critical events tagged “fortinet-compromised” and follow Fortinet's mitigation advice on compromised devices:

fortinet.com/blog/psirt-b...

Data available from 2025-04-11+

shadowserver.org/what-we-do/n...
April 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
Amex GBT puts AI at the center of SOC automation, threat modeling, incident response venturebeat.com/security/ame... $AXP #amexgbt #CISO #CyberSecurity
Amex GBT puts AI at the center of SOC automation, threat modeling, incident response
Amex GBT CISO David Levin is accelerating AI security, cutting false positives and speeding SOC response to anticipate and shut down threats.
venturebeat.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Louis Columbus looks at how easy it is to extract proprietary data and do crimes with weaponized large language models (LLMs).

@louiscolumbus.bsky.social
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Cisco: Fine-tuned LLMs are now threat multipliers—22x more likely to go rogue
Cisco warns LLMs fine-tuned for business are now being weaponized. Guardrails aren't failing. They're being engineered around.
venturebeat.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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tarynplumb.bsky.social
Devs and non-devs can use the cloud-based, Gemini-powered platform to build, launch, iterate and monitor apps, APIs, backends and frontends. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GoogleCloudNext

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Google introduces Firebase Studio, an end-to-end platform that builds custom apps in-browser, in minutes
Devs and non-devs can use the cloud-based, Gemini-powered platform to build, launch, iterate and monitor apps, APIs, backends and frontends.
venturebeat.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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joshkovensky.bsky.social
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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infosec.skyfleet.blue
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence vanishes
Oracle plays coy on reported Cloud, Health security breaches
: 1990s incident response in 2025
www.theregister.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
louiscolumbus.bsky.social
Gartner’s 1Q25 Cybersecurity Forecast: Where CISOs are betting big through 2029 www.linkedin.com/pulse/gartne... #AI, #CISO #CloudSecurity, #AIsecurity #ZeroTrust #CNAPP
March 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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pivotcon.bsky.social
We are excited to present our #PIVOTcon25 #Keynote speaker: Jackie Burns Koven! She is Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at @chainalysis.bsky.social where her team tracks the wallets of those who scam, steal, and extort for cryptocurrency 💰💸🦹
#CTI #ThreatIntel
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March 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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cybersecboardrm.bsky.social
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#cybersecurity #ChatGPT #LLMs #malware #infostealer
How do you get ChatGPT to create malware strong enough to breach Google's password manager? Just play pretend.
Cybersecurity researchers were able to bypass security features on ChatGPT by roleplaying with it, getting the bot to write password-stealing malware.
www.businessinsider.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM