CXO Security Insights

Leading the AI Revolution: What CIOs and CISOs Must Act on Now

Operationalizing, Shadow AI, Moving Beyond Demos
Over the past year, I’ve attended countless sessions about AI—especially those that hover around cybersecurity. I sat through one this week, and thought I would distill the key non-vendor-speak points for those of you who are interested.

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Is AI Quietly Rewriting Human Behavior?

While most enterprise leaders are fixated on AI’s return on investment and technical scalability, they’re missing a critical—perhaps defining—third pillar: behavior. Over the past year, through hundreds of conversations at CxO Security Forum events, interviews with enterprise tech executives, and observations from industry briefings, one theme has become clear: AI is not just transforming workflows. It is reshaping how humans

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Fixing Enterprise Tech Negotiations

Smarter Strategies for CIOs, CISOs, and Procurement to Know Before the Next Renewal

I have long been saying that the way in which enterprise solutions (in general, but cybersecurity in specific) are sold/marketed and evaluated/purchased has been materially broken for a long time. A big part of that is building mutual respect between buyers and sellers.

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AI for the Underserved: Building Bridges, Not Just Models

One of the more meaningful sessions I attended this week at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum in Brooklyn focused not on the flashiest AI capabilities, but on the real-world transformation happening in America’s safety net hospitals and health centers.

While Solution Providers have outstanding offerings showcased at the conference, many of them are costly. Large hospital systems and other

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Agentic AI in Healthcare: A Look into the Future (and the Friction Points)

Reflections from the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum today in Brooklyn

TODAY at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum , I had the opportunity to sit in on one of the more thought-provoking discussions of the event: The Future of Healthcare with Agentic AI. The conversation, led by executives from NYU Langone, Hyland, Soothien HealthTech, and MATTER, tackled a key

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AI in the SOC: Are We Really Ready for Autonomy?

At this year’s Gartner Security Summit, Kevin Schmidt delivered one of the more grounded takes on AI and automation in cybersecurity ops.

Instead of chasing the “autonomous SOC” fantasy, he laid out a realistic, phased approach.

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