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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, public speaker, #cybersecurity influencer, content consultant. Jogger, SUP paddler/surfer, Hawaiian musician/singer.
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FIRESIDE CHAT: Geopolitical turmoil, rising AI risk add a new layer to enterprise cyber defense

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By Byron Acohido 
| The Last Watchdog
By Byron V. Acohido As if securing the enterprise against a tidal wave of AI tools wasn’t hard enough, it turns out the geopolitical instability of the moment is making things worse. That wasn’t the headline at RSAC 2026 last week — agentic AI dominated the agenda — but the stress was visible at the ground level if you knew where to look. Sanjay Castelino, president of Skyhigh Security, knew where to look.
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Fireside Chat: AI agents are reshaping mobile attacks — and exposing weak API trust models

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By Byron Acohido 
| The Last Watchdog
By Byron V. Acohido SAN FRANCISCO — A new exposure is emerging in mobile security as AI begins to act on behalf of users — and attackers move to exploit that shift. In a Fireside Chat at RSAC 2026, Approov CEO Ted Miracco described how mobile apps are starting to hand control to AI agents that can carry out tasks such as placing orders or accessing services.
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FIRESIDE CHAT: AI gives rise to a semantic attack surface, forcing a new class of network defense

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By Byron Acohido 
| The Last Watchdog
By Byron V. Acohido SAN FRANCISCO — Enterprises rushing to deploy AI in their operations are opening a security exposure most of their existing tools were never designed to address. That’s the hard message coming out of RSAC 2026 — and it’s one worth sitting with. Jamison Utter, A10 Networks field CISO, draws a distinction that the industry tends to blur. The problem isn’t that AI has made familiar attacks faster or more powerful — though it has done that too.
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