Russell Smith

For years, cybersecurity teams have focused on keeping attackers out. But in today’s AI-driven environments, the bigger challenge may be understanding what’s happening after they get in. New research from ExtraHop shows that nearly half of organizations don’t detect attacks until after data has already been exfiltrated. Joining me today is Heath Mullins, Chief Evangelist at ExtraHop and former Forrester analyst, to discuss the challenges of security in the AI era. 👏 Sponsored by ⁠Cayosoft⁠.

User provisioning has evolved beyond simply creating Active Directory (AD) accounts. Modern IT teams must manage the entire identity lifecycle across Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, HR systems, on-premises directories, and cloud platforms. 🎬 Watch This Week in IT. As organizations adopt more applications and support increasingly distributed workforces, manually provisioning and deprovisioning users becomes inefficient and risky.

Microsoft is merging the consumer and commercial versions of Copilot into a single app but is your corporate data governance ready? At the same time, they’ve launched an AI security platform where autonomous agents hunt for your vulnerabilities around the clock, and published an AI containment framework that says, in black and white, if you let the AI decide when to ask a human, you’ve already lost control.