Last year I attended a large supply chain conference with several thousand people in attendance. Shippers, brokers, carriers, warehousing technology, insurance and consulting agencies were all well represented. While walking down a long corridor en route to the expo hall, a gentleman stopped me, and pulled me into a side…
“AI, Digitization, and Risk: Securing the Next Wave of Infrastructure Transformation” is the planned and strategic integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced digital technologies into our current physical and digital infrastructure such as energy grids, transportation, water, data centers, and communication networks. It is a well-thought out comprehensive…
The development of artificial intelligence is entering a new phase, increasingly characterized by the term “agentic artificial intelligence” (agentic AI). Unlike traditional AI systems, which function primarily as tools that respond to individual user inputs, agentic AI systems have the ability to autonomously plan, make decisions, and perform complex tasks…
How security and networking convergence is reshaping the modern enterprise, and what business and technical leaders need to know to cut through the noise. The Perimeter Didn’t Move. It Dissolved For most of the last three decades, enterprise security was an exercise in defending a known boundary. Users sat in…
Agentic AI is the talk of the town. Everywhere you look, startups and research labs are racing to build systems that don’t just respond to prompts but act independently, learn from their environment, and pursue complex goals. This new generation of AI promises autonomy, decision-making, and even initiative. It’s thrilling…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved rapidly from innovation labs to the center of business strategy. Across industries, organizations are investing in automation, generative AI, predictive analytics, and intelligent customer experiences to improve efficiency, competitiveness, and scalability. The pressure is understandable. Organizations want to know how AI can improve operations, reduce…
What do you do about an employee you never hired, never interviewed, never trained, and never gave a contract to, but who quietly has access to your customer data, your internal chats, your finance folder, and the authority to act on your behalf? This is not a thought experiment. It…
My phone rang at three in the morning. The voice on the other end was that of someone who had not slept, and for the right reasons: ransomware, live and spreading. Even though the dashboard was green the day before—and technically still was when the call started, since no one…
At a recent closed session in Geneva, a minister from a Global South economy said something I have not been able to shake. We were talking about AI adoption curves, sovereign cloud, and the usual agenda. He said, almost in passing, “We are buying tomorrow’s risks with today’s enthusiasm, and…
Auditing is one of the oldest professions. It was preceded by accounting which was born out of the need to keep records beyond the capacity of human memory. The need to keep records necessitated verification, which gave rise to the auditing profession. Management system (MS) auditing officially began with the…
