Alan Shimel

Published On: September 11, 2026 TL;DR — Key Takeaways Technology can improve warning, coordination and response, but it cannot guarantee different outcomes.

Customise Consent Preferences Yesterday, I was about to begin work on a Techstrong cybersecurity special report when I noticed Astra had become available in my ChatGPT.

Customise Consent Preferences AI looks like software. You type a prompt, an answer appears and the machinery behind it disappears.

Published On: September 11, 2026 TL;DR — Key Takeaways AI infrastructure planning now depends on the entire Data Center Supply Chain, from power and cooling to networking, labor and commissioning.

AI leadership will not be decided only by who selects the best model. It will be decided by who can convert capital into productive capacity quickly, repeatedly and responsibly.

Published On: September 11, 2026 TL;DR — Key Takeaways Hybrid is no longer a temporary stage of cloud migration.

AI agents don’t need to “go rogue” to create serious security problems. Give them an objective, enough authority and a path you failed to constrain, and the architecture can do the rest. #AgenticAI #AISecurity #Cybersecurity #ZeroTrust #AIGovernance

Your newest privileged identity may not be human.With agent adoption far ahead of non-human identity strategy, security teams need to rethink credentials, auditability and least privilege for software that can act at machine speed. Alan Shimel examines the widening control gap.[ARTICLE LINK]#Cybersecurity #AgenticAI #IdentitySecurity #NHI

In July, an army of AI agents participating in an OpenAI cybersecurity evaluation did something they were never supposed to do. They found one another.

Customise Consent Preferences We keep asking whether an AI model can hack. That question is rapidly becoming too small.