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Security Boulevard
Call Centers
IoT
Cisco News
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Become A Champion Of Digital Resilience
Future-Proof Your Networking Career: Mastering AIOps with Cisco
Zscaler News
Deception Technology: Indispensable Defense For Detecting Critical Cisco Asa/Ftd Exploitation
Session Recording & Ushered Access with Zscaler Privilege Remote Access (PRA)
Okta News
In this talk, you'll learn how to investigate and respond to the unique threats targeting these systems. You'll discover new methods for isolating attacks, gathering information, and getting to the root cause of an incident using AI defense tooling and LLM guardrails. Register
Security Boulevard
How Good Iam Support Bolsters Your Security Posture
What Are Non-Human Identities, and Why Do They Matter in Cybersecurity?...more
Can You Trust Your Cloud Security Measures?
What Are Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Why Are They Critical to Cloud Security?...more
Does Your NHI Strategy Deliver Value?
What Makes NHI Management a Must-Have for Your Business?...more
Top Vulnerability Management Tools For The Future
The Evolving Landscape of Vulnerability Management...more
Call Centers
Contact Center Pipeline: Top 5 Posts In September
Starting off our top 5 blog posts in September, Chris shows us how enterprise browsers improve your agents’ workflow, resulting in both happier agents and customers....more
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our October 2025 Issue
It is finally here.Customer Service Week arrives next week. Enjoy your celebrations. I...more
IoT
IoT Security Flounders Amid Churning Risk
The Internet of Things (IoT) has made everything more interconnected, but an important US government security initiative is stuck in limbo while threat actors step up attacks on everything from medical gear to printers....more
What IoT Connectivity Providers Need To Know In 2025
The connectivity revolution is here-but telcos face mounting challenges in delivering seamless, secure and globally compliant IoT solutions....more
This webinar and companion report will walk CIOs through the evolving risk landscape, from hidden vulnerabilities to adversarial threats, and outline practical approaches to securing both AI use and AI development. Learn the tools, teams, and techniques that enable organizations to embrace AI confidently, without sacrificing security. Register
Cisco News
Lessons From An AI-Assisted Content Migration
Discussion of AI is all around us, but in my experience, practical guidance rooted in specific use cases is surprisingly rare. After spending months deep in the weeds of a massive documentation migration with AI as my assistant, I’ve learned some hard-won lessons that I think others could benefit from....more
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Become A Champion Of Digital Resilience
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is here, and so are our tried-and-true offers to help you leap to the forefront of cyber tech....more
Future-Proof Your Networking Career: Mastering AIOps with Cisco
The landscape of network engineering is rapidly transforming, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept-it’s a present-day imperative. For networking professionals aiming to upskill and remain competitive, understanding and implementing AI Operations (AIOps) is crucial....more
Zscaler News
Deception Technology: Indispensable Defense For Detecting Critical Cisco Asa/Ftd Exploitation
Many cyber teams around the globe had a tough weekend dealing with the actively exploited Cisco ASA/FTD vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362....more
Session Recording & Ushered Access with Zscaler Privilege Remote Access (PRA)
Picture this: the vault is breached, alarms are blaring, and Ethan Hunt-the Mission Impossible hero-is diffusing chaos with split-second decisions. But after the dust settles, the question remains: who accessed the vault? What went wrong?...more
Okta News
Okta’s New Mission: Managing AI Agents For The Future Workforce
Managing and securing AI agents through identity management and governance is one of Okta’s primary missions, Okta Regional Chief Security Officer for the Americas Matt Immler told us last week at the Oktane 2025 conference in Las Vegas....more
As AI continues to explode and fundamentally change the cybersecurity landscape, CSA's leadership in defining security frameworks and assurance models for AI-as-a-Service is even more critical. Register
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Okta's pivot toward managing AI agents as a primary mision is a really strategic move. They're recognizing that the identity landscape is fundamentaly shifting from human users to agentic systems that need their own governance frameworks. Matt Immler's comments at Oktane 2025 about this being a primary focus suggest they're betting big on this transition. What's interesting is that managing AI agent identities isn't just applying the same IAM principles we use for humans. Agents don't have the same authorization patterns, they don't take vacations, they don't get promoted, and they can spawn thousands of instances in minutes. The traditional role-based access control models that Okta built its business on need serious rethinking for this use case. I'm curious whether Okta's architecture can actualy adapt to the ephemeral, high-volume nature of agent lifecycles or if this will require rebuilding significant parts of their platform. The competitors in this space like Descope and Keycard are building from scratch specifically for agents. That might give them an advantage over retrofitting existing systems.