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The news is full of agentic horror stories, of escaping sandboxes, and finding ways around guardrails. This is raising a persistent worry among security professionals: As agents proliferate in the enterprise, companies are struggling to find ways to keep them under control. Even as this is happening, they also need
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When I was at SailPoint Navigate earlier this month I learned a lot about the importance of identity in controlling agents. Agents have the unique ability to take on different identities as they move through a complex process and encounter other systems and agents, each with a different set of
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Earlier this year, Salesforce announced Headless 360, its way of providing back-end access to the data on the platform without requiring a front-end. The company reiterated this position at Dreamforce last month. I wrote about it here and here. But Salesforce is not alone in recognizing that the
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Imagine you're a manager who has a tough conversation with an employee coming up. You're not great at confrontation and you have to tell this person that they're not getting the promotion they've been angling for. How do you practice such a
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There is an expectation out there, due in large part to the hype around AI, that companies are rolling it out widely and seeing meaningful results. Yet research suggests that most organizations still struggle to scale AI projects beyond pockets of success. At a panel at HumanX in Amsterdam last
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Harness isn't just a company creating tools to help developers ship code faster and safer, it's also creating software itself, and AI coding is changing the way it thinks about product roadmaps as a concept. Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO of the company, appeared recently on
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When Harness launched in 2017, it was a different world. Developers wrote code in those days and Harness was designed from the beginning to help build, test and release that code faster. While it's still focused on that, AI agents are producing more code much faster and the
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Cisco acquires a lot of startups as part of its overall acquisition strategy. One of the issues any large company faces when buying younger companies is how to preserve the core innovation that makes that company worth buying in the first place. During our interview on FastForward on PPN last
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Editor's Note: This is Part 2 of How AI is Changing Enterprise Security, a three-part video interview with Swamy Kocherlakota, executive vice president, agentic AI startup at Zscaler, produced jointly by Zscaler and FastForward. This installment looks at Making sense of AI agents. As agents proliferate in
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Editor's Note: This is Part 1 of How AI is Changing Enterprise Security, a three-part video interview with Swamy Kocherlakota, executive vice president, agentic AI startup at Zscaler, produced jointly by Zscaler and FastForward. This installment looks at Building for an AI world. Swamy Kocherlakota joined Zscaler
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Back in 2021 when money was still cheap and interest rates were low, companies weren't all that concerned with controlling cloud costs, but as the economy worsened in subsequent years and interest rates rose, management became more interested in finding ways to save money. Enter FinOps tools, which
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You've probably heard about how many big company AI executives have been preaching gloom and doom when it comes to AI replacing jobs, but not everyone feels that way. Box CEO Aaron Levie thinks the math actually works in the favor of workers, and not just because it&