AI Technical Debt: The Silent Cybersecurity Crisis

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

This morning Forcepoint has published its next post in its 2026 Future Insights series:“AI Technical Debt: The Silent Cybersecurity Crisis.” 

The piece argues that AI technical debt is rapidly becoming one of the most dangerous – and least recognized – drivers of data risk as enterprises accelerate AI adoption. Instead of being a pure engineering concern, Forcepoint notes that this “silent buildup” is already shaping the next wave of breaches.

A few quick takeaways that may be helpful for anything you are working on tied to this topic:

  • AI accelerates existing technical debt. Rushed integrations and legacy connectors quietly expand the attack surface as organizations adopt AI at speed.
  • Debt creates data blind spots. Misconfigurations, outdated connectors and incomplete governance leave sensitive data unclassified, overshared or exposed.
  • Traditional tools can’t see these risks. Many AI-related misconfigurations occur in places firewalls, SIEMs and endpoint tools don’t monitor.
  • DSPM is becoming essential. Continuous discovery, classification and posture management are emerging as the most effective controls for AI-era data risk.

This perspective can support pieces on:

  • AI and data security risk trends
  • The limits of traditional tools in cloud/SaaS environments
  • DSPM / DDR adoption
  • The role of technical debt behind recent breaches and misconfigurations
  • How CISOs are trying to keep AI innovation and governance aligned

You can read the post here:  https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/x-labs/ai-technical-debt

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MicroAge Appoints Larry Gentry as CEO

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

 MicroAge announced today that Larry Gentry has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Rob Zack, who will transition to Vice Chair and Chief Financial Officer to support the company’s continued growth.

Zack has led the organization through significant milestones, driving growth and completing strategic acquisitions, including cStor. Under his leadership, the company expanded its capabilities by building practices in security, AI, cloud, and services, positioning the company as a trusted technology partner. Zack will remain actively involved in shaping the company’s future, ensuring stability and continued growth.

Larry Gentry previously led the MicroAge advanced solutions and services strategy, delivering cybersecurity, infrastructure, and cloud solutions to clients across healthcare, manufacturing, government, education, retail, insurance, and utility industries. With more than 30 years of high-tech management experience, including executive leadership roles at cStor, Kroger, Kohl’s, and Shopko, Gentry brings proven expertise and vision that make him exceptionally qualified to lead MicroAge into its next chapter.

Additionally, MicroAge announced key leadership appointments to drive innovation and growth:

  • Tim McCulloch has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. He will be expanding his role by taking on the leadership of our advanced solutions and federal sales teams while continuing to oversee the solutions architecture team. With more than two decades of technology leadership, McCulloch brings a proven ability to drive IT strategies and foster innovation.
  • Alex Ryals has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer. His responsibilities now include leading the MicroAge Octem.ai and Services practice area, in addition to his continued oversight of the cybersecurity practice and information security strategy. With over 20 years of cybersecurity expertise, Ryals excels at strengthening IT strategy, delivering transformative solutions, and building strategic partnerships.
  • Travis Richards has been promoted to Vice President of Services. In this role, he will guide the growth and evolution of our services strategy into 2026 and beyond. With more than 30 years of experience in data center operations, cybersecurity, and service management, Richards has a proven track record of aligning technology strategies to business goals to drive client success.

These leadership updates reinforce MicroAge’s unwavering commitment to innovation and delivering transformative solutions that empower clients to thrive in an evolving technology landscape.

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SUSE Announces Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

In a significant expansion of their long-standing relationship, SUSE and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have extended their strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) to integrate SUSE’s enterprise open source solutions with Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock, delivering unified, cutting-edge infrastructure to be consumed directly on AWS. This new, multi-year agreement expands SUSE’s role, establishing an engineering foundation to significantly advance its capabilities in AI and public cloud technologies.

Strategic Expansion 

Cloud native architectures bring agility, scalability, and resilience, but the path to adoption is often mired in complexity. Customers face significant integration challenges, struggling to manage the various interconnected components required to build and operate modern applications.   

Driving Cloud and AI Innovation Together

The engineering foundation established by the SCA ensures that SUSE’s Enterprise Container Management and Business Critical Linux solutions are deeply integrated with core AWS AI services. This strategic alignment offers significant benefits including:

  • Cloud Integration to Drive AI Growth: This agreement represents SUSE’s continued development for cloud and is creating sustainable, high-growth revenue channels by structurally integrating with one of the world’s largest cloud providers to capitalize on AI growth.
  • Secure, Supported Cloud Journey: SUSE solutions on AWS offer customers the most robust, fully supported, and highly efficient path to secure their future roadmaps.  This collaboration places SUSE directly in the innovation pipeline on AWS, ensuring their foundational technology evolves in lockstep with the latest cloud and AI advancements.
  • Frictionless First Mile for Developers: Developers require ease of use, seamless integration, and instant access to new tools. A significant reduction in deployment friction and complexity allows the developer community to instantly access and utilize SUSE’s container and Linux technology alongside AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro fails safety tests across multiple harm categories: Cybernews

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

Cybernews has published new research evaluating popular LLMs. The findings show that Gemini 2.5 Pro was the most compliant when prompted to provide animal abuse methods, advice on stalking, and other questionable content.

Key points from the study:

  • Gemini 2.5 Pro performed worst on stereotypes, hate speech, animal abuse, cruelty, and stalking.
  • In the stereotypes category, fifty questions were asked and Gemini 2.5 Pro scored a total of 48 points; the second-worst performer, OpenAI’s GPT-5, scored five.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro was the most easily tricked into engaging in what Cybernews researchers defined as hateful speech.
  • The model produced the highest number of unsafe outputs on animal abuse and generated graphic and violent scenarios in the cruelty category.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro was the most vulnerable model in terms of producing unsafe output related to stalking.

Curiously, Gemini 2.5 Flash performed significantly better across many of the same categories.

For more information, here’s the full research: https://cybernews.com/security/google-gemini-pro-safety-problem/

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SUSE announces strategic collaboration with AWS & new cloud native features for Amazon Linux 

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

SUSE today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enrich the cloud native Linux experience for Amazon Linux.  As part of this agreement, SUSE delivers thousands of additional, enterprise-grade open source packages via the new Supplementary Packages for Amazon Linux (SPAL) service.  This expands the toolset available to customers already leveraging Amazon Linux for their applications.

Expanded Software Ecosystem and Innovation

The collaboration grants Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) immediate access to vetted open source packages, built on the foundation of the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. These packages are meticulously tailored for enterprise needs. This collaboration significantly broadens the functionality and customization available to Amazon Linux users, enabling rapid support for diverse and modern enterprise workloads. SUSE’s specialized expertise in repackaging, delivering, and securing these components lets customers focus on innovation rather than package maintenance.

Accelerated Time-to-Value and Cost Efficiency

The arrangement brings SUSE’s specialized expertise in maintaining, testing, and securing thousands of popular open source packages to AWS customers. Further, this lowers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improves operational agility when deploying complex enterprise software stacks.

Customers building external products and services on Amazon Linux 2023 can now leverage SUSE’s enterprise Linux capabilities alongside the trusted infrastructure on AWS. This is particularly valuable for clients targeting regulated markets or environments where stability and long-term viability are paramount, simplifying compliance and reducing risk.

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SEALSQ and WISeSat.Space Announce Successful Launch of WISeSat 3.0 With SpaceX

Posted in Commentary on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

SEALSQ Corp and WISeSat.Space AG today announced the successful launch of WISeSat 3.0 aboard a SpaceX mission.

WISeSat 3.0 is the first satellite to embed the SEALSQ Quantum RootKey, marking a significant advancement in the development of quantum-safe satellite communications and inaugurating a space-based proof-of-concept for Post-Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) designed to protect global digital infrastructure from future quantum threats.

To support its strategic roadmap, SEALSQ has invested $10 million in WISeSat.Space, strengthening its position as a strategic investor in the WISeSat satellite constellation. This investment accelerates the rollout of the satellite network, strengthens QKD capabilities, and enables the deployment of a scalable Satellite-as-a-Service model that integrates decentralized IoT transactions and post-quantum-secure communications. By 2027, WISeSat.Space aims to operate a large constellation embedding WISeKey cryptographic keys and SEALSQ’s post-quantum semiconductor technology to ensure sovereign and resilient quantum-resistant communications from space.

Earlier this month, SEALSQ’s parent company, WISeKey International Holding AG, WISeKey International Holding AG, a global leader in cybersecurity, digital identity, and IoT solutions platform, in association with Columbus Acquisition Corp, announced the signing of  a definitive business combination agreement to merge Columbus and WISeSat, creating a public company listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange named WISeSat.Space Holdings Corp.

At the heart of WISeSat 3.0 is the Quantum Shield QS7001 the first quantum resistant secure hardware platform designed to resist both classical and quantum cyberattacks. The satellite supports on-orbit generation and management of cryptographic keys, secure encryption and authentication processes, and the use of NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms such as CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium. By isolating cryptographic operations inside a tamper-resistant environment, the Quantum Shield QS7001 enables end-to-end secure space communications

WISeSat 3.0 aims at delivering secure command authentication, encrypted telemetry for Earth observation and defense missions, and quantum-safe key distribution for critical infrastructure sectors including energy, transportation, and smart cities. The satellite could also enable the secure onboarding of billions of IoT devices by providing quantum-resistant digital identities from orbit, extending trusted connectivity even to remote or underserved regions. Technologies from WISeKey, SEALSQ, and Hedera are progressively integrated across the WISeSat platform, allowing the constellation to serve as a benchmark for post-quantum security in space. This integration will further support the use of trusted digital tokens, including SEALCOIN, enabling secure space-to-ground transactions and tokenized satellite services.

WISeSat.Space has expanded its ground infrastructure with a dedicated satellite antenna in La Línea, Spain, and plans for an additional installation in Switzerland. This network enhances real-time monitoring, mission control, and the secure management of the growing satellite constellation. As the quantum era approaches, the need for secure space-based infrastructure becomes increasingly urgent. SEALSQ’s Post-Quantum security architecture provides immediate and resilient protection against key extraction, spoofing, and eavesdropping, offering secure key isolation, signature validation, and quantum-resilient encryption that ensures any attempt to intercept or manipulate communications is instantly detectable.

The WISeSat platform is also engineered to leverage the unique properties of space, including microgravity, to enable advancements in quantum sensing, unspoofable positioning and timing (PNT), secure deep-space exploration, and the in-orbit manufacturing of quantum components in pristine environments. These breakthroughs position WISeSat 3.0 as a strategically important asset at a time of rising geopolitical tensions and growing demand for sovereign, secure, and quantum-resistant digital infrastructure.

With this launch, SEALSQ and WISeSat are laying the foundation for a new generation of cyber-resilient, quantum-ready space systems, reinforcing the commitment of Europe and its allies to space sovereignty and secure digital transformation. Together, the companies are redefining global digital trust from orbit and enabling the secure communications backbone of the future.

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Minitap Raises $4.2M to Make Mobile Development 10x Faster with AI

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

Minitap today announced it has raised $4.1 million in seed funding co-led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri, with participation from EWOR, Tekton Ventures, Amigos Venture Capital, and six unicorn founders. The round comes just four months after founders Nico and Luc, both 23, achieved the #1 position globally on AndroidWorld, the industry benchmark for AI-controlled mobile devices, surpassing research teams from Google DeepMind, ByteDance, Microsoft Research, and Alibaba.

Mobile development is 10x slower than web development, even in the age of AI. While tools like Cursor and Claude enable web developers to ship features in 2 days that previously took 2 weeks, those same AI tools remain largely ineffective for mobile—unable to test on devices, iterate when things break, or verify features work across configurations. Minitap solves this bottleneck, enabling engineering teams to build mobile features in days, instead of the usual six weeks.

Nico and Luc met in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, a village in Burgundy, France. Nico had spent two years in military school; Luc was a child prodigy. Luc taught Nico how to code, and they studied together every day to rank in France’s top 0.1% academically. Seven years later, they’ve built every project side by side.

At 18, they created their first mobile app and bootstrapped Fuego to 10,000 users. Nico went on to study Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London and carry out AI research, obsessed with DeepMind’s AlphaGo documentary. Luc built delivery drone infrastructure at Rakuten. Together, they combined mobile development experience, AI research expertise, and infrastructure built at scale, a combination no research lab could match.

Minitap’s technical achievement centers on two innovations: mobile-use, an open-source framework that lets AI agents control phones like humans, and minitap cloud, infrastructure that instantly spins up any phone configuration – iOS or Android –  across thousands of devices in parallel. These tools connect to AI coding environments, enabling AI to write mobile code, test it on real devices, identify bugs, fix itself, and ship working features autonomously.

Within their first 40 days, Minitap claimed the #1 position on Google DeepMind’s AndroidWorld benchmark, the industry standard for measuring AI control of mobile devices. The founders then open-sourced their entire solution, advancing the field and growing their repository to 1,900 GitHub stars.

The funding round attracted a high concentration of unicorn founders and AI infrastructure experts: Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face, $4.5B valuation), Stefan Glanzer & Michael Breidenbrucker (Last.fm), Paul Muller (Adjust, >$1B exit), Petter Made (SumUp, $8B valuation), Daniel Krauss, Jochen Engert & André Schwämmlein (FlixBus, $3B valuation) and Saturnin Pugnet (Worldcoin). The round also includes operators from OpenAI, DeepMind, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.

Today, engineering teams at consumer mobile companies use Minitap to build features 10x faster. Minitap aims to enable growth teams to ship features without going through the engineering. A product manager describes a feature, provides a Figma design, and AI generates code, tests it, and ships an A/B test in one afternoon.

Longer term, the team plans to build mobile apps that optimize themselves autonomously, running experiments, analyzing user behavior, generating hypotheses, building variations, measuring results, and iterating—all without human intervention.

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SIOS Technology Achieves AWS Resilience Competency in the Design Category

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

SIOS Technology announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resilience Software Competency in the Design category. This specialization recognizes SIOS as an AWS Partner that provides validated solutions to help customers improve their critical systems availability and resilience posture using AWS Resilience Services. As each customer and their critical workloads have unique availability requirements, AWS Resilience Competency Partners provide tailored guidance and solutions to achieve the highest system uptime needs.

Complex systems are susceptible to a variety of failures, both small and large, throughout their lifespan, including code deployment issues, infrastructure problems, data and state failures, and natural disasters. As a result, organizations must plan for and expect system failures, and design their systems to withstand and recover from failures with minimal impact to end users. Remote teams, distributed systems, and frequent releases further highlight the need for increased resilience in today’s business environment.

Achieving the AWS Resilience Competency in the Design category differentiates SIOS as an AWS Partner that has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success supporting customers’ resilience goals. SIOS is equipped to handle resilience related application challenges, especially as expectations from customers shift towards an ‘always on, always available’ mindset. It’s important for organizations to expect and plan for system failures, and design workloads to recover from failure in a way that minimally impacts their end users. Additionally, when onboarding critical workloads to the cloud, such as online banking, stock-trading, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERPs) or online sales platforms, higher uptime requirements have become a minimal requirement. AWS Resilience Competency Partner SIOS provides professional consulting and engineering services that are validated by AWS experts in the design category. This standardized approach allows customers to achieve their resilience goals in the cloud with the expert assistance of AWS Resilience Competency Partners.

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, the AWS Competency Program helps customers identify AWS Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

SIOS high availability solutions are designed to protect mission-critical applications and databases in AWS environments. SIOS LifeKeeper provides intelligent application-aware failover clustering to automatically detect failures and recover applications and data in seconds, minimizing disruption and data loss. SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition delivers real-time, block-level data replication to ensure data integrity across AWS Availability Zones or Regions. Together, these solutions deliver the high availability, reliability, and flexibility required to meet the demanding uptime requirements of enterprise customers running workloads on AWS.

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Centreon Secures Strategic Investment from Sixth Street to Fuel the Growth of its Observability Platform     

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Centreon today announced a strategic partnership with Sixth Street, a global investment firm, to accelerate its development plan and support its ambition to establish Centreon as the leading European observability platform.

This milestone marks Centreon’s first-ever fundraising after years of sustained, self-financed growth. Bootstrapped since its founding, Centreon has achieved international scale and recognition while maintaining a disciplined and profitable growth model. The strategic partnership with Sixth Street represents a new phase of expansion and innovation designed to amplify Centreon’s next chapter and support the strategy and mission of the Centreon team.

This partnership comes on the heels of the recent launch of the Centreon Observability Platform, unveiled at last month’s Centreon Summit. The new platform unifies IT Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Management, and Digital Experience Monitoring into a modular, open observability solution.

With Sixth Street’s support, Centreon aims to accelerate its strategic roadmap through:

  • Product innovation, enhancing AI-driven automation, analytics, and full-stack observability;
  • International expansion, particularly across Europe and North America;
  • Selective acquisitions, to complement organic growth and broaden the company’s technology portfolio, and;
  • Ecosystem development, strengthening alliances with technology partners, MSPs, and integrators.

Centreon’s founders and management team retain board and capital control of the company, ensuring the continuity in its strategic vision, values, and commitment to openness, transparency, and customer proximity.

The partnership with Sixth Street strengthens this positioning — combining the agility of a European start-up with the backing of a global investor committed to long-term value creation.

Centreon was advised by Stifel (formerly Bryan Garnier & Co).

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Sumo Logic Expands Dojo AI to Transform Security Investigations with Expanded Agentic AI Capabilities

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 1, 2025 by itnerd

Sumo Logic today announced new advancements to Sumo Logic Dojo AI, its agentic AI platform for security operations. This expansion of Dojo AI introduces new agents, including SOC Analyst Agent, Knowledge Agent, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. These new agents help security teams reduce alert fatigue, accelerate investigations, and streamline security workflows, allowing customers to focus on real threats and respond more effectively. These innovations will be on display at AWS re:Invent 2025, at Sumo Logic’s booth #1329.

Modern security operations centers (SOCs) face a perfect storm of complexity: growing alert volumes, fragmented tools, and pressure to respond faster than ever. Dojo AI brings intelligence and control to this frantic environment, combining agentic AI, log intelligence, and secure model integration to transform how investigations are conducted.

Launched earlier this year, Dojo AI is Sumo Logic’s agentic AI system for Intelligent Security Operations. Within the Dojo, agents can ingest signals and develop context-aware responses. This continuous feedback ensures agents improve over time, become more resilient, and deliver higher-fidelity insights when deployed in production. Dojo AI is an enterprise-grade, agentic AI platform purpose-built for the modern SOC and gives security teams the ability to analyze the highest value security issues facing their organization at any given moment.

Sumo Logic Dojo AI New Capabilities

  • SOC Analyst Agent (Beta) — The SOC Analyst Agent applies agentic AI reasoning to streamline triage and investigation. It delivers verdicts on alert severity, collects related activity, and presents a clear context for analysts to quickly understand impact and scope. By filtering out noise and repetitive reviews, analysts can focus on real threats and potentially achieve faster, more consistent outcomes across teams.
  • Knowledge Agent — The Knowledge Agent provides immediate, AI-powered answers to “how-to” questions in natural language, reducing friction and accelerating onboarding. By asking Mobot — Dojo AI’s conversational interface — users receive straightforward, citable responses drawn from documentation and product knowledge, empowering efficient self-service and faster platform adoption.
  • Sumo Logic Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server (Prototype) — The Sumo Logic MCP Server extends Dojo AI into a connected, agentic ecosystem. It integrates customer-owned copilots, proprietary models, and third-party AI systems into the Dojo, allowing organizations to bring their own AI while maintaining Sumo Logic’s scale, consistency, and security. With unified access across integrated development environments (IDEs) and collaboration tools, customers can blend their unique AI innovation with Dojo AI’s operational intelligence to helpfuture-proof their SecOps strategy.

Availability

The SOC Analyst Agent and MCP server are currently available in beta and prototype to select customers, with general availability planned for 2026. The Knowledge Agent is available today within the Sumo Logic platform.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) identified Sumo Logic as a Top 100 AI ISV, and we’re proud to present at AWS re:Invent 2025. For demonstrations and customer briefings, please visit Sumo Logic at Booth #1329. You can also see Sumo Logic at events at re:Invent:

  • Scaling agent tools with AgentCore Gateway for enterprises, Mandalay Bay, Monday, Dec 1st, 11:30AM – 12:30PM PST
  • ISV Executive Forum on Agentic AI moderated by Carol Potts, The Venetian Theater, Monday, Dec 1st, 1:00PM – 6:30PM PST

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