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By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/22 UniconOS Management Cloud: A simpler way to manage enterprise endpoints without infrastructure overhead (Citrix) Endpoint strategy should never be constrained by platform operations. With UniconOS Management Cloud, Citrix customers gain the freedom to decide where control truly matters – and where simplicity drives value. The choice of operating model is ultimately a choice about focus. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2026/06/12/uniconos-management-cloud-a-simpler-way-to-manage-enterprise-... read more.

• July 17, 2026

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Security

Last night I had the privilege of introducing Check Point's Dan Taney to a room full of New York CISOs. Preparing that introduction sent me down a memory lane that turned out to be less about nostalgia and more about strategy. I want to share some of it here, because the story of our oldest partnership says a lot about how Gotham thinks about technology — and about what's coming next. The Original Partnership Myself and the rest of the Gotham leadership were Check Point partners from the beginning.... read more.

• July 16, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In the Matrix, nobody gets in or out without going through the operator. Tank sits at that console controlling every phone line, every exit, every connection. When Neo needs access to a building, Tank gets him in. When Morpheus needs an exit, Tank finds it. There's no "I'll just slip through the back door on my own." The operator is the single authoritative system that knows who's plugged in, where they're going, and what they're doing, and that centralized control is exactly what makes the resistance funct... read more.

• July 14, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones doesn't wander into the Well of Souls hoping to stumble across the Ark of the Covenant. He has a map. More specifically, he has the headpiece of the Staff of Ra, the one piece of information that tells him exactly where to dig. Without it, Belloq and the Nazis spent weeks excavating the wrong location. They had resources, manpower, and determination. What they didn't have was accurate intelligence about the terrain. Your network is the Well of Souls. The question i... read more.

• July 07, 2026

By Joshua Joseph, Posted in Infrastructure, Security

Executive Summary Enterprise cloud environments spanning Azure, AWS, hybrid data centers, and SaaS platforms have outgrown legacy "full interception" network security models. Routing all traffic through centralized Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) for blanket inspection creates severe operational friction, inflates infrastructure costs, and introduces system bottlenecks. By transitioning from an indiscriminate "inspect everything" philosophy to a "context-aware traffic separation" model, an enterprise ca... read more.

• July 07, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In Mission: Impossible, Ethan Hunt's team never broadcasts mission details over open channels. Every transmission is encrypted, every agent is authenticated, and the briefing self-destructs after viewing. The IMF doesn't leave sensitive operational details lying around where anyone can intercept them, because they understand that the channel matters just as much as the message. Meanwhile, plenty of organizations are still managing their routers, switches, and firewalls over Telnet. That's the network equiv... read more.

• June 30, 2026

By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure, Virtualization

Citrix Platform Flex is one of the more meaningful changes we’ve seen in the platform in recent years, not because of new features, but because it changes how we think about delivering and consuming Citrix. At a high level, Platform Flex introduces a persona-based consumption model. Instead of assigning the same resources and licensing to every user, organizations can purchase a pool of capacity and allocate it based on what different users actually need Why It Matters Most environments today are s... read more.

• June 30, 2026

By Pablo Vidal, Posted in Security

I've been working in perimeter security for a while now, and if there's one thing that's always been true, it's that the work never really slows down. Between managing firewall policies, chasing down alerts, onboarding new services, and staying ahead of the threat landscape, there's always something on the list. And on platforms like Check Point, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks, the margin for error is about zero. What's changed lately, and I mean noticeably changed, is how AI has started fitting into tha... read more.

• June 30, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

Before Danny Ocean and his crew ever set foot inside the Bellagio, they spent weeks mapping it. Every zone. Every vault. Every access control point. Every camera blind spot. They understood the architecture better than the people who designed it, and that's exactly why they succeeded. Attackers do the same thing to your network. They map it. They probe segment boundaries. They look for flat areas where one compromised endpoint can reach everything else. They find the places where "least privilege" was the... read more.

• June 23, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/16 Ghost-Sender: Why Email Spoofing Still Works When Authentication Fails (Abnormal AI) Fraudulent messages could be delivered even when the spoofed domain had properly configured email authentication policies. The issue is the disconnect between authentication results and delivery behavior: the failure is visible in the mail flow, but the environment may still allow the message to reach the user. https://abnormal.ai/blog/ghost-sender-exchange-online-spoofing AI Agents Are Becoming Enterprise W... read more.

• June 19, 2026