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By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne is a CIA operative, one of their best. But the moment he goes off the grid and stops authenticating through official CIA channels, something critical happens: the CIA loses the ability to support him, track him, or protect the mission. They can't help what they can't see. Resources dry up. Oversight vanishes. The whole operational picture breaks down because one asset is running without accountability to the infrastructure designed to support, and protect, him. Your rem... read more.

• July 28, 2026

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure, Support

Microsoft Autopilot is a cloud-based solution that is used to provision new Windows devices and provides an alternative to the older imaging technology. When coupled with Intune, Autopilot enables vendors to drop-ship new machines directly to end users. The user then initiates an out-of-box provisioning experience by powering on the device, connecting it to the network, and signing in with their Entra ID credentials. Autopilot facilitates the build and performs an Entra join, or hybrid join, and enables an... read more.

• July 27, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 7/20 End user experience monitoring for Windows 365 and AVD (tools and best practices) (Nerdio) That gap between "something is slow" and "here's the root cause" is what end user experience monitoring exists to close. The gap stays wide when your two cloud desktop paths live in separate consoles and share no common dashboard. https://getnerdio.com/blog/end-user-experience-monitoring/ Why AI Governance Without Guardrails Is Theater (CrowdStrike) As AI technology rapidly changes, AI governance beco... read more.

• July 24, 2026

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure, Support

Modern mobile device management solutions like Microsoft Intune are becoming more popular because they allow people to use their personal iPhones or iPads to access organizational data while giving the organization a controlled way to protect its assets on those devices. For bring-your-own-device scenarios, the goal is not to take over the user’s phone. Instead, Intune helps create a practical balance: users keep personal privacy and familiar device ownership, while IT can apply the right level of man... read more.

• July 23, 2026

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Infrastructure

Everyone wants to talk about AI. Nobody wants to talk about the thing that's going to determine whether AI pays off: your data. Here's the uncomfortable truth I keep running into with clients. The models are fine. The models are, frankly, astonishing. If your AI initiative fails, it almost certainly won't be because the model wasn't smart enough. It will be because the model couldn't get to your data, or because getting it there cost more than the value it created. The Access Problem We spent the last fi... read more.

• July 22, 2026

By Steve Gold, Posted in Security

In The Imitation Game, the German military was completely confident in Enigma. Every message encrypted. Every transmission is “secure”. The whole operation ran on the assumption that the protocol was unbreakable, right up until Alan Turing and the team at Bletchley Park cracked it wide open. The flaw wasn't in the operators. It was in the protocol itself, and the senders had no idea. WEP was the Enigma of Wi-Fi security. And a lot of networks are still running its spiritual successors. What Is... read more.

• July 21, 2026

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