James Maguire

I spoke with Phong Le, CEO at MicroStrategy, about how the new combination of generative AI and business intelligence can produce a powerful new solution. Certainly some industry observers see these two technologies as an unusual marriage. Business intelligence has a long legacy as a steady platform to rely on for critical data analysis. Major […]

I spoke with Kevin Weiss, CEO of Sectigo about the major trends driving today’s certificate lifecycle management (CLM) market, including the pressing need for certificate automation as these digital assets proliferate. Sectigo issues certificates that enable customers to encrypt traffic between websites and users, among other purposes. “So we not only issued 255 million certificates […]

I spoke with Paul Reid, Global Head of Threat Intelligence at OpenText, about strategies for thwarting cyberattacks that are highly coordinated and use sophisticated technologies. The problem with today’s rapid tech innovation, of course, is that hackers also benefit from the advances. “As we’ve seen companies move to the cloud, leverage supply chains more, and […]

I spoke with Brandon Hoffman, Chief Strategy Officer at Intel 471, about the challenges and advantages of operationalizing threat intelligence. A core focus for Intel 471 is providing threat intelligence. “We’re specifically focused on closed sourced, or what some people call ‘dark web threat intelligence,’ which means it’s not so easy to get,” Hoffman said. […]

I spoke with Patrick Harding, Chief Product Architect at Ping Identity, about how companies can prevent identity fraud in today’s AI-driven enterprise environment. As an identity and access management vendor, Ping Identity focuses on providing authentication, verification, and authorization technologies to enterprises for both their workforce and their customers. As Harding explained, the need for […]

I spoke with Barry Mainz, CEO of Forescout, about the key trends impacting security in operational technology (OT), which is the process of using hardware and software to monitor and control industrial equipment. OT primarily interacts with the physical world, in contrast with IT deployments that focus on the software stack. A core part of […]

I spoke with Theresa Lanowitz, Chief Evangelist at LevelBlue, about a new report on cybersecurity trends, including statistics about DDoS attacks, changes to security budgets, and the role of generative AI. The report reveals that today’s companies value innovation regardless of the challenges it poses. “As we innovate more, as we start to bring on […]

On Tuesday, May 14th at 11 AM PST, eWeek will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be Optimizing Generative AI, and it will be moderated by James Maguire, eWEEK’s Editor-in-Chief. In this TweetChat, held on the X platform, experts will share practical advice about how business users can derive the most competitive advantage from […]

I spoke with Anna Pobletts, Engineering Director at 1Password, about the advantages of passkey technology, and the possibility that cybersecurity will evolve past the challenges of traditional passwords. The issue, as Pobletts explains, is that legacy password technology relies too much on users for security – and we’ve seen the many problems with this. In […]

Certainly there is massive hype about AI and its potential, and this excitement is as prevalent in cybersecurity as in any tech sector. The attitude among companies almost seems to be: sprinkle some AI magic on the network and – voila! – the perimeter is suddenly well protected. In contrast, SentinelOne’s Gregor Stewart takes a […]