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Ryan Bilak

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The model cheated. Four companies paid.

Jul 31, 2026

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3 min read

The model cheated. Four companies paid.

An AI escaped its test lab and used working credentials at four companies. Plus a Cisco zero-day.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
20 members are replacing vendors. No breaches.

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

20 members are replacing vendors. No breaches.

The trigger is response time, admin burden, and the renewal bill. Three of them are dropping the same tool.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: The $40B AI land grab

Jul 27, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: The $40B AI land grab

The largest data-center deal ever just closed. Plus an AD FS zero-day due Tuesday and AMD's shot at Nvidia.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
The breach hit the help desk, not the vault

Jul 24, 2026

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3 min read

The breach hit the help desk, not the vault

A Big Four firm lost client tax files through its IT help desk. Plus the Salesforce leak site and an AI deadline.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Your own AI agents are the new insider risk

Jul 22, 2026

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2 min read

Your own AI agents are the new insider risk

Ten member companies aren't policing employee AI. They're securing the agents they built themselves.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Patch FortiSandbox now

Jul 20, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: Patch FortiSandbox now

CISA flags a FortiSandbox flaw, an open-weights model narrows the gap with US labs, and AI agents get a regulator.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
The CMMC deadline moved. Your risk didn't.

Jul 17, 2026

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4 min read

The CMMC deadline moved. Your risk didn't.

The Pentagon paused CMMC Phase II. Every obligation that creates real legal exposure is still live.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
AI is reopening security decisions you'd settled

Jul 15, 2026

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2 min read

AI is reopening security decisions you'd settled

Members aren't adding AI tools. They're re-evaluating the MDR and access controls AI just broke.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Shut down ShareFile now

Jul 13, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: Shut down ShareFile now

Progress says pull ShareFile offline. The PeopleSoft breach wave hits Nissan and Aflac. Plus Google's agent OS.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
The security tool you just bought is next

Jul 10, 2026

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3 min read

The security tool you just bought is next

Record M&A means your point product may be a platform SKU by fall. Plus a Gitea auth bypass and SAP data play.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Same AI question from a library and a car lot

Jul 8, 2026

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2 min read

Same AI question from a library and a car lot

In 30 days, AI-governance asks came from a hospital, a law firm, a university, and a factory floor.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Your vendors move in

Jul 6, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: Your vendors move in

Microsoft is embedding 6,000 engineers inside customers. Plus a CVSS-10 RMM bug and Meta's new compute play.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
The third CitrixBleed just dropped

Jul 3, 2026

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3 min read

The third CitrixBleed just dropped

NetScaler's memory keeps leaking session tokens. Plus a SharePoint KEV deadline and record cyber M&A.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Your peers are re-shopping identity by name

Jul 1, 2026

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3 min read

Your peers are re-shopping identity by name

A Government CISO took a call with Strivacity. A software shop is outgrowing Entra. The driver is not people.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: The AI cliff just moved

Jun 29, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: The AI cliff just moved

Brussels quietly pushed the high-risk AI deadline. Plus: the SaaS app that breached 13 firms via Salesforce.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs to fund AI

Jun 26, 2026

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3 min read

Oracle cut 21,000 jobs to fund AI

A record quarter, 21,000 jobs gone, $553B in AI backlog. Plus: the SIEM that became the breach.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
AI writes your code now. Who secures it?

Jun 24, 2026

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3 min read

AI writes your code now. Who secures it?

Members already sanctioned Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code. Now they want the layer that secures the output.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Your Fortinet logins leaked

Jun 22, 2026

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2 min read

Week Ahead: Your Fortinet logins leaked

86,000 Fortinet logins are circulating, Accenture buys into OT security, and your AI agents now have credentials.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
SpaceX just bought your AI coding tool

Jun 19, 2026

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4 min read

SpaceX just bought your AI coding tool

SpaceX paid $60B for Cursor, pulling the top independent dev tool off the market. Plus Splunk and ServiceNow holes.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Your vendor questionnaire is already obsolete

Jun 17, 2026

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3 min read

Your vendor questionnaire is already obsolete

Five enterprise IT teams in four industries spent last month shopping for what replaces the annual vendor questionnaire.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Oracle Zero-Day Hits HR Data

Jun 15, 2026

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2 min read

Week Ahead: Oracle Zero-Day Hits HR Data

Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day hit 100+ orgs. Your AI estate may be ungoverned. And the CIO mandate just shifted.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Both your AI vendors filed S-1s

Jun 12, 2026

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3 min read

Both your AI vendors filed S-1s

OpenAI filed June 8. Anthropic June 1. Both in one week, plus a wormable kernel flaw and 52 days to EU enforcement.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
AI code ships. Who patches it?

Jun 10, 2026

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3 min read

AI code ships. Who patches it?

Three security leaders asked the same question this week: who auto-remediates AI-generated vulnerabilities at scale?

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Copilot lands on your fleet today

Jun 8, 2026

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2 min read

Copilot lands on your fleet today

Microsoft's AI app starts auto-installing on managed PCs today. Plus: Cl0p named 30+ ERP victims.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
HTTP/2 Bomb. AI found it first.

Jun 5, 2026

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4 min read

HTTP/2 Bomb. AI found it first.

Codex found a zero-day in your web server stack. IIS, Envoy, and Pingora aren't patched yet. Plus a White House AI EO.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
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