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[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

Open source is becoming central to how the AI stack is built and governed.

@ashimmy speaks with Duane O'Brien, Executive Director of the @OpenSourceOrg, about OSI’s role in defining open source since 1998 and why that work now extends into AI. The conversation covers OSI-approved licenses, the Open Source AI Definition, policy, education, and why AI systems require new thinking around openness.

▶️ Watch the full discussion: https://t.co/e7lnofUaln

#OpenSource #AI #OSI #AIGovernance #TechstrongTV

[OpenHands @OpenHandsDev]

We loved chatting w/ @ashimmy on #TechstrongTV 📺

Our CEO & Co-Founder @rbren_dev sat down to discuss the importance of #opensource, where we draw the line in terms of monetization, and the overall vision for the OpenHands platform & community ⭐

Full interview here:

https://t.co/akpRecF1FO

[alan shimel @ashimmy]

Obviously the #NBA wants Wemby to be the face of the league and the refs are there to make sure of it. Stealing the game from the get go. #Knicks #fixisin

[TechstrongSemi @Techstrong_Semi]

Welcome to @Techstrong_Semi, the newest destination for semiconductor news, analysis, and insight.

Visit https://t.co/iYcECgZ1e4 and read @danielnewmanUV's intro article: https://t.co/MaoxBWm3qE

Official launch starts next Monday on #TechstrongGang.

[Doug Merritt @douglasmerritt]

Cloud security needs to get back to first principles.

Cloud environments have become harder to reason about: more workloads, more identities, more connections, and more ways for an attacker to move once inside.

Prevention and detection still have a role, but they are not enough on their own. If everything can still talk to everything else, the blast radius is already too big.

Containment gives teams a way to limit movement before an incident becomes much larger.

I talked more about this on @TechstrongTV with @ashimmy: https://t.co/4pWd2aJtZy

[Pinecone @pinecone]

Connecting agents directly to Snowflake, Slack, or BigQuery via MCP/CLIs is a multi-token disaster.

They default to brute-force exploration, firing 20-30 tool calls just to rediscover context on every single task.

❌ Naive Approach: LLM acts as its own data crawler. Result: Crazy token burn, compounding latency, and brittle execution.
✅ Pinecone Nexus Approach: Shift the work upfront. De-couple the Reasoning Engine from a dedicated Knowledge Engine.

We built Nexus to transform raw enterprise data into task-optimized artifacts before the agent fires a tool call. The engineering impact? Up to 90% fewer tokens and 30x faster time-to-completion.

Our VP of Product Jeff Zhu breaks down the agentic anti-pattern with @ashimmy on @TechstrongTV: https://t.co/w4BPNbtMLp

Deploy production-grade knowledge infrastructure for agents: https://t.co/aRDachMP5W

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

Resilience, control, and sovereignty are moving to the center of enterprise strategy.

Margaret Dawson of @SUSE joins @ashimmy to preview SUSE Con 2026 and explain how this year’s theme, “Shaping Your Resilient Future,” reflects growing demands around security, flexibility, and operational control amid AI disruption, cyber risk, and geopolitical pressure.

The conversation also covers SUSE’s composable architecture, digital sovereignty, edge strategy, and upcoming AI announcements.

▶️ Watch: https://t.co/OiFG5GXiwz

#SUSECon #EnterpriseIT #AI

[alan shimel @ashimmy]

Massachusetts just ruled Section 230 doesn’t protect a platform’s own harmful design — only user content. Who’s liable when the design is the product? 🤔

We don’t just report the news; we tell you what it means.

Techstrong Brief - LinkedIn Edition https://t.co/MdS50UDaWM

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

At RSAC 2026, @ashimmy spoke with Greg Clark of @OpenText about the governance gap in agentic AI and Ponemon findings showing compliance challenges are slowing adoption.

▶️ Watch: https://t.co/ToENogS7do

#AI #AIGovernance #Cybersecurity

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

At RSAC 2026, @ashimmy spoke with @aamirlakhani of @Fortinet about zero time to exploit attacks and why defensive AI is becoming essential against AI-driven threats.

▶️ Watch: https://t.co/NDlpnLm97y

#AI #Cybersecurity #ThreatIntelligence

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

At RSAC 2026, @ashimmy spoke with @eyalbd1 of @IRONSCALES about Phishing 3.0, AI-powered attacks, and why defenders need advanced AI to counter a new generation of breaches that compromise trust.

▶️ Watch: https://t.co/0Hbguo7Ok7

#AI #Cybersecurity #Phishing

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

Executive protection is becoming a critical part of cybersecurity.

At RSAC 2026, @ashimmy spoke with @DrChrisPierson of @BlackCloakCyber about AI deepfakes, impersonation attacks, and protecting high-value targets.

▶️ Watch: https://t.co/DDXGK6Wch7

#Cybersecurity #AI #Deepfakes

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

Agentic AI adoption is creating new security blind spots across the enterprise.

@ashimmy spoke with Amir Khayat, Co-founder and CEO of @VorlonSecurity, about the growing risk of data exfiltration in agentic AI ecosystems and why visibility into OAuth tokens, third-party integrations, and workflows is becoming critical.

▶️ Watch: https://t.co/TubQjpJNW3

#AI #Cybersecurity #AgenticAI

[TrustCloud @TrustCloudAI]

Our CEO @sravish sat down with @ashimmy at @TechstrongTV to talk about how AI is fundamentally reshaping governance, risk, and compliance — moving it from manual, "check-the-box" work to a continuous, automated engine that ties directly to business outcomes.

GRC has long been treated as a necessary evil, a cost center that slows teams down and rarely shows up on a revenue slide.

That's changing.

A few things they dug into:
→ Why CISOs are finally able to quantify the ROI of security
→ How continuous control monitoring replaces point-in-time audits
→ What it looks like when compliance becomes a trust-building, revenue-driving asset, not a liability

The organizations winning right now aren't the ones doing more compliance. They're the ones doing smarter compliance.

Full interview here: https://t.co/3D6y3c0wVu

@TrustCloudAI #GRC #Cybersecurity #AI #Security #Trust #CISO

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

AI-generated code is changing where application security teams need to focus.

At RSAC 2026, @ashimmy spoke with @StackHawk co-founders @joniklippert and @sgerlach about how the AppSec bottleneck has shifted from finding vulnerabilities to fixing them fast enough to keep pace with modern development. As code volume grows, the discussion centered on why auto-remediation inside the IDE is becoming increasingly important.

They also explored how agentic testing can help engineering teams verify and remediate flaws without slowing the CI/CD pipeline.

▶️ Watch the full discussion: https://t.co/d0SGWcSmLx

#AppSec #AI #DevSecOps #SecureCoding #CI_CD

[Techstrong TV @TechstrongTV]

Security operations teams are under pressure to move faster while managing fragmented data and increasingly complex workflows.

At RSAC 2026, @ashimmy spoke with @IamKKannan, CEO and Co-Founder of @Anvilogic_AISOC, about how the company’s new Blueprints release uses agentic AI to turn security knowledge into automated investigative playbooks.

The conversation also explored how a data-agnostic approach can help teams detect, hunt, and remediate threats more efficiently across modern security environments.

▶️ Watch the full discussion: https://t.co/HlYbwegJK3

#Cybersecurity #SecurityOperations #AI #ThreatDetection #RSAC

[alan shimel @ashimmy]

THE TECHSTRONG BRIEF — LINKEDIN EDITION

The cyber arms race is over and offense won the code layer. But attackers are operationally lazy — their post-exploitation sequences are repeatable. Is behavioral detection the asymmetric advantage defenders have been ignoring? 🤔

We tackle this in today's Techstrong Brief. We don’t just report the news; we tell you what it means.

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Share your thoughts below, and read our take.

#Cybersecurity #AI #ZeroTrust #ThreatDetection #TheTechstrongBrief

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[alan shimel @ashimmy]

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[alan shimel @ashimmy]

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[alan shimel @ashimmy]

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