Tyler Shields

Security technologist and recovering computer science nerd. Business strategist and entrepreneur. Accidental CMO and intentional investor!

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Starting to hire and retrain for new agent engineering roles for *internal* functions to help get more powerful agents working well on critical business processes. I expect this type of role to be a very big deal over time at Box and other companies.

It looks something like an internal FDE, whose job it is to wire up internal systems and get agents working with them effectively. The person will be extremely technical and capable of building secure, governed agents for internal workflows that connect to business systems (like Box, Salesforce, Workday, etc.), and codify workflows in skills.

In some cases this person may understand the business process well enough to do it fully, but in most cases I expect them to work with the business directly in an embedded fashion. Ironically, that may introduce another new role on the business side that is more akin to agent product management for internal processes. The key is that you need technical + process people that can span multiple teams or functions in an organization. It’s not about brining automation to a job, but bringing automation to a process.

This is going to be a very big trend in most companies going forward. Fun to watch the early innings of what this will look like.

[Tyler Shields @txs]

With the new limits on consumption from GitHub it's clear that token usage is the new version of compute costs. Consumption based pricing has taken over as the norm to match COGS and to ensure that scale doesn't result in value destruction due to negative unit economics.

[Permiso Security @permisosecurity]

Something has shifted with AI agents.

They now hold real credentials and real autonomy — but the ecosystems around them aren’t built for that yet.

New episode of Ahl About Identity on OpenClaw & agent risk:

🎧 https://t.co/1ouV2TIrOE

[Permiso Security @permisosecurity]

Our CTO, Ian Ahl, unleashed an AI agent to hunt threats in the OpenClaw ecosystem. It found active threats in minutes. Malicious “skills” were stealing API tokens + OAuth creds. Agents are becoming sysadmins, but security hasn’t caught up. Full research: https://t.co/3upEYM1ZZ3

[Tyler Shields @txs]

@SteveGreenwald @mattjay @haroonmeer Thanks Steve! I hope to start up again. I'm also considering firing up The Cyber Why again as well. I miss taking the time to have random musings and sharing for healthy debate.

[Tyler Shields @txs]

Maybe I'll try getting back into this twitter thing. Is there still some semblance of a smart group of people to openly chat and debate with around here? I know I saw @mattjay and @haroonmeer posting recently so I'm holding out hope!

[Averlon @Averlon_ai]

📘 New research from Enterprise Strategy Group (@esg_global), part of @OmdiaCyber, Automating Risk Reduction in the AI Era

400 security leaders share how AI is reshaping exposure management and driving faster remediation across hybrid and cloud environments.

Kudos to Tyler Shields (@txs) for leading this important study. Averlon is proud to have supported research that sheds light on how AI is accelerating risk reduction in practice.

Security teams are moving beyond detection to action, turning insights into measurable risk reduction.

Explore the full report and Averlon’s new Whitepapers & Reports Hub for more on AI-driven security and remediation.

🔗 https://t.co/J07VVsrhed

#Cybersecurity #AI #RemediationOps #ExposureManagement #Averlon

[Tyler Shields @txs]

@mattjay @MattJay what's the diff between "security is an arms race" and "speed is key"? IMO those are two sides of the same coin. I agree a structured reduction of risk is the best course of action, however response and reaction speed requires and an arms race mentality to win. AI=speed

[Tyler Shields @txs]

Inspirational quote of the day: "My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy." -- George Eliot

[Tyler Shields @txs]

.@paulg and @garrytan need to step out of the Silicon Valley tech bro bubble and take a more centered view of business reality. Founder mode and this recommendation are both laughable.

[Tyler Shields @txs]

This might be one of the most arrogant and narrow-minded threads in startup land that I've read in a while. They claim that there is no need to understand or study business; you can learn it on the fly. Why wouldn't you want to study and learn both? It takes both skills!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@garrytan I spoke recently at the entrepreneurship club at a high school. I couldn't quite say it openly, but I wanted to tell them they should all just be in the programming club instead.

[Tyler Shields @txs]

At @zscaler Zenith Live event today. CEO Jay Chaudhry speaking about AI, Agents, and Zero Trust in health care with Ryan Winn CISO at Advent Health.

[Tyler Shields @txs]

Check out my latest article: The Wiz March to Market Dominance https://t.co/iY93FmbSWF via @LinkedIn

[Tyler Shields @txs]

If you ever want to see what I'm reading and what interests me, just check out my "The Cyber Why - What I've Been Reading Page" https://t.co/8yjie6xRiC. Comment if you find it interesting or learn something!

[Tyler Shields @txs]

Interesting article from @DanielMiessler https://t.co/Zoz8qicpsh. It gave me pause and caused significant introspection about the future state of "work". The end outcome should be a price decrease in all goods and services, resulting in considerable abundance. #deepthoughts

[Tyler Shields @txs]

@SteveGreenwald Could have been even more fun :)

[Tyler Shields @txs]

Well I guess this settles everything... or does it

A Philosophical Conversation on AI (with AI)

https://t.co/7YwNoXfwpa

[Tyler Shields @txs]

@SteveGreenwald Absolutely no value. But fun to have none the less. The prompts prove nothing and sadly I suppose sarcasm doesn't translate to Twitter messages.

[Tyler Shields @txs]

Check out my latest article: WTF is VIBE Coding?! https://t.co/OqsT6KqEDA via @LinkedIn

[Tyler Shields @txs]

Literally laughing all the way to the bank!

[Mike Privette @mikepsecuritee]

The business watching the CISO sign off on the risk acceptance