Articles In Technology Week in Review

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/17 Ransomware Didn’t Slow Down in Q2 2026. It Just Spread Out. (Check Point) In Q1, the top 10 groups controlled 71% of victims across just 71 active groups, a tight, top heavy market. By Q2, that eased to 57.6%, and active groups climbed to 93, the highest on record. https://blog.checkpoint.com/security/ransomware-didnt-slow-down-in-q2-2026-it-just-spread-out/ The AI You Can't See: Why Shadow AI Is a Visibility Problem, Not a Blocking Problem (Island) Most security teams believe they kn... read more.

• August 21, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/10 The hidden economics of healthcare IT: where cost accumulates (Citrix) Where time, accuracy, and continuity define care delivery, the cost of healthcare technology is a function of how it performs against the conditions the sector is operating under, not the conditions it was designed for a decade ago. https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2026/08/05/the-hidden-economics-of-healthcare-it-where-cost-accumulates/ Proactive Security Is No Longer Optional: Why Reactive Patching Can't Win Against Agentic... read more.

• August 14, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/3 Rethinking security for the age of AI (Microsoft) No single model will be optimal for every security task. Effective cyber defense requires applying the right model to the right problem at the right time. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/27/rethinking-security-for-the-age-of-ai/ It's Not the Model You absorb an AI-scale backlog by letting AI tell you which fraction of it forms a chain — and breaking the chain, sometimes with a compensating control, before a patch even exists. A... read more.

• August 07, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 7/27 Autopilot and the Intune Connector 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. https://www.gothamtg.com/blog/autopilot-and-the-intune-connector Microsoft Entra ID security updates: Passkeys are the default authentication method in Entra ID (Microsoft) Microsoft Entra ID is updati... read more.

• July 31, 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 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 Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/16 Ghost-Sender: Why Email Spoofing Still Works When Authentication Fails (Abnormal AI) Fraudulent messages could be delivered even when the spoofed domain had properly configured email authentication policies. The issue is the disconnect between authentication results and delivery behavior: the failure is visible in the mail flow, but the environment may still allow the message to reach the user. https://abnormal.ai/blog/ghost-sender-exchange-online-spoofing AI Agents Are Becoming Enterprise W... read more.

• June 19, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/8 Gotham Technology Group is proud to announce that we’ve been named Arctic Wolf's 2026 Northeast Partner of the Year. This is a tremendous honor and a testament to the trust our clients place in us every day. Thank you again to Arctic Wolf for your continued support and partnership. We look forward to building on this success together. Click the link below to read our full press release: https://www.gothamtg.com/gotham-news Shadow AI is already on your endpoints. Here’s what to do... read more.

• June 12, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/1 Monitor Claude with Rubrik Agent Cloud and the Claude Compliance API (Rubrik) Rubrik Agent Cloud integrates with the Claude Compliance API to help organizations monitor how Claude is used across the enterprise. Teams can see who is using Claude, review activity when needed, flag risky behavior, and use Rubrik SAGE to create natural-language policies that route alerts to their security tools. https://www.rubrik.com/blog/company/26/5/monitor-claude-with-rubrik-agent-cloud-and-the-claude-complian... read more.

• June 05, 2026

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Tuesday 5/26 CIS Safeguard 10.6: Centrally Manage Anti-Malware Software https://www.gothamtg.com/blog/cis-safeguard-106-centrally-manage-anti-malware-software How to Prevent Man-in-the-Middle Attacks (HYPR) Man-in-the-middle attacks are becoming increasingly common and increasingly difficult to prevent. Sophisticated phishing kits are readily available to purchase that include tools to launch man-in-the-middle attacks to steal MFA tokens. Remote workers on unsecured networks present a particularly soft... read more.

• May 29, 2026