This Week in Technology

This Week in Technology

By Eric Corcoran
Posted in Technology Week in Review
On September 04, 2026

Monday 8/31

Rethink Hybrid Identity: It Is Not the Destination (HYPR)

Hybrid identity persists not because modern workforces require it, but because many organizations continue to support legacy applications, legacy infrastructure, legacy authorization models, and operational processes that predate cloud computing. The continued existence of those dependencies should not be mistaken for validation of hybrid identity as a long-term strategy.

https://www.hypr.com/blog/rethink-hybrid-identity-it-is-not-the-destination

Tuesday 9/1

CIS Safeguard 13.5: Manage Access Control for Remote Assets

https://www.gothamtg.com/blog/cis-safeguard-135-manage-access-control-for-remote-assets

Wednesday 9/2

AI Governance Starts with Visibility (ControlUp)

Most IT teams can tell you which AI tools they’ve licensed. Far fewer can tell you which AI tools their employees are using, how heavily, whether those tools can access corporate data, or whether the two lists match. That gap is where the real risk lives: IT is increasingly accountable for AI usage it may not own, approve, or even know exists.

https://www.controlup.com/blog/ai-governance-starts-with-visibility/

A Practical Guide to Attack Surface Management (Arctic Wolf)

Prioritization is where ASM earns its keep. Instead of ranking by CVSS score alone, it combines exploitability signals with control coverage, misconfiguration data, and business context like asset criticality. The result is a short, defensible list of what to fix first, rather than tens of thousands of findings with no context.

https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/practical-guide-to-attack-surface-management/

How top financial services and insurance institutions are advancing security and productivity together in 2026 (Citrix)

Today’s FSI institutions operate across hybrid environments, support increasingly distributed workforces, and rely on a growing mix of traditional applications, SaaS platforms, browser-based workflows, and emerging AI-enabled tools. As complexity has increased, many organizations have realized that productivity and security now must be advanced together.

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2026/08/27/how-top-financial-services-and-insurance-institutions-are-advancing-security-and-productivity-together-in-2026/

Thursday 9/3

AI is finding the vulnerabilities already sitting in your environment at machine speed and machine scale. Attacks moving that quickly make every company worth attacking, regardless of size. The real advantage belongs to whoever can absorb what’s found fastest and stay standing after an attack.

Read the latest article from Ken Phelan below.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/faster-different-ken-phelan-dzi4c

Friday 9/4

Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS (Microsoft)

With Microsoft and AWS collaborating using the standardized Open API specification, customers can establish dedicated private connectivity through a simplified experience that abstracts the underlying complexity of multicloud networking.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-multicloud-interconnect-for-aws/

Mastering Capacity Analytics: How to Grow Infrastructure Without Guesswork (Cribl)

Capacity is not just CPU and RAM, either. A realistic plan may include storage IOPS, network throughput, cloud egress, software licensing, retention, compliance, recovery objectives, and workforce capacity. Infrastructure planning needs to account for compute, storage, network, licensing, and the people required to operate it.

https://cribl.io/blog/mastering-capacity-analytics/