Technology leadership is rarely about choosing between innovation and operational resilience. The real work is building the conditions for both. That idea was at the center of a recent CIO.com article by Mary K. Pratt on the strategic trade-offs CIOs are navigating today. I was grateful to be included in …
This guide walks through setting up the OpenClaw Voice Call plugin with Twilio, ngrok, and OpenAI realtime voice so your agent can place and receive phone calls. The basic architecture is: What You Need If you are using a Twilio trial account, Twilio may play a trial-account prompt before connecting …
What is OpenClaw? OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent framework that allows you to run a persistent, self-hosted AI assistant locally on your own hardware. Unlike traditional chatbots that only respond within a browser window, OpenClaw can interact with your operating system, manage files, execute commands, automate workflows, and integrate …
The rise in insider-driven breaches continues to be one of the most concerning trends in cybersecurity. This incident shared by Brian Krebs and reported by BleepingComputer is another reminder that even the strongest organizations (Crowdstrike) are vulnerable when trusted access is misused or compromised. These hacking groups are openly recruiting …
A good reminder that one unprotected laptop can unravel even a solid security program. The Nikkei incident wasn’t about Slack or MFA failing, it was a compromised personal device used to access corporate systems. If we allow access from devices we can’t secure, we’re not practicing Zero Trust…we’re hoping for …
As the pace of change increases, the role of the CIO continues to evolve. A recent article on CIO.com outlines nine critical project areas that are shaping the priorities of IT leaders today. I was pleased to be quoted in the piece and wanted to share a few reflections on …
Otsukaresama deshita, Team Woven! 🎉 What an incredible milestone for everyone who helped turn this bold vision into reality. Back in 2020, Woven City started as an ambitious dream — a futuristic city at the base of Mount Fuji. Today, it comes to life as a living testbed for the …
🚨 Agentic AI + Ransomware = The Next Cyber Threat Frontier 🚨 The rise of autonomous, goal-driven AI has massive implications for cybersecurity—and not in a good way. This eye-opening piece from KnowBe4 explores how Agentic AI could supercharge ransomware attacks, making them faster, smarter, and harder to stop. If …
It has been inspiring to watch the steady progress of Woven City, Toyota’s ambitious vision for a fully connected, human-centered city of the future. Today at CES in Las Vegas, Akio Toyoda reflected on the five-year journey since announcing this groundbreaking concept—a living testbed in Japan designed to push the …
What a fantastic way to kick off the week—attending the Cybersecurity Woman of the Year Awards ceremony at Fontainebleau. Black Hat, a premier cybersecurity conference, is taking place this week in Las Vegas, and the United Cybersecurity Alliance held an awards ceremony to celebrate women in cybersecurity leadership roles. It …
Amazing! The next few years are going to be incredibly exciting. We are only at the starting line of the AI revolution, and the way we work, learn, and solve problems is about to change permanently. The skills required for many jobs today will be very different in just a …
This is a great read for any startup leader wondering when to begin investing in their company’s IT organization. As the article points out, timing is everything. Decisions such as when to hire an IT leader, when to invest in enterprise systems, and what interim solutions to use are critical …
In case you missed it yesterday…Tesla announced that they are working on a #HumanoidRobot that uses vehicle AI. In this presentation, #ElonMusk said, “Tesla is arguably the world’s biggest robotics company.” An interesting choice of words. Musk continues on to say that he expects to have a prototype sometime next year. The race is …
Do you have a methodical innovator at the helm of your digital transformation effort? In a fantastic article written by Sri Manchala, Sri explains why methodical innovators succeed in digital transformations. Digital transformation is often portrayed as bold, disruptive, and fast. But in reality, the organizations that succeed are rarely …
