Tech Updates is your quick-hit source for the latest in enterprise technology—all in 10 minutes or less. From cybersecurity and network connectivity to data center innovation, cloud advancements, and the rise of AI, we cover the updates that matter. Each episode delivers vendor announcements, industry trends, and agnostic insights to keep you informed and ahead of the curve. Whether you’re a tech professional or just tech-curious, this podcast is designed to fit into your busy schedule and fuel your knowledge.
Zero Trust in 2026 — 63% Adopted It, 10% Built It, You Still Can't Buy It
Zero trust is the best-selling security idea nobody actually owns. Adoption is near-universal in name. Maturity is a rounding error.
What you'll hear:
• What it actually is — NIST 800-207: assume breach, verify explicitly, least privilege, continuous verification
• The execution gap — <1% mature in 2023, ~10% projected for 2026, while 63% claim adoption
• What it stops and what walks around it — phishing-resistant MFA blocks 99%; Scattered Spider just called the help desk
• ZTNA vs VPN — per-app access vs the flat lateral-movement highway; SASE and SSE decoded
• The federal reality — the FY2024 mandate came and went; the Pentagon's on a harder track
• Zero-trust washing — why 'it's a journey, not a product' is the truest line in security
• Monday steps + exam — PDP/PEP, microsegmentation ≠ VLAN, passkeys first
— Andrés Sarmiento
#zerotrust #cybersecurity #ZTNA #SASE #networking #NetworkPlus #SecurityPlus #infosec #TechUpdates #microsegmentation
23 Sept 2026
Machine Identity: One Year Later — 109 Machines Per Human, 79 Are AI Agents
Remember Dave's service account from 2017? It's still there — and now it has 108 friends. 79 of them are AI agents nobody owns.
What you'll hear:
• The ratio grew — 45:1 became 80:1, 109:1, up to 144:1 in cloud-native shops (and why the spread is the story)
• The scariest stat — 64% of secrets leaked in 2022 were STILL live in January 2026
• 28.65M new secrets on public GitHub last year; AI coding assistants leak at 2x the baseline
• The breaches — ShinyHunters OAuth reuse (200+ orgs), Vercel, the npm worm; 3 NHI vendors acquired in 3 months
• The fix emerging — agent passports: Entra Agent ID, Okta for AI Agents, workload identity standards
• What works — inventory first (67% of NHIs are invisible to IAM), short-lived secrets, least privilege, human owners
— Andrés Sarmiento
#machineidentity #NHI #cybersecurity #IAM #secretsmanagement #identitysecurity #TechUpdates #infosec #AIagents #SecurityPlus
16 Sept 2026
The Cloud Security Engineer — $200K to Babysit the Robots (Special S05)
Machines outnumber humans in the cloud 25-to-1. Somebody has to secure that army. Special Series role #5: the Cloud Security Engineer.
What you'll hear:
• What the job actually is — posture management, IAM least-privilege, pipeline security, cloud detection
• The money — $85–125K entry, $166K mid, $201K senior, $300K+ staff at big tech; AWS Security Specialty averages $203K
• The catch — Gartner: 99% of cloud failures are the customer's fault; 3,000+ misconfigs at any moment
• The defining breach — Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens bypassing MFA into 700+ orgs
• How to get in — SysAdmin or SOC path; Security+ → AWS Security Specialty/AZ-500 → CCSP
• Hype vs reality — gold rush pitch, IAM-policy-hell reality; budget is now the #1 hiring blocker
— Andrés Sarmiento
#cloudsecurity #cybersecurity #AWS #Azure #cybersecurityjobs #CCSP #SecurityPlus #TechUpdates #infosec #cloudcomputing
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