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The first time I helped support a control server recovery at a packaging facility, someone asked "How long will this take?" We did not have a good answer. The backup existed. The process to restore it safely in a live production environment did not. We had carried IT assumptions into an OT problem, and it cost the plant an entire shift. IT/OT convergence created a gap that most backup vendors were not built to close. Production systems need continuous uptime.

As cyberattacks on industrial systems escalate and supply chains grow more complex, cyber resilience for operational technology (OT) isn’t optional — it’s a business imperative. But with budgets under pressure and resources stretched thin, many manufacturers are left pondering a difficult question: How can we strengthen OT defenses without incurring downtime or breaking the bank? Virtual conference OT resilience.

Note: The core architecture for this pattern was introduced by Isaac Hawley from Tigera. If you are building an AI agent that relies on tool calling, complex routing, or the Model Context Protocol (MCP), you’re not just building a chatbot anymore. You are building an autonomous system with access to your internal APIs. With that power comes a massive security and governance headache, and AI agent security testing is where most teams hit a wall.

Another SaaS integration for the books! Incidents can now be automatically generated in the portal from email addresses in ProofPoint alerts. These are then linked to portal users, as well as any devices those users are logged in to.

Engineering teams face a dual mandate: ship high-quality features faster and keep the underlying infrastructure secure. As development velocity increases, so does the complexity of the tools, libraries, and third-party components that make up your applications. Software Supply Chain Management is the discipline of securing these interconnected components.

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To support enterprise workflows like monitoring systems, triaging support tickets, and automating routine work, AI agents need access to the same sensitive systems employees use, including databases, APIs, SaaS tools, and internal infrastructure. However, many of these systems still rely on shared passwords, API keys, tokens, and other credential-based access paths that are difficult to manage and control.

Most organizations already have the policies they need in place. The problem is enforcement.

The term AI agent is dominant in current cybersecurity discourse. Vendors, analysts, and CISOs all use the label, yet technical confusion remains regarding how agents actually operate and where the security risks reside. Beneath the surface-level familiarity, there is often significant confusion about what an AI agent actually is, how it operates technically, and most importantly for security teams, where the risk actually lives.

Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management is designed to bring structure to privileged access inside Microsoft environments. It allows organizations to make roles eligible, require activation, and enforce approval workflows. Within Azure, it performs that role predictably. The challenge begins when engineering workflows extend beyond Azure. Modern infrastructure rarely lives in a single ecosystem.