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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: AI Agents in Bank Accounts and the Question of Authority linkedin.com/pulse/ai-agents… via @LinkedIn

AI Agents in Bank Accounts and the Question of Authority

Executive Summary When someone asks an AI assistant to help manage their finances, they may be thinking about a simpler life. Less time sorting through statements.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The eMudhra Certificate Flaw: Who Verifies the Systems We Trust? linkedin.com/pulse/emudhra-c… via @LinkedIn

The eMudhra Certificate Flaw: Who Verifies the Systems We Trust?

Executive Summary When someone opens a banking website, checks a medical appointment, or pays for groceries online, they should not need to understand cryptography. They expect the technology behind...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: PHP2Shell and the Governance Response to AI Accelerated Discovery linkedin.com/pulse/php2shell… via @LinkedIn

PHP2Shell and the Governance Response to AI Accelerated Discovery

Executive summary AI-assisted security research has helped expose serious weaknesses in PHP, a foundation of many web services. On October 21, the PHP project released emergency fixes for CVE-2026-...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Your AI Agent May Be Breaking Your Control Model linkedin.com/pulse/your-ai-a… via @LinkedIn

Your AI Agent May Be Breaking Your Control Model

Executive Summary I see four interconnected AI governance problems that deserve much more attention. First, explain-ability must include runtime chain of custody.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The AI Boom Has a Financing Bill. Who Will Carry It? linkedin.com/pulse/ai-boom-h… via @LinkedIn

The AI Boom Has a Financing Bill. Who Will Carry It?

Executive Summary A government borrowing to strengthen its electricity grid and a technology company financing another data center may appear to be pursuing separate priorities. Their plans become...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Protecting the People and Payments Behind HRIS linkedin.com/pulse/protectin… via @LinkedIn

Protecting the People and Payments Behind HRIS

Executive summary HR, payroll and benefits systems connect employee livelihoods with financial authority and sensitive corporate decisions. Drawing on my experience managing the technology supporting...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: When Completing the Task Becomes a Security Incident linkedin.com/pulse/when-comp… via @LinkedIn

When Completing the Task Becomes a Security Incident

Introduction An AI agent should be able to stop when it lacks permission. That ability belongs in the definition of a successful deployment, alongside accuracy, speed, and cost.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Special Requirements for Human in the Loop When Law, Regulation, Corporate Policy and Delegated Authority Require a Human Decision linkedin.com/pulse/special-r… via @LinkedIn

Special Requirements for Human in the Loop When Law, Regulation, Corporate Policy and Delegated...

Executive Summary Artificial intelligence can analyze more information than most people could review in a reasonable period. It can identify patterns, score risks, recommend actions and increasingly...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Anthropic’s IPO: Will It Burst the AI Bubble—or Test What the Industry Is Worth? linkedin.com/pulse/anthropic… via @LinkedIn

Anthropic’s IPO: Will It Burst the AI Bubble—or Test What the Industry Is Worth?

Executive Summary A data centre can be full of expensive equipment while the business depending on it struggles to earn a return. That is the tension behind the latest AI bubble debate.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Micron’s China Challenge: What the AI Memory Selloff Reveals About Risk, Contracts, and Confidence linkedin.com/pulse/microns-c… via @LinkedIn

Micron’s China Challenge: What the AI Memory Selloff Reveals About Risk, Contracts, and Confidence

Executive Summary A sharp decline in a semiconductor stock can look like a narrow financial story. For executives committing money to AI, it raises a much broader concern: how much of today’s...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Who Carries the Risk When the AI Bill Comes Due? linkedin.com/pulse/who-carri… via @LinkedIn

Who Carries the Risk When the AI Bill Comes Due?

Executive Summary An AI service can work exactly as promised while the business behind it comes under financial pressure. For an enterprise that has built customer service, software development, or...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: When Autonomous AI Needs Human Help: California’s SB 1246 and the Leadership Duty to Respond linkedin.com/pulse/when-auto… via @LinkedIn

When Autonomous AI Needs Human Help: California’s SB 1246 and the Leadership Duty to Respond

Executive Summary An ambulance waiting behind a stalled driverless vehicle brings the AI governance discussion into sharp focus. Someone needs help.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Enterprise Architecture: From Assets to Assurance linkedin.com/pulse/enterpris… via @LinkedIn

Enterprise Architecture: From Assets to Assurance

Why Modern EA Must Connect Business Value, Asset Management, Architecture, AI, Risk, Qualification and Evidence Executive Summary Enterprise Architecture should be more than an inventory of applica...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: PART 8 — When Experience Becomes Architectural Wisdom linkedin.com/pulse/part-8-wh… via @LinkedIn

PART 8 — When Experience Becomes Architectural Wisdom

Executive Summary After decades of working across people, technology, systems engineering, operations, accounting, cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, risk, management systems and executive governa...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: AI Is Finding Linux Weaknesses. Boards Must Reassess the Trust Beneath Their Business. linkedin.com/pulse/ai-findin… via @LinkedIn

AI Is Finding Linux Weaknesses. Boards Must Reassess the Trust Beneath Their Business.

Research reviewed: October 5, 2026 Executive summary AI has helped researchers identify and exploit Linux kernel vulnerabilities. That deserves attention, but “AI cracked Linux” leaves out the...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Three Million People Exposed: A Wake-Up Call for Executive Accountability linkedin.com/pulse/three-mil… via @LinkedIn

Three Million People Exposed: A Wake-Up Call for Executive Accountability

By Mark E. S.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: PART 6 — From RAG to Agentic AI: Governing the Journey from Knowledge to Action linkedin.com/pulse/part-6-fr… via @LinkedIn

PART 6 — From RAG to Agentic AI: Governing the Journey from Knowledge to Action

Executive Summary RAG can help an AI system retrieve relevant information from approved sources and use that information as context. Agentic AI goes further.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: PART 7 — From Technology Leadership to Executive Enterprise Architecture linkedin.com/pulse/part-7-fr… via @LinkedIn

PART 7 — From Technology Leadership to Executive Enterprise Architecture

Executive Summary Looking backward across my career, I no longer see a collection of unrelated positions. I see pillars that progressively changed the altitude from which I understood the enterprise.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: PART 5 — Two Systems, One Enterprise linkedin.com/pulse/part-5-tw… via @LinkedIn

PART 5 — Two Systems, One Enterprise

Executive Summary Over time, I came to see two systems that must operate together seamlessly without confusing their responsibilities. The first is the Management System.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: PART 4 — From Building Systems to Teaching Systems linkedin.com/pulse/part-4-fr… via @LinkedIn

PART 4 — From Building Systems to Teaching Systems

Executive Summary Around 1995, two of the first business systems I designed and built were an Applicant Tracking System and a Skills Inventory System. Looking backward, their subject matter makes...

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