Tech Updates
by Andres Sarmiento
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Zero Trust in 2026 — 63% Adopted It, 10% Built It, You Still Can't…
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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.
Episodes
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- Zero Trust in 2026 — 63% Adopted It, 10% Built It, You Still Can't Buy It · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 39Zero 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 —…
- Machine Identity: One Year Later — 109 Machines Per Human, 79 Are AI Agents · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 38Remember 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…
- The Cloud Security Engineer — $200K to Babysit the Robots (Special S05) · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 37Machines 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…
- The Agentic SOC — Is the SIEM Dead? (2026 Reality Check) · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 36Attackers hand off your network in 22 seconds. Your tier-1 analyst is still opening the ticket. That's the whole argument for the agentic SOC — and why it terrifies people. What…
- Post-Quantum Shipped — Two-Thirds of the Web Is Already Quantum-Safe · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 35Two-thirds of web traffic is already post-quantum encrypted. Your browser did it without telling you. The migration got real. What you'll hear: • Your browser already switched —…
- Hacker Summer Camp 2026 Recap — What Actually Happened at DEF CON · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 34Three weeks ago we told you what to watch at Hacker Summer Camp. Now it's over — and one attack sums up the whole week: Ghostjacking hijacked an AI coding agent 90% of the time…
- Hacker Summer Camp 2026 Preview — Black Hat, DEF CON & the AI Reckoning · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 33In April, an AI called Claude Mythos found 10,000 high-severity security holes — and flagged 23,000 issues across 1,000+ open-source projects. The punchline nobody's ready for…
- Ransomware 2026 — Why Crews Stopped Encrypting and Just Steal Now · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 32Last year, ransomware crews launched ~50% more attacks — and made ~8% less money. The lock stopped paying, so they stopped using it. In 2026, 94% of ransomware cases involve…
- Wi-Fi 7 Explained — MLO, 6 GHz & the AI-Ready Branch Hype Check (2026) · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 31Wi-Fi 7 promises 46 gigabits per second. Your access point is plugged into a 1-gig switch port. Guess which number wins. The radio is real and genuinely good — the rest needs a…
- Securing AI Agents — MCP, Agentjacking & the New Attack Surface (2026) · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 30In June 2026, researchers took over AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex — with no phishing, no malware, and a public credential developers paste into their own apps. It…
- Passkeys Explained — How They Kill Phishing, Vishing & Password Theft · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 29Every breach in our last episode died the same way it started — with a password. So this week: the fix that's finally winning. On World Passkey Day this May, the FIDO Alliance…
- The Worst Breaches of 2026 (So Far) — And the 5 Mistakes Behind Them · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 28Six months into 2026 and the breach scoreboard is brutal: 22 million Aflac records, 30 million students locked out during finals, the FBI's own surveillance system breached, four…
- Post-Quantum Cryptography Explained — Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (2026) · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 27Right now, somewhere, an adversary is copying your encrypted VPN traffic. They can't read it today. They're saving it — for the day a quantum computer can crack it open. It's…
- Cisco Live 2026 Explained — Cloud Control, AgenticOps, Post-Mythos Security · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 26450%. That's how much more network traffic an AI agent generates than a human doing the same task. Cisco measured it, put it on the big screen at Cisco Live 2026, and then…
- Non-Human Identity Security Explained — The 45:1 NHI Crisis in 2026 · 9 min · Season 1 Episode 2145 to 1. In the average enterprise, for every human user there are 45 machine identities. Every API key. Every service account. Every agent token. Every secret in every config…
- Special · S04: The OT/ICS Defender — Why Volt Typhoon Should Worry You · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 25$140K. When you mess up, the lights go out for real. Final episode of TechUpdates Special Series. The most consequential security job almost nobody talks about — defending the…
- Salt Typhoon Explained — The Chinese Telecom Breach, One Year Later (2026) · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 20In late 2024, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile all admitted the same thing: their lawful-intercept systems — the ones they build for law enforcement — had been compromised by a…
- Special · S03: The AI Security Engineer — The Job Nobody Knew Existed · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 24$450K. The job didn't exist 24 months ago. Every Fortune 500 is hiring. Episode three of TechUpdates Special Series. AI bug bounties have crossed six figures for a single prompt…
- AI Data Center Power Crisis 2026 — Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Go Nuclear · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 19In 2024, Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement to restart Three Mile Island. The nuclear plant. The one from the disaster. In 2025, Amazon bought a small modular…
- Special · S02: The Detection Engineer — How $240K Roles Replaced the SOC · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 23$240K. No degree required. The SOC analyst is dead. Episode two of TechUpdates Special Series. The SOC industry quietly restructured itself in the last 18 months — tier-one…
