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A very Happy Thanksgiving to All Friends, Family, Colleagues and Followers
A very Happy Thanksgiving to All Friends, Family, Colleagues and Followers
Here's hoping that you are able to take a day to give thanks for all the good things in your life. For me, I give…
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Reflections
Reflections
On the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I wanted to reach out to all friends, colleagues, relatives and people who…
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Andy Brown reposted thisI have said it before and I will say it again, the only real protection from threat actors is to have no attack surface. This is even more of the reality in the era of AI agents being used to attack your edge. If you are reachable you are breachable. Ask me how Zscaler changes the dynamic for your application access, workload exposure and your branches and eliminate your attack surface.Andy Brown reposted this🚨 CRITICAL: Palo Alto Networks has disclosed CVE-2026-0300, a buffer overflow in PAN-OS that is already being exploited in the wild. CVSS 4.0 score: 9.3. Unauthenticated attackers can hit the User-ID Authentication Portal (the Captive Portal service) with crafted packets and pop a root shell on the firewall. The flaw is an out-of-bounds write (CWE-787) in PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls. Prisma Access, Cloud NGFW, and Panorama are not affected. The vulnerability only triggers when the User-ID Authentication Portal is enabled and reachable from untrusted networks.
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Andy Brown reposted thisAndy Brown reposted thisThe global supply chain crisis shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. Are you seeking long term price stability, world class lead times to maintain project schedules, a flexible #data platform that can support all workload types, and a true SLA backed service where the provider takes on the risk of ensuring performance and usable capacity exceeds expectations? Check out Everpure (Pure Storage)’s Evergreen//One solution: https://lnkd.in/gvHiJz7U
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Andy Brown reposted thisAndy Brown reposted thisIn the high-pressure world of leadership, we are often told that being "tough" is the only way to drive results. We are taught to prioritize the bottom line over the heartbeat of the organization. But the truth is, kindness is the most underrated leadership skill in existence. Being kind isn't "soft." It is not a sign of weakness or a lack of standards. In fact, it is the ultimate expression of strength. It takes immense emotional courage to lead with compassion when the stakes are high and the pressure is mounting. It takes strength to choose understanding over judgment, and patience over a reprimand. When you lead with kindness, you aren't just managing a process; you are guarding the well-being of a human being. You are creating a sanctuary of psychological safety where trust can flourish and brilliance can breathe. A kind leader realizes that their impact on an employee’s health is greater than that of their doctor. By choosing heart over ego, you transform a group of individuals into a loyal, high-performing tribe. Kindness is the bridge that turns a job into a calling. Are you ready to lead for a new era? Start building a culture where empathy is the engine of excellence. Order copies of my Amazon Bestseller, "The Blueprint of Leadership," for your entire team today and let’s redefine what it means to be a strong leader. Invest in your team’s growth. Order on Amazon today: https://geni.us/s2nooOD
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Andy Brown reposted thisI am honored and energized to be joining Digital Asset and work with the tireless and brilliant team lead by Yuval Rooz, Eric Saraniecki and Emnet Rios. The team methodically built the most exciting platform - Canton Network - for financial services in a generation and has rapidly become the go to partner for the largest names in finance. I am fortunate to be joining as their deliberate strategy has taken root. Most of you know I’m not one to get on a soap box. But it’s worth saying what I believe: > Financial services are essential for society > The US is blessed with the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world > Those markets are key to US growth > That growth creates jobs, increases incomes and improves lives > DA is critical to modernizing those markets > Because they are doing it the right way
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Andy Brown reposted thisAndy Brown reposted thisI’m proud to share that Zscaler has been recognized as a 2026 Google Cloud Partners of the Year Award for Security in the Application category. This recognition is meaningful for two reasons: 1) Our partnership with Google Cloud is helping organizations harness AI with Zero Trust security at the core. 2) By extending Zero Trust deeper into the cloud, we’re enabling simpler operations, stronger protection, and a modern experience-securing every connection without the constraints of legacy network security. These awards reflect the dedication of our engineering and product teams working closely with Google Cloud. More importantly, they reflect the trust our customers place in us—everything we build is designed to help you move faster and innovate with confidence. Thank you to Thomas Kurian, Karthik Narain and Francis deSouza for this honor and for being a great partner in our mission to secure a world where information can be accessed from anywhere. Read our press release: https://lnkd.in/g2aVftdn #ZeroTrust #GoogleCloud #Zscaler #CloudSecurity #DataProtection #ZeroTrustEverywhere #AISecurity #AI #DigitalTransformation #GoogleCloudPartnerAwards
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Andy Brown reposted thisAndy Brown reposted thisAnthropic launched 10 finance agents yesterday. FactSet dropped 8%. Thomson Reuters dropped 5%. Claude Opus 4.7 now ships with pre-built agents for pitchbook building, KYC screening, GL reconciliation, and month-end closing. The kind of operational stuff that still gets done in spreadsheets. Plus native Microsoft 365 integration carries context across Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. They also added Moody's data piped in via MCP covering 600M+ companies. (lending much?) --- But what captured my attention is the broader blitz of announcements in financial services from Anthropic This landed one day after the $1.5B joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman, and Hellman & Friedman And the FIS partnership embedding Claude into AML investigations at BMO. Three announcements in 48 hours. All pointed in the same direction. ---- Three things worth sitting with: 1. Anthropic shipped M365 add-ins before Microsoft shipped anything competitive in finance. That was supposed to be Copilot's job. 2. This is the second time this year FactSet tanked on an Anthropic announcement. Down ~55% over 52 weeks. Morningstar, S&P Global, and Moody's all sold off — even though Moody's was featured as a data partner. 3. The JV uses the Palantir forward-deployed-engineer playbook. Except Anthropic's version comes pre-loaded with a customer list — every portfolio company Blackstone and H&F already own. --- Anthropic projected 10x enterprise growth. They saw 80x. Model + vertical agents + data connectors + embedded engineers + PE distribution. That's a completely different company than the AI safety lab from 3 years ago.
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Andy Brown posted thisHere I am at Quebec airport and I was on a flight home via Toronto, and I got to the airport and through security 40 minutes before the earlier flight which is a direct flight. The United Airlines check in desk was empty downstairs, so I went through security and headed toward the gate for the earlier flight. I asked if I could be moved and the gate agent said it wasn’t possible for her to do, but I could call United to see what could be done. I opened the united app and opened the Chat function powered by Netomi and asked if I could move flights. In 4 minutes the AI agent and the human in the loop had moved my flight and told me I could check in. Although the flight is delayed slightly because of bad weather in EWR, it’s the best experience I have had with an airline in this kind of situation ever, and anyone who knows me, knows how often I travel. Many congrats to United Airlines and Netomi for such an amazing customer experience. It’s great to be a happy customer.
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Andy Brown reposted thisAndy Brown reposted thisToday, both Anthropic and OpenAI launched joint ventures focused on deploying enterprise AI services - multi-billion-dollar bets that the deployment problem is the real bottleneck, not the model. Last week on Bloomberg The Close, Jeffrey Katzenberg and I told Romaine Bostick, CFA and Katie Greifeld exactly this - enterprise AI is the win the entire ecosystem urgently needs. The sanctioned architecture and agentic deployment process built into Netomi is the battle-tested moat - and the real accelerator for enterprise AI. Models alone don't drive enterprise transformation...and OpenAI has already published Netomi as the field-proven enterprise blueprint. Catch the Bloomberg conversation: https://lnkd.in/gYDNnMDSS&P Set for Best Month Since 2020, Apple Beats Earnings | The Close 4/30/2026S&P Set for Best Month Since 2020, Apple Beats Earnings | The Close 4/30/2026
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Andy Brown reposted thisLooking forward to seeing you in Las Vegas June 16–18 in Las Vegas, Pure Accelerate 2026 See you in Vegas. 🚀 : https://purefla.sh/4afLmh6 #Everpure #PureAccelerate #EnterpriseDataCloud #StoragePlatform #StorageAndDataManagement Be Well, PSFAndy Brown reposted thisYou’re invited. 🎉 If managing your data feels harder than it should, that’s about to change. June 16–18 in Las Vegas, Pure Accelerate 2026 is where data and AI get real, what’s working, what’s not, and what’s actually worth your time. Less theory. More you-can-use-this-on-Monday. Show up curious. Leave with a plan you’re excited about. See you in Vegas. 🚀 : https://purefla.sh/4afLmh6 #Everpure #PureAccelerate #EnterpriseDataCloud #StoragePlatform #StorageAndDataManagement
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Andy Brown liked thisAndy Brown liked thisAdobe Ventures has invested in Netomi! I am energized about what this signals for the future of customer experience. For years, every generation of CX technology shared the same challenge that intelligence lived outside the experience, waiting for customers to describe problems the system should have already seen. Each iteration from chatbots to IVR to AI agents, made the response more efficient. None of them fixed the underlying problem. At Adobe, we believe the next chapter looks fundamentally different where AI is woven into the digital experience itself, observing every journey, reasoning in real time, reshaping the experience around each customer before friction ever occurs. Netomi has built exactly the foundation this requires: deterministic controls, multi-layer observability, governance baked into the runtime, and a proven track record at massive scale in the highest-stakes environments. Together, we're enabling brands to deliver personalized journeys that don't stop at marketing, but extend all the way through service, resolving customer needs autonomously with the speed and context they expect. From AI as a feature to AI as the composable fabric of the experience. Congratulations to Puneet Mehta and the entire Netomi team! I am thrilled to be building this future together. #AdobeVentures #AgenticAI #CustomerExperience #CXInnovationNetomi Raises $110M from Accenture Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and WndrCo to Deploy Agentic Customer Experiences in the World's Most Complex Environments and Create the AI-Embedded Digital ExperienceNetomi Raises $110M from Accenture Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and WndrCo to Deploy Agentic Customer Experiences in the World's Most Complex Environments and Create the AI-Embedded Digital Experience
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Andy Brown reacted on thisAndy Brown reacted on thisHow about creating a budget with less spending. New York City’s tax base is already under pressure. We cannot afford more corporate exits or more high net worth residents deciding that New York is simply too expensive and hostile to success. Before politicians propose yet another “tax the rich” idea like a pied-à-terre tax, they should ask themselves a basic question: who exactly is left paying the bills when the people funding a disproportionate share of the city’s tax revenue decide to leave? Government spending keeps rising by billions of dollars while the tax base becomes more fragile and concentrated. Instead of focusing on retaining businesses, investment, and high earners who generate a disproportionate share of tax revenue, Albany and City Hall continue searching for new ways to tax the same shrinking pool of taxpayers. New York succeeds when it attracts businesses, jobs, talent, and investment capital, not when it punishes them.$268 billion state budget will include NYC pied-à-terre tax, targeting wealthy second home owners$268 billion state budget will include NYC pied-à-terre tax, targeting wealthy second home owners
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Andy Brown reacted on thisLove it Andy Brown !! fantastic post!... especially ... "**Preserve the Inner Citadel**: In a world of instant answers and algorithmic suggestions, guard your independent thinking. Practice deliberate reflection and self-discipline. Let AI serve you; do not become its servant"
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