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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.
Unknown Host hosts Tech Updates, a news show with 27 episodes published.
Six 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 banks knocked offline in an afternoon. Bu
Right 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 called "harvest now, decrypt later," and in 2
450%. 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 rebuilt its entire company around it. Last week
45 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 file. Your IAM platform probably tracks abou
$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 systems that keep the country running. Power
In 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 Chinese state actor called Salt Typhoon. Years o
$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 injection. Frontier labs run model evaluat
In 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 reactor. In 2026, Meta locked up 20 years of
$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 analyst headcount shrinking, SIEM vendors pivot
In February, a maintainer of a widely-used npm package pushed a release that shipped malware to 47,000 downstream applications. The maintainer's GitHub account had been compromised four months earlier. Nobody noticed. It
$1.4M comp. SEC subpoena. Same job. Welcome to TechUpdates Special Series — four episodes on the cybersecurity roles people actually want to hear about. We start with the only C-suite job in tech where doing it right can
"SaaS is dead." Satya Nadella said it on All-In in late 2024. Everyone laughed. Eighteen months later, Klarna went on the record — they fired Salesforce, fired Workday, and replaced them with Python scripts wired to Clau
In 2022, the median time between initial access and the secondary threat hand-off was 8 hours. At RSAC 2026, Mandiant put the new number on the main stage: 22 seconds. That one stat explains everything that got announced
Malware isn't just "a virus." It's a whole ecosystem of tools designed to damage, steal, spy, and extort — and in 2026 it's more dangerous than ever. This episode is your complete field guide. WHAT IS MALWARE? Malware (m
Tech Updates — Ransomware in 2026: Industrial Extortion and How to Fight Back Ransomware isn't just encryption anymore. In 2026, it's a full extortion operation — and it's getting more aggressive as fewer victims pay up.
Description / Summary: Phishing remains the #1 initial access vector in 2026, now supercharged by generative AI, voice cloning, and multimodal deception. This episode dissects classic phishing, spear-phishing, smishing (
Summary: In this fast-paced technical roundup, we cover three high-impact cybersecurity developments from the last 7 days (Feb 28–Mar 4, 2026): escalating Iranian-linked cyber operations amid U.S.-Israel strikes, CISA's
Description / Summary: In this technical deep dive, we examine leading products for microsegmentation at the application and workload level—essential for stopping lateral movement in hybrid, multi-cloud, and containerize
The Future of Firewalls: Hybrid Mesh Architectures Take Center Stage in 2026 In this episode of Tech Updates, we explore the evolving world of network security as traditional firewalls give way to hybrid mesh architectur
1. Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access Feb 2025 (Prisma SD-WAN): Flow visualization, SGT propagation, GCM encryption, ION 9300 support.https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/prisma-sd-wan/release-notes/new-features/prisma-sd-wan
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