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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 7h

OWASP names the specific things that break when you ship an LLM. NIST AI RMF names the functions a program is organized around. This maps one onto the other, risk by risk. Read the mapping: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/owasp…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 9h

Automated tools generate the volume and the noise. The hands-on portion generates the actual loss. If your monitoring only flags known tool signatures, the quiet human stage after initial access is where this advisory says the sensitive data walks out. #CyberSecurity

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 10h

Ethics is not a press release. It is a framework with teeth. Free. No email. Read the framework: www.thedataexperts.us/white-papers/… #ResponsibleAI

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 13h

The recurring part matters more than this single CVE: NetScaler ADC and Gateway keep producing critical RCE-class bugs in authentication paths. If your SAML stack leans on one edge appliance, its patch cadence is a dependency worth watching, not a chore.

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 16h

AI-washing has a tell. Ask for the before and the after. Check your readiness: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/hipaa… #AI

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Security budgeting is not a guess. It is a model. Free. No email. Free guide for the CFO: www.thedataexperts.us/downloads/dse… #CyberSecurity #FractionalCDO

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Readiness is not a feeling. It is a fixed-fee assessment against NIST, the EU AI Act, and ISO 42001. Scope readiness when you are ready: www.thedataexperts.us/engage.html

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If the DoJ allegations hold, this wasn't a recovery vendor. It was a ransom broker with a markup and a story. That's the real risk in outsourcing incident response: you can't audit what you can't see. #CyberSecurity

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Models capture the tacit layer. The contextual layer is still yours. A checklist scan asks if the door is locked. Read the difference: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/ai-re…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The generator is becoming a commodity. The oracle is becoming strategic. AI engineering in 2026 is not about bigger models. Read the state of it: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/the-s… #MLOps

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Worth noting the vulnerable piece isn't Hitachi's own code. Apache ActiveMQ ships inside SOI, so the exposure depends on where that broker sits and what it can reach. Patching is one task, but knowing its network reach is another. #CyberSecurity #DataStrategy

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

MCP is the new plumbing for agents. Plumbing is not glamorous. It is where the leaks are. Free. No email. Grab the field guide: www.thedataexperts.us/downloads/dse…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The EasyIO FG advisory matters because these are building controllers, not abstract IT assets. Full device access can mean control over physical systems. Inventory first, then verify firmware versions against the advisory. #CyberSecurity #DataLeadership

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They have been trying to bury the warehouse for twenty years. The estate underneath is still where the value lives. Read the guide: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/moder… #DataEngineering

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Your biggest AI risk is probably a vendor you did not vet. Due diligence is the receipts you will wish you had. Nothing leaves your browser. Run the questionnaire: www.thedataexperts.us/tools/ai-vend… #AIGovernance #DataStrategy

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A missed patch on a contractor's system led to ShinyHunters stealing FBI employee data. This is a supply chain failure, not just a technical one. Access is not trust. Verify it, limit it, and log it. #CyberSecurity #DataLeadership

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The generator is becoming a commodity. The refinery is becoming the asset. The next moat is not the model. Read the framework: www.thedataexperts.us/work/the-trus…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Most AI readiness talk focuses on capability. The harder gap is accountability: clear ownership when a model misfires. Gartner and Omdia flag governance, security, and value as the real 2027 pressure points. Names, not frameworks, close that gap.

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A scan finds the known. Red teaming finds the assumed. LLM Top 10 plus MITRE ATLAS. Scope the assessment when you are ready: www.thedataexperts.us/engage.html

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Startups do not need a governance department. They need a launch pack. Fixed-fee launch pack when you are ready: www.thedataexperts.us/engage.html #AIGovernance #FractionalCDO

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A controller that leaks session data is worse than one that just goes offline. EasyIO Neo Series EC and CW units are affected, per CISA. Credentials in transit mean lateral movement, not just a single compromised device. #CyberSecurity #DataStrategy

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The hottest job in AI is not prompt engineer. It is the systems architect. Read why: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/2026-… #FutureOfWork #DataLeadership

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The uncomfortable part of the SWIFT middleware RCE: hardware MFA is often the control people trust most in these environments. If the middleware can be commandeered, the token is just a device on the other end of a trusted session. #CyberSecurity #DataStrategy

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The dashboard is dying. The data estate underneath it is not. Free. No email. Read the whitepaper free: www.thedataexperts.us/white-papers/… #DataEngineering #DataStrategy

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The advisory for ABB PCM600 is a reminder that engineering workstations sit inside the control network. A flaw in the configuration tool is a flaw in your protection posture. Check whether your maintenance laptops and jump hosts are covered by this patch cycle.

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Monta advisory matters because charging stations are operational technology with cloud management planes. Admin takeover or DoS doesn't just expose data, it can strand vehicles. Check your version and exposure.

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

AI adoption is not failing because the models are weak. It is failing for reasons nobody puts on a slide. Free. No email. Read the report, no gate: www.thedataexperts.us/downloads/202… #AI

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Path traversal bugs keep showing up in KEV because they turn a mail gateway into an entry point. CISA's addition of CVE-2026-104286 confirms exploitation is happening, not theoretical. Check your FortiMail versions today. #AI #DataLeadership

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Threat modelling a tool-using agent needs a vocabulary for what an attacker does to the model itself. ATLAS supplies it, and pairs with the OWASP list for the application layer. Read the threat model: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/mitre…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Five ways enterprise AI dies. None of them are the model. Read the postmortem: www.thedataexperts.us/work/five-fai…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Three Things Nobody Tells You About AI at Work. The full receipts are in this week's piece: ernesttheaiguy.substack.com/p/three… #AIGovernance

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CISA adding this to KEV turns a CVSS 9.8 into a deadline. Unauthenticated means the patch window is the exposure window: every internet-facing FortiMail instance is a candidate until it's updated. Inventory first, then verify nothing was written.

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

PHI leaves the building through tools nobody approved. You cannot write a policy for AI use you have not inventoried yet. Start the inventory: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/shado… #AI

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most AI ROI math is a story told backwards. Show the receipts. Show the before and the after. Free. No email. Free report, no email: www.thedataexperts.us/downloads/ai-… #AI #DataStrategy

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Event-driven messaging at scale fails on discovery and provisioning, not on protocols. Cooper argues the fix is tooling: AsyncAPI for contracts, CloudEvents for envelopes, schema registries and automated CI/CD for the rest. #Cloud #DataStrategy

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Physical access control software sits between a network and a door. The Armatura One advisory lists database access, top-privilege code execution, and system takeover as possible outcomes. The version range is documented in the CISA advisory. Check the build your site actually runs. #CyberSecurity

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Three Things Nobody Tells You About AI at Work. Models capture the tacit layer. The contextual layer is still yours. New piece. Free tier covers the argument. Paid covers what to do with it: ernesttheaiguy.substack.com/p/three… #DataGovernance

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finserv AI is not under-modeled. It is under-governed. The pillar lives here. Read the pillar when you are ready: www.thedataexperts.us/engage.html #FinTech

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Self-hosted AI is not cheaper because it is trendy. It is cheaper when the unit economics say so. Free. No email. The math, free: www.thedataexperts.us/white-papers/… #Cloud

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The next moat is not the model. It is trust. The architecture that earns it. Read the framework: www.thedataexperts.us/work/the-trus…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The dashboard is dying. The data estate underneath it is not. Free. No email. Read the whitepaper free: www.thedataexperts.us/white-papers/…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The generator is becoming a commodity. The refinery is becoming the asset. Prompt engineering was the warm-up. Read the reboot: www.thedataexperts.us/writing/2026-…

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The strategic case for local AI inference is stronger than ever. WebGPU and Transformers.js bring real workloads to the browser, cutting cloud dependency and improving privacy. Worth studying for any data strategy.

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The new Compliance API is a step up, but it's reactive. Activity logs tell you what happened, not who should have been allowed to do it. To secure Claude Code properly, you need local visibility paired with identity governance: enforce policies on the machine, not just audit after the fact.

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The DuckLabs deal is bigger than an open source acquisition. DuckDB's model of running SQL directly against files, with no server, is the pattern that makes agentic resource discovery plausible. ARD agents can now have a standard engine to poke at data without a warehouse in the #DataEngineering

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

GuardBreaker weaponizes context injection against AI analysts. UAC-0099 planted a nuclear prompt in a LNK file to trigger false alerts and degrade trust in automated triage. When models ingest untrusted text, every input is a potential attack surface. Defenders must treat prompts as #CyberSecurity

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The R9g GA announcement gives data teams a concrete lever: 25% more compute per instance versus R8g. For in-memory caches and real-time analytics, that often translates to lower latency or fewer nodes, not just faster benchmarks. #Cloud

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Aurora ransomware operators adopted an AI coding assistant (Cursor) to break into networks. CloudSEK and Gambit Security found exposed infrastructure from at least 10 attacks. This isn't sci-fi: adversaries are using commodity AI to build malware faster. Expect more of #CyberSecurity #DataStrategy

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CISA flagged two PaperCut vulnerabilities with active exploitation. Unsafe reflection plus missing auth is a dangerous combo, especially for exposed print servers. Not a drill. #CyberSecurity

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Ernest The AI Guy @z3usalmighty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Attackers don't wait for your patch cycle. The Langflow and Rails exploits show that credential probing and C2 setups are often the first steps. Prioritize asset discovery and intrusion detection alongside patching. #CyberSecurity #DataStrategy

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