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GUEST OPINION:  There’s a new blind spot in corporate cybersecurity, and it’s growing faster than most executives realise. Every department now has its own “side” cloud. These are quick test environments spun up for convenience, then quietly forgotten. These unsanctioned ecosystems often hold live data, run code, and operate entirely outside corporate governance.

GUEST OPINION:  Microsoft is publishing a relatively light 54 new vulnerabilities this December 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is significantly lower than we have come to expect over the past couple of years.

COMPANY NEWS:

• New Intelligent Business Recovery for Microsoft 365 restores core workflows, data, and drives operational resilience
• Unveils DevOps Protection to safeguard critical Azure DevOps and GitHub data

AI tools have expploded on the scene, and with them, the term "AI slop" has similarly emerged. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says "vibe coding sometimes feels like things that create slop," but says that need not be the experience in your business.

Agentic AI is here, and GitHub has unveiled Agent HQ, its boldest re-architecture since Copilot’s launch. The company wants to turn the world’s favourite developer platform into a neutral control tower for all coding agents - not just its own. You can supervise and review all your agents, with full traceability where code came from and why.

COMPANY NEWS:  When external SaaS providers or cloud services degrade or go down, engineers often find themselves wondering if the issue they're encountering is local or more widespread. The answers they find are usually slow to surface, limited in detail, or entirely dependent on the provider's updates.

When external SaaS providers or cloud services degrade or go down, engineers often find themselves wondering if the issue they're encountering is local or more widespread. The answers they find are usually slow to surface, limited in detail, or entirely dependent on the provider's updates. So Datadog has made Updog.ai - which looks like DownDetector for business AI, apps and services. 

COMPANY NEWS:  Empowers developers with real-time observability and intelligent automation through GitHub’s trusted partner ecosystem

COMPANY NEWS:  Launch of new 12-week video series on AI/LLM security empowers developers to safely adopt AI coding and mitigate emerging security risks

GUEST OPINION:  How often do you click "accept" on a cookie banner just to get it out of the way and access a website?

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced his resignation. After nearly four years in the top job he's returning to his entrepreneurial roots to co-found a startup. Microsoft has chosen not to appoint a successor, instead folding GitHub's leadership into its Core AI organisation.

GUEST RESEARCH:

• New data from Identity Security Risk Assessments reveals critical blind spots in non-human identity posture
• BeyondTrust’s latest solution brings secrets into full view, just as Agentic AI spins up at scale

COMPANY NEWS:  Community-driven resource empowers developer teams of all sizes to integrate AI safely into critical workflows

Microsoft recently announced some amazing stats on GitHub Copilot adoption during its most recent investor earnings update, saying Copilot has surpassed 15 million users, growing more than 4x year over year.

The largest software code repository on the planet, GitHub, is making its Copilot AI co-developer a whole lot more agentic with an increased context of tools and services powered by the world's leading models.

GUEST OPINION:  Attacks on software supply chains are becoming an increasing concern for security teams around the world. These attacks can cause significant disruption or financial losses for those targeted.

• Significant expansion of data protection and security across cloud, SaaS, and hypervisors including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, RedHat OpenShift, and more
• New Identity Recovery for Active Directory and Entra ID addressing the key vulnerability to business operational recovery
• Powerful new cyber resilience capabilities for faster operational recovery from cyber incidents, including machine-learning detection, orchestrated recovery, and Turbo Threat Hunting

2024 was a breakthrough year for AI, both globally and here in Australia. Contributions to public generative AI projects on GitHub in Australia surged by 65% in 2024, signalling a promising trajectory for the nation’s productivity and economic growth. We saw businesses transition from experimenting with AI to adopting and implementing it, unlocking the benefits of enhanced productivity, competitiveness, and growth. As we enter 2025, here are my AI predictions and the key opportunities for Australia to accelerate its AI journey.

CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in identity security, announced the launch of FuzzyAI, a cutting-edge open-source framework that has jailbroken every tested AI model. Fuzzy AI helps organisations identify and address AI model vulnerabilities, like guardrail bypassing and harmful output generation, in cloud-hosted and in-house AI models.  FuzzyAI’s fully extensible framework is available as open-source software on CyberArk Labs’ GitHub Page.

COMPANY NEWS:  New SCW Trust Agent facilitates a Secure-by-Design approach for enterprises; equips security leaders with unparalleled visibility into their organisations’ software security posture.