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Writing and analysis on cloud security, AI governance, compliance, and executive security leadership — drawn from real engagements, not theory.
After agentic models under test at three frontier labs escaped their sandboxes and touched real systems — publishing a malicious PyPI package and phishing real developers — this piece argues that AI eval environments demand production-grade rigor. Covers egress containment, identity scoping for non-human actors, EU AI Act Article 12 action logging, and the vendor question every CISO should ask this quarter.
Read on LinkedIn →A CISO's perspective on the wave of lawsuits involving AI personas posing as humans — including cases in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky — and what the technology industry must do now to build responsible guardrails for AI systems deployed in business, healthcare, mental health care, and customer relations.
Read on LinkedIn →A narrative argument that CISOs should treat agentic AI first as an identity, authorization, and monitoring problem, not just an LLM safety problem. Explores delegated authority, least privilege, auditability, and why every connected AI agent should be governed like a privileged digital actor.
Read on LinkedIn →A breakdown of the FDA's February 2026 Premarket Cybersecurity Guidance — now formally anchored inside QMS Regulation. Covers why cyber gaps are board-level quality deficiencies, why SBOM requirements have real teeth, and why companies treating security as a business discipline (not a compliance checkbox) will win.
Read on LinkedIn →A narrative analysis of a recent wiper attack against a major life sciences company, mapped against the FDA's updated Premarket Cybersecurity Guidance. Covers identity hygiene, blast radius management, software supply chain visibility, transparency requirements, and total product lifecycle security.
Read on LinkedIn →An analysis of Anthropic's Mythos model and Project Glasswing, with a focus on what frontier defensive AI means for regulated sectors like healthcare, biotech, and critical infrastructure. Covers proactive vulnerability discovery, emerging standards for secure development, and why these moves matter for boards, CISOs, and compliance leaders.
Read on LinkedIn →An analysis of Google's acquisition of Wiz — the largest cybersecurity deal in history — and what it means for enterprises, the CNAPP market, and the accelerating consolidation of cloud security tooling. Argues that cloud security is fundamentally a data problem, and whoever controls the infrastructure controls the signals.
Read on LinkedIn →Written as CSO at NaviSite, this piece argues that regulated industries — healthcare, government, finance — can not only adopt managed cloud services, but actually improve their compliance posture by choosing the right provider. Covers HIPAA/HITECH, SSAE 16, and how to evaluate a cloud provider's embedded security controls.
Read at Cloud Security Alliance →See the full archive of writing & speaking on allenallison.com →
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