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Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Introducing the CIOsurge Podcast

Oct 15, 2026

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1 min read

Introducing the CIOsurge Podcast

Episode 1: Tim Youngblood on startups, identity and the CISO's seat at the board

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
What would that AI idea actually save?

Oct 13, 2026

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4 min read

What would that AI idea actually save?

A free calculator shows annual cost, savings, and a two-week build plan.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
AI wrote it. Who's checking it?

Oct 6, 2026

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4 min read

AI wrote it. Who's checking it?

Steven Singer on where the human belongs in the loop, plus a 91% jump in review time.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
The agent made the call. You own it.

Sep 29, 2026

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5 min read

The agent made the call. You own it.

An AI agent breached a government portal, and nobody knew who to call.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
$2.7 trillion and the process is still broken

Sep 22, 2026

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4 min read

$2.7 trillion and the process is still broken

Roberta Anderson on why your next purchase order should be a process audit.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
The blame for AI just landed on your desk

Sep 14, 2026

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5 min read

The blame for AI just landed on your desk

Why 52% of tech leaders now hold the CIO accountable for AI mistakes, plus this week's moves and news.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Why being the best technically won't get you the CIO chair

Sep 9, 2026

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4 min read

Why being the best technically won't get you the CIO chair

The skill that actually gets you promoted, plus this week's moves and news.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Why Your AI Bill Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting

Aug 31, 2026

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5 min read

Why Your AI Bill Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting

Plus: How AI is really changing the SOC

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
The AI reprieve is over. Now prove it.

Aug 27, 2026

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4 min read

The AI reprieve is over. Now prove it.

Plus: the CIO who kills underperforming agents without ceremony, and why only daily AI users feel safe.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
You have 200 agents. Who manages them?

Aug 18, 2026

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5 min read

You have 200 agents. Who manages them?

Plus: why full-scale agent adoption is still years off, and the two-bucket framework for governing AI.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
AI-specific cloud spend grew 165% this year

Aug 10, 2026

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4 min read

AI-specific cloud spend grew 165% this year

Plus: how one security team went from RFC to production in three sprints, and the $500 billion cloud bill behind it all.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Everyone is buying AI. Almost nobody is governing it.

Aug 4, 2026

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4 min read

Everyone is buying AI. Almost nobody is governing it.

Plus: the three-lens review one CISO runs on every AI tool request, and the audit gap most companies are hiding from themselves.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
The career ladder you climbed is being rebuilt

Jul 29, 2026

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5 min read

The career ladder you climbed is being rebuilt

Plus: Aegis AI's series A

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
The AI governance gap just got exploited

Jul 20, 2026

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5 min read

The AI governance gap just got exploited

Plus: Why a CISO who talks endpoints loses the board.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Your AI agents are identities you cannot see

Jul 14, 2026

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4 min read

Your AI agents are identities you cannot see

Plus: the open standard coming for agent verification, and the Senate bill that would make you track every one.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
The security chair is becoming the top tech seat

Jul 7, 2026

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4 min read

The security chair is becoming the top tech seat

Plus: why cybersecurity is no longer the CISO's job alone, and the CIO who now wears 1.6 hats.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
The CISO job moved from defending to building

Jul 1, 2026

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6 min read

The CISO job moved from defending to building

Plus: A CIO's AI Adoption Test

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Two-thirds of CIOs are accountable for AI they don't control

Jun 22, 2026

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4 min read

Two-thirds of CIOs are accountable for AI they don't control

Plus: A CIO's AI Adoption Test

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
The AI Tools Your Org Adopted in Two Weeks Have No Security Behind Them

Jun 15, 2026

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4 min read

The AI Tools Your Org Adopted in Two Weeks Have No Security Behind Them

On the security gap hiding inside your SaaS stack, guest lecturing I did at UCLA, and news on token prices

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Only 20% of CIOs say AI met expectations. Here's what's missing.

Jun 8, 2026

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3 min read

Only 20% of CIOs say AI met expectations. Here's what's missing.

Plus: Palo Alto VPN zero-day, Oracle's 11 critical patches, and 69K tech jobs added in May.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Your first AI agent invoice will scare you. Here's how to fix it.

Jun 1, 2026

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3 min read

Your first AI agent invoice will scare you. Here's how to fix it.

This week I sat down with Anthony Enoh, CEO of Enbros Technologies, and we got into the real cost of running AI agents at scale.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
35,000 CISOs for 359 million businesses. Do the math.

May 26, 2026

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3 min read

35,000 CISOs for 359 million businesses. Do the math.

This week, Deloitte put a number on the AI pressure CIOs are feeling: 75% say their operating models need major restructuring within 18 months. Meanwhile, SAP dangled AI access in front of 20,000 legacy customers, but the price of admission is steep.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
 75% of CIOs say their operating models are breaking

May 19, 2026

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3 min read

75% of CIOs say their operating models are breaking

This week, Deloitte put a number on the AI pressure CIOs are feeling: 75% say their operating models need major restructuring within 18 months. Meanwhile, SAP dangled AI access in front of 20,000 legacy customers, but the price of admission is steep.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
 Only 16% of enterprises are seeing real AI value

May 11, 2026

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5 min read

Only 16% of enterprises are seeing real AI value

This week, a new Harvard Business Review study put hard numbers on the AI execution gap: only 16% of enterprises are seeing real value. Meanwhile, AI regulation shifted from guidelines to hard deadlines, and the capital pouring into AI infrastructure hit new highs.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
Your Cloud Architecture Was Built for the Wrong Era

May 5, 2026

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6 min read

Your Cloud Architecture Was Built for the Wrong Era

This week: CIOs are turning AI on their own IT departments first, your cloud stack needs a GPU-native redesign, and Spain's blackout just made grid security a boardroom conversation.

Zack Tembi
Zack Tembi
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