Here's my hot take for 2025: Some of you know I've been getting deep & hands-on experimentation with AI agents, agentic frameworks, and recently, Gemini Advanced w/deep research and I've reached a pretty firm conclusion: organisations should be seeking a significant reduction in cybersecurity spend across the board, think internal staffing along with vendor/consulting/service providers in 2025 by leveraging these tools. This isn't just about cost-cutting; it's about building better capability and greater capacity while optimising both OPEX & CAPEX expenditures. If you're not exploring these avenues, you're missing out on a major opportunity and wasting money. It's also not about cutting staff costs but taking away the 30-40% of low-level tasks so you can have them doing more high value work that contributes to improving your capabilities. For example, I've been researching an agent framework focused on automated threat detection, threat modelling, and response - sound familiar? This involves using multiple AI agents to breakdown and conduct analysis of large datasets of security events in real-time, identify anomalies, and proactively model potential attack vectors. The research project's goal is to move beyond traditional security measures and implement a more proactive, efficient, and cost-effective approach that you don't have to pay through the teeth for. The potential for cost savings is substantial, from reducing reliance on traditional SIEM/MDR services to automating tasks that previously required expensive consultants. The key is to understand how to effectively integrate these AI tools into your existing security infrastructure and most importantly into the people in your organisation. Given the plethora of tools available, some free, some paid, mixing & matching tools and frameworks the sky is basically the limit. CAVEAT - there are still some things to overcome which makes AI agents & frameworks suitable for testing at the moment on some use-cases, think privacy concerns and token/rate limiting depending on size of datasets. But there is definitely enough in other use-cases, GRC comes to mind that warrant implementing some of these tools.

@BiasedHouston All he needs now is a consistent jumper & outside shot. It’s coming, you can see his shot improving.

@ibrahimibnyusuf @RnaudBertrand Like I said, I don't know about it so I don't opine. But now you've informed me. Cool.

I’m more rap/hip-hop genre but I had to see this Aussie icon, John Williamson in one of his last performances.

@TrumpDailyPosts “President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, “COMMON SENSE.” - Of course he did 🙄

@Jewtastic Trump must know that an influx of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees would destabilise and potentially bring down the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan and Egypt.

@SuperRugby @NSWWaratahs Fire. Darby Lancaster on the bench too.

@ibrahimibnyusuf @RnaudBertrand Got any evidence to back up the picture and story?

@OBBY001 Wow, that is one powerful team..upfront and finishing out wide.

Trump's Gaza Plan..bold or brazen? For those interested in geopolitics of the Middle East and it's effects on global energy vis-a-vis stability would've been either shocked or intrigued by Trump's recent announcement of his plan for Gaza, the Israeli-Hamas war and ultimately in his eyes, Middle East stability and prosperity. Trump announced his plan to "take Gaza" and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East" in effect displacing, unclear if by force, nearly 2M Palestinians. Reports say that he only told Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu only minutes before of his intent. This sent shockwaves throughout the region and the establishment view that any peace between Israel and Palestinians would come in a two-state solution which would then unlock Israeli normalisation deal with Saudi Arabia. Today he met with King Abdullah II of Jordan and the joint comments were "uncomfortable" to put it mildly. King Abdullah clearly was squirming as Trump expounded on his "We'll have it (Gaza)..it's ours..we're not buying it, there's nothing to buy" plan to relocate up to 2M Palestinians to Egypt, Jordan and potentially other places like Indonesia etc. So..brazen or bold? Well here's what I think is happening and even though I've followed Middle East politics for two decades now I still could be way off. If you've read Trump's Art of the Deal two of his deal tactics is "Think Big" and "Leverage" and I think this Gaza plan is both. A short background and for those ME experts please excuse the brevity - The graveyard of Israeli-Palestinian peace deals has always come down to three intractable issues (1) Right of return (2) Settlements in Judaea/Samaria and (3) Jerusalem. The criticism of the Arab states have been they haven't done enough to own the issue, drive towards a resolution and with the Abraham Accords, the Palestinian question was circumvented and normalisation occurred directly between Israel and UAE/Bahrain/Morocco/Sudan. This is partially why Hamas launched their ill-fated October 7th invasion and massacres. I think what Trump is seeking to do is move the Overton window in terms of Israel-Palestinian peace from the intractable issues which has derailed every single previous attempt at peace. Not only moving it but violently shifting it to his Gaza Plan. This has forced the Egyptians, Saudis and Jordanians to react with Trump's message being, if you don't come up with a suitable plan then you're going to get this. Think Big and Leverage. Now do I think Trump's plan will work? Of course it won't. You can't forcibly remove a population, there is a term for that - ethnic cleansing. But will the leverage play work? I think it's already working. King Abdullah of Jordan came to the US today bearing gifts - news that 2000 sick children moved from Gaza into Jordan for medical care. News that the Egyptians are coming up with their own plan. The Arab League convening an emergency session in Saudi Arabia at the end of the month. The Art of the Deal - Think Big, Leverage.

@JewishWarrior13 I'd be interested to see what's happening behind closed doors. King Abdullah wouldn't rush to the WH and repeatedly mention the Egyptian plan if there wasn't something more substantial than just the status quo. Trump also mentioned he probably knows what is in the plan too.

@joneslinda @RnaudBertrand Yeah it became wokeified under Biden

@BravoZStudio @RnaudBertrand Good point. It's more the brazen, in your face imperialism is back. Case in point Trump and his Gaza plan "We'll own it..we'll take it..it'll be ours" or his comments on Panama canal "We'll take it back"

@BluesRugbyTeam Legend

@RnaudBertrand American imperialism is back.

@HilzFuld It’s fascinating to watch. Trump speaks clearly, candidly and doesn’t mince words. Poor King Abdullah is blinking madly, using politically correct speech, trying to say something by saying nothing. Quite a sight.

Poor dude looked most uncomfortable listening to Trump rail on about his Gaza plan. It seems like Trump’s gambit is working ie, Egyptians and Saudis will present “their plan” by end of month. I do not think you’ll see Trump’s plan come to fruition but he will have forced the Arab states to take ownership and put something together.

Watching King Abdullah and Marco Rubio squirm in their seats while Trump continues on about his Gaza plan is quite something. “We’ll take Gaza, we’ll own it and cherish it” - boy oh boy

No, it's called having a strong opinion only when you know enough about something. It's the same thing with the Uighur issue. I don't know enough about it so other than reading and sharing UN literature I generally don't rant about it. That's called intellectual honesty. Intellectual honesty is being flexible enough to call out both sides when they do terrible things ie, Trump's ethnic cleansing plan, Israel diminishing two-state solution, indiscriminate killing of civilians etc which if you look at my timeline I am pretty consistent with. When you can only champion the Palestinian side of the conflict, then that sounds awfully like prejudice.

@PNL_Wizard @RnaudBertrand ahahahahahahaha..love it

@PNL_Wizard @RnaudBertrand