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PRACTICAL ANALYSIS FOR SECURITY DECISIONS.

Published analysis of the enterprise security problems, approaches, and questions worth understanding before a technology or service decision.

AI Security & Governance · Yokozuna Intelligence

The AI Control Plane Is Moving

Embedded AI is changing where security teams need visibility and enforcement. Yokozuna examines why the endpoint is becoming strategically important again, where endpoint controls fall short, and what a distributed AI security control plane may look like.

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AI, Identity & Trust · Yokozuna Intelligence

Cybersecurity Is Moving From Finding Problems to Governing Outcomes

Black Hat USA 2026 put identity, trust, validation, exposure, and AI-agent control on the same operating agenda. The question for security leaders is how to turn that signal into accountable outcomes.

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Identity · Yokozuna Intelligence

Identity Security Has a Standing Access Problem

Why standing access, JIT authorization and AI agents are forcing enterprises to rethink how access is governed.

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Identity · Yokozuna Intelligence

Why Enterprise Identity Became So Complicated

Enterprise identity did not become difficult because companies kept making bad decisions. It became difficult because reasonable decisions accumulated faster than organizations could simplify them.

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Identity · Yokozuna Intelligence

You Found Every Non-Human Identity. Now What?

Finding machine identities is only the beginning. The harder problem is understanding ownership, dependencies, operational risk, and whether another NHI platform is actually necessary.

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Email · Yokozuna Intelligence

Email Security Is No Longer Just an Email Problem

Why secure email gateways remain valuable, but the modern email attack lifecycle extends into identity, post-delivery response, AI, and business processes.

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