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Deepfakes are increasingly being used to bypass conventional MFA recovery processes, allowing bad actors to impersonate employees and gain unauthorized access. This article outlines a framework for secure MFA recovery, emphasizing stronger evidence requirements, process discipline, and the use of detection and prevention controls like liveness detection. CISOs are advised to assess current workflows and prioritize high-privilege accounts to mitigate deepfake threats.

This article discusses how AI, particularly generative and agentic AI, is transforming learning management systems (LMS) by making content creation and knowledge sharing easier for employees. Instructure's chief architect, Zach Pendleton, explains in a podcast how AI helps organizations move beyond compliance-focused training to skills development, enabling more immersive and just-in-time learning. Agentic AI also democratizes tool creation and automates tasks for learning and development departments, empowering motivated individuals to solve problems without needing deep technical expertise.

Cloud cost management, or FinOps, should be an architectural requirement from the outset, not an accounting afterthought. Bad design decisions in the cloud environment directly translate to higher bills, making it essential for architects to consider unit economics alongside performance, security, and resilience. Effective cost optimization happens during the design phase through thoughtful choices about service tiers, data retention, and scalability, rather than through reactive cost-cutting measures after deployment.