Justin Greis @JustinGreis

🎶 One of my favorite summer traditions is spending evenings at Ravinia Festival. Looking back through some of my favorite moments from last season, I'm reminded that Ravinia is about so much more than great performances. It's about time with family and friends, unforgettable summer evenings, and connecting through the universal language of music. Looking through my photos, there are far too many memories to fit into a single post. As we count down to Saturday's season kickoff, the anticipation feels even greater this year. The beautifully renovated Hunter Pavilion is ready to welcome audiences, the lawn is lush, and the park is buzzing with excitement. I can't wait to create more memories at one of my favorite places to spend a summer evening. I'm also incredibly proud that acceligence is a Mainstage Sponsor for such an important, mission-driven organization. Ravinia enriches our communities, brings people together, and makes the arts accessible. Supporting that mission is deeply important to us. If you haven't explored this year's lineup yet, I highly recommend taking a look at hubs.la/Q04pb45Z0. Whether it's your first visit or your five hundredth, there's something special about discovering an artist you love - or a genre you've never experienced - packing a picnic, and enjoying an unforgettable evening under the stars. 🤘 Here's to another amazing season. I hope to see you there!

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🙆‍♂️ "Human in the loop" only works if the human has accurate information. As AI agents become trusted participants in the enterprise, governance has to extend beyond model behavior to include permissions, trust boundaries, and accountability. Thanks to Evan Schuman and CSO Online for including my perspective in the discussion.

acceligence @acceligence

2 weeks ago

🤔 What happens when the "human in the loop" is making decisions with incomplete information? Most conversations about AI security focus on what the model knows. The more pertinent question is what the model is allowed to do. As AI agents move beyond generating code and begin

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I enjoyed contributing to this @Computerworld piece on the growing governance challenges surrounding AI meeting assistants. One of the things I find most interesting about this moment is that we're still talking about AI as though it's another APPLICATION to deploy rather than a PERSON who earned a seat at the meeting because they are trusted, trained, and understand the rules for participating. Those are all settings that need to be configured, and they can vary wildly by person, organization, geography, or topic. The reality is that AI will increasingly participate in work alongside people, making governance, trust, accountability, and organizational design just as important as the technology itself. I suspect that, a few years from now, AI note takers will feel like a no-brainer, but for now, it still makes many people nervous, and for good reason! As I shared with Evan Schuman in the article, AI note takers are "...simultaneously incredibly valuable and outrageously risky!" For me, they play a huge part in my daily workflow, but I am all too happy to turn them off and have a good old-fashioned 1:1 conversation. How are you thinking about AI note-taking assistants? 👍 or 👎 🏷️ @acceligence • @JustinGreisCom

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3 weeks ago

🤖 Today's AI note takers are simply the first AI participants in the enterprise. Over the next few years, AI agents won't just summarize meetings. They'll extract decisions, assign work, update business systems, prepare follow-up documents, and collaborate with other AI agents

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✨ Last night was a special evening. I was honored to be recognized by Consulting Magazine as one of its Top Consultants for 2026, surrounded by so many colleagues and friends I’ve admired throughout my career. As I reflected on the evening, I found myself thinking less about the recognition and more about the profession itself, a profession I fell in love with long ago. Every major technological shift forces us to rediscover our purpose, and I believe AI is doing exactly that for consulting and professional services. For a long time, many people thought information was our product. AI is reminding us that it never was. Our greatest value has always been insight, judgment, and trust. That is the irreducible core of what we do, and it matters now more than ever. I’m grateful to the many clients, colleagues, mentors, and friends who have placed their trust in me over the years. Thank you to the acceligence family, our Advisory Board, Executive Advisors, Consultants, Alliance Partners, and Partners, and to everyone who has made this journey so meaningful. I’m especially grateful to my kids, who remind me every day why the work matters, not just for them, but for the generations that follow. Thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey as we build a truly independent, AI-powered, human-centered, expertise-driven management consulting firm. The best is yet to come! 🚀

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🚀 The world of consulting and professional services at large is changing like never before. For those with deep expertise and the humanity to make it stick, there has never been a better, more exciting time to be in these converging professions! I shared my thoughts on the role of Forward Deployed Engineers, Consultants, contractors, and professional services - in the age of AI - in Evan Schuman's latest @Computerworld article.

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a month ago

🤖 💼 One of the most interesting developments in enterprise AI is how the professional services landscape is changing around it. Forward-deployed engineers or "FDEs" are blurring the traditional boundaries between software vendors, consultants, and implementation partners. AI

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⚠️ Cyber threats target people and exploit human emotion, not just system vulnerabilities. 📱 I received an SMS phishing attempt today (one of hundreds per week) impersonating the @ILSecOfState and using urgency, fear, and legal language to drive action. This is exactly how modern social engineering works - exploit trust, create pressure, and trigger a reaction before verification. A few Wednesday-worthy reminders: 👆 Never click links in unexpected text messages ✔️ Verify requests through official channels 🚩 Treat urgency as a red flag, not a call to action 📨 These sorts of attacks extend far beyond email Cybersecurity is no longer just a tech issue. It’s a leadership, operational, and human-risk issue.

What an amazing couple of days with the NACD and US Secret Service Cybersecurity Board Academy. It was a wonderful event with great discussions and insights from real-life superheroes, experts, and board directors. I was proud to facilitate the “Securing the Board” session and share how to keep Directors safe from cyber threats. @JustinGreisCom @acceligence

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🏎️💨 Speed is easy. Harnessing it safely is the hard part. 〰️The line between IT and the business is gone. Everyone can build. Few can do it responsibly. 📣 This is the new CIO mandate: enable innovation at speed without losing control. 🎚️We call it Safe Velocity. 💡Worth a read by my @acceligence colleague, Yuri Goryunov👇

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4 months ago

💡 acceligence insights: The blurred frontier: why the CIO’s new job is safe velocity Yuri Goryunov shares his perspective on why AI didn't just accelerate delivery - it collapsed the boundary between IT and the business, forcing CIOs to master a new discipline: enabling

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🚀 Big news for @acceligence today! I’m incredibly excited to share that David Neuman has joined us as Partner and Chief Operating Officer. David has spent more than four decades leading cybersecurity and global operations at some of the most complex organizations in the world - from commanding the Air Force’s first cyber hunting unit to securing a $60B global supply chain. He’s also been serving as Chair of our Advisory Board, helping shape the firm behind the scenes. Now he’s jumping in full-time to help scale the firm and lead our cybersecurity practice. We’re living through one of the most significant technology shifts of our lifetime as AI reshapes how organizations operate, compete, and defend themselves. That kind of change demands leaders who understand both the technology and the operational realities of running complex enterprises. David is exactly that kind of leader. More importantly, he’s someone I trust deeply and genuinely enjoy working with - which matters more than any resume line. Also, after 40 years of leadership experience, he somehow still brings more energy to meetings than the rest of us combined. I’m still trying to figure out how he does that. Excited for what we’re building together. 👏 Welcome aboard, David.

acceligence @acceligence

4 months ago

📰 acceligence news: acceligence appoints global cybersecurity and operations leader David Neuman as Partner and Chief Operating Officer From commanding the Air Force's first cyber hunting unit to securing a $60 billion global supply chain, David has spent four decades leading

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This week's market reaction to Anthropic's Claude Code Security rollout signals something bigger than product momentum. It reflects a belief that parts of the security stack may be reordered as AI-native capabilities mature. Strengthening code security and the SDLC is a win. Models that can reason across large codebases and surface patterns that traditional tools miss represent real progress. But expanding one layer of the stack does not eliminate the rest. EDR, IAM, threat intelligence, and data protection (a few select examples) remain foundational. What’s changing is the operating model. AI is decoupling security outcomes from pure headcount growth. Coverage and speed to insight can increase without linear hiring. That shift will reshape strategy, workforce expectations, and competitive dynamics across the industry. Governance must evolve just as quickly. When foundation models become embedded in development pipelines, elements of your security posture are influenced by systems outside your direct control. The opportunity is significant. So is the responsibility. @acceligence CEO @JustinGreis shares his perspective with Evan Schuman in @CSOonline on what this means for security leaders navigating the next phase of AI-native defense. How are you thinking about competitive pressure, workforce evolution, and governance as AI moves deeper into the stack? 🔗 Read the full article here: csoonline.com/article/413629…

👏 Big kudos to PayPal for phasing out SMS-based MFA. 📰 I had the chance to weigh in on this in Evan Schuman's recent CSO Online piece - and he did a great job unpacking the tension between security, cost, and user friction. Appreciate the thoughtful coverage, Evan. 📱 SMS was always better than nothing. But that's a low bar. 📵 SIM swapping and SIM jacking attacks are still rising, and when your second factor is tied to a phone number that can be ported, compromised, or socially engineered, you don't have strong authentication - you have a speed bump. 🥸 And for a brand as heavily spoofed as PayPal, that risk isn't theoretical. Judging from my inbox, PayPal, Norton, and Geek Squad hold the title of the most spoofed brands in my spam folder. 🏆 🏋 The real tension has always been convenience versus security. Leaders worry about friction, security teams worry about exposure. Meanwhile, phishing-resistant options like passkeys and FIDO2 (not to mention authenticators) have been sitting there, waiting for broader adoption 🚩. And while they are not 100% perfect, they are much better than SMS! 🧐 So here's the question: are we optimizing for convenience, or for resilience? Does it have to be a choice with today's modern authentication? 🛬 Curious where others land... ❓❓❓ Is SMS-based MFA still "good enough" in your environment? ❓❓❓ 🚩 Reality flag: implementation and adoption of MFA is easier said than done on legacy systems... 🔗 csoonline.com/article/413425…

😱 Oh no! Did you miss the @bishopfox AI & Security Risks panel? 😎 No problem! Check out the replay on their website... 👏 Huge thanks to Andy Chou (Ventrilo), Christie Terrill (Bishop Fox), Kris Kimmerle (RealPage, Inc.), and Nick Selby (EPSD, Inc.) for a fun and insightful panel! And special shout-out to Rachel Chism and Gwen Murphy for orchestrating the whole thing. 🔗 Watch here:bishopfox.com/resources/ai-s… 🏷️ @acceligence • @JustinGreisCom

This will be fun! Join us for a great discussion on February 11 at 2:00 PM ET.

Bishop Fox @bishopfox

6 months ago

AI isn’t waiting for your governance model to catch up. Security leaders from EPSD, Inc, @bishopfox, @acceligence, @RealPage, and @VentriloAI break down what’s actually working (and what isn’t) when it comes to AI risk. Feb 11, 2026 @ 2 p.m. ET

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🤖 Agentic AI isn’t creating a new identity problem. 🔥 It’s pouring gasoline on one we never finished fixing. Non-human identities already outnumber humans by the millions in most enterprises. Autonomous agents just turn that imbalance into a math problem no CISO can win with human-scale processes. Most identity programs assume humans request access and wait for approval. Agentic AI doesn't. That gap is where control breaks down. We've spent years pretending we could inventory our way out of this. 😱 Spoiler: we can’t. Visibility is partial at best, governance foundations are shaky, and agents don’t politely wait for IAM workflows to catch up. They spawn, inherit trust, and act at machine speed. Evan Schuman does a great job reporting this important topic in @CSOonline, laying out why identity is quietly becoming the operating system of trust - and why applying human controls to machine-scale problems is a dead end. Worth the read if you're responsible for identity, security, or explaining to leadership why "just add more process" isn’t a strategy anymore. 👉 Read more here: csoonline.com/article/412324… 🗓️ If you enjoyed this article and topic, join me next week for a Bishop Fox panel on AI and security risks. Get all the details here: acceligence.com/about/news/eve…

🔐 91% of users log in at their highest level of privilege. That’s not a tooling gap. That’s what happens when complexity wins, and humans do what humans always do - take the easy road. Always-on privileged access sticks around because it works…right up until it doesn't. Legacy systems, fragile integrations, and operational fear - sprinkled with a touch of process laziness - turn “temporary exceptions” into permanent risk. Multiply that by non-human identities, and things get spicy fast. Appreciate Evan Schuman for the smart, thoughtful reporting in CSO Online and for quoting me in this piece. It's a good look at why Privileged Access Management (PAM) is heading for a real reset - not because teams are careless, but because many of our access models were never designed for the environments we’re running today. Worth a read if you’re responsible for identity, risk, or explaining to a board why “least privilege” is harder than it sounds. 👉 csoonline.com/article/412318… #cybersecurity #identity #pam #risk #leadership

🌟 I’m super excited to welcome M.J. Vaidya as an Executive Advisor at @acceligence . I've gotten to know M.J. as someone who's actually lived at the intersection of cybersecurity, enterprise technology, and AI - not in theory, but in the chair. At a time when technology and cyber are converging, and the line between business strategy and technology strategy has all but disappeared, M.J. has led from the front. He's been accountable for outcomes, navigated real complexity, and tackled some of the hardest trust and emerging technology challenges that global organizations face today. One of the things I believe deeply is that leaders shouldn't have to slow down or learn the hard way when the stakes are high. Our executive advisors bring on-demand, real-world experience to help clients make better decisions faster - and M.J. embodies exactly what that looks like. I'm grateful for his innovative approach, his battle-tested track record, and the opportunity to build great things together.

acceligence @acceligence

6 months ago

📰 @acceligence news: acceligence welcomes global technology, AI, and cybersecurity leader M.J. Vaidya as Executive Advisor A seasoned CIO, CISO, and board advisor, M.J. brings deep experience helping global enterprises operationalize AI, strengthen cyber resilience, and lead

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✨ When I think about what makes an outstanding Executive Advisor, I look for three things: heart, head, and hands. ♥️ HEART - strong values, sound judgment, and a genuine care for people. 🧠 HEAD - deep expertise, insight, creativity, and the executive experience to see around corners. 👐 HANDS - the ability to turn strategy into action, communicate clearly, and actually get things done. That’s why I’m excited to welcome Michael Yadgar as an Executive Advisor at @acceligence. Michael brings all three (plus many more)... With three decades of board-level and executive experience, he has guided global enterprises through high-stakes transformation with operational discipline, technology foresight, and a people-first mindset. He knows how to lead complex change without losing momentum, trust, or humanity along the way. I’m thrilled to have Michael join our Executive Advisor team and look forward to the impact he’ll have on our clients and our work ahead. Welcome to the team, Michael. 🎉 🔗 Read more about Michael here: acceligence.com/talent/profile… 👥 Check out our growing Executive Advisor and board profiles here: acceligence.com/talent/profile… ✉️ Interested in joining? Drop us a line: acceligence.com/contact/

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6 months ago

📰 @acceligence news: acceligence welcomes people-first enterprise transformation leader Michael Yadgar as Executive Advisor Michael Yadgar brings three decades of board-level and executive advisory experience, guiding enterprises through complex ERP-enabled transformations. He

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❌ Boards don’t need more cyber metrics; they need context. That context comes from leaders who understand the business, can articulate where risk lives, and can explain how today's strategy reshapes tomorrow's exposure and what we're going to do about it. I recently joined Paul John Spaulding on the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast to talk about why cyber resilience has become a core leadership competency. Not a technology problem to delegate, but a governance and decision-making challenge that shows up in the boardroom long before an incident or breach occurs. We discussed what actually differentiates organizations that handle cyber risk well: 🏭 CISOs who understand the business as deeply as they understand the threat landscape 🗜️ executive teams that practice decision-making under pressure ❓ boards that ask better questions because they’re given the right context The short version: resilience isn't built through controls and tools alone. It's built through clarity, preparation, and leadership. 🎧 Listen to the podcast and read the summary below 👇 or on acceligence.com/insights.

acceligence @acceligence

6 months ago

💡 @acceligence insights: Why cyber resilience is now a leadership competency: a Cybercrime Magazine podcast Cyber risk is no longer a technical issue to be delegated - it's a leadership test that shows up when pressure is highest. In this Cybercrime Magazine podcast,

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