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Amelia Kinsinger

Nothing lasts forever—maybe not even the human-in-the-loop protocol.

During a March 23 panel at the RSAC 2026 Conference, Francis deSouza, COO and president of security products at Google Cloud, told the audience that the idea of human-led defenses is “long gone” because the speed of AI attacks is making it hard for traditional safeguards to keep pace.

“The idea of having a human in the loop on a lot of defense processes [is] just too slow when you have an agentic attack,” he said.

Speed up the response.—BM

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SOFTWARE

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As if the help desk wasn’t busy enough with resetting passwords and setting permissions, now there’s a new challenge: educating employees about the risks of shadow AI, which is the unauthorized use of AI tools in an organization’s workflows.

Experts like CEO of Unthread Tom Bachant suggest that IT professionals use device monitoring and other tactics to stay ahead of employees who might deploy shadow AI. Others, like Will Adams, president of pipIQ, a private AI platform that provides closed AI systems from a company’s own data, told IT Brew that understanding why employees are using AI tools can unlock organizational innovation and efficiency.

So, what happens next? Adams said if the help desk identified an employee using shadow AI, and that use resulted in a security or data loss issue, the organization’s IT professionals should have a conversation with that employee about why they used that model. What were they hoping to achieve?

Forward thinking.—CN

CYBERSECURITY

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A leak of the Claude codebase might seem like a five-alarm fire for Anthropic, the chatbot’s creator, but some experts told IT Brew the situation isn’t quite that dire.

The code, which is not the underlying architecture of Claude but the guidance behind the model, was leaked online by accident in version 2.1.88 of Anthropic’s Claude Code npm package. Inside the package was a source map file with over 512,000 lines of code related to the application.

Riding goofy. While the leak wasn’t as damaging as it could have been, it was still potentially embarrassing for Anthropic; according to Melissa Bischoping, senior director of security and product design research at Tanium, the leak could be seen as more of a “goof” than a disaster because, while it’s not ideal, it’s also not unheard of—it’s Anthropic’s position as an AI leader that makes it more newsworthy.

Checked out.—EH

PATCH NOTES

Francis Scialabba

Today’s top IT reads.

Stat: 16%. That’s the proportion of workers that social media company Snap is laying off. (the Wall Street Journal)

Quote: “The very communities that are most dependent on digital platforms for finding information, exploring their identities, and forming communities due to the lack of safe offline environments for doing so are the same ones most susceptible to being swept up in blunt-force enforcement measures.”—Alexander Monea, George Mason University associate professor, on X’s latest bot purge (Wired)

Read: The great compute crunch is upon us. (Tech Brew)

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