AI is reshaping the SOC with humans and AI agents ultimately working side by side. The opportunities to relieve alert fatigue and increase efficacy are clear. But those are only some of the benefits. Tech-Channels caught up with John Morgan, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Splunk Security, at RSAC 2026, where Cisco and Splunk made a flurry of announcements, introducing AI agents and building a framework that will help organizations put the right security controls in place. Just seven weeks into his tenure, Morgan discussed the importance of managing non-human identities, keeping humans in the loop and reimagining work.
Gains in AI-assisted Coding Are Exposing New DevOps Bottleneck
Despite soaring investment, AI-accelerated productivity is broadly failing to translate into actual business value, in part due to a stark bottleneck between software development and actual delivery. While AI has undoubtedly made code creation much faster, many software teams are running into downstream bottlenecks such as code review, testing, security, integration, and release processes, a new study by autonomous code validation platform CircleCI has revealed. CircleCI analyzed over 28 million continuous integration (CI) workflows to reach its conclusion, finding that, while teams are creating far more code, less of that code is making it into production.
Top 5 Forces Driving the Shift From IoT to Autonomous Operations
Enterprise IoT has completed a long and uneven journey from experimental connectivity to industrial-scale deployment. Connected devices, cloud platforms, and data pipelines now operate as established infrastructure across sectors ranging from manufacturing and energy to logistics and transportation. Insights from IoT Analytics’ State of Enterprise IoT 2026 report explore the ongoing decisive transition toward autonomous, cross-ecosystem operations, shaped by five interlocking forces.
SRE Is Gaining Ground in DevOps and Revealing What Speed Broke
Every software team knows the feeling–a release looks solid in development as the feature passes review and the code behaves exactly as expected. Then it meets the real environment and suddenly the confidence evaporates. Performance dips and soon enough dependencies break. Something in the infrastructure refuses to cooperate. That moment is where Site Reliability Engineering becomes relevant. SRE was built around a simple idea: bring infrastructure thinking into the development process early enough to catch problems before they become outages, delays, or expensive rounds of rework. It is an elegant idea and, in many cases, a highly effective one. But the more interesting story is not that SRE helps developers move faster. It is that SRE exposes how much modern software delivery still depends on people who understand the systems beneath the code.
Pentagon’s Quarrel with Anthropic Poses Risk to the New Politics of Technology
The U.S. Defense Department’s designation of the AI firm Anthropic a “supply-chain risk to national security,” effectively banning it from defense work and forcing contractors to stop using its systems showed just how fragile the relationship between Silicon Valley and national security is. Anthropic moved quickly to challenge the move in court, arguing that the decision was legally unsound and risks damaging the country’s AI ecosystem, and was granted a preliminary injunction which put the ban on pause. Yet the conflict exposes a deeper tension that has been building for months inside Washington: the military wants unrestricted access to advanced AI systems, while some of the companies building them want limits on how those systems can be used.