Identity controls in the enterprise have only become more complicated over the last few years.

Initially, the focus was on IoT devices, which were exploding in the enterprise environment. But recent years have brought an onslaught of AI tools and AI agents, all of which come with security and governance complications.

How can business leaders get a grip on the adoption of AI agents, particularly as these tools begin to communicate with one another and with third-party enterprise tools?

In this episode, Rory speaks to Shiven Ramji, president, Auth0 at Okta, to discuss the future of identity, security and governance in the face of AI agents.

January is supposed to be a month full of new starts and potential, in which we try to embrace resolutions or set out our plans for the year ahead.

But in the tech sector, it’s become something of an ominous month – the start of layoff season. January 2026 has been no different, with Amazon announcing 16,000 jobs cut in a plan that could see up to 30,000 cut by the end of May according to Reuters.

Earlier in the month, Dell made waves at CES 2026 with the news that it’s reviving the XPS laptop line, just one year on from its announcement that the brand would be deprecated. What can we make of the job cuts and of Dell's reversal?

In this episode, Rory welcomes back Ross Kelly, ITPro's news and analysis editor, to explore some of January's biggest stories.

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1. Amazon is cutting 14,000 roles in a bid to ‘operate like the world's largest startup’
2. ‘Lean into it’: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy thinks enterprises need to embrace AI to avoid being left behind – even if that means fewer jobs in the future
3. Fresh Microsoft layoffs hit software engineering roles, documents show
4. Return of the XPS: Dell resurrects iconic brand at CES after customer demand
5. Dell kills off XPS and other brands for PC simplicity

Every business wants its payments to process smoothly. Simply put, if you’re introducing friction into your payment processes, you’re making it harder to drive revenue and dissuading users from becoming return customers.

One sector that knows this better than most is iGaming, which has to meet the demands of users around the world including mobile payments, virtual wallets, and cross-border social gaming payouts.

Delivering all this in near real-time, with adequate security and reliable infrastructure, is no small feat. How are these payment systems possible?

In this special edition of the ITPro Podcast, in association with Paysafe, Rory is joined by Bob Legters, chief product officer at Paysafe, to discuss the best practices for building a payments strategy – and how this can be applied to iGaming.

One of the major challenges of today’s environments is the rising tide of bots, with generative AI driving a new era of the technology.

Bots have been a part of the internet since at least the 1990s but recent technological advancements have swollen their number exponentially. Some of these net dwellers are benign, others are malicious, and some sit somewhere in between.

But no matter what category they fall into, they can all cause problems for businesses. How much of an issue is this for businesses and what can they do to mitigate it?

In this special discussion, in association with Fastly, Jane speaks to Marshall Irwin, chief information security officer (CISO) at Fastly, to discover more about how organizations can protect themselves from the risks of bots.

The environmental impact of AI is a growing area of study and one that businesses must begin to seriously consider.

When you power a data center with coal, it’s obvious that it’s having a detrimental impact on the environment. But is a ‘green’ data center really green? And to what extent might the benefits of AI outweigh potential environmental negatives?

In this episode, Jane and Rory discuss the shifting sustainability targets of the world’s public cloud giants, as caused by AI, and what they’re doing to get back on track.

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1. Microsoft Environmental Sustainability Report 2025
2. Amazon 2024 Sustainability Report
3. Google 2025 Environmental Report
4. Google emissions have surged 51% in five years – but it’s making solid progress in data center efficiency
5. Data center carbon emissions are set to skyrocket by 2030, with hyperscalers producing 2.5 billion tons of carbon
6. Small businesses are ‘flying blind’ on carbon emissions and struggling to meet sustainability goals – and the blame lies with big tech vendors
7. Big tech’s solution for AI-related carbon emissions could be more AI
8. Microsoft wants to drastically cut carbon emissions, so it’s building data centers with wood
9. Can small modular reactors meet data center power demand?
10. Google just confirmed the location of its first small modular reactor
11. Hyperscalers go nuclear
12. Gas-powered data centers: what's behind the boom?
13. Could all data centers go solar?
14. TPUs: Google's home advantage
15. What is a tensor processing unit (TPU)?
16. AI’s thirsty secret

The tech sector started this year with a bang at CES 2026, the annual event that brings together over 140,000 attendees to share the latest innovations in consumer and business technology.

Unsurprisingly, at this year’s event AI was a primary focus – with more details on Nvidia and AMD’s latest hardware, alongside AI PC innovations by brands like Lenovo.

Alongside these headlines, however, we also saw a return to form by companies such as Dell, with the resurrection of the XPS laptop range.

What did we learn from CES about what to expect in business hardware over the coming year?

In this episode, Jane and Rory are joined by Mike Moore, deputy editor at TechRadar Pro, to discuss the biggest moments from CES 2026.

We’re just over a week into 2026 but already, enterprise cybersecurity teams will be hard at work repelling attacks – and business leaders will be worrying about the year ahead.

On the one hand, we’re told that AI tools are beginning to empower security teams to go further and faster. On the other, the use of AI by hackers to launch attacks also appears to be on the rise.

All of this is happening against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions and continual attacks by state-sponsored hacking groups against businesses. How will all this come together in 2026 and beyond?

In this episode, Jane and Rory are joined by Jamie Collier, lead advisor in Europe at Google Threat Intelligence Group, to explore the risks – both novel and ordinary – enterprises face in 2026.

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1. NCSC issues urgent warning over growing AI prompt injection risks – here’s what you need to know
2. Cyber experts have been warning about AI-powered DDoS attacks – now they’re becoming a reality
3. Salt Typhoon attack on US congressional email system ‘exposes how vulnerable core communications systems remain to nation-state actors’
4. OpenAI says prompt injection attacks are a serious threat for AI browsers – and it’s a problem that’s ‘unlikely to ever be fully solved'
5. OpenAI turns to red teamers to prevent malicious ChatGPT use as company warns future models could pose 'high' security risk
6. A flaw in Google’s new Gemini CLI tool could’ve allowed hackers to exfiltrate data
7. Google says you shouldn't worry about AI malware – but that won’t last long as hackers refine techniques
8. North Korean IT workers: The growing threat
9. North Korean hackers continue targeting developers in open source malware campaign - and experts say as many as 36,000 victims have been snared so far
10. CRINK attacks: which nation state hackers will be the biggest threat in 2026?

As we ring in the new year, we’re returning to the ITPro tradition of looking ahead and discussing the key trends that will shape the tech sector in 2026.

While there will undoubtedly be surprises ahead, both exciting and concerning, it’s also possible to look at some of the standout moments from 2025 to help us understand where we’re headed.

So what can we expect IT decision makers to come up against in 2026?

For this new year’s edition of the podcast, Jane and Rory welcome back Ross Kelly, ITPro’s News and Analysis Editor, to discuss the key trends that will shape 2026.

1. AI adoption is finally driving ROI for B2B teams in the UK and EU
2. AI is finally delivering bang for its buck, according to Microsoft
3. UK firms are pouring money into AI, but they won’t see a return on investment unless they address these key issues
4. Former NCSC head says the Jaguar Land Rover attack was the 'single most financially damaging cyber event ever to hit the UK' as impact laid bare
5. If you're not taking insider threats seriously, then the CrowdStrike incident should be a big wake up call
6. North Korean IT workers: The growing threat
7. US Department of Energy’s supercomputer shopping spree continues with Solstice and Equinox
8. Inside Isambard-AI: The UK’s most powerful supercomputer
9. Nvidia just announced new supercomputers and an open AI model family for science at SC 2025

2025 has almost come to a close and the new year is right around the corner.

At this time of year, it’s usual to reflect on the year and consider some of the biggest, most impactful things that have happened. But here at ITPro, we like to take a different approach: what didn’t happen?

The tech industry can’t help but make bold promises and some just don’t pan out. What are some of the biggest targets, trends, and predictions that just haven’t come to fruition in 2025?

In this episode, Jane and Rory are once again joined by Ross Kelly, news and analysis editor at ITPro, to discuss the biggest misses of the year.

Read more:

1. Is enterprise agentic AI adoption matching the hype?
2. ‘Agent washing’ is here: Most agentic AI tools are just ‘repackaged’ RPA solutions and chatbots – and Gartner says 40% of projects will be ditched within two years
3. Agentic AI carries huge implications for security teams - here's what leaders should know
4. 'It's slop': OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy pours cold water on agentic AI hype – so your jobs are safe, at least for now
5. IBM is targeting 'quantum advantage' in 12 months – and says useful quantum computing is just a few years away
6. SAS thinks quantum AI has huge enterprise potential – here's why
7. SAS rejects generative AI hype in favor of data fundamentals at Innovate 2025
8. Post-quantum cryptography is now top of mind for cybersecurity leaders
9. Why does Nvidia have a no-chip quantum strategy?
10. Meta executive denies hyping up Llama 4 benchmark scores – but what can users expect from the new models?

Cybersecurity teams are facing a double edged sword of challenges and opportunities. On the one hand, AI tools offer a great deal of autonomous working and the promise of automating some of the more laborious tasks that a cybersecurity team has to undertake.

On the other hand, attackers are also using AI to launch large scale attacks such as sophisticated phishing campaigns and identity theft. To fight this threat, cybersecurity teams will need to unify data like never before and take advantage of as many new technologies and processes as they can.

How can they go about this? And what does a unified cybersecurity strategy really look like in 2026?

In this episode, Rory is joined by Mandy Andress, chief information security officer at Elastic, to explore how businesses can evolve their threat detection and security posture, as well as how AI is lowering the barrier to entry for attackers.

Read more:

1. In the age of AI threats, the future of security is unified
2. AI-generated code is now the cause of one-in-five breaches – but developers and security leaders alike are convinced the technology will come good eventually
3. AI-generated code risks: What CISOs need to know
4. Agentic AI carries huge implications for security teams - here's what leaders should know
5. The NCSC touts honeypots and ‘cyber deception’ tactics as the key to combating hackers — but they could ‘lead to a false sense of security’