The 2025 DEF CON hacker conference, officially DEF CON 33, took place last August in Las Vegas with the theme, “Access Everywhere”. The event drew more than 30,000 cybersecurity professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts for presentations, workshops, networking, and competitions. DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge The centerpiece of this year’s event was the conclusion of the AI… Continue reading Access Everywhere: Notes on Cyber Security from DEF CON 33
Category: AI & Copilot
AI Over 40 Series – Week 9: Literacy Before Agency
Why we keep making the same mistakes How a room full of leaders convinced me we’re repeating 50 years of hype Last week, I joined a panel of seasoned executives buzzing about “agentic AI” and its promise to transform every facet of business—from client engagement to workforce structure. The big ask? Hire AI specialists. But… Continue reading AI Over 40 Series – Week 9: Literacy Before Agency
How Copilot in Business Central Helps Finance Teams Work Smarter
The promise of AI has remained elusive for many finance professionals. To ensure adherence to regulatory and audit requirements, many finance teams have been slow to integrate AI capabilities into their daily workflow. Reluctant to use AI in your finance team? Copilot in Business Central can help your finance team do more, faster, and with… Continue reading How Copilot in Business Central Helps Finance Teams Work Smarter
AI Over 40 Series – Week 8: Building Your AI User Manual
Why the most critical AI skills have nothing to do with prompt engineering Here’s a deceptively simple question that transformed how I collaborate with AI: Do I need to be polite to a machine? You might scoff—“Greg, it’s a computer, not a person!”—but hear me out. AI models are trained on the full spectrum of… Continue reading AI Over 40 Series – Week 8: Building Your AI User Manual
AI Over 40 Series – Week 7: The Multi-AI Approach
How a forecasting nightmare led to my biggest AI breakthrough In Week 1, I shared how a frustrating forecasting exercise pushed me onto this AI journey. This week, I’ve come full circle: the same challenge showed me why relying on a single AI platform is too limiting—and how a multi-AI approach can transform not only… Continue reading AI Over 40 Series – Week 7: The Multi-AI Approach
AI Over 40 Series – Week 6: Your Research Synthesis Partner
How AI turned months of stalled research into actionable insights—in minutes When ArcherPoint joined Cherry Bekaert in October, one opportunity rose to the top: cross-selling. Overnight, our clients could access Cherry Bekaert’s broader services, and their clients could tap our Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central expertise. Simple in theory—hard in practice. The Cheesecake Factory problem… Continue reading AI Over 40 Series – Week 6: Your Research Synthesis Partner
Get Ready for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 2 (BC27): Smarter, Faster, More Connected
Business Central 2025 Release Wave 2 (BC27) will be released between October 2025 and March 2026, with general availability beginning October 1, 2025. This release offers features for intelligent automation, AI-driven productivity, enhanced e-document workflows, fintech-friendly extensibility, compliance tools, and refined quality controls. Here are some standout features that will empower both users and developers to achieve more with less… Continue reading Get Ready for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 2 (BC27): Smarter, Faster, More Connected
AI for Basic Writing – From Blank Page Paralysis to Your Personal Editorial Board
AI Over 40 Series – Week 5 How AI gave me the editorial team I always needed but could never afford For years, I’ve been the guy who said I’d write a book “someday.” Full of stories and hard-won experience, yet unable to get past the blank page. Every time I sat down to write,… Continue reading AI for Basic Writing – From Blank Page Paralysis to Your Personal Editorial Board
Understanding AI Limitations
AI Over 40 Series – Week 4 When Your AI Therapist Outperforms Your AI Developer When I asked Claude and ChatGPT to act as personal behavioral psychologists, I fed them a decade’s worth of personality assessments—DISC, Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder, and more—and challenged them to build a comprehensive psychometric profile. They synthesized fresh insights and tailored real-world… Continue reading Understanding AI Limitations
The Art of Prompting – Basic Communication with AI
AI Over 40 Series – Week 3 Many of us have treated AI like a fickle search engine—demanding perfect queries, agonizing over keywords, and double-checking every answer for “hallucinations.” That approach quickly becomes exhausting and unscalable. In this week’s installment of our “AI for the Over 40” series, we’ll flip the script: instead of engineering… Continue reading The Art of Prompting – Basic Communication with AI