Eoin Higgins

Reporter, IT Brew

Eoin Higgins is a reporter with IT Brew. His work focuses on cybersecurity, IT jobs, and government tech. Eoin’s work has appeared in outlets around the country and around the world, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Intercept, the Nation, MSNBC, and many others. His first book, on tech billionaires and the media, is available now. He lives in New England with his family.

A quantum computer
Hardware

The future of quantum is coming fast

“Those are very real world, tangible applications; they’re not research projects, we’re not doing abstract mathematical problems,” quantum exec says.

Eoin Higgins
A portrait of Andrea Abell, chief information security officer at Eli Lilly, a biopharma company
Cybersecurity

AI could provide key to healthcare cybersecurity

“I think we can produce tools, and I think we can do it easily now with AI that we couldn’t before,” Eli Lilly CISO says.

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Legos
Hardware

Lego’s new Smart Play technology involved IT pros in its development

“We think about the security of the code, we think about the security of the communication, we think about the physical security,” Lego SVP tells IT Brew.

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Blurry people in business suits walk in an office hallway.
IT Operations

Investments in AI were a major concern at CES

“To do business, we have to be able to agree on these security parameters,” Eli Lilly CISO tells IT Brew.

Eoin Higgins
a man waves at two silver robots in front of a Hisense booth at CES 2026 in Las Vegas
Cybersecurity

At CES, it was all about robotics, from AI to security

“People are using it because it’s fun to do new things, but it can’t just be fun—it also has to be safe,” PwC analyst tells IT Brew.

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INternet of things trash
Hardware

IoT and AI are working together to evolve capabilities

There is a “Cambrian explosion” of AI capabilities right now, exec tells IT Brew.

Eoin Higgins
In the Modern Data Center: IT Engineer is Holding New HDD Hard Drive Prepared for Installing Hardware Equipment into Server Rack. IT Specialist Doing Maintenance and Updating Hardware.
Hardware

AI’s tech integration includes hardware, software, and everything else

“We’ve invested heavily in onboarding AI engineering,” says Lenovo exec.

Eoin Higgins
the CES logo appears on a wall with conference attendees, blurry, walking in front of it
CES

What we saw at CES 2026

There were so many different androids in the main hall and at auxiliary sites that we started to feel like it was B-roll for a Terminator movie.

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CFO to CEO path
IT Operations

From cybersecurity to AI to Apple: December in the C-suite

The final shuffle for 2025.

Eoin Higgins
The exterior of a US Citizenship and Immigration Services building.
IT Strategy

H-1B requirements could be security nightmare

“Anything that can be switched to public and then back off again opens yourself up for scraping,” cybersecurity expert says.

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