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The average enterprise now runs more than 45 separate security products, according to a Gartner estimate Sophos cited when it introduced Sophos Fusion in July. That sprawl means more dashboards and manual correlation work for security teams already outnum

ReliaQuest's 2026 Annual Threat Report found that attackers moved from initial access to lateral movement in as little as four minutes last year, the fastest breakout time the company has recorded and 85% quicker than the previous year's mark. The … The p

When an autonomous AI escapes its sandbox to hack a major tech company, science fiction becomes science fact. It is time for executives to take rogue foundation models incredibly seriously. I have spent decades analyzing the technology industry, observing

We are currently navigating one of the most profound transformative phases in the history of the tech industry. As brilliantly demonstrated by the opening video at the AMD Advancing AI 2026 Keynote in San Francisco, the raw computational power required …

Most AI-driven security tools lean on retrieval-augmented generation: pull relevant precedent, drop it into the context window, let the model reason over it. It works, but it has a cost problem and a consistency problem. The more data you feed … The post

Microsoft Patch Tuesdays are getting bigger. In a blog post published July 9, Windows and Devices EVP Pavan Davuluri explained that AI is now helping Windows engineers find security flaws that used to sit undiscovered in the code for years, … The post Rec

It began, as these things often do, with a nostalgic scroll through my social media feed. I was on Facebook when a post from one of my old IBM colleagues caught my eye. We were reminiscing about the "good old … The post Buying Tech Without Training Is a M

The rise of remote work has changed the way security teams think about where sensitive data lives and how it moves. Today, these sensitive assets are no longer confined to office networks, on-prem servers, and managed devices. Instead, it's spread … The p

Illinois has chosen to move before Washington. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act on July 6, 2026, adding transparency, accountability and audit requirements for the largest artificial intelligence developers. The law