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Security

Most AI Agents Still Run on Shared Credentials, and Security Vendors Are Racing to Replace Them

Gravitee found only 21.9% of enterprises treat AI agents as independent identities. Check Point traced a fivefold rise in prompt injection over the same window, and CrowdStrike, Check Point and Trend Micro are now shipping the fix.

September 9, 2026
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Strategy & CIO

The Intel Deadline Lands: macOS 27 Ships Apple-Silicon-Only Into Fleets That Are Already Two Thirds Mac

macOS 27 is the first release that will not run on an Intel Mac. It arrives with CIOs reporting Apple at 65% of enterprise endpoints and a security window that closes around 2028.

September 8, 2026
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Security

Breach Costs Hit a Record, and AI-Driven Attacks Added a Million to the Bill

IBM put the global average breach at $4.99 million, up 12% in a year. More than a quarter of malicious attacks were AI-driven, and those added about a million dollars each.

September 7, 2026
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Compliance & Risk

The EU AI Act Deadline Moved to December 2027. The Work It Required Did Not Get Easier

High-risk AI obligations for hiring and workforce management moved from August 2026 to December 2027. The classification problem underneath them has not moved at all.

September 4, 2026
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Strategy & CIO

Nearly Half of Security Teams Spend More Time Maintaining Tools Than Defending the Organisation

Splunk found 46% of security teams spend more time maintaining tools than defending, and 52% have thought about leaving cybersecurity altogether. The tooling is the workload.

September 3, 2026
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Security

Shadow AI Tripled on Corporate Devices, and Two Thirds of It Runs Through Personal Accounts

Regular AI use on corporate devices went from 15% to 45% of employees in a year, and 67% of it runs through personal accounts. The most commonly uploaded asset is company source code.

September 2, 2026
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Software & Dev

Malicious Packages Rose 73% and One Registry Absorbed Almost All of It

Malicious open source packages rose 73% in 2025 while PyPI detections fell 43% and NuGet fell 60%. Nearly 90% of everything found was in one registry.

September 1, 2026
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Security

Phishing-Resistant Does Not Mean Attack-Resistant: Three Passkey Bypasses Landed at Black Hat

Researchers recovered synced passkey private keys and impersonated privileged Entra ID users despite policies requiring phishing-resistant MFA. The control still works; the marketing around it does not.

August 31, 2026
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Compliance & Risk

The Quantum Deadlines Are Already Fixed, and Most Enterprises Cannot Yet List Their Own Cryptography

NIST expects RSA-2048 and ECC P-256 deprecated by 2030 and quantum-vulnerable algorithms gone by 2035. The obstacle is not the new algorithms, it is producing an inventory of the old ones.

August 30, 2026
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AI & Automation

Nobody Agrees How Bad It Is: Three AI Agent Security Studies, Three Very Different Numbers

One survey puts AI agent security incidents at 65% of enterprises, another at 88%. When 82% are still finding agents they did not know about, the disagreement is the finding.

August 26, 2026
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Network & Infrastructure

AI Inference Is Moving In-House: Public Cloud's Share of Production Workloads Fell 15 Points in a Year

Broadcom's survey of 1,800 IT decision-makers found public cloud's share of production AI inference fell 15 points in a year. The workload that was supposed to belong to hyperscalers is coming home.

August 20, 2026
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Security

Paying Less, Losing More: Ransomware Recovery Costs Are Rising as Ransom Demands Collapse

Median ransom demands have fallen 65% in two years, yet average recovery costs reached $1.7 million. The money did not leave the ransomware economy, it moved from the extortionist to the clean-up.

August 14, 2026
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Network & Infrastructure

On-Premises vs. Cloud: New Research Challenges Conventional Wisdom on Total Cost of Ownership

A comprehensive analysis of 300 enterprise workloads finds that the true cost gap between on-premises and cloud is far narrower than most TCO models suggest, especially at scale.

August 8, 2026
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Security

Zero Trust vs. Perimeter Defence: New Research on Enterprise Risk Reduction

A sweeping analysis of security incident data across 500 enterprises asks whether zero trust architecture has delivered on its promise, and what the data reveals about implementation gaps that persist.

August 8, 2026
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Security

Ransomware Costs Hit a Record $2.1 Billion and Cyber Insurers Are Responding

Insurance market tightening is forcing enterprises to demonstrate measurable security posture improvements before renewal. The specific controls carriers are now requiring as a condition of coverage.

August 8, 2026
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Software & Dev

Cloud Consolidation Rebounds as Budget Pressure Finally Unlocks Platform Rationalisation

After two years of cloud sprawl, IT leaders are consolidating platforms. Leaders share what the next 18 months of cloud simplification is likely to look like, and which providers will benefit.

August 8, 2026
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Strategy & CIO

The CIO's 2026 Reckoning: How IT Leaders Are Rethinking Technology Strategy in an AI-Driven Economy

As AI reshapes every layer of enterprise IT, CIOs face a defining moment: transform the technology operating model or risk being outmaneuvered by faster-moving competitors.

August 8, 2026
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Strategy & CIO

Beyond the Helpdesk: How CIOs Are Becoming the CEO's Closest Strategic Partner

New research maps the capabilities separating CIOs who are driving enterprise transformation from those still managing tickets, and the specific behaviours that define the difference.

August 8, 2026
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AI & Automation

AI in IT Operations: The Promise, the Peril, and the Governance Gap

IT ops teams are deploying AI models faster than governance frameworks can keep up. The organisations that get ahead of this now will have a significant reliability and cost advantage.

August 7, 2026
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Compliance & Risk

NIS2 Is Here, and Most Mid-Market Enterprises Aren't Ready

The NIS2 Directive requirements are now in force. A frank assessment of where most organisations stand, which gaps are most urgent to close, and what regulators are likely to scrutinise first.

August 7, 2026
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AI & Automation

AIOps Is Reshaping IT Service Management, and Legacy Vendors Are Finally Fighting Back

AI-native ITSM platforms have captured significant market share in three years. We look at which legacy vendors are mounting a credible response, and which are losing ground fast.

August 6, 2026
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Software & Dev

Technical Debt: The Hidden Lever Most Engineering Teams Are Ignoring

New benchmarking data shows that engineering organisations in the top quartile of technical debt management ship features 40% faster than peers, yet most CTOs rank remediation low on their priority list.

August 6, 2026
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Network & Infrastructure

SD-WAN Adoption Hits Record Levels as Enterprises Finally Retire Legacy WAN Architecture

New deployment data shows SD-WAN has crossed the mainstream threshold. IT teams that delayed migration are now facing a performance and cost penalty that compounds every quarter.

August 5, 2026
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Compliance & Risk

SEC's New Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules: A Practical Roadmap for IT and Legal Teams

The SEC's final cybersecurity disclosure requirements are in effect. IT and legal teams walk through the six areas most likely to require new data infrastructure and board-level incident reporting.

August 3, 2026
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Compliance & Risk

CISA's Expanded Mandate: What IT Leaders Need to Know Now

CISA's new rulemaking agenda covers areas previously outside its remit. In-house counsel and security officers break down the five areas with the highest near-term compliance exposure for IT organisations.

April 30, 2026
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Network & Infrastructure

Edge Computing in 2026: The Quiet Revolution Reshaping Enterprise Network Architecture

Edge deployments have moved from pilot to production across manufacturing, retail, and healthcare. The enterprises that got there first are reporting latency and bandwidth savings that exceed early projections.

April 29, 2026
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Software & Dev

DevSecOps Is Reshaping Software Delivery, and Legacy Teams Are Finally Adapting

Security-integrated delivery pipelines have compressed breach-to-detection time significantly at organisations that have made the transition. Here is the framework leading engineering leaders are using.

April 28, 2026
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Security

The Hidden Cost of a Data Breach: New Research on Business Impact Beyond the Regulatory Fine

Quantitative analysis of 800 breach events reveals that the regulatory penalty represents less than 30% of total breach cost, with reputational and operational losses far exceeding initial estimates.

April 25, 2026
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AI & Automation

Hyperautomation in 2026: Where Enterprise Adoption Actually Stands

Hype aside, what does real enterprise hyperautomation look like right now? We surveyed 250 IT and operations leaders to get an honest read on where deployments truly stand.

April 18, 2026
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Strategy & CIO

The IT Talent Crisis: Why Your Best Engineers Are Leaving and How to Keep Them

IT teams are losing top engineers to better-paying roles in product and AI startups at an accelerating rate. Leaders who have cracked the retention problem share what actually works.

April 14, 2026
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