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Qualys ROCon 2026 Recap: Qualys Doubles Down On AI Agents In Cloud Security And Risk Operations
Qualys’ ROCon 2026 conference highlighted the vendor’s commitment to providing solutions for the three key aspects of cloud security. Risk operations instead of security operations. Qualys has always emphasized tackling business risk (uptime, availability, business criticality of infrastructure, and a minimized threat surface) instead of trying to fix every discovered vulnerability. At ROCon 2026, the […]
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Open-Weight Models Are Proliferating, But The Platform Race Matters More
Last week, AI startup Reflection released a new open weight model, Beam, claiming parity with leading Chinese open models and at only “a fraction of the token cost and inference time.” Days later, Mistral introduced open-weight model Mistral Large 4 (ML4), nicknamed Le Chonk in reference to its 1 trillion parameters. Taken together, these models […]
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Turn AEGIS Controls Into An Agentic AI Security Stack
Agentic AI creates control, technology, and purchasing problems. Security leaders need to know the controls that they must satisfy, the technologies that can satisfy them, where existing tools already provide coverage, and where a new investment actually fills a gap. Far too often, we see clients conducting that process in reverse order … trying to […]
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Bringing Crypto Agility And PQC Visibility To The Network With NAV
The Q4 2025 Forrester Wave™ evaluation for network analysis and visibility (NAV) solutions was the first iteration of the research to evaluate vendors on their post-quantum cryptography (PQC) capabilities, a decision that has become more pronounced in 2026. The rationale was compelling then; it is unavoidable now. Most notably, the US federal government has moved […]
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Anthropic’s Pricing Shift Puts AI Consumption Risk Back On Customers
Back in May of this year, Anthropic announced changes to its pricing model. Its original fixed-fee, per-seat subscription model was replaced with one that separates platform access from AI consumption. Customers still pay for access, but usage is now metered and billed separately based on token consumption. Under the previous model, customers were split into […]
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Introducing AEGIS — The Guardrails That CISOs Need For The Agentic Enterprise
AI agents aren’t coming — they’re already here, and they’re not waiting for your security architecture to catch up. Learn how Forrester’s new AEGIS framework can help CISOs secure, govern, and manage AI agents and agentic infrastructure.
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AI Cost Management: How Prepared Are You?
As AI adoption accelerates, many organizations are discovering that spending is rising faster than their ability to control it. Building the right cost management capabilities is becoming essential to scaling AI without sacrificing financial discipline.
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SUSECON 2026: From Open Infrastructure To Operational Sovereignty
SUSECON 2026 in Prague marked a clear advance on the platform pillars SUSE introduced a year earlier in Orlando — and a more forceful articulation of its choice narrative. SUSE argued that choice only matters if it can be operationalized: enabling sovereign workload control and resilience not just to technical failure but to economic and […]
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Google Cloud Next 2026: The End Of The AI Pilot Era
Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with Thomas Kurian declaring the end of the AI pilot era and Sundar Pichai comparing the enterprise refrain of last year (“Can we build an agent?”) to today’s: “How do we manage thousands of them?” Google Cloud Next ’26 answers the second question with a single product story: Gemini Enterprise […]
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What We’re Looking Forward To At The RSAC 2026 Conference
The annual RSAC Conference in San Francisco is the cybersecurity industry’s biggest event of the year. For the analysts attending, RSAC Conference week provides an opportunity to learn about cybersecurity trends and topics, meet with vendors and clients, and share our insights and observations. It’s also an excellent opportunity to meet our daily step goals […]
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Claude Code Security Causes A SaaS-pocalypse In Cybersecurity
We have seen this pattern before, even if the specifics look different. Think back to the day AWS introduced GuardDuty, when Microsoft folded Defender for Endpoint into its enterprise licensing commitments and launched Microsoft Sentinel, or when Google acquired Mandiant and eventually Wiz. Sure, the launch of fully autonomous AI agents that can ingest entire […]
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Revisiting Our 2025 Cloud Predictions: Hits, Misses, And Lessons
Predictions are a tough sport to play. If you get them all right, you played it safe by recapping existing trends or gave wishy-washy statements that are hard to verify. If you got them all wrong, you likely went for the headlines with little accountability on those claims. Every year, we try to find that […]
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Ready For OpenClaw To Pry Into Your Environment And Grip Your Data
A formidable challenge awaits security leaders as personal tools like Moltbot spread. AI butlers are the next shadow super-user.
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What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2025
The goal of this year’s event was to position AWS as a newly transformed, AI-native cloud that’s ready right now. Here’s a closer look at the key announcements and developments.
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Cloudflare’s Outage: Another Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience
Some of the biggest online platforms in the world were recently knocked offline by an automatically generated configuration file that grew too large. In a world plagued by security threats, operational failures can still happen even in your favorite cloud service. Find out why and how to reduce your risk.
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Predictions 2026: Cloud Outages, Private AI On Private Clouds, And The Rise Of The Neoclouds
Cloud in 2026 will be defined by two major races: the hyperscaler race to build AI-native cloud infrastructure and the enterprise race to craft meaningful AI strategies. Our predictions break those down.
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The AWS US-East Outage: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience
The fourth outage in five years for AWS’s US-East region was traced to DNS resolution failures that affected many core services. Find out what you should do from both the technology and the supplier risk management side to improve your cloud resilience.
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Developer-Led Growth Meets Enterprise-Grade Security And Distributed Infrastructure At Cloudflare Connect 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025 had a distinctly optimistic vibe as the vendor positions itself as the connective tissue for modern digital operations in the enterprise and showcases its AI security abilities. Learn more in this event review.
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VMware Explore Paris 2025: Our Take On Private AI And Private Cloud Sovereignty
VMware Explore’s 2025 Paris event showcased the future of VMware Private AI and cloud sovereignty with the launch of VCF 9.0. From sovereign AI use cases to disconnected cloud operations, the event highlighted VMware’s evolving role in enabling secure, compliant infrastructure across Europe.
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Global Cybersecurity Spending To Exceed $300B By 2029
Despite the ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty in 2025, cybersecurity spending will rise by 13.1% this year to $174.8 billion, driven by ongoing concerns around cyberattacks and the need to secure new cloud-based deployments. Find out more in our cybersecurity spending forecast.
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