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#336, Issue 4 Part 8: Articles Posted Week: 23 Mar, 2026 - 29 Mar, 2026
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Security
2026 SC Award Winner Bo Li - Innovator (Executive Or Practioner) Of The Year
Best Hybrid Mesh Firewalls: Check Point, Fortinet, And Cisco Compared
2026 SC Award Winner SentinelOne - Best Endpoint Security Solution
2026 SC Award Winner Securonix UEBA - Best Insider Threat Solution
Futurum Group
AI
Cloud
Datacore News
Veeam News
Rehydrate Your Esxi Backups Directly To Nutanix AHV With New ‘Easy Button’ Solution
Veeam At Rsac 2026: Why Data Protection And Data Security Must Converge
Proofpoint News
A New Chapter For Email Protection: Unifying SEG And API Security
From Actions To Intent: Insider Threat Detection For The AI Era
OneTrust News
A Day In The Life Of A Risk Assessor: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Governance At The Speed Of Ai: The Next Chapter For OneTrust
Proposed White House AI National Framework Sets Direction For Governance And Compliance
Security
2026 SC Award Winner Bo Li - Innovator (Executive Or Practioner) Of The Year
Bo Li emerged over the past year as a leading voice in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence security, combining academic research with startup innovation to address the risks posed by powerful AI systems....more
Best Hybrid Mesh Firewalls: Check Point, Fortinet, And Cisco Compared
Enterprise networks do not operate inside a single security perimeter. Workloads now run in on-premise data centres, public clouds, branch offices, and remote endpoints simultaneously....more
2026 SC Award Winner SentinelOne - Best Endpoint Security Solution
SentinelOne has been named the winner of the Best Endpoint Security Solution category in the SC Awards for its Singularity Endpoint platform, which delivers AI-driven protection designed to secure the expanding landscape of enterprise devices....more
2026 SC Award Winner Securonix UEBA - Best Insider Threat Solution
Securonix was named the winner of the 2026 SC Awards for Best Insider Threat Solution category for its Securonix UEBA platform, which uses advanced behavioral analytics and AI-driven detection to help organizations identify and respond to insider threats....more
Infrastructure Attacks With Physical Consequences Down 25
Operational technology (OT) at industrial and critical infrastructure sites seem to have been benefitting from a lull in ransomware, and hackers’ relative ignorance of OT systems....more
Futurum Group
The Semantic Layer Standardizes, Enterprise Adoption Splits Between Leaders And Laggards, And Hardware Earnings Validate The Infrastructure Bet
Not long ago, the idea of being a ‘generalist’ in the workplace had a mixed reputation. The stereotype was the ‘jack of all trades’ who could dabble in many disciplines but was a ‘master of none.’ And for years, that was more or less true....more
AI
Goodbye Software As A Service, Hello AI As A Service
AI as a Service (AIaaS) may replace Software as a Service (SaaS) in the near future. Here’s what that means for your organisation...more
Why AI Scaling Is So Hard -- And What CIOs Say Works
Three CIOs detail how they’re moving AI beyond pilots. Find out what’s helping their efforts gain traction, and what to avoid....more
AI Adoption Rates Aren’t Matching IT Hype
The appetite for AI is there, but a range of issues are hampering adoption...more
Grounded Intelligence Is Key To Safe AI Software Development At Scale
One experience has become nearly universal as AI systems move deeper into software development, their confidence when they’re wrong....more
AI Is Making Better Business Everybody’s Business
For years, improving how organizations operate has largely been something done to employees rather than with them. Change was designed by specialists, approved in committees, and delivered through transformation programs that felt distant from day-to-day work....more
Cloud
Best Sovereign Cloud Providers In 2026
Best Sovereign Cloud Providers in 2026 for Streamlined Data Control and Compliance...more
Best 7 Platforms To Design And Deploy Cloud Architecture
Cloud architecture has changed. A few years ago, many teams could treat design and deployment as separate stages. Architects planned the environment, chose the services, documented the target state, and then handed the work to engineering or platform teams for rollout....more
Top 10 Cloud Automation Tools And Platforms For 2026
Top-Rated Cloud Automation Tools for IaC, CI/CD, and Kubernetes to Scale Your Infrastructure...more
Datacore News
DataCore Puls8 Wins Kubernetes Storage Award Powering Mission-Critical Stateful Workloads
Enterprises are moving beyond container experimentation into a new phase of Kubernetes adoption, running more business-critical, stateful workloads in production....more
Veeam News
Rehydrate Your Esxi Backups Directly To Nutanix AHV With New ‘Easy Button’ Solution
Sometimes it doesn’t make sense to reformat your entire data estate just to migrate from, say, VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV. For example, you may have years of data backed up by Veeam while your applications run on VMware ESXi infrastructure in support of your regulatory/compliance solution. There’s just no getting out of it....more
Veeam At Rsac 2026: Why Data Protection And Data Security Must Converge
Security posture is measured not only by how quickly a threat or sensitive data exposure is detected and contained. It’s also calculated by how confidently an organization can recover and continue operating when something goes wrong....more
Proofpoint News
A New Chapter For Email Protection: Unifying SEG And API Security
Cursorjack: Weaponizing Deeplinks To Exploit Cursor IIDE
From Actions To Intent: Insider Threat Detection For The AI Era
OneTrust News
A Day In The Life Of A Risk Assessor: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Governance At The Speed Of Ai: The Next Chapter For OneTrust
Proposed White House AI National Framework Sets Direction For Governance And Compliance
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