A Loud Floor and a Quiet Gap: Security Summer Camp 2026
Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley of Futurum unpack Black Hat and DEF CON 2026: an agentic-AI wave on every booth, a record funding surge, a widening capability gap, and what a board will actually fund.
Risk Management Tops Cyber Budget Drivers as Modernization Falls 11 Points
Fernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, on why risk management strategy (47.8%) has overtaken modernization as the top cybersecurity budget driver, with modernization down 11 points.
Microsoft’s Project Perception Bets on Agents That Act, Not Just Alert
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Microsoft’s Project Perception and MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and why the company’s enterprise entrenchment, not its agents, is the real differentiator in agentic security.
NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance Bets Open Models Beat Closed Ones on Defense
Futurum’s Nick Patience, Fernando Montenegro, and Mitch Ashley unpack NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance and why the labs missing from it may matter more than the 35 that joined.
So This Is How AIs Attack: Observations From the OpenAI & Hugging Face Incident
Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley, VPs at Futurum, read the OpenAI and Hugging Face agentic incident as a live test of enterprise readiness to detect and contain AI agents that go off-goal at machine speed.
Intel Foundry Lands Fortinet SP6 as Custom Silicon Validation
Brendan Burke and Fernando Montenegro, analysts at Futurum, share their insights on the Intel-Fortinet SP6 collaboration, what it validates about Intel Foundry’s custom silicon strategy, and why the supply chain resilience angle matters most.
Fortinet’s AI Controls Join the Field. Can Integration Set Them Apart?
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, examines why FortiEndpoint’s consolidated AI controls are a real buyer win, while platform and SASE integration, not the individual features, will decide whether Fortinet stands apart.
ServiceNow and Accenture Bet on Migration to Win Enterprise Risk
Fernando Montenegro, VP at The Futurum Group, examines the ServiceNow and Accenture cybersecurity offering, and why its AI-powered migration and the Armis acquisition point to a bid to become the enterprise risk platform of record.
The Hard(er) Challenge in Agent Governance Is Authorization
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, argues that the launch of the Agent Control Standard does not close the agent governance gap, and that “shrinkage,” not universal coverage, is the correct target as platform economics drive fragmentation.
The Hard(er) Challenge in Agent Governance Is Authorization
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum Group, argues that the launch of the Agent Control Standard does not close the agent governance gap, and that “shrinkage,” not universal coverage, is the correct target as platform economics drive fragmentation.
Can Cisco Widen Splunk’s Agentic SOC Capabilities With WideField?
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, examines Cisco’s planned acquisition of WideField Security and how deeper identity and session intelligence could strengthen Agentic SOC capabilities as enterprises deploy more AI agents and autonomous workloads.
Everpure’s Data Primacy Bet: From Storage to System of Record
Fernando Montenegro, VP at The Futurum Group, analyzes Everpure Accelerate 2026: the rebrand from Pure Storage, the data-primacy thesis, Data Intelligence and Data Stream, a growing security story, and what a flash-pricing shock means for buyers.
