Author: Fernando Montenegro

Cisco Wants Project Quarry to Be the Sigma of Agent Detection
October 30, 2026

Cisco Wants Project Quarry to Be the Sigma of Agent Detection

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, Cisco's Project Quarry is an open-source rule language that detects harmful AI agent behavior, addressing critical gaps in...
Commvault Moves Identity Resilience From Recovery Toward Exposure
October 30, 2026

Commvault Moves Identity Resilience From Recovery Toward Exposure

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, analyzes how Commvault's new identity resilience capabilities—including cross-provider auditing and AI-guided remediation—position the vendor to compete with....
Commvault Q2 FY 2027 Recovery Breadth Carries the Quarter
October 29, 2026

Commvault Q2 FY 2027: Recovery Breadth Carries the Quarter

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, analyzes Commvault's Q2 FY 2027 results, highlighting how recovery breadth across subscription revenue, SaaS growth, and identity resilience...
Upwind's $400M Series C Is a Bet on Independent Cloud Security
October 29, 2026

Upwind's $400M Series C Is a Bet on Independent Cloud Security

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, Upwind's $400M Series C signals strong enterprise demand for independent cloud security platforms over consolidated vendor solutions....
IBM Quantum Safe Treats PQC Migration as More Than Just a Project
October 28, 2026

IBM Quantum Safe Treats PQC Migration as More Than Just a Project

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines how IBM Quantum Safe reframes post-quantum cryptography migration as continuous governance waves rather than a one-time project,...
HPE Brings SASE Into Its Network Consoles
October 28, 2026

HPE Brings SASE Into Its Network Consoles

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines how HPE's integration of EdgeConnect SASE into HPE Mist and Aruba Central unifies network and security operations,...
IBM Bets on Vault's Installed Base to Secure AI Agent Identity
October 28, 2026

IBM Bets on Vault's Installed Base to Secure AI Agent Identity

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines how IBM's new Agent Identity paired with HashiCorp Vault addresses critical security challenges for AI agents, offering...
Microsoft Points Project Perception at the Agents Already Inside
October 21, 2026

Microsoft Points Project Perception at the Agents Already Inside

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, Microsoft's Project Perception discovers, contains, and supervises internal AI agents using new identity, permissions, and Guardian Agent capabilities....
Veeam Brings AI Agent Undo to Microsoft 365 With Intelligent ResOps
October 19, 2026

Veeam Brings AI Agent Undo to Microsoft 365 With Intelligent ResOps

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines Veeam's launch of Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365, which brings AI agent discovery, sensitive data mapping, and...
Proofpoint Varonis acquisition data security
October 16, 2026

Proofpoint Buys Varonis to Connect People Risk With Data Access

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, analyzes how Proofpoint's $6.3 billion acquisition of Varonis combines threat targeting intelligence with identity-based data access controls to...
Broadcom's HyperArmor Brings Virtual Patching to the Hypervisor
October 14, 2026

Broadcom's HyperArmor Brings Virtual Patching to the Hypervisor

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines how Broadcom's HyperArmor brings virtual patching, execution allowlisting, and SSH MFA to ESX hypervisors, marking a strategic...

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