Author: Fernando Montenegro

Splunk .conf26 Trust is Key for the Agentic Era
September 22, 2026

Splunk .conf26: Trust is Key for the Agentic Era

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Splunk .conf26, where Cisco made trust and cost the gate on the agentic SOC and positioned the data and control layer beneath the agents...
Cisco and NVIDIA Bring Splunk AI to Enterprises
September 18, 2026

Cisco and NVIDIA Bring Splunk AI to Enterprises

Fernando Montenegro, VP at The Futurum Group, shares insights on Splunk AI, the Cisco–NVIDIA partnership, and enterprise requirements for hybrid deployment....
Zscaler Launches Agentic SOC, Betting on Telemetry Over Model Horsepower
September 18, 2026

Zscaler Launches Agentic SOC, Betting on Telemetry Over Model Horsepower

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Zscaler's launch of Agentic SOC and why its inline telemetry, decoy mesh, and Red Canary detection matter more than the AI agents themselves....
Sovereign SASE Aligning Security Architecture with Jurisdictional Reality
September 15, 2026

Sovereign SASE: Aligning Security Architecture With Jurisdictional Reality

In our latest thought leadership brief, Sovereign SASE: Aligning Security Architecture with Jurisdictional Reality, completed in partnership with Fortinet, Futurum Research examines why data sovereignty has become a board-level gate...
CrowdStrike Bets on Its Own Models to Secure the AI Revolution
September 8, 2026

CrowdStrike Bets on Its Own Models to Secure the AI Revolution

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026: an ambitious, largely defensible push into its own AI models and agent security, anchored to the endpoint and the promise to...
Why AI Learned to Attack Before It Learned to Defend
August 24, 2026

Why AI Learned to Attack Before It Learned to Defend

Fernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how offensive AI succeeds because it's easier to verify than defensive security, shifting the need for vendors to...
Can Frontier Virtual Patching Close the AI Exposure Gap
August 24, 2026

Can Frontier Virtual Patching Close the AI Exposure Gap?

Fernando Montenegro, VP at The Futurum Group, shares insights on how Palo Alto Networks connects AI vulnerability discovery with pre-disclosure network protection....
Brinqa Buys PlexTrac to Put Proof Behind Exposure Management
August 24, 2026

Brinqa Buys PlexTrac to Put Proof Behind Exposure Management

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Brinqa's acquisition of PlexTrac and what adding offensive security validation to an exposure management platform does, and does not, prove about remediation....
A Loud Floor and a Quiet Gap Security Summer Camp 2026
August 13, 2026

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...
Risk Management Tops Cyber Budget Drivers as Modernization Falls 11 Points
August 7, 2026

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
July 28, 2026

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
July 28, 2026

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....

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