Author: Fernando Montenegro

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....
So This Is How AIs Attack- Observations From the OpenAI & Hugging Face Incident
July 24, 2026

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...
Intel Foundry Lands Fortinet SP6 as Custom Silicon Validation
July 22, 2026

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...
Fortinet's AI Controls Join the Field. Can Integration Set Them Apart?
July 21, 2026

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...
ServiceNow and Accenture Bet on Migration to Win Enterprise Risk
July 7, 2026

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...
The Hard(er) Challenge in Agent Governance Is Authorization
June 26, 2026

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...

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