Author: Fernando Montenegro

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...
SailPoint Bets on Identity to Govern AI Agents at Navigate 2026
October 9, 2026

SailPoint Bets on Identity to Govern AI Agents at Navigate 2026

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes SailPoint's Navigate 2026 launches, which extend just-in-time access, discovery, and autonomous agents to AI agents, and what they mean for identity teams....
Sophos CISO Advantage Targets Organizations Without a CISO
October 5, 2026

Sophos CISO Advantage Targets Organizations Without a CISO

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Sophos's CISO Advantage launch and what it means for managed service providers turning informal security leadership into a billable service....
Cloudflare Becomes a Certificate Authority to Tackle Post-Quantum Signatures
October 2, 2026

Cloudflare Becomes a Certificate Authority to Tackle Post-Quantum Signatures

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Cloudflare's plan to become a public certificate authority issuing post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates, a credible move on the harder, signature side of the web's...
Cyber Resilience Is Now the Mandate: A CXO Checklist
October 2, 2026

Cyber Resilience Is Now the Mandate: A CXO Checklist

In its latest thought leadership brief, Cyber Resilience Is Now the Mandate: A CXO Checklist, completed in partnership with Everpure, Futurum Research lays out ten questions every leadership team should...
Google Returns to the Frontier With Gemini 4 Argon
October 1, 2026

Google Returns to the Frontier With Gemini 4 Argon

Futurum’s Nick Patience and Fernando Montenegro share their insights on Gemini 4 Argon, Google’s new frontier model, and what its defender-first release means for enterprises and security vendors....
Cribl Detect Takes the Pipeline Company Into the SIEM Business
September 30, 2026

Cribl Detect Takes the Pipeline Company Into the SIEM Business

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Cribl's launch of Cribl Detect and StreamAI, and what a pipeline vendor running the detection loop means for buyers choosing to consolidate or compose....
NVIDIA Wants Agent Safety Enforced in Silicon
September 29, 2026

NVIDIA Wants Agent Safety Enforced in Silicon

Fernando Montenegro, Mitch Ashley, and Brendan Burke from Futurum analyze NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform, which pairs OpenShell runtime controls with Sentry DPU monitoring to contain AI agents outside their...
Palo Alto Networks Bets Frontier AI Can Make Pentesting Continuous
September 28, 2026

Palo Alto Networks Bets Frontier AI Can Make Pentesting Continuous

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense, weighing gated model access, tier economics, and whether always-on AI testing closes exposures....
Cohesity Extends Cyber Resilience to the AI Agents Themselves
September 28, 2026

Cohesity Extends Cyber Resilience to the AI Agents Themselves

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Cohesity's Agent Resilience launch at Catalyst 2026, which brings backup and rollback to AI agents and ties recovery to business continuity....
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....

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