Author: Mitch Ashley

SUSECON 2026 - Big Bet On MCP and Partners for Infrastructure AI Operations
April 24, 2026

SUSECON 2026 – Big Bet On MCP and Partners for Infrastructure AI Operations

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on SUSE's MCP integrations with AWS, Fsas Technologies, n8n, Revenium, and Stacklok, and what they signal about MCP becoming the...
MCP Security Community Pariah or Indispensable AI Standard – Report Summary
April 21, 2026

MCP: Security Community Pariah or Indispensable AI Standard? – Report Summary

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes how MCP evolved from viral agent connectivity tool to indispensable AI standard requiring security, governance, and control plane maturation....
Salesforce Agent API
April 20, 2026

Salesforce Agent API Signals the Next Control Plane Battleground for AI Agents

Salesforce introduces the Agent API to enable headless AI agent execution, directly challenging cloud and workflow vendors for control of the emerging agent control plane—a critical battleground as 72% of...
Data Fitness for AI-Driven Operations
April 20, 2026

Data Fitness for AI-Driven Operations

In our latest market brief, Data Fitness for AI-Driven Operations, completed in partnership with NETSCOUT, Futurum Research explores why observability alone is insufficient as AI moves toward autonomous execution, and...
Salesforce Stakes Out Multi-Vendor Agent Control Plane—Determinism, Governance, Enforcement Remains the Test
April 17, 2026

Salesforce Stakes Out Multi-Vendor Agent Control Plane—Determinism, Governance, Enforcement Remains the Test

Mitch Ashley at Futurum shares his insights on how Salesforce's Agent Fabric aims to control multi-vendor agents through guided determinism, but its success depends on enforcing consistent governance across third-party...
Enterprise Procurement
April 15, 2026

GitHub Copilot’s Compliance Breakthrough: Enterprise Procurement Barriers Fall, Not Just Features Added

GitHub Copilot's US/EU data residency and FedRAMP Moderate compliance remove enterprise barriers, enabling adoption across government agencies and regulated industries while shifting focus to compliance infrastructure....
Cisco To Acquire Galileo: AI Agent Observability Can't Run at Human Speed
April 13, 2026

Cisco To Acquire Galileo: AI Agent Observability Can’t Run at Human Speed

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead for Observability at Futurum, examines Cisco's Galileo acquisition and what real-time AI agent observability means for enterprises governing agents in production....
Can AI Save the Mainframe BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI
April 10, 2026

Can AI Save the Mainframe? BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin and Mitch Ashley, Analysts at Futurum, examine BMC Software’s April 2026 AI expansion. The report details how uniting AMI with Control-M's new Agent Gateway addresses the mainframe demographic...
Anthropic Glasswing: AI Vulnerability Detection Has Crossed a Threshold
April 8, 2026

Anthropic Glasswing: AI Vulnerability Detection Has Crossed a Threshold

Analysts Mitch Ashley and Fernando Montenegro explore Anthropic's Project Glasswing. As AI vulnerability detection crosses a new threshold, the economics and speed of offensive and defensive cybersecurity are forever changed....
MCP Dev Summit 2026: AAIF Sets A Clear Direction With Disciplined Guardrails
April 7, 2026

MCP Dev Summit 2026: AAIF Sets A Clear Direction With Disciplined Guardrails

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights from the inaugural MCP Dev Summit North America on MCP's institutional momentum, scope, and discipline, and the open standards stack forming...
Futurum Agent Control Plane Framework: A Reference Model for Production AI Agents
April 3, 2026

Futurum Agent Control Plane Framework: A Reference Model for Production AI Agents

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines the Agent Control Plane Framework, defining the five-layer governance architecture enterprises need to deploy AI agents safely at production scale....
RSAC 2026: The AI 'Tragedy of the Commons' and the Future of Agentic Security
April 3, 2026

RSAC 2026: The AI ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ and the Future of Agentic Security

Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley, VPs and Practice Leads at Futurum, convey their observations from the RSAC 2026 Conference, with a focus on AI and agentic security....

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