Fortinet Inc. announced its intent to acquire Virtue AI Inc. Monday, and though the financial aspects are interesting, what’s more significant is how this will help businesses with their next big security challenge: How do you secure agentic artificial intelligence? Generative AI has raised new concerns about data leakage, unsanctioned use and inaccurate outputs.
Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate routine work. But it is also giving attackers the ability to discover vulnerabilities faster, build more convincing social engineering campaigns, and execute multistage intrusions at a scale that would have required large, well-resourced teams only a few years ago.
Just prior to last month’s British Open, Cisco Systems Inc. announced a multiyear partnership with The R&A, a worldwide golf governing body. While there are many tech vendor–sports league marketing partnerships, this is much more than that. Cisco and The R&A are entering into a strategic infrastructure deal that should attract the attention of any IT executive looking to modernize operations across complex, distributed environments.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Advancing AI 2026 keynote this week was Chief Executive Lisa Su’s bid to redefine the company from a “graphics processing unit alternative” to a full-stack artificial intelligence infrastructure vendor and to make this the year the central processing unit officially rebounds as a first-class AI platform. The message from Su was ambitious and often compelling, but it also sharpened the competitive contrast with Nvidia Corp. and Intel Corp., raising as many questions as it answered.
By extending Security Hub to Microsoft Azure and adding artificial intelligence-specific protections, Amazon Web Services Inc. is positioning its security stack as the foundation for securing enterprise AI at scale. Amazon Web Services’ latest Security Hub updates announced earlier this month acknowledge two realities its customers already live with every day: AI is now the fastest-growing attack surface in the enterprise, and almost every serious AI initiative is, or soon will be, multicloud.