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The agentic AI era is forcing security and resilience into a single discipline

For two decades, security and data resilience have been neighbors who share a fence but rarely a budget. Security kept bad actors out, while resilience brought the business back when they got in. Agentic artificial intelligence is tearing down that fence, yet most organizations haven’t noticed. Last year, I wrote that Veeam Software Group GmbH’s acquisition of Securiti AI positioned it as the industry’s first AI resiliency company. At VeeamON 2026 in May, the company foreshadowed what that would look like.

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The agentic AI era is forcing security and resilience into a single discipline

Intel bets the next phase of AI belongs to the rightsized system, not the biggest one

For three years, artificial intelligence infrastructure has been dominated by one idea: Bigger is better. Bigger models, bigger clusters, and bigger checks written to a small group of suppliers. At this week’s Open Compute Project Global Summit, Intel Corp. argued that the next phase of AI will look very different and that Intel is well-positioned to benefit.

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Intel bets the next phase of AI belongs to the rightsized system, not the biggest one

In the agentic era, standing privilege must go: Key thoughts from the SailPoint Navigate keynote

For most of its two-decade history, SailPoint Inc. has been the company that tells enterprises who should have access to what. At Navigate 2026 in Austin this week, it argued that it now needs to be the company that stops the wrong access the moment it happens. The keynote opened with an orchestra to illustrate the harmony that emerges when discrete components work together.

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In the agentic era, standing privilege must go: Key thoughts from the SailPoint Navigate keynote

In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust

Every major security shift ultimately comes down to one question: Who or what is allowed to do this? For most of the past two decades, the answer was a person with a username and password. In the artificial intelligence era, the answer increasingly is an agent, and most organizations have no idea how many agents they have, what they can reach, or who is responsible for them.

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In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust

Fortinet’s Virtue AI acquisition rebalances the agentic AI security equation

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.

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Fortinet’s Virtue AI acquisition rebalances the agentic AI security equation