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Gartner's 2026 Backup and Data Protection Platforms report highlights GenAI, agentic AI, identity recovery and cyber resilience as changing forces in the market.
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Microsoft's Global Secure Access has matured into a Zscaler/Netskope competitor, with a new open-source Migrate2GSA tool to ease migrations and expanded AI governance capabilities for enterprise traffic.
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Gartner's SSCS report frames the market around third-party software risk, AI components, SBOM life cycle management and auditable delivery pipelines.
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CSA's AICM v1.1 expands the AI security framework into a bundled control, assessment, audit and standards-mapping package.
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Forrester's 2026 XDR Wave puts Microsoft and CrowdStrike among the Leaders, but the broader story is a changing XDR market built around cloud, identity, AI agents, threat intelligence and SIEM replacement.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Eric D. Boyd will show developers, IT pros and security teams how to protect code, dependencies, CI/CD pipelines and build artifacts using GitHub, Azure and open-source security practices.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Microsoft MVP Louis Mastelinck will show defenders how to identify and remediate common Entra ID misconfigurations across authentication, Conditional Access, privileged access, tenant settings and enterprise apps.
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Rubrik used its Forward 2026 event to introduce Rubrik AI, positioning the company's cyber resilience platform around agentic operations across data, identity and AI infrastructure.
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On the same day it published a Data & AI Trust Gap report, Veeam announced new agentic AI capabilities for its DataAI Command Platform, adding agents designed to automate consent compliance, data subject request forms and governance assessments.
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Veeam's new Data & AI Trust Gap report says AI agents are already in use or pilot at most organizations, but data visibility, governance and precision recovery capabilities have not kept pace.
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Rubrik says access to Anthropic's Mythos Research Preview through Project Glasswing will help it defensively test its enterprise platform and product suites for potential software vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Heather Wilde Renze will examine ransomware as a mature criminal business ecosystem and show defenders how to borrow its most effective operating patterns for stronger, more human-centered security readiness.
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Brien Posey explains how chaos engineering can help cloud teams practice failure before real incidents occur -- while warning that poorly scoped experiments can become outages themselves.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, John O'Neill, Sr. will lead a full-day Security Copilot boot camp designed to help security analysts, SOC managers and IT pros move from basic prompts to repeatable investigations, custom promptbooks and automated response workflows.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Microsoft MVP Louis Mastelinck will lead an all-day lab on advanced Microsoft Entra Conditional Access design, helping IT and security pros turn policy theory into tested cloud access controls.
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Entra ID resiliency has improved substantially through fault-isolated architecture and backup authentication, and administrators now have stronger built-in recovery options such as tenant-level health visibility, soft delete, and backup/restore snapshots.
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Pavan Reddy's full-day TechMentor/Cybersecurity Live! hands-on lab shows teams how to attack, test, harden and document real-world RAG and agentic AI systems before they become production security risks.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 adds AI, Kubernetes, infrastructure efficiency, networking and security updates for private cloud deployments.
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Brien Posey explains the overlooked risk that AI-based data analytics can mistake coincidental patterns for actionable trends -- and outlines several mitigation techniques, from structured adversarial questioning to signal-strength analysis, that help businesses get more reliable insight from their data.
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Microsoft 365 E7 bundles Copilot, the Entra Suite, and the full Defender and Purview protection suites -- and with it, Agent 365 gives IT admins comprehensive control over AI agent discovery, governance, and security across their Microsoft 365 environment. Our working front-line consultant, Paul Schnackenburg, takes his usual deep -- really deep -- dive into all of the details.
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The Cloud Security Alliance-backed foundation announced a catastrophic risk annex, CNA authorization and two agentic AI specification acquisitions.
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CISA and federal partners released operational technology (OT) zero trust guidance focused on asset visibility, supply chain risk and identity controls.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Myron Helgering's "How to Protect Your Business from the Threat of Unmanaged Devices" will explore practical ways to reduce risk when users access business resources from devices IT does not control.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Tatu Seppälä's "Insider Threat: First Aid for a Misunderstood Risk Vector" will show attendees how to turn identity, data protection, and signal correlation into a practical starting point for insider risk defense.
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Large language models can accelerate IT and security work, but only when teams pair speed with guardrails. At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Heather Wilde Renze's session explores how to use AI like a capable junior engineer -- useful, fast, and always supervised.