Why AI is failing to deliver for many organizations [Q&A]
Applications seem to be adding new AI capabilities every week. But despite the hype, most of these are creating more friction because they are either too narrowly focused, confined to a single app, or too generic.
We spoke to KJ Kusch, global field CTO of WalkMe, who believes a shift is needed from app-specific AI capabilities to an AI layer that works across the enterprise, guiding employees wherever they are, across tools, systems, and workflows.
Is human-driven cybersecurity reaching the end of the road?
A new report suggests that organizations have reached the limits of human-driven cybersecurity operations and are increasingly relying on machine-speed detection and response to defend their cloud environments.
The study from Sysdig highlights how defenders are evolving their strategy as attackers weaponize AI to exploit vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure. The findings show that organizations are turning to runtime security, automation, and AI-enabled protection to keep pace with the speed and scale of modern threats.
Smaller businesses turning to cyber insurance for added resilience
A new report from cybersecurity company ESET finds 87 percent of US and 83 percent of Canadian SMBs say that they feel slightly to very confident that their business is cyber resilient. Across both countries, cyber resilience confidence rose to 91 percent and 88 percent, respectively, for businesses that had more than one cyber incident in the last year (over businesses that had zero or one incident during that timeframe).
Across both regions, about half of respondents (47 percent in the US and 52 percent in Canada) say that they don’t expect a change in cybersecurity budget this year.
New platform helps enterprises discover AI workflows
Enterprises running AI workflows often face multiple problems, such as token spend with no proof of workflow value, agents running without inventory or human oversight or business results that can't be attributed to a specific AI process.
Lanai is addressing this with the launch of its new AI @ Work Operating System which alleviates this challenge by moving enterprises from tracking AI activity to managing AI performance, connecting every human, copilot, and agent workflow to pipeline velocity, SLA attainment, engineering throughput, and capacity gained.
Enterprises are using AI for security but less than a third fully trust it
AI tools are increasingly being used in cybersecurity but they’ve yet to gain the level of trust needed to allow them to make autonomous decisions.
The latest State of Exposure Management Report from Seemplicity, based on insights from 300 US cybersecurity leaders, finds that 88 percent of enterprises have integrated AI into their security stacks, yet only 31 percent fully trust AI-sourced recommendations to influence prioritization decisions.
Over half of AI projects fail to reach full production
New research shows that although 55 percent of organizations have released AI-powered applications and features, 52 percent of AI initiatives fail to reach full production. This tension is reflected in user sentiment too, with 40 percent saying that while AI tools boost productivity by more than 75 percent, quality issues are on the rise.
The report from Applause, based on a survey of over 1,000 developers, QA professionals and consumers, finds 40 percent of users experienced AI hallucinations, up from 32 percent in 2025. Additionally, 46 percent say AI misunderstood their prompts -- now the most reported issue -- while 41 percent say responses lack sufficient detail.
New agentic platform helps deliver quality software
The need for businesses to deliver software faster puts testing and quality control under the spotlight. Leapwork is addressing this with the launch of its Continuous Validation Platform, an all-new, fully agentic offering that helps enterprises ship software faster and trust every release.
According to a recent Leapwork study, 88 percent of software development professionals say AI is a priority for their organization and 65 percent said they currently use or are exploring the use of AI for one or more testing activities. Meanwhile, quality assurance and validation is rising from 25-35 percent of software budgets to 35-40 percent in the AI era.
Only 16 percent of European businesses are fully NIS2 ready
Just 16 percent of businesses required to comply with the EU’s Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2) are confident that they are fully compliant. Worse still, 11 percent of respondents are unsure what NIS2 is, despite falling within its scope.
CyberSmart today released its research into NIS2 preparedness across Europe, drawing on insights from 670 business leaders across the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, and Belgium.
Why converging IT and SecOps could be the smartest move [Q&A]
At last year’s HexCon’25 conference, Michele Pelino, VP and principal analyst at Forrester Research pointed out the gap between teams 'keeping systems running' and 'keeping them safe' as a massive security risk.
We spoke to Apu Pavithran, founder and CEO of Hexnode, to discuss why IT and SecOps teams converging can help mend the cultural rift between IT and security, and ensure businesses stay secure.
Microsoft Entra could be creating a hidden access risk for businesses
New research from Reversec has uncovered an undocumented behavior in Microsoft Entra Conditional Access that allows a privileged user to introduce time‑based policy exceptions that quietly bypass controls such as MFA.
This discovery has significant implications for organizations relying on Conditional Access to protect identities, enforce compliance, and secure access to corporate systems. A privileged actor, whether legitimate or malicious, could add a time-restricted exception into any Conditional Access policy that temporarily disables protections at specific hours or days and leaves no visible trace in any standard management interface.
Only a third of cybersecurity professionals plan to stay in their current role
A new report finds that only 34 percent of cybersecurity professionals plan to stay with their current employer, highlighting declining job satisfaction across the field and challenging CISOs to be aggressive and innovative in how they retain talent in a challenging labor market.
The study from IANS and Artico Search shows wage growth has a big impact on retention of cybersecurity staff. Employees receiving even modest pay increases report significantly higher satisfaction and are more likely to stay than those with flat compensation, regardless of their pay level.
Organizations must focus on post-quantum cryptography now
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and cryptographic agility company QuSecure is urging organizations to stop treating PQC as a debate about the exact arrival date of quantum risk and start treating it as the operational transition that it already is.
It’s using today’s World Quantum Day to highlight that quantum is becoming harder to ignore. Last month Google introduced a 2029 target for its own PQC migration and published research suggesting the quantum resources required to break elliptic curve cryptography may be lower than many had assumed. Earlier this month, Cloudflare accelerated its target for full post-quantum security to 2029. India has also set a 2029 target for securing critical information infrastructure.
Organizations are adopting new tech faster than they can govern it
A new survey of over 1,400 senior executives in APAC and Western economies finds just 25 percent of organizations say their responses to digital disruption from new tech largely go to plan, while only 21 percent have a dedicated team responsible for delivering digital resilience initiatives.
The study, by Economist Impact supported by Telstra International, shows fewer than one in five executives in the US (19 percent) and UK (20 percent) have confidence in cross-sector collaboration with suppliers and partners during disruption events. Access to skilled talent is similarly constrained, with just 22 percent of US and 18 percent of UK respondents citing it as a strength.
AI is being held back by data access issues
A new study from Cloudera finds that while 96 percent of organizations report integrating AI into their core business processes and 85 percent say they have a clear data strategy, nearly 80 percent admit that their AI and data initiatives are still constrained by limited data access across environments.
“Enterprises aren’t struggling to adopt AI, they’re struggling to operationalize it beyond experiments,” says Sergio Gago, chief technology officer at Cloudera. “AI is only as effective as the data that fuels it. Without seamless access to all their data, organizations limit the accuracy, trust, and business value that AI can deliver. You can’t do AI without data.”
Three-quarters of marketing professionals use GenAI every day
A new survey of 112 marketing professionals conducted at the RSAC cybersecurity conference last month finds that 75.9 percent are using GenAI daily in their work.
The study from ProGEO.ai reveals a gap between policy and enforcement with 76.8 percent of marketing professionals reporting that their company has a corporate usage policy for GenAI, but only 43.8 percent say this policy is enforced with technical controls.
Ian's Bio
Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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