Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Splunk .conf26, where Cisco made trust and cost the gate on the agentic SOC and positioned the data and control layer beneath the agents as the thing worth owning.
Fernando Montenegro, VP at The Futurum Group, shares insights on Splunk AI, the Cisco–NVIDIA partnership, and enterprise requirements for hybrid deployment.
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Zscaler’s launch of Agentic SOC and why its inline telemetry, decoy mesh, and Red Canary detection matter more than the AI agents themselves.
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026: an ambitious, largely defensible push into its own AI models and agent security, anchored to the endpoint and the promise to stop breaches.
Fernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how offensive AI succeeds because it’s easier to verify than defensive security, shifting the need for vendors to sell proof of exploitability over volume.
Fernando Montenegro, VP at The Futurum Group, shares insights on how Palo Alto Networks connects AI vulnerability discovery with pre-disclosure network protection.
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Brinqa’s acquisition of PlexTrac and what adding offensive security validation to an exposure management platform does, and does not, prove about remediation.
Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley of Futurum unpack Black Hat and DEF CON 2026: an agentic-AI wave on every booth, a record funding surge, a widening capability gap, and what a board will actually fund.