In our latest Market Report, The Autonomous IT Imperative, completed in partnership with Tanium, Futurum Research examines why traditional IT operations and security models are reaching their limits—and how Autonomous IT can help organizations improve resilience, reduce operational friction, and…
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Fernando Montenegro, The Futurum Group, "The Autonomous IT Imperative," June 2, 2026. https://trial.futurumgroup.com/research-reports/the-autonomous-it-imperative/

Enterprise IT and security teams are being asked to do more than human-led, tool-assisted operating models can sustainably support. As endpoint estates expand across IT, mobile, IoT, and cloud workloads, organizations face mounting pressure from fragmented tools, stale data, configuration drift, vulnerability volume, and the need to protect the business without disrupting productivity.
Autonomous IT offers a path forward by combining real-time endpoint intelligence, AI-driven analytics, and trusted closed-loop action. Instead of relying on reactive tickets and manual handoffs between SecOps and ITOps, organizations can begin moving toward an operating model that continuously validates estate health, prioritizes risk in context, and safely remediates issues at scale.
In our latest Market Report, The Autonomous IT Imperative, completed in partnership with Tanium, Futurum Research examines why traditional IT operations and security models are reaching their limits, and how Autonomous IT can help organizations improve resilience, reduce operational friction, and reclaim human capacity for higher-value work.
In this report, you will learn:
- Why growing endpoint complexity, vulnerability volume, and fragmented IT/security workflows are making reactive operations unsustainable
- How real-time endpoint intelligence can help teams move from stale inventory and delayed validation to a live, trustworthy view of the estate
- Why autonomous closed-loop patching can help balance security urgency with operational stability and user productivity
- How a unified platform approach can reduce friction between SecOps and ITOps by giving both teams a shared data plane and common operating context
- What guardrails are needed to build trust in Autonomous IT, including transparency, human oversight, AI model division of labor, and progressive ring-based deployment
If you are interested in learning more, be sure to download your copy of The Autonomous IT Imperative today.
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