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09/01/2026

OT security maturity is less about how many tools you deploy and more about how well they work together.
The 2026 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report, based on a survey of more than 700 OT professionals worldwide, shows what separates those organizations from the ones reporting fewer incidents.
For benchmarks and best practices you can apply to your own environment, download the report. 🔒

See how your OT security program compares with more than 700 OT professionals surveyed worldwide. The 2026 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report, Fortinet's eighth annual study, tracks maturity levels, intrusion trends, attacker dwell times, and the practices behind fewer incident...

09/01/2026

Legacy OT systems were never built for internet connectivity, and IT threats now reach the plant floor. Message us to talk through securing your OT networks with Fortinet. 🏭

09/01/2026

AI budgets are getting the same scrutiny as headcount, with owners, outcomes, and quarterly reviews. 📊

This MarketScale article covers three forces reshaping deployment: Budget discipline, open-weight models that compress inference costs, and industrial acquisitions that change vendor roadmaps.

Read the article to see where your AI strategy needs a second look.

Your AI budget is about to face the same questions as headcount. This MarketScale article, "Enterprise AI's ROI reckoning," examines three forces changing how operators deploy AI: tighter budget governance, open-weight models that shift inference economics, and industrial acquisitions that alter ven...

09/01/2026

Cloud success is increasingly measured by the value it delivers, though wasted spend climbed as GenAI adoption accelerated.

The Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud Report, based on responses from 753 cloud decision-makers, shows how hybrid estates, AI workloads, and centralized governance are reshaping cloud economics.

☁️ Read the article for the findings that matter most to your cloud strategy.

Cloud spend is climbing, and so is the share of it going to waste. This article breaks down the Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud Report, covering the shift to value-based metrics, GenAI's rise to 58% adoption as a public cloud service, and the growth of FinOps teams and cloud centers of excellence. R...

08/31/2026

AI reached production faster than the governance, integration, and measurement practices meant to keep it accountable.

This MarketScale article covers the ROI gap, the risk of institutional knowledge living inside platforms you don't own, and what belongs in your next AI vendor contract.

🔐 Read the article to see where your AI risk management needs attention.

Who owns what your AI has learned? This MarketScale article examines the distance between fast deployment and slower governance, covering data ownership, audit rights, and exit portability in AI platform agreements. Read the article to prepare for your next vendor review.

08/31/2026

The model selection debate is winding down, and the harder questions are how to govern AI agents and prove what they return.

This MarketScale article collects practitioner perspectives on orchestration middleware, architecture fragmentation, and the CFO conversations arriving with Q3 budget reviews.

⚙️ Read the article for a practical view of where enterprise AI priorities are heading.

What happens when picking the best model stops being the differentiator? This MarketScale article brings together enterprise architects and CIOs on AI gateways, orchestration middleware, observability, and behavior-based governance for agents. It also covers the measurement shift from deployment cou...

08/31/2026

AI pricing is splitting in two, with commodity inference falling toward zero while frontier models grow more expensive.

This article from The Register looks at token economics in practice, including the point where extra spend stopped improving developer productivity and how a token limit trimmed costs by 40%.

💰 Read the article before your next AI budget conversation.

Which part of your AI spending is earning its keep? This article from The Register breaks down the split between cheap commodity inference and rising frontier model prices, along with usage data showing where extra tokens stop improving output. Read the article for a sharper view of AI economics.

08/25/2026

Security advantage no longer comes from the number of tools you deploy.
The 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report from FortiGuard Labs recorded 121.99 billion exploitation attempts in 2025 and found that attackers move on new vulnerabilities within 24 to 48 hours, making detection and containment speed the metric that matters.
For the full picture of what defensive velocity requires, download the report. 🛡

Know where your defenses stand when attackers move at machine speed. The 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report from FortiGuard Labs draws on global telemetry to show how exploitation, credential theft, and ransomware now operate as an industrial system, and why security advantage depends on how fast y...

08/25/2026

When systems are fragmented, protecting critical IP across global operations gets harder.
HE Parts (HEPI) consolidated its security into Fortinet's end-to-end platform to improve visibility, protect proprietary designs, and support secure, scalable growth across worldwide sites and remote teams.
Check out this HEPI story for ideas on how you can use Fortinet security solutions to support similar goals. 🔍

How do you protect proprietary designs when security tools don't talk to each other? This customer story video features HE Parts (HEPI), which consolidated fragmented systems into Fortinet's end-to-end security platform. The result: clearer visibility across global operations, stronger protection fo...

08/25/2026

Most AI pilots stall for reasons that have little to do with the model itself.

In this Data Summit 2026 clip, Radiant Advisors analyst John O'Brien shares 2026 AI Market Study findings on what separates organizations running AI in production from those still piloting, including committed budget, traceable model outputs, and automated readiness assessment. 📊

Read the article to see why operational governance is often enough to get moving.

What separates AI projects that reach production from those that stall? In this DBTA article, Radiant Advisors analyst John O'Brien breaks down 2026 AI Market Study findings from Data Summit 2026, pointing to committed AI budgets, traceable model outputs, and automated readiness assessment as marker...