Third-Party Risk Management
Boards demanded tangible AI wins while governance, budgets, and real-world references lagged behind hype-fueled timelines, and that collision of urgency and uncertainty left many technology leaders juggling speed with safety in ways that stalled momentum as often as they sparked it. The strain showed up in planning rooms and steering committees:
Budgets that once celebrated AI’s promise now carry the weight of bills, breaches, and bottlenecks as organizations realize that rapid adoption without matching governance quietly trades short-term gains for long-term costs. As enterprise IT outlays swell toward the $6.15 trillion mark cited by industry forecasts, decision-makers are recalibrating
An unauthenticated terminal endpoint in a popular open-source notebook platform turned routine patch notes into a live breach vector in less than half a day, proving how disclosure alone can fuel immediate, at-scale abuse by operators who know exactly where to look and what to take. The case centered on Marimo and CVE-2026-39987, a CVSS 9.3
From Monoliths to Orchestration: Why the Real Shake-Up Sits Above the System of Record Enterprise budgets are buckling under overlapping licenses as teams chase outcomes that no single app can contain, and AI agents have begun to reroute the very touchpoints where work actually moves. Technology leaders surveyed for this roundup describe a shift
From land-and-expand to control-and-compound: why ServiceNow’s Q1 2026 reframes the platform story Boardrooms tracking AI budgets and breach headlines reached a consensus this quarter: platform control now beats tool sprawl for both resilience and returns. Against that backdrop, ServiceNow’s latest results—$3.67 billion in revenue, up 19% year