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‘Alarming’ gaps in US data centres’ cybersecurity defences

Rahul Powar, explains that, as cyber threats increasingly target critical infrastructure, a new analysis from Red Sift exposes major email security weaknesses across the US’s largest data center operators. Despite powering the country’s digital economy, more than a quarter of the top 100 data centres fail to enforce basic email authentication, leaving the door wide open to domain spoofing and phishing.

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A viable pathway to a genuine, distributed, green and secure digital future

Andy Bates, CISO/Chief Product Officer at StonesThro, explains how the company, working in partnership with Cornerstone, a leading mobile infrastructure services provider, has successfully executed a groundbreaking Proof of Concept (POC) for micro-edge computing. The trials have demonstrated that distributed architectures can deliver sub-10ms latency, essential for many IOT applications, while significantly reducing the carbon footprint of AI and data processing. As Andy summarises, taking the compute power usually locked away in massive warehouses and deploying it in the regions where it is actually needed and makes the cloud local, sovereign, and sustainable.

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Trust and identity in the cybersecurity spotlight

Ross McKerchar, CISO at Sophos, discusses the results of the company’s recent Cybersecurity Trust Reality 2026 report and the State of Identity Security 2026 survey, The report reveals a critical challenge facing CISOs: trust in cybersecurity vendors is fragile, difficult to measure, and increasingly shaping risk posture at both operational and board levels; while the survey highlights the fact that identity has become the primary attack surface in modern cybersecurity, and most organisations are losing ground – with the non-human identity problem being particularly urgent.

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Project Mercury Aims to Deliver Britain’s First Sovereign Pre-Trained AI Models

James Drayson, Co-Founder & CEO of Locai Labs and Mark Boost, Founder and CEO of Civo, explains how Locai Labs, the UK’s sovereign AI company, and Civo, the British sovereign cloud provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake Project Mercury - a programme to build the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign large language models (LLMs), With the aim of empowering UK enterprises and government with secure, home-grown frontier models designed to drive innovation and accelerate Britain’s AI independence.

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There’s no such thing as an ‘off the shelf’ AI agent

Dom Selvon, Chief Technology Officer, at Valliance, an AI consultancy, argues that, with boards and leadership teams under pressure to deploy AI quickly, many organisations are investing in agents that aren’t aligned with how their business actually works. Dom explains that, when it comes to deploying agentic AI, what truly matters is the enterprise intelligence stack underneath agents and agentic platforms – how an organisation defines truth, makes decisions, and governs risk - ontologies which govern agents will be the next stage of unlocking AI’s potential for businesses.

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GPU are poorly used despite their cost

Laurent Gil, President of Cast AI, discusses the findings of the company’s 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimisation Report, a comprehensive analysis of GPU, CPU, and memory utilisation across non-optimised Kubernetes clusters. Drawing on data from tens of thousands of clusters, the report delivers a clear and urgent message: GPU are poorly utilised despite their cost, at 5%; the efficiency gains that Kubernetes was designed to unlock are not emerging naturally with scale, and the gap between what organisations are paying for and what they are actually using is widening.

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Reimagining EMEA Marketing: Scaling Strategy in the Age of AI

In this interview, Emma Acton, EMEA VP Marketing at Zendesk, discusses how marketing is evolving across a highly diverse regional landscape. She explores the tension between brand building and demand generation, the realities of account-based strategies, and the challenge of making complex martech ecosystems work seamlessly. Acton also shares her perspective on how AI and automation are reshaping marketing across EMEA markets.

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Improving Cyber Threat Intelligence Through Collaboration & Shared Insights

In this interview, Lee Clark, Cyber Intelligence Production Manager at RH-ISAC, discusses the evolving role of threat intelligence. He explores how organisations are shifting from reactive security approaches toward more actionable, collaborative intelligence sharing models. Clark also reflects on emerging threats, the role of AI in cybersecurity, and the importance of cross-industry cooperation in strengthening collective defence.

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Rising customer expectations & the future of human-centric, AI-powered employee service

In this conversation with Vishnu Parimi, VP Employee Service at Zendesk, we explore how organisations are responding to rising customer and employee expectations through more connected, scalable service models. It examines the balance between AI-driven efficiency and keeping employee service human-centric, along with the role of integration, data, and automation in improving speed and experience across global teams.

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Fleet of 1,000 urban neocloud sites deploying across US by end of 2026

Kiersten Hileman, Available Infrastructure VP of Partner Relations, discusses Project Qestrel, a nationwide fleet of cybersecure, private neocloud edge data centres – the initial phase, to be live by the end of 2026, will span 1,000 individual sites across 100 US cities and more than 30 US states from coast to coast, representing nearly $5 billion in project CapEx at full buildout. Each site will feature full-stack edge deployments of Available's trio of SanQtum solutions: zero trust network, high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructure, and AI inference capability.

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AI accelerates adversaries and reshapes the attack surface

Zeki Turedi, CrowdStrike Field CTO Europe, discusses the findings of the company’s 2026 Global Threat Report, which reveals that AI is accelerating the adversary and expanding the enterprise attack surface. The Global Threat Report makes clear that as innovation accelerates, adversary exploitation follows. Zeki explains that cybersecurity is entering an AI arms race. Breakout time is the clearest signal of how intrusion has changed. Adversaries are moving from initial access to lateral movement in minutes. AI is compressing the time between intent and execution while turning enterprise AI systems into targets. Security teams must operate faster than the adversary to win.

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Why 24/7 IT defence is no longer just a ‘Nice-To-Have’ for SMBs

Nirav Shah, Founder & Director of Technical Excellence at Infrassist, explains that 24x7 IT monitoring and defence is essential for SMBs as an often distributed workforce needs protection around the clock, not just during the ‘normal’ working day. Nirav shares examples of where a lack of round-the-clock monitoring led to serious consequences for a business, warns that SMBs are very much in the sights of today’s bad actors and shares some valuable advice as to how organisations can improve their out-of-hours security posture.

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