Today's Enterprise Pulse
ServiceNow pivots to AI‑driven security and governance
At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow rebranded from a workflow platform to the governance and action layer for enterprise AI agents, identities and connected assets. It launched Autonomous Security and Risk, merging Armis asset intelligence with Veza identity governance, and expanded its AI Control Tower with real‑time enforcement, cost tracking and NIST‑aligned risk frameworks.
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By the numbers: Fortress expands IP portfolio with acquisition of IPValue
Idemia Public Security, Proof Partner on Single Portable Digital Credential
Idemia Public Security and Proof have announced a strategic partnership to launch a verifiable digital credential (VDC) that merges biometric verification with PKI‑based digital signatures. The solution delivers a single, portable credential that is user‑controlled, privacy‑preserving, and revocable, leveraging selective disclosure and zero‑knowledge proofs. It targets payments fraud, KYC, and regulatory compliance across financial institutions and enterprises. The alliance aims to set a new standard for secure, regulator‑ready identity experiences.
Automate or Orchestrate? Implementing a Streamlined Remediation Program to Shorten MTTR
Security teams are racing to cut Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR), which averages 4.5 months for critical flaws. The article clarifies the distinction between automation—single‑task, high‑speed fixes—and orchestration—coordinated, multi‑tool workflows for complex exposures. It proposes a routing engine that directs...
Tyler Schack, Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux
Tyler Schack has been appointed Vice President of Technology & Guest Insights at Walk‑On’s Sports Bistreaux, where he will steer enterprise technology strategy and guest‑intelligence programs. His mandate includes boosting brand growth, franchisee profitability, and operational scalability across the restaurant...
The Verification Imperative: How One Framework Is Reshaping Trust in Financial Code
Financial institutions are tightening code integrity after supply‑chain attacks. Mitsubishi UFJ VP Jamshir Qureshi introduced the Hybrid Chain of Trust (HCoT), a framework that cryptographically signs and continuously validates software and container artifacts within CI/CD pipelines. The model enables compliance‑ready...
Cisco Warns of Max Severity Secure FMC Flaws Giving Root Access
Cisco has issued emergency patches for two maximum‑severity flaws in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. The authentication‑bypass vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑20079) lets unauthenticated attackers gain root access, while the remote code execution bug (CVE‑2026‑20131) permits arbitrary Java code execution as...
Motel One Innovates Operations Using Oracle Cloud
European upscale hotel chain Motel One completed a full migration of its 101 properties in 13 countries to Oracle’s OPERA Cloud PMS within a four‑month window. The cloud platform delivers a unified data foundation, built‑in analytics, and access to over...
Hacker Mass-Mails HungerRush Extortion Emails to Restaurant Patrons
Customers of restaurants using the HungerRush point‑of‑sale platform received extortion emails claiming the attacker possessed millions of customer records, including credit‑card details. The messages were sent through Twilio SendGrid, passing SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks, making them appear authentic from...
SAP Integrates SmartRecruiters with SuccessFactors
SAP has integrated the SmartRecruiters hiring platform, acquired last September, into its SuccessFactors HCM suite, creating a unified talent architecture. The integration provides end‑to‑end hiring with embedded AI, bidirectional data flow, single sign‑on, and combined AI assistants Joule and Winston....
AI Recommends Keeping HubSpot over Costly Rebuild
Turns out HubSpot isn't dead. 💀 I gave Claude Code 30 days of AppSumo software costs ($100,000) total. Asked it to analyze cost, effort, maintenance of replicating all the software we are using. It found ~$500 / month in costs but many of...
Blueprint for Transaction-Grade Performance in Spring Boot FinTech
A Transaction-Grade Performance Blueprint for Spring Boot FinTech Microservices (Tracing, Histograms, and Kubernetes) https://t.co/fuDRAB4Kme https://t.co/RBC3Sr1zhX
Business Central AI Forecasts Now Drive Planning Parameters with Enhanced Forecasting Worksheet
Insight Works has extended its Enhanced Forecasting Worksheet to link Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central AI forecasts directly to item planning parameters such as safety stock, reorder point, and maximum inventory. Users can create expressions that combine forecast quantities, historical...
Configure AWS Transfer Family SFTP with Lambda Auth
AWS Transfer Family SFTP Setup (Password + SSH Key Users) Using Lambda Identity Provider + S3 https://t.co/15sA5yEiHC https://t.co/IZ8nvrWFgE
Smart AI Metrics Need Guardrails to Prevent Gaming
Smart metrics don’t just measure performance, they shape behavior. If we’re deploying #AI across the enterprise, we need guardrails against metric gaming from day one. Governance isn’t a brake on innovation, it’s what makes transformation durable. Especially as agentic systems enter ops. https://t.co/r792RxQbTa...
What to Expect at This Year’s Lumenia ERP HEADtoHEAD™ This March
Lumenia Consulting’s ERP HEADtoHEAD™ will take place on 24‑25 March 2026 at Birmingham’s Eastside Rooms. The two‑day event uses a fast‑paced, immersive format where 14 ERP vendors demonstrate identical business scenarios, allowing side‑by‑side comparison. Keynote sessions and panels will address...
RightRev Releases AI Platform for End-to-End Revenue Accounting Automation
RightRev unveiled Revi, an AI‑powered revenue automation platform, on March 4 2026. The suite embeds two AI agents—a Contract Review Agent that extracts terms and generates audit‑ready checklists, and an Anomaly Detector Agent that flags revenue schedule variances. Revi also includes a...
Stranger Things Meets Cybersecurity: Lessons From the Hive Mind
The commentary likens modern cyber threats to the "hive mind" of Stranger Things, highlighting how botnets and APTs such as Salt Typhoon exploit default IoT credentials to create sprawling, often unseen attack surfaces. It stresses that telemetry—network traffic, logs, and user‑behavior data—combined...
Enterprise AI Governance for Revenue Teams
Revenue teams are adopting AI features—email drafting, call summaries, forecasting—without a unified governance layer, leading to data leaks and compliance delays. The article outlines an operational framework: data classification, use‑case policies, platform controls, and regular review cadence. It emphasizes mapping...
Intapp's Celeste AI Aims to Automate Judgment-Heavy Tasks
Intapp unveiled Celeste, an agentic AI platform that leverages a firm’s entire data set to execute complex, judgment‑intensive workflows such as deal screening, conflict clearance, and revenue realization. The system uses firm‑specific "Playbooks" and modular "skills" to codify best‑practice methodologies...
How to Think of Your CRM
The article reframes the CRM from a surveillance tool to a personal knowledge hub for salespeople. By documenting every conversation, stakeholder insight, and meeting detail, reps create a searchable record that fuels future engagements. Centralizing these notes in platforms like...
Keeper Security Launches Native Jira Integrations
Keeper Security announced two native Atlassian Jira integrations that embed security incident response and privileged‑access governance directly into Jira workflows. The Forge‑based Jira ITSM app auto‑creates tickets from Keeper alerts, while the Jira Workflow app lets teams request and approve...
Hybrid Cloud Powers Heterogeneous AI Computing
Next up - @IBMResearch's Priya Nagpurkar on how hybrid cloud enables heterogenous computing - with an eye on #AI workloads. #NextGenApps https://t.co/lHx09BA96M
Tabnine Fills the Organizational Context Gap for Enterprise AI
Tabnine has unveiled the Enterprise Context Engine (ECE), a platform that injects structured organizational knowledge into AI coding agents. By continuously modeling software architecture, documentation, and engineering practices, ECE moves beyond simple retrieval‑augmented generation to enable agents to reason about...
ADP’s Strategic Partnership with Pine Services Group Expands HCM Solutions
ADP has entered a strategic partnership with Pine Services Group to embed its AI‑enabled human capital management (HCM) suite within ERP and value‑added reseller ecosystems, initially targeting construction and other project‑driven sectors. Pine will act as a distribution and enablement...
Agentic Orchestration Confronts the Growing Complexity of Enterprise IT
IBM is championing agentic orchestration as the next evolution of enterprise IT, aiming to unify AI agents across fragmented applications and multi‑cloud environments. The approach moves beyond traditional digital‑transformation pilots toward end‑to‑end, outcome‑driven strategies that leverage IBM’s consulting, research, and...
Defra Nears Exit of Legacy Datacentres but Retains Capgemini for £40m Digital ‘Capability as a Service’ Deal
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is close to completing a multi‑million‑pound programme to shut down its legacy datacentres, moving services to cloud platforms such as AWS. While a £9 million, 19‑month contract with Capgemini finalises the remaining...
Pentagon Vendor Cutoff Exposes the AI Dependency Map Most Enterprises Never Built
The Pentagon’s six‑month ban on Anthropic’s Claude has exposed a blind spot in enterprise AI risk management: most firms cannot map the full chain of AI model dependencies. A Panorays survey shows only 15% of CISOs have complete visibility, while...
Over 1,200 IceWarp Servers Still Vulnerable to Unauthenticated RCE Flaw (CVE-2025-14500)
A critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw (CVE-2025-14500) affects IceWarp's business communication platform, allowing attackers to execute OS commands as root or SYSTEM. The vulnerability, rooted in improper handling of the X‑File‑Operation header, was disclosed in September 2025 and patched...
Wiss Expands NetSuite Automation Capabilities
Wiss announced its new status as a Certified Netgain Implementation Partner, giving it the authority to deploy Netgain’s native NetSuite add‑ons directly within client ERP environments. The partnership enables Wiss to embed automation across critical accounting workflows such as fixed‑asset...
Validate Cloud SCM Fits Your Real Workflows
Manufacturers: how do you know if cloud SCM enhancements fit your reality? Assess future state operating models and product capabilities against your workflows and data. It's about how the software truly works day-to-day. #SCM #Cloud https://t.co/K8BkrmvMyN
Databricks Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines Migration From Non‑Unity Catalog to Unity Catalog
Databricks is transitioning Delta Live Tables pipelines from legacy Hive Metastore workspaces to Unity Catalog‑enabled environments, revealing consistent code refactoring and governance adjustments. Teams must adopt three‑level catalog.schema.table references, replace input_file_name() calls with the built‑in _metadata struct, and migrate notebook...
OSPOlogy Day Cloud Native at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
OSPOlogy Day Cloud Native, hosted by the CNCF and the TODO Europe Chapter, will convene a small group of open‑source program offices at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe on March 23, 2026. The half‑day session uses lightning talks and round‑table discussions under the Chatham House...
In-House IT Builds Are Falling Flat and Going Way over Budget – Here's Why
A new Exclaimer survey reveals that fewer than three‑in‑ten in‑house IT builds are delivered on time and on budget, with 71% of leaders eventually abandoning such projects. In regulated sectors the abandonment rate climbs to 83%, while only 8% of...
LastPass Issues Alert as Customers Face Second Major Phishing Campaign of 2026
LastPass warned customers of a new phishing wave that mimics internal email threads and uses display‑name spoofing to appear legitimate. The messages, sent from unrelated domains, direct recipients to a fake verify‑lastpass.com site and its numbered variants to harvest credentials....
Njordium Vendor Management System Eliminates Duplicate Third-Party Assessments
Njordium Cyber Group unveiled its Vendor Management System (VMS), a platform that consolidates third‑party risk assessments to satisfy Europe’s overlapping regulations in a single run. The solution claims to replace up to five parallel assessments with one, automatically generating outputs...
New RFP Template for AI Usage Control and AI Governance
Enterprises are finally allocating budgets for AI security, but many lack clear requirements. A new RFP template reframes AI protection as an interaction‑level problem rather than an app‑cataloging exercise, enabling tool‑agnostic control. It exposes the blind spots of legacy CASB/SSE...
Carpentry, CapEx, and Continuing Disruption - Salesforce CDO Joe Inzerillo on the Real Impact of AI on SaaS Providers
At the Morgan Stanley TMT conference, Salesforce Chief Digital Officer Joe Inzerillo argued that generative AI is an accelerator, not a destroyer, for SaaS businesses. He likened AI to a table‑saw that lets engineers deliver features 20‑times faster, turning back‑log...
Is Microsoft Teams Tracking Your Exact Position in the Office or Not? The App Says Its New Wi-Fi Location Feature...
Microsoft Teams will add a Wi‑Fi‑based work‑location feature that automatically updates users’ presence in the app. The feature will be opt‑in and disabled by default, requiring compatible Wi‑Fi infrastructure. It distinguishes between planned (user‑set) and actual (system‑detected) locations and clears...
Rankings | Rethinking HR Technology Decisions in Europe: Lessons From the Latest Fosway 9-Grid
The latest Fosway 9‑Grid report confirms Workday’s tenth straight year as a Strategic Leader, underscoring its dominance in Europe’s HR‑tech market. The analysis highlights five trends reshaping the region: platform consolidation, heightened employee‑experience demands, AI‑driven work redesign, a pivot to...
HungerRushRMS Breach Leads to Phishing Emails, Aussie Traffic Blocked
Looks like @HungerRushRMS got pwned and the bad guys are emailing customers. Now they’re blocking website traffic (at least they are for Aussie traffic). https://t.co/lKe74m0OTc
Would You Trust an AI Pentester to Work Solo?
Security leaders face mounting pressure to outpace threats while accelerating AI adoption, yet only 36% are satisfied with current pentesting providers. AI‑powered pentesting promises unprecedented speed and scale, scanning massive codebases in minutes, but it falls short on contextual judgment,...
OpenText Ramps up A/NZ Channel Investment
OpenText is ramping up its partner ecosystem in Australia and New Zealand to accelerate AI and cloud adoption after internally deploying its AI tools to more than 20,000 staff. The company will boost marketing, sales‑enablement and training resources, and is...
Vendor Support Ends? Third‑party Options Extend Life
Vendor ending support doesn't mean you MUST upgrade. There are alternatives, like third-party providers offering maintenance and support until 2040. Upgrading also carries risks. #SAP #TechTips #Software https://t.co/wuLPRDm041
Agentic AI Forces Unified ITOps‑SecOps for Resilience
Most orgs still treat ITOps and SecOps as separate universes, but incidents don't care about org charts. Agentic AI gives leaders a reason to redesign workflows around end-to-end resilience. #CIO #CISO #AI https://t.co/e3w3lXkvfc
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, March 4th, 2026: CrushFTP Brute Force; Android Patches 0-Day; 0Auth Phishing Abuse
In this 5‑minute Stormcast, Johannes Ulrich covers three security topics: a credential‑guessing campaign targeting CrushFTP admin accounts using default usernames and passwords, the latest Android Patch Tuesday which includes a critical Qualcomm display driver flaw already being exploited, and a...
On‑Premise Infrastructure Often Beats Cloud on Cost
The initial promise of cloud software being cheaper than on-premise systems has been widely debunked. In most client scenarios, managing your own infrastructure proves more cost-effective. #CloudComputing #ITStrategy https://t.co/jt3bOt7Dgu
Capgemini Joins OpenAI's Frontier Alliance to Scale Enterprise AI
Capgemini has joined OpenAI’s newly launched Frontier Alliance as a founding partner, creating a dedicated delivery function to scale AI agents for enterprises. The firm will deploy OpenAI‑certified professionals to tackle data readiness, integration, operating‑model design and governance challenges. Capgemini...
Solid Launches $20M Seed Financing Round
Solid, an enterprise software startup, announced its public launch alongside a $20 million seed financing round backed by Team8 and SignalFire. The capital will accelerate the company’s mission to make AI and analytics trustworthy by automating data semantics across organizations. Solid’s...
Microsoft: Securing AI Agents and Human Teams Crucial for Success
Microsoft’s inaugural Cyber Pulse AI Security Report reveals that over 80% of Fortune 500 firms already deploy low‑code AI agents, and the company forecasts 1.3 billion autonomous agents operating by 2028. Financial services account for roughly 11% of global agent activity, underscoring...
How Gremlin Makes Disaster Recovery Testing Easier and Faster
Gremlin has introduced a Disaster Recovery Testing feature that lets organizations simulate catastrophic failures across all services with a few clicks. The tool builds on pre‑built test suites to establish baseline reliability scores, then supports regular weekly testing of individual...
MSDW Podcast: From Close to Confidence with Velixo
Velixo senior product manager and CPA Jim Norton discussed the challenges of year‑end closing in Dynamics 365 Business Central on the MSDW podcast. He warned that weak close processes, reliance on Excel‑based reports, and manual data exports heighten audit friction for...