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Clients hiring in the Cayman Islands can now handle payroll, permits and compliance on one platform after Borderless AI took direct control locally.
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Autonomous systems are now creating fresh avenues for code theft, remote execution and runaway cloud spending, Mandiant says.
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Enterprises face mounting risks from AI outages and hidden governance costs as Forrester says day-to-day operational needs now outrank frontier fears.
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Security teams can now compare validated exposure findings with endpoint and cloud telemetry after Horizon3 tied NodeZero into CrowdStrike's SIEM.
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Analyst Insights
Industry research and analysis from leading firms.
Thrive adds Elastic & Cato to NextGen security platform
Mid-market clients should gain broader threat visibility and tighter remote access control as Thrive upgrades its managed security platform.
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Fortinet named Gartner Leader in hybrid mesh firewall
A second straight top ranking underlines growing demand for firewall tools that span cloud and on-premise systems without separate stacks.
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Fortinet named Gartner Leader in hybrid mesh firewall
The ranking underlines demand for security that can enforce policy across cloud, branch and data centre networks as firms decentralise infrastructure.
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