CyberArk held its Impact event in my hometown of Austin a few weeks ago. I had an opportunity to spend time with company executives and Palo Alto Networks’ chief executive Nikesh Arora. With a continued theme of summarizing my event attendance with three big takeaways – let’s dive in! A New Brand To Address Identity Fragmentation The biggest news coming out of CyberArk Impact was the launch of a new brand in Idira. Before the close of its $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk, Palo Alto Networks organized its product portfolios under three pillars: Strata for network security, Prisma for cloud and SASE, and Cortex for security operations and AI threat…
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Image: RSA Conference 2026 RSA Conference yet again welcomed scores of security practitioners, executives, and infrastructure providers to San Francisco this year. I had the opportunity to attend in person and meet with thirty companies over four long days. Not surprisingly, agentic AI security punctuated all my conversations. With a continued theme of summarizing my event attendance with three big takeaways – let’s dive in! You Can’t Protect What You Can’t See Agentic frameworks are moving at hyper speed, and enterprises are struggling to keep pace. Historically, technology roadmap refreshes were measured in years. In contrast, modern AI application innovation can be measured in months. OpenClaw experimentation is a glaring…
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Image: NVIDIA Agentic AI security is a hot topic, one that I expect to discuss in every conversation I have with infrastructure providers at the upcoming RSA Conference. To no surprise, it was also a focal point for NVIDIA at its GTC event this week. The undisputed AI GPU leader is staking out fertile agentic security ground with the introduction of its NemoClaw “enterprise-ready” AI agent platform, but is it ready? On the surface, it is another strategy by NVIDIA to dominate the deployment of modern AI and solidify its ability to lock in its AI stack. What Is NemoClaw? The announcement payload at GTC was massive, demonstrating the company’s…
