NIST vs SOC 2: What Highly Regulated Industries Look For – and Why Portal26 Exceeds the Bar If you sell software into finance, healthcare, insurance, utilities, or government, you already know the sales cycle doesn’t really start until security and compliance sign off. Two acronyms come up in almost every one of those conversations: NIST […]
Shadow AI, Rogue Agents, and Missing ROI: The Case for a Managed AI Provider Artificial intelligence is no longer a future consideration for enterprise leaders. It’s today’s operational reality, and the numbers heading into the second half of 2026 make that impossible to ignore. According to McKinsey’s Q1 2026 Global AI Survey, 72% of enterprises
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Why an Evidence-Based AI Strategy Matters More Than Your AI Tool Stack Ask most enterprise leaders to describe their AI strategy and they’ll tell you about tools. Which large language model they’ve licensed. Which copilot they’ve rolled out. Which agentic platform is on the roadmap for next quarter. It’s an understandable instinct. Tool selection feels
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Your AI Agents Are Burning Budget: A Leader’s Guide to AI Agent Cost Control AI agent cost control has rapidly become one of the most pressing and underestimated challenges in enterprise technology. What began as a sprint to deploy autonomous AI agents across engineering, operations, and customer-facing workflows has quietly evolved into a financial governance
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The AI Control Plane: The Enterprise AI Layer Most Companies Are Missing There’s a new term circulating in boardrooms, security teams, and IT strategy sessions: the AI Control Plane. If you’ve heard it and weren’t quite sure what it means, you’re not alone. Like many concepts in enterprise AI, it sounds technical but points to
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What CDOs and Chief AI Officers Should Be Tracking in Their Claude Cowork Rollout Claude and Claude Cowork are changing what it means to be productive at work. For knowledge workers in finance, legal, operations, and marketing, Cowork is not just another tool in the stack. It is the first AI that works the way
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The CIO’s 2026 AI Agenda: The 7 Most Urgent Enterprise AI Issues and How to Address Them Most enterprises have approved the AI strategy. Very few can prove it’s working. For today’s CIO and Chief AI Officer, the question is no longer “should we adopt AI?” It’s “why isn’t it working the way we planned,
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Excessive Token Usage: What Happens When AI Agents Enter Recursive Loops You have already made the case internally for agentic AI. The productivity gains are real, the use cases are compelling, and deployment is either underway or imminent. So this is not a post to convince you that agents are worth the investment. You know
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The C-Suite Signal – Perspectives from the people leading the AI transformtion AI Governance Meets AI Telemetry: Seeing What You’re Running Nobody Actually Owns This. And That’s the Crisis. Today’s Post by Manju Mude, CISO I’ve sat in enough boardrooms and enough incident bridges to know the difference between governance that exists on paper and
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Why Your CISO Keeps Hearing ‘AI Native Security’ (And What It Actually Means) If your CISO has heard “AI native” in dozens of vendor sales calls this month, they’re not alone – we’ve seen it firsthand. Walking the floor at RSAC this week in San Francisco, the world’s largest cybersecurity conference, the term is inescapable.
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