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Commvault and TIME Magazine have launched the inaugural CISO of the Year recognition program, announced at RSA Conference 2026. The award elevates security leaders who are advancing resilience operations — unifying people, processes, and technology into a continuous operational discipline. Nominations are open through June 20, 2026, with the winner revealed by TIME in September.

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report 2026 draws on 750+ real-world investigations to document a sobering reality: 90% of breaches were enabled by preventable gaps, attackers reached exfiltration in as little as 72 minutes, and AI is now a routine force multiplier for threat actors. Here's what security leaders need to know — and do.

AWS is methodically building the infrastructure to make agentic commerce commercially viable at scale. Through a collaboration with Visa, the cloud giant is developing secure, network-agnostic payment workflows that let AI agents execute transactions without replacing existing financial infrastructure — while keeping fraud prevention and enterprise governance at the center of the stack.

Genesys is becoming a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, with Genesys Cloud availability expected between May and July 2026. Hosted in Brandenburg, Germany and backed by EU-based teams, the offering gives regulated industries a compliant path to cloud-based AI — and signals that digital sovereignty is now a global competitive differentiator.

Conga's acquisition of PROS Holdings' B2B business marks a major shift in enterprise revenue operations. By combining PROS' AI-driven pricing science with Conga's CPQ, CLM, and document automation capabilities, the deal creates a full-stack platform — and a credible alternative to Salesforce Revenue Cloud for complex, multi-ERP enterprises.

IBM has named Deepgram its first-ever voice AI partner, embedding speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities directly into watsonx Orchestrate. With 50,000+ years of audio processed and support for dozens of global dialects, the partnership signals that voice is rapidly becoming the default interface layer for enterprise AI automation.

Smartsheet has launched its first MCP-enabled integration with Anthropic's Claude, letting enterprise users query and update project data through natural language conversation. Built on the Model Context Protocol — now an industry standard with 97M+ monthly downloads — this bidirectional integration signals a structural shift in how work management platforms connect with AI.

Google’s WebMCP introduces structured AI agent access inside Chrome, signaling a major shift toward a governed, agentic web architecture.