Opinion stories - Page 2

AI in legal services is unlikely to shrink demand, with clients seeking more senior expertise and using efficiency gains to unlock latent work.

Fortra's Chief Executive Officer says acquisition success hinges on strategy and culture before price, after 19 deals since 2020.

AI-era data security needs more than DSPM visibility, as firms must track how sensitive information moves and enforce controls in real time.

UK SOC spots Monday-morning conditional access failure from Germany, helps reset compromised Microsoft 365 account before attackers can strike.

Ecommerce in 2026: AI shoppers, social sales and returns pressure push retailers to rethink data, compliance and cross-border growth.

Fractional Chief Marketing Officers say brands must ditch blanket discounting, sharpen value messages and tailor offers as households split into two wallets.

GEO spending is surging, but marketers risk wasting money if they do not first fix inconsistent brand messaging and content foundations.

Clean, verified customer data is the key to effective email automation, as poor records can damage deliverability, targeting and ROI.

Brands urged to treat marketplace Buy Box loss as a distribution issue, after grey market sellers were found to be siphoning sales and trust.

Data quality gives banks a scalable route to digital trust, cutting fraud and false positives while speeding onboarding, KYB and AI-driven checks.

AI adoption's next phase hinges on data foundations, with enterprises needing real-time pipelines, governance and portability to scale safely.

OpenAI buys TBPN, adding Silicon Valley's influential daily tech talk show to its Strategy team while pledging editorial independence.

Apograph's £60-a-month firewall plan helps clients dodge emergency refresh costs, cut downtime and strengthen security across 1,500 endpoints.

AI is moving travel from inspiration to transaction, but live inventory, accuracy and booking infrastructure still stand between chat and checkout.

World Backup Day prompts organisations to rethink recovery as AI systems, prompts and training data become as vital to resilience as files and databases.

Retailers warned that mobile checkout typos, duplicate profiles and recycled numbers are draining sales unless data is checked in real time.

CSOs are shedding their purely technical image as security chiefs are pushed into the boardroom to drive sales, trust and growth.

AI security tools are only as smart as the data they see, and network telemetry is emerging as the missing piece in hybrid cloud oversight.

AMD says a new class of always-on personal machine can run AI agents locally, promising more privacy, speed and productivity for users.

Governance alone is no safeguard as enterprises are urged to make data quality the proof of trustworthy information in 2026.