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Everest Group has released its Top GBS Employers™ 2026 and Top Employers for Tech Talent™ 2026 reports, offering an independent, outside-in perspective on how employers are perceived by current and prospective talent across key global markets.  As Global Business Services (GBS) organizations evolve into strategic hubs and companies compete for increasingly specialized digital skills, employer brand perception is emerging as a structural business priority – not merely an HR metric.  According to Rohitashwa Aggarwal, Partner at Everest Group: “In a talent market where “good enough” gets ignored, Everest Group’s Top Employers research cuts through the noise with an outside-in read of how your employer brand is really landing. It shows where you’re winning, where you’re leaking talent,…

In our last benchmarking post, Clarity in complexity: New insights for transparent email security,1 we shared why transparency matters more than ever in email security and how clear, consistent benchmarking helps security teams cut through noise and make confident decisions. Today, we’re continuing that conversation. With the latest Microsoft benchmarking data, we’re sharing what real-world telemetry reveals about how effectively modern email threats are detected, mitigated, and stopped by Microsoft Defender, secure email gateway (SEG) providers, and integrated cloud email security (ICES) solutions. This is part of our ongoing commitment to openness: regularly publishing performance data so customers can see…

Twenty years ago today, on March 14, 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) quietly launched with a modest one-paragraph announcement on the What’s New page: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. Even…

As the needs and complexity of organizational networks expand, there is a greater need to provide threat protections that span diverse use cases, architectures, and attack vectors. These new capabilities found in our latest firewall software release, Cisco Secure Firewall version 10.0, expand the scope of protection to include previously unidentified threats, more accurately match security rules to users and applications, and offer better threat detection capabilities for clustered firewall architectures. You can test drive these capabilities today with Secure Firewall Test Drive, an instructor-led course that will guide you through the Secure Firewall and its powerful roles in cybersecurity for your organization. Expanded Protections for ML-based Intrusion Prevention  SnortML complements the…

The public has moved on — even if politics hasn’t. Across rich and poor countries alike, people now expect economic growth and environmental protection to be pursued together, not traded off against each other. In a survey conducted by Trellis data partner GlobeScan, 48 percent of people on average said environmental protection and economic growth aren’t mutually exclusive — a threefold increase from 2017. Instead, they expect policymakers and businesses to pursue both goals in tandem. This shift comes as world leaders are also reevaluating the definition of “progress.” In February 2026, over 150 governments approved a landmark report by…

Instead of writing blog posts about individual package updates, I think I’ll be changing things up a bit. My agents do a better job than me in summarizing the changes for individual releases, so I will from now on group them together, referencing the release notes on GitHub. I am working a lot on a private project for a client at this moment where I am making MCP for all communication. Previously I would have hand-rolled REST API calls with URL sessions and JSON decoding for talking to Google Drive or Parse platform. SwiftMCP But for this new project I…

A well-designed home automation system can offer us a lot of convenience and can even save us money. But to get the most out of the system, we have to be prepared to make some pretty big compromises. First and foremost is privacy. To collect the necessary data, home automation systems typically rely on cameras, microphones, and other such invasive sensors.But can we get the data we need in a way that protects the user’s privacy? Vigil Systems believes we can, and they have just announced a crowdfunding campaign to build the Squire Home Sensing Platform to prove it. It…

Millions worldwide suffer from sleep apnea, but 80% of sufferers1 don’t even know they have it. This serious condition causes people to experience pauses in breathing while asleep — potentially disrupting oxygen supply, lowering sleep quality and leading to health complications including hypertension and stroke. Despite these risks, the disorder largely goes unnoticed because getting a diagnosis usually requires time-consuming and costly in-lab sleep studies. To mark World Sleep Day 2026, a global study of Samsung Health users2 is shedding new light on the true extent of sleep apnea and the disruptive impact it has on sleep. Aligned with this year’s…

An enterprise builds an AI-powered contract review API that costs $1.58 per document to process: loading the contract, running five extraction passes through an LLM, flagging risks, and generating a summary. The unit economics are reasonable, and the API works well when called by internal applications. Then the team exposes this API via MCP for agentic consumption, making it an agentic API. On Friday evening, an agent hits a timeout and begins retrying. By Monday morning, that single document had been processed a thousand times. Multiply that across a batch of a thousand contracts, and the weekend bill reaches $1.6…

The United States remains vulnerable to disruptive cyberattacks from well-resourced and highly capable nation-state adversaries. While the Department of War (DoW) has a large and capable cyberspace workforce, it is challenged to assemble adequate mission-ready talent able to quickly mobilize in response to major cyber incidents or exceptionally difficult problems. To address this challenge, U.S. Congress tasked DoW with investigating alternative cyberspace workforce strategies.In 2020, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission released a report with proposed legislative actions, including the recommendation that Congress task the DoW with assessing the establishment of a military reserve. This recommendation resulted in enactment of Section 1730…