Security stories
UK merchants will gain a single integration for cards, wallets and Click to Pay as Barclaycard Payments folds Visa's Unified Checkout into Smartpay Fuse.
The recognition places UK Connect among a group of businesses with combined annual revenues of GBP £1.4 billion and almost 8,500 staff.
UK IT teams are cutting data coverage and facing surprise bills as telemetry expenses increasingly outstrip infrastructure budgets.
Unexpected telemetry bills are forcing many UK firms to cut monitoring coverage or retention as observability spending outpaces infrastructure costs.
The free assessment helps enterprises spot blind spots in change controls, where approved updates can still drift across cloud and on-premise systems.
Security and compliance worries are slowing AI deployment across EMEA, where 55% of IT leaders say they have already delayed rollouts.
As AI workloads spread across cloud and on-premises systems, network teams need more context to spot shadow AI and govern traffic.
AI is driving a surge in automated traffic, with Cloudflare saying more than half of internet requests were non-human for the first time this year.
Security teams can now connect exposure data with third-party AI tools to triage risks faster without building custom integrations.
Enterprises could cut AI operating costs by 68% over three years by routing queries through the layer and filtering data before model ingestion.
A compliance gap is leaving 22% of financial services firms running AI agents in production without monitoring, a New Relic study warns.
The tie-up will let HR and finance staff move between both systems without resetting permissions, while automating tasks such as compensation reviews and book closes.
Most organisations are still losing time on manual data prep and siloed records, with 86% reporting AI disruption in the past year.
External validation from Anthropic could help Moterra AI win more clients as it expands its Claude deployment work across the UK and Europe.
Resilience-minded organisations are turning to compact edge systems to keep critical services running if cyberattacks, outages or floods hit.
New controls aim to keep sensitive data usable in AI systems while reducing re-identification risk and improving recovery after outages or attacks.
Grafana Cloud users can now trial and subscribe to vetted commercial plugins, giving developers a paid route into the platform's catalog.
Australian organisations are deploying autonomous AI agents faster than they are building the controls to govern them, Deloitte found.
Parliament has boosted security after a specialist team handled 216 requests for help in three weeks amid a surge in abuse and threats.
By bringing AI tools into existing business software, Cloudflare hopes to ease security fears and curb spiralling model costs for enterprises.