SHILPI MONDAL| DATE: FEBRUARY 23, 2026 Imagine a threat actor breaching your environment and locking down every domain controller. In the past, you might have had days to detect and contain the intrusion. Today, that entire lifecycle can happen before your morning coffee. The cybersecurity ground is shifting beneath our feet, and the catalyst is the rapid maturation of quantum computing. But it’s not just the sheer computing power that should keep CIOs awake at night. Adversaries are actively...

SHILPI MONDAL| DATE: FEBRUARY 20, 2026 I’ve sat in dozens of Security Operations Centers recently. The energy is almost always identical. You walk in, and there's a palpable, low-grade exhaustion hanging in the room. We’ve reached a breaking point in enterprise cybersecurity that many are accurately labeling "alert tyranny." It’s a structural failure. The sheer volume of digital telemetry has entirely outpaced human cognitive limits. But is slapping more automation onto the problem actually...

SHILPI MONDAL| DATE: FEBRUARY 18, 2026 It is a humbling reality that we currently possess more detailed topographical maps of the lunar surface and Mars than we do of our own ocean floors. Yet, the race to digitize the deep is well underway. The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) extends our terrestrial connectivity into the 71% of the Earth’s surface covered by water, creating a complex network of intelligent sensors, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), and surface gateways. What keeps...