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New Research: Persistent Fear of New Cyber Attacks Keeps the Pressure High Amongst Senior Security Teams

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The scale and impact of cyber responsibility is weighing on IT teams as they share insights into the increased pressure they face

LONDON, Sept. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — More than half (54%) of European IT decision makers (ITDMs) admit that the fear of their organisation being attacked by cybercriminals regularly keeps them awake at night. The figure rises to 63% among smaller-sized companies with 100-249 employees, according to data* from Corelight.

Titled: Productive Paranoia – How Threat Hunters Can Turn Their Fear of the Unknown into a Positive, the report gathered insights from senior ITDMs across the UK, France, and Germany and highlights the anxiety caused by the rapidly changing threat landscape. Despite meticulous planning, the unpredictability of cyber threats remains a significant challenge. With remote work environments and supply chain threats dominating the list of concerns, ITDMs are in a constant race to keep up with the latest threats.

“Ambiguity and uncertainty are not just occasional challenges but the norm in security operations,” says Matt Ellison, technical director EMEA at Corelight. “This is why embracing what we term ‘productive paranoia’ is crucial. By combining advanced AI technology with human intelligence, organisations can proactively manage threats and build resilience.”

Survey Insights: The Pulse of European IT Professionals

The survey reveals that 86% of IT decision makers are feeling increased pressure from executive leadership since 2020. This pressure is compounded by the ever-shifting threat landscape, where remote working environments currently top the list of challenges (51%), with supply chain threats expected to rise significantly (67%) over the next year.

Playing catch-up with the latest threats is the biggest challenge for half of the respondents (49%), while a lack of access to threat intelligence is a critical issue for 68%.

Embracing the Fear: Building Resilience

Despite these challenges, there is a clear drive to address anxiety and build resilience against new and unknown threats. More than three-quarters (78%) of respondents are committed to enhancing their SecOps capabilities. However, the fast-changing threat landscape (44%) and a shortage of skilled security team members (41%) remain significant barriers.

The Perfect Security Formula: AI and Human Intelligence

The survey also sheds light on the ideal security approach, which respondents believe to be a blend of people and technology. Nearly half (45%) of the organisations already employ dedicated threat hunters, with risk-based threat hunting and threat intelligence-based strategies being the most popular (both 60%).

However, as threat volumes surge and adversaries deploy automated tools, human efforts alone are insufficient. This is where AI, specifically GenAI, comes into play. GenAI enhances threat hunter productivity by reducing human error and enabling rapid, sophisticated search queries. It can also summarize large data volumes, preventing analyst overload.

It’s no surprise that 89% of respondents are either using GenAI or planning to integrate it into their solution stacks. When asked about the biggest impact on improving security scenarios by 2033, the most popular answer was “AI & automation for threat hunting and prevention” (50%).

Taking Action: Future Initiatives

European ITDMs are enthusiastic about enhancing SecOps capabilities with GenAI. They believe the technology will help mitigate attacks based on past tactics (75%), improve threat detection (71%), and shorten the breach cycle (63%). However, they also recognize the need to mitigate potential GenAI risks and enhance in-house skills.

Respondents indicate plans to implement several initiatives in the coming year:

Training to hunt threats with and without GenAI, to avoid over-reliance on the technology (68%)Validating GenAI output, especially for threat detection algorithms (58%)Hiring talent to incorporate GenAI capabilities into solutions (62%)Guarding against external tampering of GenAI algorithms (59%)Guarding against AI-generated false information (60%)

“The world is filled with uncertainty, but by enhancing and upskilling in-house talent with AI and automation, IT leaders can turn their paranoia about the future into a strategic advantage,” adds Ellison. “It’s time to put the plan into action.”

To download the full report please visit: https://go.corelight.com/it-security-report-europe 

About Corelight
Corelight transforms network and cloud activity into evidence that security teams use to proactively hunt for threats, accelerate response to incidents, gain complete network visibility and create powerful analytics. Corelight’s global customers include Fortune 500 companies, major government agencies, and large research universities. Based in San Francisco, Corelight is an open-core security company founded by the creators of Zeek®, the widely-used network security technology. For more information, visit https://corelight.com or follow @corelight_inc.

Corelight commissioned Sapio Research to poll 300 IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) in the UK, France and Germany. Respondents hailed from a range of organisation sizes and sectors and had responsibility for or heavy involvement in cybersecurity in their organisation.

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Oracle Introduces New AI-Powered Ways to Execute Work Across Oracle Fusion Applications

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Fusion Companion and Fusion Agentic Home help organizations achieve business outcomes by enabling employees to execute work across different AI clients while maintaining enterprise security and control

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle AI World — Oracle today announced Oracle Fusion Companion with Oracle Fusion Agentic Home, two new capabilities for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications that transform how employees get work done. Fusion Companion provides an intelligent layer that understands business objectives and automatically selects and coordinates the appropriate transactions, workflows, approvals, AI agents, and agentic applications needed to execute work and achieve business outcomes. Users no longer need to know which application to navigate, which transaction to execute, which workflow or approval to initiate, or which AI agent to use. Fusion Companion determines how to get the work done while maintaining enterprise security, permissions, and controls. Users can access these capabilities through supported AI tools such as ChatGPT or through Oracle Fusion Agentic Home, the native AI experience within Oracle Fusion Applications.

“AI is changing where enterprise work begins, but organizations need to maintain control over how that work gets done,” said Chris Leone, executive vice president, Applications Development, Oracle. “Fusion Companion enables employees to define business objectives and execute work through the AI tools they already use, while Oracle Fusion provides the business context, execution capabilities, and enterprise controls needed to get that work done. With Fusion Agentic Home, we’re bringing this same intelligence to the millions of people who work in Oracle Fusion Applications every day, giving them a simpler way to execute work, from everyday tasks to complex business processes, without having to navigate multiple applications or understand the underlying workflows and AI agents.”

Fusion Companion enables users to work with Oracle Fusion Applications through supported AI tools such as ChatGPT. As the intelligent layer for Oracle Fusion Applications, Fusion Companion uses enterprise business context, data, and user permissions to understand what users want to accomplish and determine how to get the work done. It automatically selects and coordinates the appropriate transactions, workflows, approvals, AI agents, and agentic applications, whether completing a simple task or executing a complex business process. Fusion Companion can also leverage data and context from other enterprise systems and coordinate authorized actions across those systems, enabling work to be completed across applications while respecting established security, permissions, and controls. With Fusion Companion, organizations will be able to:

Simplify enterprise work: Helps employees achieve business outcomes by identifying the agents, applications, and business processes needed to complete their request.Accelerate business execution: Executes complex business work by coordinating specialized AI agents, business processes, and Fusion Agentic Applications, including Fusion Claw-powered applications that perform deep analysis, planning, simulation, optimization, and long-running execution across large volumes of enterprise data.Increase flexibility in how employees work: Enables users to work with Oracle Fusion Applications through supported AI tools such as ChatGPT and customer- or partner-built AI interfaces, while maintaining access to relevant business context and capabilities.Connect work across enterprise systems: Helps organizations coordinate activities across Oracle Fusion Applications, other cloud applications, enterprise content, data platforms, APIs, services, and third-party agents.Maintain enterprise security and accountability: Helps organizations execute AI-driven work within established identity, permissions, policies, and approval controls while keeping enterprise execution and accountability within Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle Fusion Agentic Home, supported by Fusion Companion, is a personalized, AI-native experience that enables users to define business objectives, delegate work to AI agents and agentic applications, and track progress through completion. With Fusion Agentic Home, organizations will be able to:

Simplify the employee experience: Enables users to express business objectives through a personalized, AI-native experience that automatically identifies and executes the appropriate work, without requiring users to navigate applications, initiate workflows, or select individual AI agents.Increase employee productivity: Helps users complete work faster by bringing together the information, AI agents, agentic applications, and business processes needed to achieve their objectives.Resolve business exceptions: Identifies the root causes of business exceptions, determines appropriate corrective actions, and executes authorized resolutions while escalating decisions that require human judgment.Enable governed delegation: Enables employees to delegate work to Oracle Fusion AI agents and agentic applications that execute within established enterprise permissions, policies, and approval controls, allowing employees to focus on business objectives, exceptions, and decisions requiring human judgment.

To learn more about Oracle Fusion Applications, visit www.oracle.com/applications

About Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications are a complete suite of cloud applications that form the enterprise system of record, spanning finance, HR, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, service, and marketing. The suite includes Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), and Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX).

Fusion Agentic Applications extend that foundation into a system of outcomes. They can coordinate and execute end-to-end work toward business objectives, and are designed to operate within the policies, controls, and authority each organization defines. With Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, customers and partners can create, extend, and manage these agents and agentic applications combining trusted enterprise data with the security, data governance, and performance needed to operate at scale.

About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

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Oracle Introduces Claw-Powered Fusion Agentic Applications for Customer Experience

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New Fusion Claw Applications help sales and service teams pursue profitable growth and deliver on customer commitments by continuously adapting and executing complex work with enterprise governance

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle AI World — Oracle today announced new Oracle Fusion Claw-powered agentic applications for customer experience. Oracle Fusion Claw is a governed agentic execution runtime that enables Fusion Agentic Applications to reason, compute, adapt, and execute specialist-grade work, including deep research, computation, simulation, modeling, and continuous replanning. Built into Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, the new Claw-powered agentic applications help organizations take on complex, high-value work more autonomously at scale, within established governance controls, from aligning sales territories with growth opportunities and improving customer service journeys to addressing field service demand while controlling overtime costs and protecting quote accuracy as CPQ configurations change.

“Business leaders need to turn growth strategies into opportunities and deliver on customer commitments, but connecting customer demand with enterprise capacity in time to act remains a challenge,” said Kartik Raghavan, senior vice president, Applications Development, Oracle. “With Claw-powered Fusion Agentic Applications for CX, organizations can connect customer needs with the enterprise resources and governed actions required to address them. The applications can reason across trusted Oracle Fusion Applications data, coordinate the work required to meet business objectives, and carry approved actions into execution. This enables organizations to translate business objectives into growth opportunities, reliable service, and stronger customer trust.”

Agentic Applications represent a new class of outcome-based applications that provide Fusion Applications customers with a system of outcomes, where people define the objectives, authority, and accountability and the Agentic Applications coordinate the process to get to an outcome within those parameters. Fusion Claw enables Agentic Applications to take on more complex, specialist-grade work by providing a new execution runtime that supports larger scale and longer-running work, continuous replanning, deterministic execution, and governed automation within organizational policies and controls.

Running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, powered by industry-leading LLMs, and extending the world’s most complete suite of cloud applications, the new Fusion Agentic Applications move beyond assistance to governed execution, helping organizations to improve business outcomes while maintaining established oversight and approvals. New Fusion Agentic Applications available within Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) include:

Account Territory Growth Plan: Models and compares scenarios across different territory configurations, evaluates tradeoffs, and optimizes coverage and opportunity allocation within capacity and business constraints before taking authorized action.Service Health Check: Identifies emerging service-performance issues, determines likely root causes, and prepares high-impact actions across knowledge, automation, routing, policy, and process for review and then executes approved actions before these issues become sustained customer or operational problems.Strategic Field Demand Planning: Aligns field capacity with customer demand while managing overtime costs by predicting resource needs, identifying coverage gaps, and preparing resource actions for review before executing approved changes.CPQ Test-to-Production Setup & Configuration Migration: Prepares and migrates configuration changes to production by assembling a migration package’s declared changes and dependencies in a reviewable report, identifying potential issues before deployment, and executing approved migration steps within provided authority.Executive Briefing Document: Facilitates more effective executive meetings by researching account engagement, company news, product footprint, revenue potential, and organizational hierarchy, then assembling an editable, meeting-ready briefing that it can update as account data changes.

The new Claw-powered Fusion Agentic Applications are part of a broader Fusion AI ecosystem anchored by Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. With the Fusion Agentic Applications Builder and AI Studio Skill no-code and pro-code capabilities in Oracle AI Agent Studio, organizations can create and manage agentic applications using reusable Oracle, partner, and external agents. In addition, built-in observability, ROI measurement, and safety controls enable agents to deliver measurable value and operate at scale within approved authority.

To learn more about Oracle Fusion Applications, visit www.oracle.com/applications

About Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications are a complete suite of cloud applications that form the enterprise system of record, spanning finance, HR, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, service, and marketing. The suite includes Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), and Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX).

Fusion Agentic Applications extend that foundation into a system of outcomes. They can coordinate and execute end-to-end work toward business objectives, and are designed to operate within the policies, controls, and authority each organization defines. With Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, customers and partners can create, extend, and manage these agents and agentic applications combining trusted enterprise data with the security, data governance, and performance needed to operate at scale.

About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

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Oracle Introduces Claw-Powered Fusion Agentic Applications for Supply Chain

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New Fusion Claw applications help supply chain teams achieve critical business outcomes with greater speed and confidence by continuously adapting and executing complex work

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle AI World — Oracle today announced new Fusion Claw-powered agentic applications for supply chain operations. Oracle Fusion Claw is a governed agentic execution runtime that enables Fusion Agentic Applications to reason, compute, adapt, and execute specialist-grade work including deep research, computation, simulation, modeling, and continuous replanning. Built into Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, the new Claw-powered agentic applications help organizations take on complex, high-value work more autonomously at scale, within established permissions, from optimizing supply and transportation plans to analyzing procurement spend.

“As supply chain conditions shift, leaders need a connected view across product, planning, procurement, logistics, and cost to make faster, better-informed decisions,” said S.Y. Shenoy, senior vice president, Applications Development, Oracle. “With Claw-powered Fusion Agentic Applications for supply chain operations, supply chain teams can reimagine the way they work by moving to governed action across critical supply chain processes. The applications reason across Oracle Fusion Applications data, evaluate options and trade-offs, coordinate the work required to meet business objectives, and carry approved actions into execution. This will help supply chain leaders drive stronger business outcomes with greater speed, consistency, and confidence.”

Agentic Applications represent a new class of outcome-based applications that provide Fusion Applications customers with a system of outcomes, where people define the objectives, authority, and accountability and the Agentic Applications coordinate the process to get to an outcome within those parameters. Fusion Claw enables Agentic Applications to take on more complex, specialist-grade work by providing a new execution runtime that supports larger scale and longer-running work, continuous replanning, deterministic execution, and governed automation within organizational policies and controls.

Running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, powered by industry-leading LLMs, and extending the world’s most complete suite of cloud applications, the new Fusion Agentic Applications move beyond assistance to governed execution, helping supply chain teams and planners to improve business outcomes. New Fusion Agentic Applications available within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) include:

Supply Planning Allocation: Determines how to allocate scarce materials and capacity across competing demand by evaluating production lines, work centers, finished goods, components, and business trade-offs; comparing allocation scenarios; and preparing high-value allocation plans for teams to review, refine, and approve.Shipment Load Planning: Works to reduce transportation costs and meet service level requirements by evaluating consolidation opportunities across timing, capacity, service commitments, cost, and other constraints; comparing alternatives; and taking approved action towards execution plans that have been authorized.Procurement Spend: Works to improve spend control by analyzing spend, supplier agreement, and purchasing data; detecting maverick spend and contract leakage; explaining root causes; quantifying savings opportunities; and recommending corrective actions for team review and approval.

The new Claw-powered Fusion Agentic Applications are part of a broader Fusion AI ecosystem anchored by Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. With the Fusion Agentic Applications Builder and AI Studio Skill no-code and pro-code capabilities in Oracle AI Agent Studio, organizations can create and manage agentic applications using reusable Oracle, partner, and external agents. In addition, built-in observability, ROI measurement, and safety controls are designed to help organizations monitor agent activity, apply appropriate safeguards, and enable agents to deliver measurable value and operate responsibly at scale.

To learn more about Oracle Fusion Applications, visit www.oracle.com/applications

About Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications are a complete suite of cloud applications that form the enterprise system of record, spanning finance, HR, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, service, and marketing. The suite includes Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), and Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX).

Fusion Agentic Applications extend that foundation into a system of outcomes. They can coordinate and execute end-to-end work toward business objectives, and are designed to operate within the policies, controls, and authority each organization defines. With Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, customers and partners can create, extend, and manage these agents and agentic applications combining trusted enterprise data with the security, data governance, and performance needed to operate at scale.

About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

About Oracle AI World
Oracle AI World is where customers and partners discover the latest product and technology innovations, see how AI is being applied across industries, and connect with experts and peers. Attendees will gain practical tips and insights to drive immediate impact within their organizations and explore how Oracle is helping unlock the full potential of AI. Join the event to see new capabilities in action and hear from thought leaders and industry movers. Register now at oracle.com/ai-world or follow the news and conversation at oracle.com/news and linkedin.com/company/oracle. 

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