A 2026 market update to Omdia’s technical validation examines managed agentic SOC delivery on Google Security Operations, finding that governance, not autonomy, is what separates measurable outcomes from AI hype.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As organizations move quickly to adopt autonomous, AI-driven security operations, a new 2026 market update from Omdia finds that the adoption of agentic AI is outpacing the governance meant to control it. Fifty-two percent of organizations with security operations centers already deploy agentic AI, yet only 25 percent formally assess every agentic AI investment, even as these systems take autonomous action. The update, produced by Omdia’s Go-to-Market Insights and Advisory practice, extends its technical validation of Foresite Cybersecurity’s managed security operations on Google Security Operations (SecOps).

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The market update examines a shift now visible across the enterprise: security teams are absorbing surging data volumes without adding investigation load, and it points to practitioner-governed, human-in-the-loop accountability as the factor separating durable outcomes from tool sprawl. 

Reviewing Foresite’s security operations data, Omdia validated several key performance gains that demonstrate the platform’s ability to scale analyst effectiveness and deliver governed autonomy:

A ~60% reduction in mean time to investigate (MTTI), accelerating the speed of response.

A flat investigation load even as raw telemetry data surged by 278%, proving the system’s capacity to handle growth without overburdening analysts.

An increase in benign-event auto-identification from 25% to 86%, demonstrating the accuracy of the automation and allowing analysts to focus on critical threats.

Foresite operates as the human control layer for AI-driven security, pairing Google’s agentic investigation capabilities with named-practitioner accountability. Every autonomous investigation is reviewed and authorized by a named analyst before response actions execute, giving customers clear visibility into how decisions are made and risk is managed. Autonomous investigation runs at machine speed while a practitioner validates every high-impact action, so agentic never means uncontrolled.

“The speed of agentic adoption is outrunning the oversight meant to govern it. Organizations are deploying these systems faster than they are assessing them. Foresite’s approach, autonomous investigation at machine speed with a named practitioner accountable for every high-impact action, is a practical answer to that gap,” said Tony Palmer, Principal Analyst and Practice Director, Omdia.

“Autonomous investigation runs at machine speed. The actions you can’t take back are validated by a named practitioner before they execute. That is the difference between an agent you can govern and one you are simply told to trust,” said Jeremy Hehl, Chief Evangelist at Foresite.

Foresite delivers fully managed security operations on Google SecOps, enabling customers to detect and respond to threats in seconds, reduce investigation fatigue, and maintain continuous audit readiness without expanding internal teams. As a Google Cloud Premier Partner with Security and MSSP specializations, the company delivers managed services through its Catalyst platform, extending Google SecOps with operational governance, automation, and continuous compliance.

The market update follows Foresite being named the 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year for North America, presented at Google Cloud Next ’26, and builds on Omdia’s original technical validation of the Catalyst platform commissioned by Google in 2025. Across its managed services, and validated in the Omdia update, Foresite reduced mean time to investigate by roughly 60 percent while sustaining 96 percent customer retention and sub-15-second automated threat response.

Foresite representatives will be at Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas, including a happy hour co-hosted with Google and Jeremy Hehl’s appearance on the EC-Council podcast with Jay Bavisi..

About Foresite Cybersecurity

Foresite Cybersecurity is a Google Cloud Premier Partner, and a Wiz Premier Partner providing managed security operations, compliance automation, and threat intelligence services. Through its Catalyst platform, Foresite helps organizations operationalize agentic AI security with practitioner-led governance and measurable risk reduction. Learn more at foresite.com.

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MONTRÉAL, Aug. 6, 2026 /CNW/ — Cogeco Communications Inc. (TSX: CCA) (“Cogeco Communications” or the “Corporation”) announced today that it has priced an offering of an additional $200 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.299% senior secured notes due February 16, 2033 (the “Notes”).

The Notes will have identical terms (except for their date of issue, issue price, matters relating to the resale restriction and temporary security identifiers) and be fully fungible with and form a single series with the $300 million aggregate principal amount of 5.299% senior secured notes issued by the Corporation on February 16, 2023. The Notes will be issued at a price of 103.966% of their face value (plus accrued interest from February 16, 2026), for a reopening yield of 4.565%.

The Notes are being offered through an agency syndicate consisting of BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc. and National Bank Financial Inc., as joint bookrunners and co-lead managers, and including Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., MUFG Securities (Canada), Ltd., TD Securities Inc. and Casgrain & Company Limited, as co-managers.

The offering is expected to close on or about August 10, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. Cogeco Communications intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to repay existing indebtedness and for other general corporate purposes.

The Notes will be direct and unsubordinated secured debt obligations of Cogeco Communications and will rank equally and pari passu, with all other secured senior indebtedness of Cogeco Communications.

The Notes have been assigned a provisional rating of “BBB (low)” from DBRS Limited (DBRS Morningstar) with a “Stable” trend and a provisional rating of “BBB-” from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. The Notes are being offered in Canada on a private placement basis in reliance upon exemptions from the prospectus requirements under applicable securities legislation.

The Notes have not been and will not be qualified for sale to the public under applicable securities laws in Canada and, accordingly, any offer and sale of the Notes in Canada will be made on a basis which is exempt from the prospectus requirements of such securities laws. The Notes have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”), or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under, or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of, the U.S. Securities Act. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction where it is unlawful to do so.

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Cogeco Communications Inc. is a leading telecommunications provider committed to bringing people together through powerful communications and entertainment experiences. We provide world-class Internet, wireless, video and wireline phone services to 1.6 million residential and business subscribers in Canada and thirteen states in the United States. Our services are marketed under the Cogeco and oxio brands in Canada, and under the Breezeline and welo brands in the U.S. We take pride in our strong presence in the communities we serve and in our commitment to a sustainable future. Cogeco Communications Inc.’s subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).

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New research maps 68 third-party risk management platforms in one ranked, source-linked comparison: what compliance really costs in 2026, who publishes prices, who actually scans vendors and what the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for TPRM left out. The full ranking and all 911 sources are free to read.

ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Research agency SocialActive today announced The TPRM Platform Landscape 2026, a 78-page ranked comparison of 68 third-party risk management (TPRM) platforms, compiled from 911 publicly archived sources and free to read.

Third-party risk management became a regulated obligation for hundreds of thousands of European organisations when the EU’s DORA regulation began applying in January 2025 and as NIS2 transposition reached 22 of 27 member states by May 2026. The study examines the software market that serves that obligation, from free open-source tools to enterprise suites estimated at more than USD 1 million per year, and ranks all 68 platforms through a stated buyer lens: nine criteria, listed in descending order of weight and drawn from a 20-criterion evaluation framework, so a reader whose priorities differ can rebuild the shortlist from the same evidence. The report’s reference buyer is a European organisation of roughly 20 to 1,000 employees managing 10 to 150 vendors without a dedicated risk team; a separate shortlist covers enterprises above that range.

Key findings include:

Pricing opacity is the market norm. Only 17 of the 68 platforms publish a real price anywhere public; the remaining 51 quote prices only after a sales process. Published annual entry prices alone span EUR 1,020 to USD 125,000.The cost spread for the same need remains wide. Published prices for TPRM tooling alone span EUR 1,500 to USD 125,000 per year, and for a 120-employee manufacturer needing NIS2 and ISO 27001 coverage with vendor oversight, documented three-year totals range from roughly EUR 20,000 on published EU pricing to USD 150,000 and above on estimated enterprise deployments.External verification is rare. Roughly 43 of the 68 platforms offer no external technical scanning of the vendors they assess, 14 license partner ratings feeds, and 11 operate something native. Exactly one, the EU platform StartComply, bundles active scanning of each vendor’s domain into an SMB-priced TPRM subscription, published at EUR 1,500 per year.The 2026 analyst landscape has blind spots. Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for TPRM Tools (April 2026) and Forrester’s Q1 2026 Wave exclude the security-ratings vendors and the entire affordable EU segment, so smaller European buyers cannot outsource their shortlist to either report.Ownership is unstable. The study documents twelve acquisitions, rebrands and funding events between 2023 and 2026 that changed vendors’ names, owners or sovereignty status, including one platform whose Dutch-ownership story ended overnight with a US acquisition, and one vendor whose operating company could not be independently verified at all.

Every material claim in the report carries a source link or an explicit label (public price, estimate, vendor-claimed, or not found), conflicts between sources are stated rather than smoothed over, and the report publishes a standing corrections policy: any vendor that believes a fact is wrong is invited to submit the primary source, and corrections are applied with a dated note.

“We wrote the study we could not find anywhere: every platform, every price we could document, and every claim labelled for what it is. We state the lens and the weighting openly, so a reader who ranks the criteria differently can rebuild the shortlist from the same evidence,” said Andreas Kougentakos, Founder at SocialActive.

The full report, the 68-platform master registry, the comparison tables and the full set of charts are available free of charge at https://socialactivecom.substack.com/p/tprm-platform-comparison.

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SocialActive is an award-winning B2B marketing and research agency based in Greece. Its research publications use public sources only, label every figure by evidence type, and publish their criteria and sources in full.

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