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You Can’t Govern What You Don’t Know You Have

The C-Suite Signal – Perspectives from the people leading the AI transformation You Can’t Govern What You Don’t Know You Have By Christopher Hippensteel, Director of Information Technology, New Resources Consulting I’ve spent most of my career on the “no” side of the table. As an ethical hacker and cybersecurity specialist, it’s my job to...

Forward-Deployed Engineers Are Flying Blind. Recon by Portal26 Just Became the Industry’s First Fix

Somewhere right now, a forward-deployed engineer is walking into a kickoff call with a new enterprise customer, laptop open, ready to scope an AI deployment – and they have almost nothing to go on. No visibility into what AI tools the...

Six AI Reporting Questions CIOs and CISOs Get Asked – And How to Finally Answer Them In Minutes, Not Months with Recon

Somewhere in the next board meeting, or the next customer security review, or the next regulator inquiry, someone is going to ask a CIO or a CISO a plain, direct question about how...

What CISOs Are Saying About AI, Governance and Portal26

Do you know about all the AI in your house? There’s still a lot of shadow AI happening. And with the guise of feeling like we have controls and that we’re regulated, we’re thinking, oh, we’re taking care...

AI Success Management: Why “Everyone’s Using AI” Is Not The Solution

Every company now claims to be “AI-first.” Every vendor deck has an AI slide. Every job description asks for “AI fluency.” Adoption, in the raw sense of the word, is no longer a differentiator, it’s simply the price of admission. Which raises an uncomfortable...

NIST vs SOC 2: What Highly Regulated Industries Look For – and Why Portal26 Exceeds the Bar

If you sell software into finance, healthcare, insurance, utilities, or government, you already know the sales cycle doesn’t really start until security and compliance sign off. Two acronyms come up in almost every one of those conversations: NIST...

Shadow AI, Rogue Agents, and Missing ROI: The Case for a Managed AI Provider

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future consideration for enterprise leaders. It’s today’s operational reality, and the numbers heading into the second half of 2026 make that impossible to ignore. According to McKinsey’s Q1 2026 Global AI Survey, 72% of enterprises...

Why an Evidence-Based AI Strategy Matters More Than Your AI Tool Stack

Ask most enterprise leaders to describe their AI strategy and they’ll tell you about tools. Which large language model they’ve licensed. Which copilot they’ve rolled out. Which agentic platform is on the roadmap for next quarter. It’s an understandable instinct. Tool selection feels...

Your AI Agents Are Burning Budget: A Leader’s Guide to AI Agent Cost Control

AI agent cost control has rapidly become one of the most pressing and underestimated challenges in enterprise technology. What began as a sprint to deploy autonomous AI agents across engineering, operations, and customer-facing workflows has quietly evolved into a financial governance...

The AI Control Plane: The Enterprise AI Layer Most Companies Are Missing

There’s a new term circulating in boardrooms, security teams, and IT strategy sessions: the AI Control Plane. If you’ve heard it and weren’t quite sure what it means, you’re not alone. Like many concepts in enterprise AI, it sounds technical but points to...