As global cyber-attacks reach a level of sophistication where traditional firewalls and legacy antivirus systems are no longer sufficient to protect sensitive corporate assets, the release of the G2 Winter 2026 Grid Report serves as a critical benchmark for IT decision-makers who must navigate a crowded and often confusing marketplace.
Malik Haidar stands at the intersection of high-level threat intelligence and corporate defense, having spent years navigating the complex digital battlefields of multinational enterprises. His perspective is uniquely grounded in both the technical minutiae of exploit chains and the broader business implications of systemic fraud. Today, he breaks

AI is being adopted across enterprise infrastructure faster than most security programs can respond. The result is a recognizable pattern: pilots stall, leaders question control, and business value sits idle while compliance reviews drag on. What security teams need is a security architecture built on Zero Trust, where identity, authorization, and containment are enforced at every request, every

Attackers do not beat the best tools. They beat the gaps between them. The average enterprise is awash in agents, logs, and dashboards. Yet the first thing that fails in a real incident is not the firewall or the endpoint. It is awareness. If a system, identity, or connection is invisible, it is effectively unprotected. That is the security story that keeps repeating across cloud, SaaS, remote

When a digital siren finally wails in a security operations center, it often signals the arrival of a coroner rather than a first responder, as the damage to the infrastructure has likely been done long before the alert flashed across the dashboard. This unsettling reality highlights a fundamental structural flaw in the way many modern organizations approach the security of their software pipelines. For years, the industry has relied on runtime scanning—the practice of monitoring code while it is executing in production—as the gold standard for threat de
