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					<description><![CDATA[At Oracle AI World 2026 in Las Vegas, autonomous AI agents, intelligent applications, and enterprise transformation dominated the conversation. Yet one topic stood out: the growing importance of database security as AI reshapes enterprise risks. AI is accelerating cyberattacks while introducing new risks within enterprise systems. Autonomous agents can access sensitive information, generate SQL, invoke [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[In my latest report, Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Is Transforming Into Third-Party Cyber Risk Intelligence (for Forrester clients only), I outline multiple dynamics highlighting the limitations of cyber risk ratings (CRRs) and why change is needed. CISOs are weary with CRR’s tendency to provide due-diligence data over action, their inability to trust the data itself, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AI Is Accelerating Insights — Can Your Business Keep Up?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Schmitt]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Companies are racing to put AI into marketing and go-to-market (GTM) processes, expecting faster analysis, richer customer intelligence, greater productivity, and ultimately better decisions. Yet there is a challenge hiding inside those ambitions: AI can accelerate the flow of insights much faster than an organization can accelerate its ability to act on them. That matters, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Net Promoter Score℠ Still The Best CX Beacon Metric?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maxie Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maybe &#8230; if Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) earns a “yes” on each of these five questions: Does it align with your business goals? Does it help improve CX? Will customers accept it? Will stakeholders embrace it? And is it practical to use, including for benchmarking? That seems like a lot to ask, but unless you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Hopkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is AI a bubble? Forrester’s new AI Bubble Model weighs supply against demand and scores the financial health of the companies paying for the build-out. A burst isn’t imminent. But the third-quarter nowcast has builder health under 80, and the biggest builders are now borrowing to keep building.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Agentic Development Security Picks Up Where Traditional Security Tools Leave Off</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Worthington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let’s address the elephant in the room: Coding agents don’t generate secure code. Securing the AI-generated code is left as a separate activity, and it’s only part of the job. Coding agents also select dependencies, invoke tools, and execute tasks. Application security teams must govern those activities, protect the development and delivery environment, and validate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Are Best-Practice CX Metrics?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maxie Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Best-practice” CX metrics can lead you in the wrong direction. Discover a better approach to choosing metrics that show whether your customer experience is actually improving.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoff Cairns]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[For decades, cybersecurity professionals have relied on the principle of least privilege: Only give identities the access needed to perform their jobs. That principle remains essential. But AI agents have exposed its limits. An AI agent can have exactly the right permissions and still do the wrong thing Consider an agent authorized to issue customer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arielle Trzcinski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Apparently, the US midterm elections are not all that happened yesterday in terms of big news: CVS has announced that it’s officially breaking up — and this time, it means it. CVS will split retail pharmacies from PBM operations and insurance CVS Health plans to break up its $117 billion business, separating its retail pharmacies [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SAP TechEd 2026: All In On AI</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martha Bennett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Build AI that knows your business” is a tagline that SAP uses in its online collateral, and AI tooling with business context sits at the core of several announcements SAP made at TechEd 2026 in Berlin on October 27–29. We came away with the impression that SAP’s most powerful differentiators are at risk of being [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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