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Omnissa delivers a peek into the benefits of breaking through enterprise data silos. Oct 1, 2026 5 mins The company, which spun out of VMware, rolled out a product this week that can leverage cracks between silos. When Omnissa this week rolled out a new AI governance authority product, Elara, in beta, it delivered a glimpse into the potential of having visibility between the typical enterprise's data silos, whether they're in lines of business, disparate geographies, or corporate operational units. "By connecting signals across systems that often operate independently, Elara gives IT and security leaders greater context into how their digital work tools, including AI apps, models and agents, are being used across their environment, and the ability to apply policies and controls based on broader business context," the vendor, formerly a unit of VMware, said in its announcement, noting that many existing tools are limited to authorizing actions within the systems they manage. "Elara is designed to sit above these tools, connecting the systems that customers already run and giving organizations broader context without requiring them to standardize on a single technology stack," it said. Brian Link, product CTO for Elara, offered a hypothetical example that illustrated the potential of cross-silo data sharing, which enterprise CIOs have seen as a data Holy Grail for decades. If someone in cybersecurity needs to, for example, push an urgent OS update to global retail tablets to address a newly-discovered vulnerability, he said, Elara could consult multiple data sources across the organization to properly evaluate the risks and advise whether the update should happen at that time. "Elara knows those stores are in an active change freeze (due to) inventory count, and that these are the same iPads running the inventory application," Link said. "It pulls that freeze from ServiceNow, so the approver sees it before deciding. The decision stops being only a security call and becomes a business trade-off. Before anyone approves, Elara shows the blast radius: the devices, users, and services the change would touch, plus the events the approval would trigger. Only then does the human decide." Frank Dickson, principal analyst at Dickson Research, agreed with Link that cutting through the data visibility limits caused by enterprise silos has tremendous potential. But he also stressed the logistical challenges, given how tightly many enterprise LOB executives limit access to their unit's information. "A security patch colliding with an inventory freeze is not a technology problem. It is a business trade-off. The person approving the change should see both sides before deciding. The example is strong, and the [corporate] politics raised may be its Achilles' heel," Dickson said. "Omnissa's natural territory is the endpoint, which is one silo, and the security, network, legal, and finance teams have no particular reason to treat it as the referee." But, he argued, this scenario can only occur if the information happens to appear in the very limited number of places where Omnissa can access data. It doesn't break down those data silos as much as it enjoys tiny cracks of visibility between some of them. "This is Omnissa's scenario for a product that is still in beta. It is not a customer result. But Elara only knows about the freeze because someone recorded it in ServiceNow," Dickson said. "The context is only as good as the systems it comes from; if the freeze lives in a regional manager's inbox, Elara never sees it." But rollouts of products like this might get the data silo conversations renewed, which could be a good thing. "An umpire is useless if the two teams never agreed on the strike zone," Dickson said. "Elara can call balls and strikes all day, but someone above the CISO and the head of store operations has to define the zone first. That is why vendor clearance matters; every connector is a permission, and every permission is a negotiation with whoever owns that silo: the CISO, network operations, Legal, the CFO's office or a regional business unit." He pointed out, "Elara does not just watch. It can block or limit actions, so the ask is bigger than read access. A single control point across every silo is also a single point of failure, the keys to the kingdom if you will. A CISO would be right to scrutinize it hard." And, he noted, CIOs cannot grant access to data that their teams don't control. Link acknowledged the challenge, and said that the critical enterprise element is somehow bringing in previously unavailable context, "but we are reliant on people [in IT] bringing those pieces of the puzzle to us." He said that his team is trying to address the question of 'What do you do when that context no longer lives inside a person's head?' "Right now, I don't see anyone else trying to do that." Contributor Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek, Computerworld, and eWeek, and his byline has appeared in titles ranging from BusinessWeek, VentureBeat, and Fortune to The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Evan is a frequent contributor to CIO, CSO, Network World and InfoWorld. He can be reached at [email protected] and he can be followed on LinkedIn.

Vulnerability management in the age of AI. * Last updated 10/01/2026 AI is changing the way everyone works: hacker, red team member, or IT administrator alike. You've been preparing for this moment for a long time. You put systems in place. You managed devices, patched them, and kept operating systems up to date. You used virtual desktops, so not a trace of data was left behind. That work matters more than ever. More vulnerabilities to fix: the impact of AI on vulnerability discovery. Frontier AI models accelerate vulnerability discovery. Through Project Glasswing, Anthropic reports that Claude Mythos has identified thousands of high and critical-severity vulnerabilities across a range of software, including flaws in operating systems and web browsers. OpenAI reports that its Daybreak program has uncovered high-severity vulnerabilities in a web browser engine, a mobile operating system, and a popular database, along with more than 400 vulnerabilities that can lead to privilege escalation in an operating system kernel. What is happening? According to OpenAI, the bottleneck is not finding vulnerabilities; it's patching them. You likely feel that pressure in today's patching cycles. Vulnerabilities are now the top way in. Published Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) continue to grow, while time to remediate is lagging, and this further increases risk. Exploited vulnerabilities are now the most common initial access vector, involved in 31% of breaches and up 55% in a single year. Meanwhile, the mean time to remediate (MTTR) stretched to 43 days, up from 32 days (Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report). The time to exploit continues to shrink. Hackers, often leveraging AI, are exploiting vulnerabilities faster than ever. In 2018, the average gap between a published vulnerability and a working exploit was 2.3 years. As of early 2026, exploits precede public disclosure of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) by more than one day, according to Zero Day Clock. Close the gap between finding and fixing. To stay ahead, you need to move from findings to fixes faster. That's why Omnissa, LLC built Omnissa Workspace ONE Vulnerability Defense, now generally available for Windows devices. It brings vulnerability findings and endpoint action together in the Workspace ONE UEM console, so you can assess, prioritize, remediate, and track it all in one place. Pull in findings from CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management and see exploitation likelihood, severity, and affected device counts in your UEM console. Then fix what matters from that same console: patch OS vulnerabilities with granular patch management, and update apps with prepackaged versions from the Workspace ONE Enterprise App Repository, home to more than 10,000 apps. AI-powered agents can quicken the pace. Need to go faster, with controls in place? The new Vulnerability Defense agent runs assessment, prioritization, remediation, and tracking continuously. The agent sets up the fix, and you review and approve it before it deploys. And don't forget about mobile vulnerabilities. Did you know that Omnissa extends vulnerability insights to mobile, too? Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense tracks OS and app vulnerabilities on mobile devices and so that you can evaluate device compliance. Identity-based attacks continue to accelerate. The acceleration of attacks via AI is also felt in the identity and access management space. What's happening there? The emergence of near-autonomous AI-accelerated campaigns is one thing to note, along with the general use of AI by threat actors. Omnissa, LLC continue to actively expand its capabilities in this area. Omnissa, LLC can help secure unmanaged devices with solutions ranging from VDI to secure browsing with endpoint integrity checks. This year Omnissa, LLC has strengthened Omnissa Acess with Device Bound Session Credentials. Omnissa, LLC has also eased both IT and end user experiences with macOS platform SSO as well as identity integration with Apple Business Manager. Stolen credentials remain a leading risk. Omnissa, LLC know that credentials can be leveraged in attacks, with 39% of breaches relying on stolen credentials (Verizon DBIR 2026). So what's next? The FIDO2 passkeys are easy to use and resistant to phishing but have a key limitation: consumer passkeys can sync across devices. In a corporate environment, you need control over where keys live and which devices can use them. Enterprise passkeys in Omnissa Access close the gap by binding passkeys to devices. Its new Omnissa Pass Advanced capability (Beta Oct 2026) binds FIDO2 standard passkeys to corporate devices through policy, easing authentication and reducing access risk. Users onboard via the Pass app on iOS and Android, or on the web. Conditional access applies to every phishing resistant login; device compliance is synced from Workspace ONE UEM and processed via Omnissa Access. Proximity checks and cross-device link verification to shuts down remote relay attacks and adversary-in-the-middle exploits. The result: strong authentication that's easy to administer and easy to use. More context, applied continuously. Authentication is only the start. The Security Events Service turns access decisions from a one-time login check into continuous evaluation. Built on OpenID Continuous Access Evaluation Profile (CAEP), an open standard for signal exchange, it shares real-time security signals from Workspace ONE UEM, Omnissa Intelligence, Omnissa Access, and third-party tools with enforcement points including Omnissa Horizon, Access, and Workspace ONE Tunnel. It's designed to help close the exposure window from hours to seconds. Workspace ONE Tunnel can provide more vital information as well. New behavioral indicators (currently offered in limited availability) let you enforce access only during shift hours for frontline workers, which helps you align with worker councils and local labor laws; and allow for geographic restrictions that limit access according to country-scoped device location. Phishing has moved beyond email. Most phishing attacks now happen outside email, through QR codes, text messages, and messaging apps. Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense, recently recognized as a leader in mobile threat management by QKS Group, now includes new mobile security tools built into Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub, so employees can check before they click. The QR Code & URL Scanner returns a safe or phishing verdict in seconds, with no VPN or DNS monitoring required. The Suspicious Message Verifier checks SMS, iMessage, and messaging app content before employees respond. Users can share a link, QR code photo, or message to Hub straight from their phone's share menu, and admins get privacy-protected visibility into phishing detections across the fleet. As always, risk information can carry over to UEM for mitigation and response. Closing gaps in your environment. Every handoff between tools and teams is a place where risk can hide, and consolidated workflows and teams catch more attacks. Vulnerability Defense brings security and IT teams together in a single workflow. Omnissa Secure Access Suite does the same for access, helping you secure contractors and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) users. It combines a unified app catalog, push and token multi-factor authentication (MFA), zero trust network access (ZTNA) for native and web apps, and enterprise web security from Google, so workers get one experience for native, web, and virtual apps on any platform. And a new Tunnel extension for browsers applies your existing device traffic rules in the browser, with no device management required. Securing AI itself. Omnissa, LLC start with AI, and Omnissa, LLC end with AI. How do Omnissa, LLC protect your organization from shadow AI, among other things? Read more about that here. AI agents are joining your workforce, and they need the same protections as your people and devices. Omnissa, LLC will extend security and compliance to AI agents. It is vital to know what services agents are communicating with and to implement controls to constrain those AI-related services. This includes the discovery of AI agents and large language models (LLMs) through digital employee experience (DEX); secure configurations and provisioning with AI policies via Workspace ONE; and containerized environments for AI via Horizon. Things to uphold as Omnissa, LLC move forward. The innovation continues, with AI agents for specific IT and security work (related announcements here). In tandem with that, Omnissa, LLC will continue to work with you to uphold best practices for EUC IT and security: * Proactive hardening: Deploy secure, immutable configurations with unified endpoint management (UEM). * Establish identity: Fingerprint users, software, devices, and agents. * Minimize risk: Apply least-privilege policies to minimize noise. * Remediate faster: Prioritize and patch CVEs with automation. * Recover fastest: Reprovision devices over the air without delay. Ready to strengthen your organization's security posture? Contact Omnissa, LLC to start exploring your options.