Confident AI begins with confident data

Leaders are under extraordinary pressure to use AI tools to automate and accelerate tasks like patch remediation and endpoint security. But as IT departments try to deploy new AI tools, they are running up against a longstanding problem: disconnected, sometimes contradictory, sources of data, including logs, telemetry, and documents. “It’s shocking to me that in 2026, a lot of organizations are still using spreadsheets to track IT assets, and nobody is reconciling the data,” says Mareike Fondufe