Imagine being the CDO or CISO of a major power company. This is secretly one of the most stressful jobs in the business world. Threat models now include ransomware gangs, state-sponsored intrusions, rogue AI deployments by well-intentioned product teams, and (as of about 18 months ago) drones. In the real world, drones hover over power substations and data centers, performing unattended surveillance, but there is no proper legal or technical framework to prevent them from doing so.
On March 17-18 in Paris, Orange Business, the enterprise arm of Europe’s largest telecommunications company, convened more than 1,000 customers at Orange Business Summit 2026 to unveil four new products wrapped in one carefully chosen word: Trust. It’s a word that now plays many roles in enterprise technology marketing, and is overused, sometimes overused, and frequently overused. Whether or not Orange will make money is a longer story. But the product lineup at least suggests that someone is reading the CISO and CDO’s anxiety list.
Drones are now infrastructure. Security hasn’t caught up.
The most unexpected announcement was Orange Drone Guardian, which is being touted as Europe’s first anti-drone-as-a-service solution. The service currently detects, identifies and classifies intruder drones in low-altitude airspace across France, and plans to further expand to other European countries. It runs on Orange’s own sovereign infrastructure. This is the most important point. Discovery data remains within a tightly controlled network rather than being routed through obscure third-party cloud agreements.
For CISOs, low-altitude threat vectors are no longer science fiction. It’s a procurement issue. Orange is betting that it can dominate a category before its competitors even know it exists.
Manage the AI your employees are already building
A more substantial announcement for CDOs is Live Intelligence Studio, an extension of Orange’s existing generative AI platform that has been repositioned around agent AI. Its promise is to enable teams to autonomously build and deploy AI agents within a managed, sovereign infrastructure.
This tension between enabling the adoption of AI and actually controlling it is currently a critical headache for enterprise data leaders. Employees are building AI workflows regardless of whether a central IT department is blessed with the infrastructure. Live Intelligence Studio is Orange’s answer to organizational reality: a structured environment that addresses agent disruption that’s already happening.
Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, CEO of Orange Business, stated succinctly: “We believe that possibilities start with reliable technology.”
Voice is the new attack surface
Buried in corporate communications announcements is something every CISO should read twice. That’s deepfake detection embedded directly into the phone stack, alongside branded calls and AI-enhanced customer care. Moving voice fraud detection from bolt-on security tools to the network layer is architecturally important. AI-generated voice spoofing is no longer an uncommon attack vector, but now a documented threat to enterprise security. It’s a good instinct to do detection at the infrastructure level rather than at the endpoint.
Cooperate but maintain sovereignty
Live Collaboration completes the quartet of messaging, calendaring, document collaboration, video conferencing, and intranet into a single platform hosted on Cloud Avenue SecNum and operated end-to-end by Orange. The pitch to CDOs is straightforward: Give them more control over their data, costs, and architecture choices. Vendor lock-in fatigue is real, and Orange is positioning itself as an exit ramp.
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