Your AI Agents Are Running Somewhere. Orange Business Wants That Somewhere to Be Theirs.

Picture the CDO or a CISO of a major utility company. It’s a job that has quietly become one of the most stressful in business. The threat model now includes ransomware gangs, state-sponsored intrusions, rogue AI deployments by well-meaning product teams, and — as of roughly eighteen months ago — drones. Actual drones, hovering over substations and data centers and conducting surveillance with nobody has good legal or technical frameworks to stop.

On March 17-18 in Paris, Orange Business, the enterprise arm of one of Europe’s largest telecoms, convened over 1,000 customers for its Orange Business Summit 2026, rolling out four new products wrapped in a single, carefully chosen word: trust. It’s a word that does a lot of work in enterprise tech marketing right now — overused, occasionally meaningful, frequently abused. Whether Orange earns it is a longer story. But the product lineup at least suggests someone has been reading the CISO and CDO anxiety list.

Drones are infrastructure now. Security hasn’t caught up.

The most unexpected announcement was Orange Drone Guardian, billed as Europe’s first anti-drone as-a-Service solution. It detects, identifies, and classifies intrusive drones in low-altitude airspace, currently across France, with plans to expand to additional European countries. It runs on Orange’s own sovereign infrastructure, which is the detail that matters most: detection data stays inside a tightly controlled network, not routed through ambiguous third-party cloud arrangements.

For CISOs, low-altitude airspace becoming a threat vector isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s a procurement problem. Orange is betting it can own that category before competitors notice it exists.

Governing the AI your employees are already building

The more substantive announcement for CDOs is Live Intelligence Studio, an extension of Orange’s existing generative AI platform, repositioned around agentic AI. The promise: let teams build and deploy AI agents autonomously, inside a governed sovereign infrastructure.

That tension — between enabling AI adoption and actually controlling it — is the defining headache for enterprise data leaders right now. Employees are building AI workflows regardless of whether central IT has blessed the infrastructure. Live Intelligence Studio is Orange’s answer to that organizational reality: a structured environment for the agentic chaos that’s already happening.

Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, chief executive officer of Orange Business, put it simply: “We believe that possibility starts with tech you trust.”

Voice is the new attack surface

Buried in the enterprise communications announcement is something CISOs should read twice: deepfake detection embedded directly into the telephony stack, alongside branded calling and AI-augmented customer care. Moving voice fraud detection from a bolt-on security tool to the network layer is architecturally significant. AI-generated voice impersonation is no longer an exotic attack vector — it’s a present, documented threat to enterprise security. Putting detection at the infrastructure level, rather than the endpoint, is the right instinct.

Collaborate, but make it sovereign

Live Collaboration rounds out the quartet — messaging, calendars, document co-editing, video conferencing, and intranet, consolidated into a single platform hosted on Cloud Avenue SecNum and operated end-to-end by Orange. The pitch to CDOs is blunt: more control over data, costs, and architectural choices. Vendor lock-in fatigue is real, and Orange is positioning itself as the exit ramp.

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