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Vulnerability management needs an update for the AI era
Organizations must rethink long-held assumptions about patch management and change how they prioritize, remediate and manage cyber-risk, especially in…
What to know about deepfake phishing simulation software
Cybersecurity executives are already familiar with the idea of phishing prevention. For years, CISOs have trained staff to be suspicious of and…
What CISOs should take from the Hugging Face-OpenAI incident
The recent Hugging Face-OpenAI incident is raising questions about how to secure AI as it becomes more autonomous and integrated into business…
CISO’s guide to data obfuscation
Organizations today generate, process and share more sensitive information than at any other point in history. Customer records, financial…
Vulnerability management needs an update for the AI era
Organizations must rethink long-held assumptions about patch management and change how they prioritize, remediate and manage cyber-risk, especially in…
What to know about deepfake phishing simulation software
Cybersecurity executives are already familiar with the idea of phishing prevention. For years, CISOs have trained staff to be suspicious of and…
CISO’s guide to data obfuscation
Organizations today generate, process and share more sensitive information than at any other point in history. Customer records, financial…
A CISO’s guide to security data lakes
<p>The combination of sophisticated attacks and increasingly complex deployments makes achieving cybersecurity and establishing centralized visibility greater challenges than ever.</p> <p>Organizations generate unprecedented volumes of security telemetry across disparate environments. Security teams often struggle with the quantity of information, and…
CISO’s guide to privileged identity management
<p>Organizations are leaning into zero trust, a framework that assumes no entity can access a specific asset until they have been verified, validated and authorized. This approach makes privileged identity management, or <i><a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/privileged-identity-management-PIM”>PIM</a></i>, an increasingly important resource.</p> <p>PIM supplants…
OpenAI models escape containment, hack Hugging Face
<p>OpenAI reported this week that its autonomous AI models escaped an isolated testing environment during a training exercise and breached Hugging Face, an AI collaboration platform.</p> <p>Last week, Hugging Face <a target=”_blank” href=”https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026″ rel=”noopener”>disclosed</a> that it “detected and responded to…
OpenClaw security best practices for CISOs
<p>OpenClaw has become one of the fastest adopted open source tools in recent memory. Originally released in late 2025 under the name Clawdbot, this autonomous AI agent now boasts hundreds of thousands of GitHub stars and a rapidly expanding ecosystem…
Black Hat 2026: Key news, takeaways and security trends
<p>Black Hat USA 2026 returns for its 29th year, covering the latest in infosec for CISOs, technical experts, thought leaders, innovative vendors and cybersecurity pros.</p> <p>The two-day main event, taking place August 5-6 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, features…
Behavioral biometrics: How to detect nonhuman threat actors
<p>As Anthropic’s Mythos model makes clear, AI is a cybersecurity game changer. When released in preview, Mythos proved unexpectedly effective in finding and exploiting bugs in software. Anthropic said the preview release found more than 10,000 critical vulnerabilities across every…
Behavioral biometrics: How to detect non-human threat actors
<p>As Anthropic’s Mythos model makes clear, AI is a cybersecurity game changer. When released in preview, Mythos proved unexpectedly effective in finding and exploiting bugs in software. Anthropic says the preview release found more than 10,000 critical vulnerabilities across every…
Employees’ shadow AI use is poorly monitored, survey finds
<p>Despite cybersecurity professionals’ best efforts to protect their organizations’ networks and data, employees have long been the weak link in the chain. They click malicious links in emails, reuse weak passwords, share sensitive information and make other mistakes that threat…
Industry reacts to Gold Eagle vulnerability management plan
<p>The tech industry is cautiously optimistic about the U.S. government’s announcement this week to create a centralized clearinghouse for AI-discovered vulnerabilities. The key, executives and analysts said, will be how well the new initiative executes on its mission to collect…
Why CISOs should automate SBOM management with AI
<p>Modern software runs on open source. Nearly all codebases — 98% — contain open source code, according to a 2026 <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.blackduck.com/content/dam/black-duck/en-us/reports/rep-ossra.pdf” rel=”noopener”>report</a> from cybersecurity vendor Black Duck, which scanned 947 codebases and analyzed nearly 3,000 individual projects between…
How mapping security controls can ease the compliance burden
<p>CISOs and their teams are expected to demonstrate compliance with a range of regulations, frameworks and standards. With an alphabet soup of frameworks — NIST, ISO, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR and many other country- or sector-specific mandates — there is…
Why CISOs should use zero-trust security for IoT
<p>IoT is meant to drive operational efficiency and improve decision-making, largely by automating processes and reducing overall costs. But with these benefits come escalating cybersecurity <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/iotagenda/tip/5-IoT-security-threats-to-prioritize”>threats that target IoT devices</a>, which are notoriously vulnerable compared to traditional IT infrastructure.</p>…