<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…
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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>…
Building cyber-resilient AI in the enterprise
<p>Enterprise AI deployments are scaling faster than any software category in history, now commanding 6% of the $300 SaaS market, according to venture capital firm Menlo Ventures. Meanwhile, McKinsey & Company has reported that 88% of businesses have applied AI…
Why conversational AI is redefining your security perimeter
<p>As enterprises race to deploy AI across their operations, a perfect storm is brewing: New AI-generated attack vectors are colliding with employees’ growing emotional trust in chatbots and AI assistants, creating security blind spots that traditional defenses weren’t designed to…
ClickFix and removable media lead malware delivery methods
<p>When it comes to malware delivery methods, attackers are sticking with what works — even as they rely on a rapidly revolving door of payloads.</p> <p>That’s according to a report from the ReliaQuest Threat Research Team, which tracks threat activity…
Edtech gets schooled by third-party cyberthreats
<p>In the education sector, cybersecurity controls and third-party risk management get put to the test — and frequently don’t get a passing grade.</p> <p>Academic organizations might not seem like prime targets for cyberattacks, but these data-rich — and security-insufficient —…
Common MFA mistakes — and how to fix them
<p>MFA has long been one of the most effective security controls an organization can deploy. It’s inexpensive compared to many security technologies, relatively easy to implement and capable of stopping a large percentage of credential-based attacks.</p> <p>It’s not a coincidence…
How to operationalize threat modeling with AI
<p>Effective threat modeling — where security architects review system design, enumerate threats and mitigations, validate controls and map the attack surface of a system — is critical to secure software but can be complex and time-consuming.</p> <p>This guidance explains how…
CISO’s guide to hiring for the right cybersecurity skills
<p>The cybersecurity talent crisis has moved from a simple numbers problem to a fundamental mismatch between what organizations need and what the workforce can deliver.</p> <p>While 87% of organizations plan to expand their security teams this year, according to Fortinet…
First fully agentic ransomware attack sparks readiness concerns
<p>The latest cyberattack headlines leave security leaders asking a critical question: Does an AI agent’s successful execution of an end-to-end ransomware attack signal a fundamental shift in threat response strategies, or does it simply underscore the enduring importance of cybersecurity…