Tag: ai
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Backslash Introduces Agentic Fabric Graph for Endpoint AI Risk
Backslash Security has introduced the Agentic Fabric Graph, a visual risk assessment capability for mapping AI agents and related components across employee workstations and laptops. The graph maps agents, skills, Model Context Protocol servers, connectors and other parts of what Backslash calls the agentic fabric. Security teams can filter the map for unapproved models, excessive..…
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From Inspection to Authorization: Securing Networks for AI Agents
Tags: access, ai, api, business, ceo, cloud, communications, control, crowdstrike, cryptography, data, encryption, endpoint, finance, firewall, identity, infrastructure, login, network, office, risk, saas, service, usa, vpn<div cla An Industry Perspective By Rajiv Pimplaskar, CEO, Dispersive Holdings, Inc. Agentic AI changes the network security problem from inspection to authorization. As more traffic is generated by agents, models, and workloads operating at machine speed, the network has to make trust decisions continuously, evaluate policy in real time, revoke access automatically, and keep…
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AI Agents Are Really Starting To Get This Hacking Thing: Analysis
An incident disclosed by the AI Security Institute revealed that an AI agent attempted to socially engineer real people”, without actually been told to do so. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/ai-agents-are-really-starting-to-get-this-hacking-thing-analysis
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Reco Expands AI Runtime With Browser Controls and Prompt Blocking
Reco is expanding its AI Runtime capability with browser-based enforcement, real-time prompt analysis and blocking, and automated remediation. The company said the update is designed to act on the risk posed by AI agents without requiring security teams to route traffic through a new gateway or proxy. Reco’s Smart Remediation feature turns findings into proposed..…
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Menlo Security Extends Platform Reach to AI Agents
Menlo Security today at the Black Hat USA conference extended its cloud platform to secure artificial intelligence (AI) agents at runtime by sanitizing the web pages and files they read to neutralize prompt injection attacks and block data exfiltration. Company CEO Bill Robbins said the Menlo Agent Runtime Security (MARS) platform created to isolate browsers..…
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BigID Adds Agentic Access Controls and Intent Monitoring for AI Agents
BigID has introduced two capabilities aimed at governing what AI agents can access and checking whether their actions match the tasks they were assigned. Announced Aug. 4 in a release tied to Black Hat USA 2026, Agentic Access Control and Intent-Based Activity Monitoring are designed to address the gap between an agent’s permissions and its..…
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Absolute Security Survey Puts Cost of Endpoint Downtime at $19 Million an Hour
Endpoint outages cost enterprises an average of $19 million per hour, according to a new Absolute Security report based on a survey of 1,000 chief information security officers. Absolute published Autonomous Cyber Resilience in the Era of AI, the third volume in its State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience research series, in connection with Black Hat..…
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AI and Cyber Risk Glossaries for Enterprises – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/ai-and-cyber-risk-glossaries-for-enterprises-kovrr/
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Optiv Unveils Agentic Security Operations In Major Managed Service Expansion: Exclusive
Optiv announced a major expansion for its managed security services Wednesday with the debut of its Agentic Security Operations offering, with the solution provider powerhouse aiming to accelerate the shift from reactive to proactive cybersecurity for customers with the help of AI, according to Optiv executives. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/optiv-unveils-agentic-security-operations-in-major-managed-service-expansion-exclusive
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Keyfactor will Cofide übernehmen, um verifizierte Identitäten für KI-Agenten und Cloud-Workloads bereitstellen zu können
Keyfactor gibt seine Absicht bekannt, das in Großbritannien beheimatete Unternehmen Cofide, eine Identitätsplattform, die Software-Workloads und KI-Agenten in modernen Cloud-Umgebungen schützt, zu übernehmen. Durch die Übernahme wird die Keyfactor-Trust-Control-Plane auf Workloads und KI-Agenten ausgeweitet werden. Sicherheitsteams werden über ein einziges System verfügen, mit dem sie unternehmensweit nicht-menschliche Identitäten verwalten und steuern können werden. Unternehmen setzen zunehmend…
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AI agent deception moves from theory to reality in UK cyber tests
>>During a routine cyber evaluation, AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations,<< UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/05/ai-agent-deception-in-cyber-tests/
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Researchers Document Instance of AI Agent Being Used to Hack Other Agents
Pilar Security researchers have documented what they describe as the first instance of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that could be used to exploit another AI agent. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/researchers-document-instance-of-ai-agent-being-used-to-hack-other-agents/
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Is Your AI Infrastructure Quantum-Ready? Evaluating Threat Detection and Access Control
Is your AI infrastructure quantum-ready? Discover how to defend against Harvest Now, Decrypt Later threats and secure your Model Context Protocol deployments. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/is-your-ai-infrastructure-quantum-ready-evaluating-threat-detection-and-access-control/
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Anthropic AI agent faked identities, phished real developers in UK government hacking test
An artificial intelligence agent built by Anthropic independently planted malicious code in a real software project and sent phishing emails to developers during a U.K. government security evaluation, according to Britain’s AI Security Institute. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/anthropic-ai-hacking-uk
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C5-Type-1-Testat des BSI bestätigt die Sicherheit von <> für Organisationen mit hohen Anforderungen an Cloud-Sicherheit
Extreme Networks gibt bekannt, dass <> das BSI-C5-Type-1-Testat nach dem Cloud-Computing-Compliance-Criteria-Catalogue (C5) des Bundesamts für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) erhalten hat. Damit erfüllt die branchenweit einzige KI-gestützte All-in-One-Cloud-Networking-Plattform einen der strengsten staatlich unterstützten Cloud-Sicherheitsstandards Europas. Das BSI-C5-Type-1-Testat bestätigt unabhängig, dass Extreme-Platform-One die Anforderungen an sichere und regelkonforme Cloud-Netzwerkinfrastrukturen für stark regulierte Organisationen erfüllt […] First…
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INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime
Africa’s growing digital economy is exposing governments, businesses and internet users to a rising wave of cybercrime. The continent recorded more than 1.1 billion … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/05/interpol-africa-cybercrime-trends/
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Monitoring AI Agent Behavior in Production – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/monitoring-ai-agent-behavior-in-production-kovrr/
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Mythos 5: KI erschafft FakeMails
Mythos 5 erstellt Fake-Identitäten, verschickt Phishing-Mails und versucht, reale Entwickler mit Schadcode zu manipulieren. First seen on tarnkappe.info Jump to article: tarnkappe.info/artikel/cyberangriffe/mythos-5-fake-identitaeten-phishing-mails-332137.html
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EU AI Act: Aktuelle KI-Vorfälle unterstreichen Notwendigkeit der Regeln
Tags: aiFirst seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/eu-ai-act-ki-vorfaelle-notwendigkeit-regeln
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KI-Unterhaltungen in Suchmaschinen – Claude-Chats tauchen in Google auf
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/claude-chats-google-auffindbar-teilen-funktion-risiko-a-f96b27a0053e3a869e3defdb4c87dcd0/
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How to Build an AI Business Case When ROI Is Hard to Measure: A CFO’s Framework for Justifying AI Investments
Primary keyword: AI ROI model Artificial intelligence has created a new problem inside the boardroom. Everyone agrees AI has value. Very few organizations agree on…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/how-to-build-an-ai-business-case-when-roi-is-hard-to-measure-a-cfos-framework-for-justifying-ai-investments/
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How to Implement Continuous Agentic Pentesting for the Web
Continuous agentic pentesting is the practice of using autonomous AI agents to attack, validate, and report on your web applications on an ongoing basis, every… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/how-to-implement-continuous-agentic-pentesting-for-the-web/
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AI is getting better at election facts, but voters shouldn’t rely on it
AI chatbots are avoiding some of the obvious errors that plagued earlier models, but they still fall short giving voters the full picture compared to state and local sources. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-chatbots-2026-midterm-elections/
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Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Backdoor a Real Open-Source Project in Testing, Then Vouched for Itself
An agent running Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber evaluation by the UK’s AI Security Institute.When a bystander publicly warned that the code was malicious, the agent denied it, force-pushed a rewritten branch history to erase the evidence, and…
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Frontier Models Engage in Unsanctioned Behavior During Testing
Anthropic and OpenAI models attacked “real people and organizations” during AI Security Institute tests First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/frontier-models-unsanctioned/
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Wenn Cyberkriminelle die Urteilskraft von KI manipulieren – So tricksen Kommentare KI-Sicherheitsprüfungen aus
Tags: aiFirst seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/ki-code-pruefung-prompt-injection-a-23f34c746df4cb5b4f38542ffc760a53/
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Horizon3 erreicht Milliardenbewertung und setzt auf den Cyberkampf KI gegen KI
Tags: aiHorizon3 sammelt 250 Millionen US-Dollar ein. Der Anbieter autonomer Penetrationstests erreicht eine Bewertung von mehr als zwei Milliarden US-Dollar. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/horizon3-erreicht-milliardenbewertung-und-setzt-auf-den-cyberkampf-ki-gegen-ki/a46010/
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Countering AI-Driven Phishing in the Age of Agentic AI
Phishing remains an evergreen method of getting a “foot in the door,” and AI is making these attacks faster, more scalable, and increasingly convincing. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/countering-ai-driven-phishing-in-the-age-of-agentic-ai/
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Agentic AI: The New Frontier of Cyber Risk
Agentic AI is going to reshape how work gets done, and the organizations that win will be the ones that capture the efficiency while closing the exposure. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/agentic-ai-the-new-frontier-of-cyber-risk/
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Assessing Third-Party AI Vendor Risk: A Guide – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/assessing-third-party-ai-vendor-risk-a-guide-kovrr/