Tag: automation
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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PowerShell Is a Security Risk Here’s How to Fix It
If you run a Windows environment, you already know how critical PowerShell is. It’s the backbone of modern administration, used for automation, configuration, and day-to-day operations at scale. And it doesn’t stop at Windows. If you manage Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, or Exchange Online, PowerShell is likely how you do it. A compromised session isn’t just an endpoint risk. It’s a path to……
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5 key priorities for your RSAC 2026 agenda
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, ciso, compliance, conference, cybersecurity, data, detection, framework, governance, identity, infrastructure, injection, LLM, risk, service, soc, threat, tool, trainingEnable AI adoption fast enough to stay competitive.Secure the enterprise against a threat landscape that AI itself is creating.These are not sequential problems, unfortunately; they are parallel ones. I’d argue that RSAC 2026 is your best opportunity this year as a security leader to close the knowledge gap. AI prioritised Learning Framework: RSAC can be…
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Dormant Accounts Leave Manufacturing Orgs Open to Attack
While companies use “perp walks” for terminated employees, 48% of manufacturers fail to revoke digital access within 24 hours. Explore the growing risk of dormant accounts, the 74% automation gap in provisioning, and why experts like Darren Guccione and James Maude call overprivileged identities a “frictionless path” for modern cyberattacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump…
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Dormant Accounts Leave Manufacturing Orgs Open to Attack
While companies use “perp walks” for terminated employees, 48% of manufacturers fail to revoke digital access within 24 hours. Explore the growing risk of dormant accounts, the 74% automation gap in provisioning, and why experts like Darren Guccione and James Maude call overprivileged identities a “frictionless path” for modern cyberattacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump…
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Can AI automation make cybersecurity more confident
How Does Managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) Empower Cybersecurity? Are your security protocols adequately covering the vast expanse of machine identities within your organization? With the rapid shift to cloud environments, the focus on Non-Human Identities (NHIs) becomes crucial to enhancing cybersecurity measures. NHIs are essentially machine identities that engage with sensitive data and systems, acting……
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The SOAR Ceiling: Why Playbook Automation Has Hit Its Structural Limits
Static playbooks can’t keep up. AI copilots don’t fix the real problem. Multi-agent systems just redistribute complexity. Here’s what security leaders should be evaluating instead. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/the-soar-ceiling-why-playbook-automation-has-hit-its-structural-limits/
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Reco targets AI agent blind spots with new security capability
Aiming where traditional SSPM falls short: Reco positions the launch as a break from traditional SSPM, arguing that those tools were never designed for autonomous systems.”SSPM sees connections. We see behavior,” Klein said. While a typical SSPM might flag a Zapier-Salesforce link as a third-party integration, “We identify that this specific Zapier workflow is an…
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CISOs rethink their data protection strategies
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, breach, business, cisco, ciso, cloud, compliance, computing, control, cyber, data, defense, framework, governance, healthcare, identity, jobs, LLM, privacy, resilience, risk, service, strategy, technology, tool, zero-trustFactors driving strategy evaluations CISOs, security experts, and data practitioners cite the expanding use of AI in the enterprise as the main reason they’re rethinking their data protection strategies.”AI is exposing more sensitive information as [workers] are taking that information and typing it into LLMs,” says Errol Weiss, CSO at Health-ISAC.AI tools make it easy…
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prompted: Key Insights from the AI Security Practitioners Conference FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, conference, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, google, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, malware, monitoring, openai, risk, strategy, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMar 17, 2026 – Jeremy Snyder – The State of AI Security: Moving Beyond TheoryThe biggest shift evident at the [un]prompted AI Security Practitioners Conference was the move from purely theoretical discussions about “what could go wrong” to concrete, battle-tested methodologies for “what is going wrong and how we fix it.” It’s clear that AI…
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prompted: Key Insights from the AI Security Practitioners Conference FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, conference, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, google, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, malware, monitoring, openai, risk, strategy, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMar 17, 2026 – Jeremy Snyder – The State of AI Security: Moving Beyond TheoryThe biggest shift evident at the [un]prompted AI Security Practitioners Conference was the move from purely theoretical discussions about “what could go wrong” to concrete, battle-tested methodologies for “what is going wrong and how we fix it.” It’s clear that AI…
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Appeals court temporarily pauses order blocking Perplexity’s AI shopping agent on Amazon
The Ninth Circuit has paused a lower-court order as the companies dispute whether user-approved automation can access password-protected accounts without the platform’s permission. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/perplexity-comet-ai-shopping-agent-amazon-lawsuit-ninth-circuit-stay/
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Agentic AI in the SOC: The Governance Layer you Need Before You Let Automation Execute
Guidance for SOC leaders on safely enabling agentic AI execution”, require policy-driven guardrails, human-approval gates, blast-radius limits, auditability, and rollback to prevent automation from becoming operational risk. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/agentic-ai-in-the-soc-the-governance-layer-you-need-before-you-let-automation-execute/
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Runtime: The new frontier of AI agent security
Tags: access, ai, automation, ceo, ciso, computer, container, control, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, detection, edr, endpoint, firewall, framework, incident response, jobs, monitoring, network, openai, risk, saas, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-dayWhat runtime monitoring looks like: Once an organization knows where its agents are, the question is what to watch for, and how.Elia Zaitsev, CTO of CrowdStrike, tells CSO that existing endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools already capture the kinds of behavior needed to track AI agents. They instrument operating systems like a flight data…
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Simply Offensive Podcast: The Future of Pentesting: AI, Automation, and Better Reporting with Dan DeCloss
Tags: ai, automation, computer, corporate, cybersecurity, data, exploit, hacker, hacking, jobs, penetration-testing, skills, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability<div cla The Future of Pentesting: AI, Automation, and Better Reporting with Dan DeCloss In this episode of Simply Offensive, Philip Wylie welcomes Dan DeCloss, the founder of PlexTrac. The two veterans of the cybersecurity industry discuss their history together, the evolution of report writing, and the seismic shift AI is bringing to offensive security.…
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Simply Offensive Podcast: The Future of Pentesting: AI, Automation, and Better Reporting with Dan DeCloss
Tags: ai, automation, computer, corporate, cybersecurity, data, exploit, hacker, hacking, jobs, penetration-testing, skills, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability<div cla The Future of Pentesting: AI, Automation, and Better Reporting with Dan DeCloss In this episode of Simply Offensive, Philip Wylie welcomes Dan DeCloss, the founder of PlexTrac. The two veterans of the cybersecurity industry discuss their history together, the evolution of report writing, and the seismic shift AI is bringing to offensive security.…
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What it takes to win that CSO role
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, finance, flaw, framework, google, identity, insurance, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, skills, startup, strategy, technology, threatGovern the explosion of shadow AI and establish guardrails for generative AI before it creates material data leakage.Move beyond prevention and operate as a business enabler, proving the organization can maintain a minimum viable business during a sustained outage.Address compliance burdens, such as SEC disclosure rules or the EU AI Act, not as a checklist,…
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What it takes to win that CSO role
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, finance, flaw, framework, google, identity, insurance, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, skills, startup, strategy, technology, threatGovern the explosion of shadow AI and establish guardrails for generative AI before it creates material data leakage.Move beyond prevention and operate as a business enabler, proving the organization can maintain a minimum viable business during a sustained outage.Address compliance burdens, such as SEC disclosure rules or the EU AI Act, not as a checklist,…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in n8n to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in n8n to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an n8n flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score of 10.0), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. n8n is a workflow automation platform designed for technical teams that combines the…
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Cybersecurity Automation Platform
From ransomware and insider threats to advanced persistent attacks, the complexity and scale of cyber risks are growing faster than traditional security operations can handle. Security teams are overwhelmed by millions of alerts, fragmented tools, and limited human resources. This is where a cybersecurity automation platform becomes essential. A cybersecurity automation platform uses artificial intelligence,…
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Critical n8n Flaws Allow Remote Code Execution and Exposure of Stored Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two now-patched security flaws in the n8n workflow automation platform, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary command execution.The vulnerabilities are listed below -CVE-2026-27577 (CVSS score: 9.4) – Expression sandbox escape leading to remote code execution (RCE)CVE-2026-27493 (CVSS score: 9.5) – Unauthenticated First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Why zero trust breaks down in IoT and OT environments
Tags: access, attack, automation, breach, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, firewall, firmware, group, identity, infrastructure, iot, network, nist, resilience, risk, service, tool, update, zero-trustThe IoT and OT blind spot: IoT and OT environments consistently exhibit three characteristics that create persistent security blind spots.First, visibility is incomplete by design. Devices are frequently deployed by facilities teams, engineering groups, or third-party integrators rather than security organizations. Asset inventories lag reality. Telemetry is sparse, proprietary, or intermittent. Many devices communicate only…
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MIND is the first data security company to achieve ISO 42001 certification
Tags: ai, automation, breach, control, data, framework, governance, incident response, international, monitoring, organized, risk, risk-assessment, toolAI is embedded in security tools across the enterprise. MIND is the first data security company to answer how their AI is governed, audited and held accountable. The AI tools built into your security stack are making decisions at a scale no human team can match. They’re classifying data, scoring risk, triggering enforcement and shaping…
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Why access decisions are becoming the weakest link in identity security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, credentials, data, finance, governance, group, iam, identity, least-privilege, login, okta, radius, risk, saas, service, technology, toolThe SSO fallacy: Why authentication is not a guarantee: I’m often asked by business and technology leaders, “If we have SSO enabled, why do we still need to worry about granular access controls?” The underlying assumption is that once a user is authenticated through a central, secure portal, the hard work is done.In practice, SSO…
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My Really Fun RSA 2026 Presentations!
Tags: ai, apt, automation, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, google, governance, guide, lessons-learned, malware, soc, strategy, threatThis blog is perhaps a little bit more like an ad, so if you don’t want to check the ads, consider not reading it. a very cyber image (Gemini) But this year at RSA 2026, I’m speaking on three topics: securing AI, using AI for SOC, and sharing lessons about how Google applies AI and other technologies…
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Stop Chasing Threats, Start Containing Them
Why SOCs Must Move Beyond Alerts and Adopt Identity-Aware Defense Models Today Security operations centers are overwhelmed by alerts, fragmented identity data and tool sprawl. As identity-based attacks rise, CISOs are shifting toward identity-aware detection, automation and outcome-driven security operations to reduce risk and improve resilience across hybrid environments. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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4 ways to prepare your SOC for agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, best-practice, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, framework, governance, guide, identity, injection, intelligence, least-privilege, metric, mitre, radius, RedTeam, risk, siem, skills, soar, soc, threat, toolBuild capabilities for AI governance, content and quality: Upskilling existing analysts alone is not enough. As AI agents begin operating across tools, making decisions and triggering actions with minimal human involvement, the demands on the SOC will extend well beyond traditional analyst capabilities, experts say.Content engineering, for instance, is one emerging requirement. In an AI-enabled…