Tag: business
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TDL 016 – Speed, Risk, and Responsibility in the Age of AI – Rafael Ramirez
Tags: access, ai, antivirus, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, control, country, cyber, data, defense, detection, dns, firewall, governance, government, hacker, ibm, incident response, intelligence, Internet, law, linkedin, login, mfa, microsoft, network, risk, saas, service, skills, software, startup, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustSummary In a recent episode of The Defenders Log, host David Redekop sat down with cyber security expert Rafael Ramirez to navigate the rapidly shifting landscape of AI security. As we move deeper into 2026, the duo explored how artificial intelligence has evolved from simple chatbots into powerful, autonomous “agentic” systems. The Double-Edged Sword of…
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QA: Organisations Are Spending Millions on Cybersecurity and Still Getting It Wrong
Cybersecurity threats continue to escalate in scale, speed and sophistication, placing growing pressure on organisations to move beyond reactive defences and rethink how risk is governed at leadership level. As digital systems underpin everything from national infrastructure to day-to-day business operations, failures in governance, communication and accountability are increasingly being exposed as critical vulnerabilities. At…
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Don’t trust TrustConnect: This fake remote support tool only helps hackers
Attackers use a dual-purpose website: The TrustConnect website has realistic marketing language, feature descriptions, and documentation that serves both as a public-facing front to promote the software and as a backend portal for customers who purchase access to the tool’s malicious services.”Cybercriminals are instructed to sign up for a ‘free trial,’ instructed on how to…
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PayPal Data Breach 6 Months of Users’ Data Leaked Online
PayPal has begun notifying a small number of customers about a significant cybersecurity incident in which their personally identifiable information (PII) was exposed for nearly six months due to a software error in its PayPal Working Capital (PPWC) loan application. The exposure, which affected business contact details combined with highly sensitive personal data, lasted from…
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AI in the SOC: Why Complete Autonomy Is the Wrong Goal
Dan Petrillo, VP of Product at BlueVoyant As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in security operations, a divide has emerged in how its role is defined. Some argue the security operations centre (SOC) should be fully autonomous, with AI replacing human analysts. Others believe that augmentation is the right path, using AI to support and extend existing teams. Augmentation probably reflects…
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AI in the SOC: Why Complete Autonomy Is the Wrong Goal
Dan Petrillo, VP of Product at BlueVoyant As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in security operations, a divide has emerged in how its role is defined. Some argue the security operations centre (SOC) should be fully autonomous, with AI replacing human analysts. Others believe that augmentation is the right path, using AI to support and extend existing teams. Augmentation probably reflects…
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Criminals create business website to sell RAT disguised as RMM tool
A RAT masquerading as legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software is being sold to cybercriminals as a service, Proofpoint researchers recently discovered. The … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/20/trustconnect-docconnect-fake-rmm/
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How Enterprise CISOs Design Their Cyber Risk Management Strategy
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, finance, regulation, risk, risk-management, strategy<div cla For today’s CISOs, enterprise cyber risk management is no longer a technical exercise. It’s a leadership mandate that sits at the intersection of security, business risk, regulation, and executive accountability. Aligning proactive cybersecurity risk management strategies with the business’s overall risk posture is an ongoing, necessary process. A lack of alignment between cybersecurity…
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Why AISPM Isn’t Enough for the Agentic Era
AI agents have moved from novelty to operational reality, acting autonomously across business systems in ways traditional AI security posture management (AISPM) and IAM can’t fully govern. Learn why risk now emerges at runtime, where existing posture tools fall short, and how Agentic SPM enables continuous discovery, runtime decision control, and auditability for autonomous agents.…
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Your Most Dangerous User Is Not Human: How AI Agents and MCP Servers Broke the Internal API Walled Garden
Highlights The Perimeter is Porous: Modern Agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) have effectively turned internal data centers inside out, making the “internal API” security model obsolete. The “Confused Deputy” Risk: Legitimate AI agents act as trusted internal entities but can be exploited to bypass Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, as seen in…
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The Cloud and AI Velocity Trap: Why Governance Is Falling Behind Innovation
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, data, flaw, framework, governance, grc, iam, identity, least-privilege, malicious, malware, radius, risk, risk-management, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustAI adoption is outpacing traditional cyber governance. The “Tenable Cloud and AI Security Risk Report 2026” reveals how overprivileged identities and unmonitored supply chain dependencies leave orgs exposed. We offer 10 tactics to shut down your most critical attack paths. Key takeaways The velocity trap: Security teams are fighting “machine-speed” threats with manual processes; you…
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The Cloud and AI Velocity Trap: Why Governance Is Falling Behind Innovation
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, data, flaw, framework, governance, grc, iam, identity, least-privilege, malicious, malware, radius, risk, risk-management, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustAI adoption is outpacing traditional cyber governance. The “Tenable Cloud and AI Security Risk Report 2026” reveals how overprivileged identities and unmonitored supply chain dependencies leave orgs exposed. We offer 10 tactics to shut down your most critical attack paths. Key takeaways The velocity trap: Security teams are fighting “machine-speed” threats with manual processes; you…
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Why White Label MSP Services Are Key to Growing Businesses
Originally published at Why White Label MSP Services Are Key to Growing Businesses by EasyDMARC. Running a modern business means relying on technology … First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/why-white-label-msp-services-are-key-to-growing-businesses/
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Anteil reiner Daten-Exfiltrationsfälle steigt um das Elffache
Arctic Wolf veröffentlicht seinen jährlichen <>. Die Analyse hunderter realer Incident-Response-Fälle aus 2025 zeigt: Während Ransomware weiterhin dominiert, verschiebt sich das Geschäftsmodell der Angreifer deutlich in Richtung reiner Datenexfiltration. Besonders betroffen sind Unternehmen in Westeuropa darunter Deutschland als führender Industriestandort. Im Jahr 2025 machten Ransomware, Business-E-Mail-Compromise (BEC) und Data-Incidents 92 Prozent […] First seen on…
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Shadow Machines: The Non-Human Identities Exposing Your Cloud AI Stack
Tags: access, ai, api, authentication, automation, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, data, encryption, framework, governance, iam, identity, infrastructure, iot, jobs, login, mfa, password, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, toolShadow Machines: The Non-Human Identities Exposing Your Cloud & AI Stack madhav Thu, 02/19/2026 – 06:30 The machines we don’t see are the ones running our businesses. Unfortunately, most IAM systems do not track them. In an ironic twist, the ghost in the machine has become the machine itself: invisible, autonomous, and increasingly beyond human…
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From in-house CISO to consultant. What you need to know before making the leap
Tags: advisory, best-practice, business, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, framework, jobs, resilience, risk, service, skills, toolSkills that carry over into consulting: Many of the skills CISOs honed inside large organizations translate directly to the new consulting job, while others suddenly matter more than they ever did before. In addition to technical skills, it is often the practical ones that prove most valuable.The ability to prioritize, sharpened over years in a…
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From in-house CISO to consultant. What you need to know before making the leap
Tags: advisory, best-practice, business, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, framework, jobs, resilience, risk, service, skills, toolSkills that carry over into consulting: Many of the skills CISOs honed inside large organizations translate directly to the new consulting job, while others suddenly matter more than they ever did before. In addition to technical skills, it is often the practical ones that prove most valuable.The ability to prioritize, sharpened over years in a…
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A CISO’s Playbook for Defending Data Assets Against AI Scraping
Discover a strategic approach to govern scraping risks, balance security with business growth, and safeguard intellectual capital from automated data harvesting. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ciso-playbook-defending-data-assets-against-ai-scraping
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Hackers Increasingly Prefer Fast and Low-Complexity Attacks
Incident Responders Detail Top Ransomware and Business Email Compromise Tactics. There’s no need to invest into sophisticated hacking operations when moving fast and exploiting well-trod techniques gives threat actors all the access they want. Threat actors are prioritizing low-complexity entry points, rather than investing in sophisticated exploits, say incident responders. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware
Repo mirrors now open for business First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/gentoo_dumps_github_for_codeberg_over_copilot_nagware/
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A new approach for GenAI risk protection
Solution 1: GenAI enterprise model: Implement enterprise licenses for approved GenAI solutions (such as ChatGPT Enterprise or Microsoft CoPilot 365, which is integrated into existing O365 tenants). Enterprise GenAI solutions typically include a robust set of built-in security tools that allow organizations to secure their data and implement DLP controls within the enterprise GenAI solution…
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Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet
Sees little enterprise AI adoption other than coding assistants, buys Koi for what comes next First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/palo_alto_q2_26/
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Inside Modern API Attacks: What We Learn from the 2026 API ThreatStats Report
API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came second to application security or hardening infrastructure. In 2025, the picture changed. Wallarm’s 2026 API ThreatStats Report revealed that APIs are now the primary attack surface for digital business, and not because bad actors discovered…
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With CISOs stretched thin, re-envisioning enterprise risk may be the only fix
Tags: access, ai, application-security, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, fraud, governance, grc, group, identity, infrastructure, jobs, monitoring, privacy, RedTeam, risk, soc, supply-chain, vulnerabilityStructural changes necessary: Flavio Villanustre, CISO for the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, says many organizations have already made the structural changes necessary to address the rising importance, and specialization, of cybersecurity and risk functions.”The breadth and depth of information security and cybersecurity have increased so significantly over the past two decades that it drove a…
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Malicious Chrome Extension Exposes Facebook Business Manager Accounts to 2FA and Analytics Theft
A malicious Google Chrome extension, CL Suite by @CLMasters, which masquerades as a productivity tool for Meta Business Suite while silently stealing sensitive authentication data. Although the extension markets itself as a solution to >>remove verification popups<>generate 2FA codes,<< its actual function is to exfiltrate Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) seeds, one-time codes, and detailed business […] The…
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CISO Julie Chatman offers insights for you to take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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CISO Julie Chatman offers insights for you to take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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Washington Hotel in Japan discloses ransomware infection incident
The Washington Hotel brand in Japan has announced that that its servers were compromised in a ransomware attack, exposing various business data. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/washington-hotel-in-japan-discloses-ransomware-infection-incident/
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Meta Business Admins Exposed by 2FA-Harvesting Chrome Extension
A fake Meta Business Chrome extension stole 2FA secrets to hijack accounts. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/meta-business-admins-exposed-by-2fa-harvesting-chrome-extension/