Tag: defense
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The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope
Ukraine’s battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/23/nato_air_defenses/
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Real Attack Alert Analysis: From Hidden Indicators to Actionable Threat Intelligence
Executive Overview Cyber threats are evolving rapidly, becoming more stealthy, automated, and difficult to detect using traditional security approaches. Attackers increasingly rely on legitimate system tools, encrypted communication, and internal reconnaissance to bypass defenses and operate unnoticed within enterprise environments. Modern organizations must shift toward intelligence-driven security that focuses on behavior, context, and correlation rather…
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AI-Driven Offensive Security: The Current Landscape and What It Means for Defense
The capabilities of modern AI models have advanced far beyond what most people in the security industry have fully internalized. AI-generated phishing, script writing, and basic offensive automation are getting plenty of attention, but what happens when you apply agentic AI to the full lifecycle of building, testing, and refining custom malware and command-and-control (C2)……
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Inside the Growing ‘Cyber Invasion’ Targeting the US
Former DoD CIO Leslie Beavers on Nation-State Attacks and Defense. Leslie Beavers, retired brigadier general and former acting CIO and principal deputy CIO of the Department of Defense, said the United States is already experiencing a cyber invasion, driven by coordinated activity from adversaries including Iran, China, Russia and North Korea. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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TDL 018 – How To Think, Not What To Think – Mitch Prior
Tags: access, ai, apple, attack, backup, blockchain, business, cctv, china, ciso, cloud, computer, conference, control, credentials, cvss, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, finance, firmware, google, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, jobs, law, mail, malware, military, network, phone, privacy, resilience, risk, router, software, strategy, switch, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, wifi, zero-trustThe Human Algorithm in a Zero-Trust World In the latest episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with cybersecurity expert Mitch Prior to discuss the intersection of high-tech security and human intuition. From their first meeting in 2018″, the early days of Zero Trust”, the duo explores why the “why” behind technical…
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Companies know AI is essential for cyber defense but aren’t yet seeing returns
The maturity of organizations’ AI oversight also varies significantly, according to a new EY survey of cybersecurity leaders. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cybersecurity-ai-agentic-governance-ey-survey/815311/
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With Government’s Role Uncertain, Businesses Unite to Combat Fraud
Major industry leaders agree to share information and collaborate to boost defenses in the wake of distressing online scams. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/with-government-role-uncertain-businesses-unite-to-combat-fraud
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Cybercriminals are Winning with AI
AI has become the most powerful tool for financial fraud since the dawn of the Internet. As predicted, criminals are exploiting it faster, more effectively, and at scale. According to the latest Interpol Global Financial Fraud Report, AI-enhanced fraud is now 4.5 times more profitable than traditional schemes. That’s a significant shift and we’re still…
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Pentagon Warns Anthropic Could ‘Subvert’ Defense AI Systems
New Filing Frames Anthropic Dispute as Operational Control Issue – Not Free Speech. The Justice Department is arguing in a new court filing that Anthropic’s ability to update guardrails and behavior post-deployment creates unacceptable supply-chain risks, warning that vendor access to AI systems could enable manipulation or failure in mission-critical defense operations. First seen on…
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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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Ransomware group exploited Cisco firewall vulnerability as a zero day, weeks before a patch appeared
Tags: attack, cisco, cve, defense, exploit, firewall, government, group, healthcare, infrastructure, malicious, malware, ransom, ransomware, service, software, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayCSO that the “week’s head start” he referred to was the gap between the date of the first exploit that Amazon’s later analysis had unearthed and Cisco’s discovery of the bug.Amazon gained insight into the attacker’s infrastructure by using the honeypot to mimic a vulnerable firewall system. This resulted in an attack on the honeypot,…
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Bolster your defenses and close the codecloud gap with Tenable and OX
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, business, ciso, cloud, container, control, data, data-breach, defense, detection, endpoint, exploit, framework, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, risk, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityToday, cloud security teams face fragmented visibility and the challenge of prioritizing risks while identifying fix owners. A new joint solution from Tenable and OX helps you close the code-to-cloud gap from development through runtime. By combining CNAPP with deep AppSec, this integration is designed to eliminate visibility gaps and accelerate remediation. Key takeaways Bridge…
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President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: Why Integrity Is the Foundation of Modern Cyber Defense
<div cla President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America makes a few things very clear: the United States must detect adversaries earlier, secure critical infrastructure, strengthen technology supply chains, and ensure that systems can recover rapidly after cyber incidents. These goals appear throughout the strategy, but when viewed through a technical lens, they all depend on…
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President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: Why Integrity Is the Foundation of Modern Cyber Defense
<div cla President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America makes a few things very clear: the United States must detect adversaries earlier, secure critical infrastructure, strengthen technology supply chains, and ensure that systems can recover rapidly after cyber incidents. These goals appear throughout the strategy, but when viewed through a technical lens, they all depend on…
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President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: Why Integrity Is the Foundation of Modern Cyber Defense
<div cla President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America makes a few things very clear: the United States must detect adversaries earlier, secure critical infrastructure, strengthen technology supply chains, and ensure that systems can recover rapidly after cyber incidents. These goals appear throughout the strategy, but when viewed through a technical lens, they all depend on…
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Mapping Your Defenses to What You Need, Not What You Inherited
<div cla There is a deceptive sense of security that comes with a crowded security architecture. We look at our environments and see a landscape filled with multiple vendor tools, SIEM dashboards pulsing with telemetry, and threat intelligence feeds. On paper, the organization looks hardened. The budget has been allocated, the tools have been deployed,…
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Your MFA isn’t broken, it’s being bypassed, and your employees can’t tell the difference
Three failures that keep showing up: Through my research into adversary-in-the-middle attacks and reviewing industry incident reports, I have identified three consistent failures that make these attacks successful. 1. We trained our people for the wrong threat Most security awareness programs still teach the same things: Look for misspellings, check the sender address, hover over…
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Your MFA isn’t broken, it’s being bypassed, and your employees can’t tell the difference
Three failures that keep showing up: Through my research into adversary-in-the-middle attacks and reviewing industry incident reports, I have identified three consistent failures that make these attacks successful. 1. We trained our people for the wrong threat Most security awareness programs still teach the same things: Look for misspellings, check the sender address, hover over…
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Anthropic ban heralds new era of supply chain risk, with no clear playbook
Tags: ai, business, ceo, cisco, ciso, compliance, control, data, defense, framework, government, group, infrastructure, intelligence, law, monitoring, network, RedTeam, risk, risk-management, sbom, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, toolCompliance pressure before policy clarity: For organizations that do business with the federal government, the implications extend beyond technical challenges into legal and contractual risk. Alex Major, co-chair of government contracts and global trade practice at law firm McCarter and English, tells CSO that supply chain designations like the Anthropic ban tend to move quickly…
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Anthropic ban heralds new era of supply chain risk, with no clear playbook
Tags: ai, business, ceo, cisco, ciso, compliance, control, data, defense, framework, government, group, infrastructure, intelligence, law, monitoring, network, RedTeam, risk, risk-management, sbom, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, toolCompliance pressure before policy clarity: For organizations that do business with the federal government, the implications extend beyond technical challenges into legal and contractual risk. Alex Major, co-chair of government contracts and global trade practice at law firm McCarter and English, tells CSO that supply chain designations like the Anthropic ban tend to move quickly…