Tag: governance
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Why Enterprise Resource Planning Access Gaps Fuel Fraud Risk
Pathlock’s Jason Gzym on ERP Platforms, Observability and Fraud Exposure. Organizations believe their identity governance programs cover critical business systems. Jason Gzym, vice president of sales engineering and advisory at Pathlock, says ERP platforms remain a blind spot because teams lack granular visibility into access, activity and risky entitlement combinations. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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OpenClaw Exposes Hidden Risks in Agentic AI
Attorney Jonathan Armstrong on Governance, Due Diligence and Shadow AI Risk. The OpenClaw incident highlights how experimental agentic AI tools can create hidden security and compliance risks. Attorney Jonathan Armstrong explains why CISOs must address shadow AI, strengthen oversight of developer experimentation and rethink how they assess AI vendor risk. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Nur 23 Prozent der Unternehmen haben KI-Regeln – Schatten-KI durch Governance beherrschbar machen
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/schatten-ki-governance-verbote-a-17bd59c9b4e9cd34114764bbaf168d02/
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How independent can AI ethics governance become
How Secure Are Your Machine Identities and Their Secrets? How often do organizations truly consider the security of non-human identities (NHIs) within their systems? Where cybersecurity threats are evolving rapidly, the management of NHIs plays a crucial role in protecting digital assets across industries, particularly those heavily reliant on cloud infrastructure such as financial services,……
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Enorme Gebühr: US-Regierung verschafft sich 10 Milliarden bei Tiktok-Deal
Die erzwungene Teilenteignung von Tiktok in den USA lohnt sich für die Trump-Regierung. Sie berechnet eine Vermittlungsgebühr. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/enorme-gebuehr-us-regierung-verschafft-sich-10-milliarden-bei-tiktok-deal-2603-206511.html
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AI Has Given You Two New Problems And Identity Governance Is the Only Place They Meet
AI has quietly turned identity governance into the place where real power flows are decided”, who (or what) can move money, change code, or rewrite records. That shift has handed CISOs and CIOs two problems nobody really signed up for: AI inside the identity stack making access decisions, and AI acting as powerful identities across…
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Top 5 AI Access Risks for CISOs and How AI Governance Closes the Gaps
AI agents, copilots, or service accounts acting in ERP/SaaS systems are already making real decisions in your business, often with more access and less oversight than many human users. In many enterprises, non-human identities are often provisioned with broad permissions without explicit owners. For CISOs, the most urgent risks now sit where AI, identity, and……
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Federated Governance for AI Identities: Closing the 92% Visibility Gap
Identity is still the only control surface security truly owns”, but AI has quietly punched a 92%”‘wide hole straight through it. The 92% blind spot AI quietly opened in your identity program For years, identity has been the closest thing to a reliable control surface. It stayed in place as users and identities moved from…
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Understanding SOC 2 Controls for SaaS Providers
For SaaS providers, trust is a core part of the offering. Customers rely on software platforms to process data, support business operations, and integrate with wider technology ecosystems. As a result, demonstrating effective security and governance controls using frameworks like SOC 2 has become an increasingly important requirement when selling to enterprise customers. SOC 2″¦…
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Beyond File Servers: Securing Unstructured Data in the Era of AI
File servers still exist for legacy storage and governance, but most modern workflows now happen in collaboration tools, code platforms, chats, and AI systems. File servers remain, but they are no longer central to operations. They still appear important on paper: legacy project shares with strict permissions, legal drives with structured folders, and network areas…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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Building Trust in AI SOC Analyst Solutions: A UK and EU CISO Perspective
Tags: access, ai, best-practice, ciso, control, data, endpoint, framework, GDPR, governance, incident response, international, metric, nis-2, privacy, risk, socBy Brett Candon, VP International at Dropzone AI Trust has always been critical in security operations, but in the UK and Europe it carries significant regulatory weight. GDPR, NIS2 and similar related data”‘protection frameworks shape far more than legal risk, they directly influence architectural decisions, supplier selection, and how security data can be accessed, processed…
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AI Agent Safety Checklist
This AI Agent Safety Checklist outlines key security, governance, and oversight controls organizations should review before deploying AI agents. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-safety-checklist/
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How to Govern AI Agents Before They Go Rogue
Okta’s Arkadiusz Krowczynski on Why Governing AI Agents Starts With Identity. AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can secure them, creating blind spots across access, ownership and governance. Half of companies lack any governance or a shutdown mechanism when agents go rogue, says Arkadiusz Krowczynski, principal product acceleration specialist at Okta. First seen…
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Monitoring Legitimate Bot Traffic is Now a Cybersecurity Requirement
AI-driven and “legitimate” bots now make up a growing share of web traffic, blurring the line between value and risk. Security teams must treat bot traffic as a governance, cost, and cyber supply chain issue, guided by long-term visibility and analytics. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/monitoring-legitimate-bot-traffic-is-now-a-cybersecurity-requirement/
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A 5-step approach to taming shadow AI
Tags: ai, api, business, communications, compliance, control, data, defense, finance, framework, governance, incident response, monitoring, network, nist, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, strategy, technology, toolthought work happened and how it actually does today.Here’s a five-step approach to put a robust AI-risk management framework in place: Employees often use public model APIs, browser-based prompt tools and unsanctioned or ungoverned internal chatbots to boost productivity without considering the risk of exposing sensitive data.AI usage is not difficult to identify; you just need…
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The Economic Argument: The Real Cost of Insecure APIs in the AI Era
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, business, compliance, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, finance, flaw, framework, governance, identity, injection, international, jobs, malicious, privacy, regulation, risk, threat, tool, vulnerabilityWhen cybersecurity teams talk about risk, they usually speak in technical terms like vulnerabilities, exploits, and attack vectors. But when they walk into the boardroom, they need to speak a different language. They need to speak about cost. In the era of AI, the cost of insecure APIs has shifted from a potential liability to…
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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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What assurances do AI governance frameworks offer
How Can Non-Human Identities Bolster AI Governance Frameworks? What role do Non-Human Identities (NHIs) play in fortifying AI governance frameworks? With industries increasingly lean into artificial intelligence, the importance of managing machine identities becomes paramount. This is especially true for organizations operating in cloud environments, where the interplay between AI and NHIs deeply influences data……
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Pentagon’s Anthropic Ban Is a Wake-Up Call for CIOs
AI Shutdown Risk Exposes Governance Gaps and Vendor Dependency Concerns. The federal government’s recent decision to designate Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI platform, as a supply-chain risk should raise alarm bells for technology leaders who are tasked with embedding AI systems across the enterprise. Going all-in with a single AI vendor can be risky.…
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President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: What It Means for the U.S. and Why It Matters Globally
Tags: access, ai, awareness, business, ceo, cloud, compliance, computing, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, governance, government, healthcare, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, malicious, network, regulation, resilience, risk, skills, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, zero-trustPresident Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America signals a shift toward risk-based security and cooperation across emerging technologies. While centered on U.S. interests, the strategy provides a blueprint to collectively strengthen global cyber resilience. Key takeaways Cybersecurity as a global security imperative: The strategy signals that cybersecurity has evolved beyond a mere “IT issue” to become…