The Pentagon is focusing on integrating cyber into all its operations, and wants to make sure it integrates security into artificial intelligence usage from the outset, the Defense Department’s top cyber policy official said Tuesday. Recent conflicts have made clear how important cyber is, said Katherine Sutton, assistant secretary for cyber policy and principal cyber…
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Infosecurity Europe: NCSC Urges Immediate Action to Boost Resilience as Uncertainty Persists
NCSC director of operations, Paul Chichester, says it’s time to future-proof cybersecurity today
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Ransomware leak posts show weekday peak, October spikes
The data analyzed by the Ransomnews Research Team indicates that ransomware operations largely follow a business week, with significantly fewer posts on Sundays compared to Mondays and Tuesdays.
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Qevlar’s new AI agents correlate CVEs, incident data, and active exploitation signals
Qevlar has announced a new set of AI agents designed to bridge the disconnect between Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and vulnerability management teams. The new capabilities help security teams correlate CVEs with live incident data for real-time risk prioritization, automatically identify asset owners to speed remediation, and autonomously hunt for active CVE exploitation. General availability…
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Laying the groundwork: A practical path to identity security for AI agents
As enterprises move toward AI-driven operations, identity modernization becomes essential.
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The NSA, ‘Mythos’ and the quiet emergence of AI cyber doctrine
For most of my career running security operations, the shape of cyber conflict has been defined by who could move faster than the other side. Faster at identifying a vulnerability, faster at patching, faster at detecting, faster at responding. The last few months have made me reevaluate that framing. Speed still matters. It just no…
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7AI Inc. launches PLAID ELITE, an AI-native security operations service
PLAID ELITE handles the entire security operations workflow, including alert ingestion, enrichment, triage, investigation, and response, autonomously.
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Conifers rolls out AI-powered SOC for unified security operations and automated response
Conifers has announced the launch of its agentic SOC, a unified AI platform designed to help security operations centers defend against cyber adversaries operating at machine speed. Built on the company’s CognitiveSOC platform, the new system connects threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation into a single operating framework grounded in each customer’s…
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Riverbed introduces new Aternity tools for autonomous IT operations
Riverbed has announced new capabilities for Aternity designed to support autonomous IT operations for digital experience management. The updates help digital workplace teams move toward prevention-focused operations through broader visibility, context-aware intelligence, and governance controls that support automated workflows. Organizations are measured by their ability to deliver frictionless digital experiences that keep employees productive and…
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Westcon-Comstor Launches White-Label OneSOC Service
Westcon-Comstor has launched OneSOC, a vendor-agnostic, white-label security operations service designed to help channel partners offer SOC capabilities under their own brand without upfront investment. The global technology distributor, which specializes in cybersecurity, networking, and hybrid cloud, announced the service on May 19. OneSOC targets partner barriers to SOC delivery OneSOC is available across Europe,…
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MY TAKE: AI agents force a rethink of enterprise service lines as vendors move up the tech tack
ORLANDO — Companies are pulling AI agents into their daily operations through a dozen side doors. Related: SaaS and AI agents converge One of them was in focus at KB4-CON, KnowBe4’s annual customer conference at the Marriott World Center here last week. The Clearwater, Fla.-based cybersecurity training vendor used the conference to lay out a…
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Secure, Fast, Reliable: The Best Cloud Storage Providers for Businesses in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, business owners, and operations teams looking to improve data security, collaboration, and file management in 2026. It covers the best cloud storage providers for businesses and the key features to consider when selecting a secure, scalable, and reliable storage solution. Key Points of Our 2026 Cloud Storage Provider Evaluation…
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Q&A: AI Ushers in a New Era in MSP Service Efficiency
The managed services industry is under increasing pressure to scale operations, improve response times, and maintain profitability without continuously adding headcount. For many MSPs, the challenge lies in the operational burden that is created by workflows that still depend heavily on human coordination at nearly every stage of the service desk process. According to Mark…
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How Southwest Airlines is putting endpoint operations on autopilot
As digital tools become more central to its operations, Southwest Airlines is increasingly turning to AI and automation to prevent endpoint issues from affecting the sprawling airline. The new tools allow the company’s IT team to take a more strategic, rather than reactive, approach to operations, said Derek Whisenhunt, head of end user computing at…
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Xurrent Intros MCP Server to Enhance AI Integration for ITOps
AI-powered service and operations management platform for corporate IT teams and enterprise MSPs, Xurrent, is launching its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This MCP standard enables Xurrent to act as a universal connector, enabling different AI models and digital agents to securely access Xurrent data and perform tasks within established workflows. AI models now connect…
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Webinar: What the Riskiest SOC Alerts Go Unanswered – and How Radiant Security Can Help
Why do the Riskiest SOC Alerts Go Unanswered? Security operations teams are drowning in alerts. But the real problem isn’t always alert volume; it’s the blind spots. The most dangerous alerts are the ones no one is investigating. A recent report from The Hacker News examined why certain high-risk alert categories – WAF, DLP, OT/IoT,…
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How Inefficient MSP Service Desks Drive Burnout
As MSP service desk operations become increasingly complex, inefficiency has emerged as a major contributor to technician burnout. Fragmented ticketing systems, overloaded inboxes, and overly complex workflows can demoralize teams and ultimately lead to burnout. At the same time, MSP teams are managing growing ticket volumes and alert fatigue as businesses become more interconnected and…
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One Missed Threat Per Week: What 25M Alerts Reveal About Low-Severity Risk
The dark secret of enterprise security operations is that defenders have quietly institutionalized the practice of not looking. This is not just anecdotal, but rather backed by a recent report investigating more than 25 million security alerts, including informational and low-severity, across live enterprise environments. The dataset behind these findings includes 10 million monitored
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Avantra’s new AI can diagnose SAP failures in seconds
Avantra launched Avantra 26, an advancement in AI-driven operations, strengthening native integration with SAP Cloud ALM, and delivering automated visibility across SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Avantra also announced Avantra AIR Root Cause Analyzer, an AI-powered intelligence engine that automatically investigates SAP incidents and surfaces a structured diagnosis the moment an issue is detected. Available…
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AI, Cyberwarfare, and Autonomous Weapons: Inside America’s New Military Strategy
The Pentagon is integrating AI into military operations, transforming cybersecurity, targeting, and command systems into a unified warfare architecture. May 2026 marks a turning point in the evolution of modern warfare: the convergence of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and conventional military power is no longer theoretical. It is becoming an operational reality. The Pentagon has signed…
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MuddyWater hackers use Chaos ransomware as a decoy in attacks
The MuddyWater Iranian hackers disguised their operations as a Chaos ransomware attack, relying on Microsoft Teams social engineering to gain access and establish persistence. […]
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What researchers learned about building an LLM security workflow
Security operations centers are running into the same wall everywhere. Detection tools generate more alerts than analysts can work through, and the early stages of any investigation involve pulling together logs from several sources to decide whether something is worth escalating. Vendors have spent the past two years pitching LLMs as the answer, with a…
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Managed vs Self-Managed Cloud Hosting: Choosing the Best Option for Your Business
As more businesses relocate their operations to the cloud, one important decision arises: should you choose managed or…
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The metrics killing your SOC, and what to use instead
Security operations centres risk being rendered entirely ineffective if organizations measure them using the wrong performance indicators, according to Dave Chismon, CTO for Architecture at UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. Ticket-based metrics miss the point Evaluating ones’ SOC using the same ticket-based metrics applied to IT service desks can actively work against its core purpose:…
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Alleged Silk Typhoon hacker extradited to US for cyberespionage
A Chinese national accused of carrying out cyberespionage operations for China’s intelligence services has been extradited from Italy to the United States to face criminal charges. […]
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25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget
Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in this article can help you detect threats, increase visibility, enforce controls, and investigate and respond to incidents throughout the development and operational lifecycle. Allama: Open-source AI security automation Allama is an…
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Elastic Collaborates with Google Cloud to Bring its Embedded Security Layer to Google Distributed Cloud Air-Gapped Environments
Google Distributed Cloud is embedding Elastic’s agentic security operations platform, providing security analytics, automation, and XDR capabilities to help customers secure sensitive data in air-gapped environments
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Inside Caller-as-a-Service Fraud: The Scam Economy Has a Hiring Process
Fraud operations now operate like call centers, complete with hiring, training, and performance tracking. Flare reveals how cybercriminals manage “Caller-as-a-Service” operations like a professional sales team. […]
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Google Fixes Critical RCE Flaw in AI-Based Antigravity Tool
The prompt injection vulnerability in the agentic AI product for filesystem operations was a sanitization issue that allowed for sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution.
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Ivanti Neurons AI automates IT operations, reducing manual work and security risk
Ivanti has revealed new solution capabilities, focusing on enabling autonomous IT operations and organizations to secure their environments more efficiently at scale. With these advancements, Ivanti enables IT and security operations to detect, decide, and act autonomously without sacrificing trust, governance, or control. AI capabilities and the threat landscape are changing quickly, and IT and…
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Void Dokkaebi Uses Fake Job Interview Lure to Spread Malware via Code Repositories
Our research on Void Dokkaebi’s operations uncovered a campaign that turns infected developer repositories into malware delivery channels. By spreading through trusted workflows, organizational codebases, and open-source projects, the threat can scale from a single compromise to a broader supply chain risk.
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Kyrgyzstan-based crypto exchange Grinex shuts down after $13.7M cyber heist, blames Western Intelligence
Grinex halted operations after a $13.7M hack, blaming Western intelligence. Stolen funds came from wallets of Russian users on the platform. Kyrgyz crypto exchange Grinex halted operations after a threat actor stole $13.7 million in a cyber attack that the company attributes to Western intelligence agencies. The stolen funds belonged to Russian users, as the…
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Grinex exchange blames “Western intelligence” for $13.7M crypto hack
Kyrgyzstan-based cryptocurrency exchange Grinex has suspended its operations after suffering a $13.7 million hack attributed to Western intelligence agencies. […]
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Space Force official touts AI’s impact on cyber compliance
Seth Whitworth, who is both acting Associate Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Cyber and Data and acting chief information security officer, said he believes AI tools are shifting the way defenders review cyber risk, both for individual systems and more holistically throughout an enterprise. In particular, Large Language Models can be used to systematically…
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TekStream CEO on Expanding Student-Staffed SOCs Nationwide
TekStream is expanding its student-staffed security operations center (SOC) program nationwide, positioning the model as a dual solution to cybersecurity talent shortages and rising demand for U.S.-based managed security services. We spoke with TekStream CEO Rob Jensen about how the provider continues to build on the program’s early success with LSU. Inside TekStream’s public-private SOC…
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Kaseya Expands AI Innovation with Silicon Valley R&D Hub to Accelerate Customer Outcomes
New investment strengthens Kaseya’s leadership in AI-driven IT operations and agentic automation
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Argon & Co Advances AI-Enabled Business Transformation Model, Promotes Four New Partners
Argon & Co, the global management consultancy specialising in operations strategy and transformation, is evolving its delivery model to embed data, digital capability and AI into end-to-end transformation, as organisations face increasing pressure to drive productivity, resilience and operational performance.
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Prompt injection tags along as GenAI enters daily government use
Routine use of GenAI has moved into daily operations in state and territorial government environments, placing new security risks within common workflows. A Center for Internet Security (CIS) report, Prompt Injections: The Inherent Threat to Generative AI, identifies prompt injection as a persistent concern tied to that adoption. Adoption expands exposure Use of AI tools…
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10 ChatGPT Prompts L1 SOC Analysts Can Use in Their Daily Work
Security operations center (SOC) analysts are expected to process a constant stream of alerts — often under tight response timelines. At the same time, they are expected to investigate accurately, document clearly, and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This is where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT can be helpful.…
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German authorities identify REvil and GangCrab ransomware bosses
The Federal Police in Germany (BKA) has identified two Russian nationals as the leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware operations between 2019 and 2021. […]
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German authorities identify REvil and GandCrab ransomware bosses
The Federal Police in Germany (BKA) has identified two Russian nationals as the leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware operations between 2019 and 2021. […]
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New Relic Appoints Masakiyo Furudate as Group Vice President, Head of New Relic Japan
Seasoned enterprise technology leader to lead Japan operations and accelerate market leadership.
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Hasbro hit by cyberattack, investigates possible data breach
Hasbro suffers a cyberattack, disrupting some operations; the company is probing the scope and potential data compromise. Toy giant Hasbro reported a cyberattack on Wednesday that disrupted certain company operations. The firm is investigating the full extent of the incident, including whether any files or sensitive data were compromised, as it works to restore normal…
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Chinese Hackers Target European Governments in Espionage Campaigns
Chinese state-backed group TA416 had suspended its cyber espionage operations in Europe since 2023, noted Proofpoint
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Beyond ticketing: How Robin by Atera is automating the IT lifecycle
GUEST OPINION: IT operations have long been shaped by ticketing systems that organise work into queues, prioritise issues, and track resolution times. While effective for structure, this model is inherently reactive and depends on the problems being reported before action can begin.
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Telecom Sleeper Cells, LLM Jailbreaks, Apple Forces U.K. Age Checks and More
Some weeks are loud. This one was quieter but not in a good way. Long-running operations are finally hitting courtrooms, old attack methods are showing up in new places, and research that stopped being theoretical right around the time defenders stopped paying attention. There’s a bit of everything this week. Persistence plays, legal wins, influence…
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FIRESIDE CHAT: AI gives rise to a semantic attack surface, forcing a new class of network defense
SAN FRANCISCO — Enterprises rushing to deploy AI in their operations are opening a security exposure most of their existing tools were never designed to address. That’s the hard message coming out of RSAC 2026 — and it’s one worth sitting with. Related: RSAC 2026 recap—no easy AI fixes Jamison Utter, A10 Networks field CISO,…
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Why risk alone doesn’t get you to yes
I have been in security rooms for years, from military operations centers to corporate boardrooms. In all those years I can tell you that the hardest mission that most security leaders will face is not identifying a threat, but getting someone to act on it. We’re trained to see exposure before they are identified by…
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Agentic GRC: Teams Get the Tech. The Mindset Shift Is What’s Missing.
Agentic GRC automates workflows, forcing teams to rethink their role beyond operations. Anecdotes explains why the biggest challenge is shifting from execution to risk leadership. […]
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We Are At War
Rising geopolitical tensions are reflected (or in some cases preceded) by cyber operations, while technology itself has become politicized. Let’s admit it: we are in the middle of it. Introduction: One tech power to rule them all is a thing of the past The relative safety, peace and prosperity that much of the world has…
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How Networking is Evolving to Support AI and Real-Time Operations
Networking will play a more strategic role in enabling real-time digital operations and supporting the next generation of AI-powered applications. The post How Networking is Evolving to Support AI and Real-Time Operations appeared first on RTInsights.
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AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet
Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in analyst workload, and an accelerating path toward humanless operations. Practitioners buying and deploying those platforms describe something different. A report by Anton Chuvakin, Security Advisor at Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO, and…
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Rubrik Extends Support for Google Workspace, Microsoft Defender
Security and AI operations company, Rubrik, has announced the launch of Rubrik Data Protection for Google Workspace, as well as a new integration with Microsoft Defender. Rubrik Data Protection for Google Workspace This new cyber resilience platform is among the first for Google Workspace, providing customers with protection across data, identity, and AI. Rubrik Data…
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Telemetry Pipeline: How It Works and Why It Matters in 2026
A telemetry pipeline has become a core layer in modern security operations because teams no longer send data from applications, infrastructure, and cloud services straight into a single backend and hope for the best. In 2026, most environments are distributed across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, which means more services, more data sources, more formats,…
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HPE enhances security to support AI and distributed enterprise environments
HPE has unveiled new security innovations designed to help organizations scale distributed operations, reduce cyber risk, and maintain consistent governance as AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise. To help enterprises securely adopt AI and turn resilience into a core business capability, HPE is introducing the HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series Firewalls, an expanded hybrid mesh…
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KnowBe4 Accelerates the Future of Human Risk Management with Expanding Suite of AI Agents
COMPANY NEWS: AI Defence Agents reduce administrative burden and transform security operations from a cost centre to a competitive advantage
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AiStrike cuts alert noise with Continuous Detection Engineering
AiStrike has launched Continuous Detection Engineering, a capability that transforms how security operations teams manage detections, shifting from reactive alert triage to proactive, intelligence-driven optimization. The detection quality gap Security teams today are overwhelmed by alerts, but the root cause is not volume, it’s detection quality. AiStrike’s analysis across enterprise environments revealed that: More than…
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Coro automates security operations with end-to-end threat detection and response
Coro has expanded AI-driven security operations capabilities that automate the full lifecycle of threat detection and response, enabling organizations to identify, investigate, and remediate security incidents without manual intervention. The announcement builds on Coro’s intrinsic use of AI across its platform and introduces deeper automation across security workflows, including cross-module response actions and SOC-level task…
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Canada-Based Organization Health Shared Services Accelerates SOC Investigations with ANY.RUN
ANY.RUN spoke with the Interim CISO and Director of Cyber Operations at Health Shared Services, who provided insights into how their team addressed alert fatigue, improved MTTD and MTTR, and strengthened their investigation workflow with ANY.RUN. In this new addition to our success story series, we explore how the healthcare organization’s SOC team improved detection, triage, and response efficiency while maintaining the existing operational processes. Organization Overview Health Shared Services is a healthcare support organization based in Alberta, Canada. Its SOC team consists of 16…
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Canada-Based Organization Health Shared Services Accelerates SOC Investigations with ANY.RUN
ANY.RUN spoke with the Interim CISO and Director of Cyber Operations at Health Shared Services, who provided insights into how their team addressed alert fatigue, improved MTTD and MTTR, and strengthened their investigation workflow with ANY.RUN. In this new addition to our success story series, we explore how the healthcare organization’s SOC team improved detection, triage, and response efficiency while maintaining the existing operational processes. Organization Overview Health Shared Services is a healthcare support organization based in Alberta, Canada. Its SOC team consists of 16…
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Product showcase: Cross-platform and third-party endpoint patching with Action1
Keeping endpoints patched is one of the more annoying chores in IT operations. Action1 is a cloud-based autonomous endpoint management platform that addresses this challenge head-on, covering third-party apps and OS updates (Windows, macOS, and now Linux) from a single, centralized console. Built as a SaaS solution, it requires no on-premises infrastructure, no VPN tunnels,…
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How CISOs Can Survive the Era of Geopolitical Cyberattacks
Geopolitical tensions are driving destructive cyberattacks designed to disrupt operations, not demand ransom. CISOs must limit lateral movement and contain breaches to reduce the impact of wiper campaigns. […]
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Torq Introduces New Agentic Builder for SOC Workflows
Torq, an agentic security operations leader, has announced the debut of Agentic Builder, which turns human intent into agentic outcomes. Delivering production-grade agentic workflows An extension of the Torq AI SOC Platform, the Builder enables SOCs to shift the cognitive load of engineering security automation from humans to machines. The Agentic Builder delivers Cursor-level capabilities…
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Corelight’s Agentic Triage turns SOC alerts into evidence-backed investigations
Corelight has introduced a new set of agentic AI capabilities aimed at helping security operations centers (SOCs) cut down on repetitive, time-consuming tasks. The updates are designed to boost analyst efficiency, speed up response times, and build trust through greater transparency. The release includes Agentic Triage to streamline SOC workflows, a new suite of machine…
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How to Reduce MTTR in Your SOC with Better Threat Intelligence
MTTR is where strategy meets reality. In security operations, it is the margin between a contained incident and a catastrophic breach. You can have perfect detection coverage, cutting-edge telemetry, and a wall of dashboards glowing like a spaceship cockpit. But if your team takes too long to respond, the attacker still wins the clock. Reducing Mean Time to Respond is not about shaving seconds for vanity metrics. It is about compressing the window in which damage happens. And the fastest way to do that is not more alerts, but better intelligence. Key Takeaways MTTR is…
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Blumira Intros EDR and ITDR Solutions, Joins Pax8 Marketplace
Blumira, a security operations platform, is releasing enhanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) capabilities. The company also recently joined the Pax8 Marketplace to deliver enterprise security operations to MSPs. Stopping threats at speed These newly expanded capabilities will enable security teams on Blumira Respond and Automate editions to…
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Genetec Enables Enterprise Cloud Modernisation with New Access Control Capabilities in Security Centre SaaS
COMPANY NEWS: Updates simplify visitor workflows, accelerate daily operations, and expand enterprise hardware support.
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Building Trust in AI SOC Analyst Solutions: A UK and EU CISO Perspective
By 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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Binary Defense’s NightBeacon brings AI-driven analysis to SOCs
Binary Defense has announced the launch of NightBeacon, an AI-powered security operations platform built directly into the company’s security operations center (SOC). NightBeacon serves as the intelligence infrastructure behind Binary Defense’s MDR service, supporting every analyst shift, detection, and investigation across the SOC. Customers benefit from an approximately 30% reduction in mean time to resolution,…
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Iran-Linked Hacktivists Claim Wiper Attack on Stryker Systems
A cyberattack has disrupted global operations at medical technology manufacturer Stryker, forcing employees in multiple countries offline and cutting access to core corporate systems. The incident, which began March 11, triggered widespread outages across the company’s Microsoft environment and left staff temporarily unable to access internal applications and devices. “When a company the size of…
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Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets
Cybercriminals spent much of 2025 automating their operations, shifting from one-off attacks to systems that can run entire intrusion cycles with minimal human input. Data collected from criminal forums, illicit marketplaces, and underground chat services shows a threat environment where stolen identity data, unpatched vulnerabilities, and ransomware operations are interdependent. The findings come from Flashpoint’s…
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News alert: Qevlar AI raises $30M to turn security alerts into actionable defense insights across SOCs
PARIS, March 10, 2026 — Qevlar AI, a leader in AI for transforming security operations centres (SOCs), has raised $30 million in funding for its autonomous AI SOC platform. The funding will support development of technology designed to turn alert investigations into security insights that help SOC teams strengthen their overall security posture. The round…
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AWS expands Security Hub for multicloud security operations
Amazon Web Services is expanding AWS Security Hub to function as a centralized security operations platform capable of aggregating risk signals across multicloud environments. With the updated Security Hub, the company said it will introduce a unified operations layer that provides security teams with near real-time risk analytics, automated analysis, and prioritized insights. As enterprise…
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Middle East Conflict Highlights Cloud Resilience Gaps
Data centers — used by both governments and militaries for operations — are now fair game, not just for cyberattacks, but for kinetic attacks as well.
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Fortinet enhances SecOps with cloud SOC, AI automation, and managed services
Fortinet has announced major innovations across the Fortinet Security Operations (SecOps) Platform. The updates feature next-generation SecOps advancements, including expanded agentic AI capabilities, a preview of FortiSOC, managed services, and endpoint security enhancements delivered through FortiEndpoint. “As attackers weaponize AI to accelerate reconnaissance, exploit development, and social engineering, security operations must function with the same…
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Datadog Launches MCP Server to Provide AI Agents with Secure, Real-Time Access to Unified Observability Data
Datadog MCP Server enables faster debugging, safer automation and governed AI operations at scale
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Why Business Success Depends on IT Excellence
GUEST OPINION: IT is the business. When systems fail, operations stop, revenue halts, and customers lose trust. The COO of KLM captured this reality succinctly: “Nobody flies without IT.” In a digital economy, technology underpins every function, from customer experience to core operations. This reality places extraordinary responsibility on IT teams and raises an important question:…
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Microsoft: Hackers abusing AI at every stage of cyberattacks
Microsoft says threat actors are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their operations to accelerate attacks, scale malicious activity, and lower technical barriers across all aspects of a cyberattack. […]
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Cyolo PRO 7.0 expands OT-first secure remote access with AI session intelligence
Cyolo has released Cyolo PRO (Privileged Remote Operations) v7.0, a major update that expands OT-first secure remote access and strengthens protection for critical infrastructure and industrial environments without disrupting operations. Secure remote access (SRA) tools focus primarily on managing access. Cyolo has always delivered a more holistic approach, designed to govern all scopes of access…
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VMware Aria Operations Bug Exploited, Cloud Resources at Risk
Exploitation of the command injection flaw in VMware Aria Operations could grant an attacker broad acess to victims’ cloud environments.
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Mississippi medical center reopens clinics hit by ransomware attack
The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) says it has resumed normal operations, nine days after a ransomware attack blocked access to electronic medical records and took down many of its IT systems. […]
Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News
CISA flags VMware Aria Operations RCE flaw as exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a VMware Aria Operations vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-22719 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, flagging the flaw as exploited in attacks. […]
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Building a High-Impact Tier 1: The 3 Steps CISOs Must Follow
Every CISO knows the uncomfortable truth about their Security Operations Center: the people most responsible for catching threats in real time are the people with the least experience. Tier 1 analysts sit at the front line of detection, and yet they are also the most vulnerable to the cognitive and organizational pressures that quietly erode…
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Aeternum Botnet Shifts Command Control to Polygon Blockchain
New botnet Aeternum shifted C2 operations to Polygon blockchain, complicating takedown efforts
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Fraudsters integrate ChatGPT into global scam campaigns
AI models are being folded into fraud and influence operations that follow long standing tactics. A February 2026 update to OpenAI’s Disrupting Malicious Uses of Our Models report details how ChatGPT and related API access were used in romance scams, fake legal services, coordinated influence campaigns, and a state linked harassment effort. Six tweets whose…
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Chinese group’s ChatGPT use reveals worldwide harassment campaign against critics
A Chinese law enforcement official attempted to use ChatGPT to review its reports on cyber operations, subsequently revealing details of a worldwide online harassment and silencing campaign of China’s critics at home and abroad. In a new threat report released Wednesday, OpenAI said the activity concerned a single account that regularly used ChatGPT to review…
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VMware Aria Vulnerabilities Expose RCE Risk
Broadcom has disclosed three vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations, including one that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution during product migrations. One of the flaws, CVE-2026-22719, can allow an attacker “… to execute arbitrary commands which may lead to remote code execution in VMware Aria Operations while support-assisted product migration is in progress,” said Broadcom…
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VMware Aria Operations flaws could enable remote attacks
Broadcom patched multiple VMware Aria Operations flaws, including high-severity issues that could enable remote code execution. Broadcom has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting VMware Aria Operations. VMware Aria Operations is an IT operations management platform that helps organizations monitor and optimize virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments. It provides performance monitoring, capacity planning,…
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Why SOCs are moving toward autonomous security operations in 2026
The modern security operations center faces a crisis of scale that human effort cannot fix. With alert volumes exponentially growing and threat actors automating their attacks, organizations must pivot to autonomous SOC strategies. This shift to AI-driven defense is the only way to survive the operational realities of 2026. The mathematical impossibility of legacy defense…
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Security and complexity slow the next phase of enterprise AI agent adoption
Enterprise AI agents are embedded in routine business processes, particularly inside engineering and IT operations. Many organizations report active production deployments, and agent development ranks high on strategic agendas. A new study from Docker, The State of Agentic AI Report, examines how enterprises are deploying agentic systems and the challenges emerging as deployments scale. The…
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
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…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Ukrainian sentenced to 5 years in prison for facilitating North Korean remote worker scheme
A Ukrainian national who ran multiple operations to aid the North Korean government’s expansive scheme to hire remote IT workers at U.S. companies was sentenced to five years in prison, the Justice Department said Thursday. Oleksandr Didenko stole U.S. citizens’ identities and created more than 2,500 fraudulent accounts on freelance IT job forums, money service…
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Celonis and LeafLabs launch robotic solution to power AI-driven supply chain operations
Celonis has launched a new app to help companies establish smarter operations and achieve a higher robotic and automation ROI.
Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Dragos OT Cybersecurity Report: Adversaries Increase Real-World Impact, Map Control Loops Across Industrial Infrastructure
Three new OT threat groups identified including SYLVANITE linked to VOLTZITE/Volt Typhoon operations; ransomware groups with reach into OT environments surged 49%.
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Agentic AI Scales, SecOps Races to Catch Up
Agentic AI is moving from pilot to production inside enterprise IT, but security operations teams are still catching up to the risks introduced by autonomous, tool-using systems. Agentic AI demand grows as security and IT teams grapple with complexity According to McKinsey’s State of AI 2025 report, 23% of organizations say they are already scaling…
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From request to completion: How work orders are handled in fleet software
GUEST OPINION: In modern transportation operations, every minute of vehicle downtime reverberates through delivery schedules, customer expectations, and profit margins. That is why maintenance teams lean on fleet maintenance management software to turn fragmented repair notes into structured, traceable workflows.
AI, Global Security News
Crypto Payments to Human Traffickers Surges 85%
Chainalysis warns that online fraud is fuelling sophisticated human trafficking operations
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
HPE unifies Aruba and Juniper AIOps as it pushes toward self-driving networks
HPE is moving to unify operations across its Aruba and Juniper networking portfolios, outlining a roadmap toward what it calls “self-driving networks” powered by agentic AI and shared AIOps services.
AI, Global Security News
AI Rising: Do We Know Enough About the Data Populating It?
Organizations remain reluctant to address the fact that AI can dangerously expose business operations as well as personal data.
AI, Global Security News, LLMs, Chatbots, and Agents, Network Security
NetBrain R12.3 Brings Agentic AI to Network Operations
NetBrain Technologies has released version 12.3 of its network operations platform, adding agentic AI capabilities designed to autonomously investigate network issues, recommend fixes, and guide engineers through remediation across hybrid and cloud environments. NetBrain Technologies touts manual workload reduction and time savings for engineers The Burlington, Mass.-based vendor positions the release as a step toward…