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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,…

9 Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Solutions in 2026

This guide is for IT leaders, network administrators, and security teams evaluating next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), and it covers how they work, key features, and what to look for in 2026 solutions.  NGFWs have evolved beyond traditional firewalls to deliver deep packet inspection, application awareness, and integrated threat prevention, helping organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks.…

Intezer AI SOC removes MDR limits with autonomous triage and optimization

Intezer has expanded capabilities in its AI SOC platform designed for teams who have outgrown their traditional managed detection and response (MDR) services. Internal SOC teams can now focus on supervising outcomes rather than grinding through alerts, with Intezer providing autonomous triage and investigation, continuous optimization for their SIEM and EDR detection rules and expert…

Ready for macOS Threats: Expanding Your SOC’s Cross-Platform Analysis with ANY.RUN 

Enterprise security teams are no longer defending a single-platform environment. They are expected to investigate threats across multiple platforms every day, often under constant pressure to move faster and make the right call early. When analysis workflows are split across different tools and environments, triage slows down, investigations take longer, and business risks grow.  To help SOC and MSSP teams handle cross-platform threats…

5 Best Rootkit Scanners and Removers: Anti-Rootkit Tools in 2026

This guide is for IT professionals, security teams, and everyday users who want to detect and remove stealthy rootkit malware, and it covers the best rootkit scanners and removal tools available today.  Rootkits are particularly dangerous because they embed deep within an operating system, allowing attackers to hide malicious activity and maintain persistent access without…

Your MFA isn’t broken — it’s being bypassed, and your employees can’t tell the difference

Multi-factor authentication was supposed to be the solution. For years, security teams have told employees that MFA would keep them safe. Password stolen? No problem — attackers still need that second factor. But adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing has changed everything. These attacks do not try to steal passwords and MFA codes separately. They capture the entire…

Top 8 Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions in 2026

This guide is for IT and security teams evaluating the best endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions in 2026, covering top platforms and the features that matter most for threat detection and response.  EDR tools play a critical role in identifying and stopping threats at the device level by continuously monitoring endpoint activity and enabling…

6 Best Digital Forensics Tools Used in 2026

This guide is for security professionals, IT teams, and investigators evaluating the best digital forensics tools in 2026, covering top platforms and how they support modern investigations.  As cyber incidents, insider threats, and legal disputes become more complex, organizations need reliable tools to collect, analyze, and preserve digital evidence across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.…

Optiv CRO: AI Driving New Enterprise Security Risks

Enterprise security teams are under increasing pressure as AI adoption accelerates, introducing new risks around identity, governance, and operational resilience.  Channel Insider spoke with Optiv CRO John Hurley about how enterprise priorities are shifting—and where partners are seeing the most demand in 2026. Optiv’s advisory model reflects shift toward services-led security Optiv supports its enterprise…

8 Best Application Firewall (WAF) Solutions for 2026

This guide is for IT teams, security professionals, and organizations evaluating the best web application firewall (WAF) solutions in 2026, covering top platforms and how they protect modern applications.  A WAF remains a critical component of a strong application security strategy, helping detect and block attacks that target web apps, APIs, and user data. As…

Top 7 Full Disk Encryption Software Solutions in 2026

This guide is for IT teams, security leaders, and businesses evaluating the best full disk encryption solutions in 2026, covering how they work and why they matter for protecting sensitive data.  Full disk encryption serves as a critical first line of defense by securing hard drives, external storage, and endpoints against unauthorized access. As cyber…

Top 10 Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Tools in 2026

This guide is for compliance leaders, risk managers, and IT teams seeking the best governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tools in 2026, covering top platforms, key features, and selection considerations. These tools simplify the complexity of governance by equipping your team with the resources needed to manage evolving regulations, reduce risk, and control costs more…

Top 6 Network Access Control (NAC) Solutions in 2026

This guide is for IT leaders and security teams evaluating the best network access control (NAC) solutions in 2026, highlighting top platforms and what they do best. Choosing the right NAC tool is critical for securing modern networks, managing device access, and maintaining compliance across increasingly complex environments. Below, we break down six leading solutions—each…

Product Walkthrough: How Mesh CSMA Reveals and Breaks Attack Paths to Crown Jewels

Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both.  Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand context:  Q: Which exposures, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities chain together to create viable attack paths to crown jewels? Even the most mature security teams can’t…

1Password Users API for Partners helps automate identity response during incidents

1Password has announced the public preview of Users API for Partners, which allows security teams to respond to incidents faster during active security events. Launch partners like CrowdStrike, in addition to BlinkOps, Elastic, Sumo Logic, Tines, and Torq enable mutual customers to automatically suspend or restore users in 1Password Enterprise Password Manager when risk is…

Tufin introduces AI agents to take on network security work

Tufin is launching a new collection of AI agents designed to take on network security tasks for teams that are already stretched thin. This helps free up scarce expertise to focus on higher-level risks, critical decisions, and defending the enterprise. Enterprise infrastructure is becoming more dynamic, decentralized, and harder to secure. Tufin’s Network Connectivity Graph,…

6 Open-Source Vulnerability Scanners That Actually Work in 2026

This guide is designed for security professionals and IT teams looking to identify and remediate risks, covering the top open-source vulnerability scanners available today and how to use them effectively. Open-source vulnerability scanners offer a cost-effective way to identify security weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Backed by transparent codebases and active security communities, these…

NinjaOne Vulnerability Management enables real-time detection and autonomous patching

NinjaOne has unveiled NinjaOne Vulnerability Management, a new solution that helps IT teams identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities faster, without relying on periodic scans from security teams that often lack context and connection to remediation workflows. Built natively into the NinjaOne platform, the new solution brings together AI-driven real-time vulnerability assessment, patch confidence scoring, and…

MicroStealer Analysis: A Fast-Spreading Infostealer with Limited Detection 

Security teams depend on early signals to spot and contain new threats. But what happens when a fully capable infostealer spreads while traditional detections stay limited?  In recent investigations, ANY.RUN researchers observed MicroStealer in 40+ sandbox sessions in less than a month, despite low public visibility. Early activity points to distribution through compromised or impersonated accounts,…

Hack the Box: AI Boosts Productivity, Creates Skills Risk

AI is helping cybersecurity teams move faster than ever, but new research suggests the speed boost could come at the cost of long-term workforce risks. A new benchmark report from Hack The Box suggests that teams using AI can significantly outperform human-only cybersecurity teams, completing tasks faster and solving more challenges during simulated security competitions.…

SolarWinds: 77% of IT Teams Lack Visibility Across Environments

Seventy-seven percent of IT teams lack full visibility across on-prem and cloud environments, according to SolarWinds’ 2026 State of Monitoring & Observability Report. The study examines how IT teams are navigating increasingly fragmented hybrid environments and how AI is reshaping modern observability. Balancing legacy and cloud IT environments SolarWinds, in partnership with UserEvidence, surveyed more…

Teams Social Engineering Campaign Drops A0Backdoor Malware

Microsoft Teams impersonation and social engineering tactics are being used in an ongoing campaign to deliver a stealthy malware payload known as A0Backdoor.  Researchers at BlueVoyant report that the operation combines social engineering techniques, malicious installers, and covert command-and-control (C2) communications to gain persistent access within targeted networks. “The malware’s loader exhibits anti-sandbox evasion, and…

When AI safety constrains defenders more than attackers

Security teams are being urged to adopt AI copilots for threat modeling, phishing simulations, and SOC workflows. Yet many of the most widely deployed, enterprise-approved AI systems struggle to support realistic defensive scenarios once prompts resemble real-world attack behavior. This is not because such activity is inherently malicious, but because mainstream AI safety models are…

What happens when AI teams compete against human hackers

A cybersecurity competition produced what may be the largest controlled dataset comparing AI-augmented teams to human-only teams on professional-grade offensive security tasks. The event, called NeuroGrid, ran for 72 hours on the Hack The Box platform and drew 1,337 registered human-only teams and 156 registered AI-agent teams competing across 36 challenges in nine security domains…

AI Won’t Fix Cybersecurity Burnout

Artificial intelligence was supposed to relieve security teams drowning in alerts, threats, and operational complexity.  New research from Seemplicity suggests the opposite may be happening.  The study found that cybersecurity leaders remain committed to the field but are increasingly working longer hours, managing new governance responsibilities, and developing non-technical skills to operate in AI-driven environments.…

Cisco issues emergency patches for critical firewall vulnerabilities

Cisco has handed security teams one of the largest ever patching workloads affecting its firewall products, including fixes for two ‘perfect 10’ vulnerabilities in the company’s Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. Overall, the March 4 release, the first of its semiannual firewall updates for 2026, addresses 25 security advisories covering 48 individual CVEs. The…

IRONSCALES Unveils AI Agents to Tackle ‘Phishing 3.0’

A new wave of phishing attacks is forcing security teams to rethink their defenses, and IRONSCALES believes AI agents are the answer. The Atlanta-based email security firm this week unveiled its Winter 2026 Release, introducing three specialized AI agents designed to help organizations counter what it calls “Phishing 3.0,” a new generation of AI-powered impersonation…

SIEM vs Log Management: Observability, Telemetry, and Detection

Security teams are no longer short on data. They are drowning in it. Cloud control plane logs, endpoint telemetry, identity events, SaaS audit trails, application logs, and network signals keep expanding, while the SOC is still expected to deliver faster detection and cleaner investigations. That is why SIEM vs log management is not just a…

Automate or orchestrate? Implementing a streamlined remediation program to shorten MTTR

Security teams want lower MTTR, but flaws persist. How to use automation vs. orchestration to reduce risk effectively? Almost all security teams want to reduce their Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR). And for good reason: research from 2024 found that it takes an average of 4.5 months to remediate critical vulnerabilities. The problem is that…

The 10-hour problem: How visibility gaps are burning out the SOC

Security teams aren’t drowning because the threats improved. They’re drowning because the visibility got worse. The October 2025 commissioned Forrester Consulting study conducted on behalf of NETSCOUT surfaces a problem that every analyst already knows: 61% of survey respondents say their analysts spend more than ten hours a week in the “analyze” phase alone. This isn’t…

GUEST ESSAY: Real cyber risks arise when small flaws combine and alerts are viewed in isolation

Security teams are drowning in signals. Alerts fire. Logs accumulate. Dashboards light up. Yet breaches still unfold quietly, often through a series of low-level actions that never trigger a single catastrophic alarm. Related: How ‘observability’ drives security Attackers do not rely on one silver bullet. They move incrementally. They probe. They chain together small weaknesses…

How AI Aids Incident Response: Why Humans Alone Cannot Do IR Efficiently

AI accelerates incident response by correlating alerts and generating reports in minutes, helping teams scale beyond manual limits. Incident response has always been a race against the clock. It starts ticking the moment an alert is triggered, and each minute thereafter can lead to lost revenue, regulatory exposure, reputational damage, or customer churn. Traditionally, incident…

Backblaze launches two tools to automate endpoint backup management

Backblaze announced two new tools for Backblaze Computer Backup designed to give IT teams greater control, consistency, and automation across endpoint deployments: the Advanced Installer and the Backblaze Command Line Interface (bzcli). Backblaze Computer Backup has long been known for its simplicity. Install it, and it runs quietly in the background protecting data. While this…

ANY.RUN & Splunk Enterprise: Stronger Detection, Faster Response in Your SOC

Security teams don’t lack alerts, they lack fast, reliable context for decision-making. When threat analysis and intelligence are not an integrated part of the SOC workflow, investigations slow down, MTTR grows, and the risk of missed incidents increases. Adding behavioral analysis and live intelligence directly into SIEM closes this gap, turning monitoring, triage, and response…

Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals

Security teams live in a world of numbers. Dashboards depict counts of blocked attacks, phishing clicks, vulnerabilities discovered, patches applied, alerts triaged, and incidents closed. Over the past decade, the cybersecurity industry has become adept at measuring activity with increasing precision. Experts say what remains far less consistent is whether those measurements help boards govern…

What Is a Security Data Pipeline Platform: Key Benefits for Modern SOC

Security teams are drowning in telemetry: cloud logs, endpoint events, SaaS audit trails, identity signals, and network data. Yet many programs still push everything into a SIEM, hoping detections will sort it out later. The problem is that “more data in the SIEM” doesn’t automatically translate into better detection. It often translates into chaos. Many…

New Relic Launches Agentic Platform, a No-code Solution to Build and Govern Custom AI Agents for Observability at Scale

COMPANY NEWS:    Solution democratises AI by allowing SREs and Ops teams to build powerful AI agents, without writing code, to accelerate workstreams and automation  Enterprises can now build, deploy, and manage a full spectrum of agents that move operations from passive observation to active task execution, directly within their observability stack

The hidden security cost of treating labs like data centers

In this Help Net Security interview, Rich Kellen, VP, CISO at IFF, explains why security teams should not treat OT labs like IT environments. He discusses how compromise can damage scientific integrity and create safety risks that backups cannot fix. Kellen also outlines what “good enough” OT visibility looks like, why compensating controls can backfire,…

Global Threat Map: Open-source Real-time Situational Awareness Platform

Global Threat Map is an open-source project offering security teams a live view of reported cyber activity across the globe, pulling together open data feeds into a single interactive map. It visualizes indicators such as malware distribution, phishing activity, and attack traffic by geographic region. The post Global Threat Map: Open-source Real-time Situational Awareness Platform…

Uptime Kuma: Open-source monitoring tool

Service availability monitoring remains a daily operational requirement across IT teams, SaaS providers, and internal infrastructure groups. Many environments rely on automated checks and alerting to track outages, latency issues, and service degradation across web applications and network endpoints. Uptime Kuma is an open-source uptime monitoring project that supports this type of operational monitoring through…

Study: AI a Priority for Testing Teams Even as Doubt Remains

Software testing teams are prioritizing AI initiatives, but their willingness to scale adoption depends heavily on accuracy, reliability, and the ability to maintain stable automation as systems evolve, according to new research from test automation vendor Leapwork. The Copenhagen-based company surveyed more than 300 software engineers, QA leaders, and IT decision-makers at large and midsize…

Hackers can turn Grok, Copilot into covert command-and-control channels, researchers warn

Enterprise security teams racing to enable generative AI tools may be overlooking a new risk: attackers can abuse web-based AI assistants such as Grok and Microsoft Copilot to quietly relay malware communications through domains that are often exempt from deeper inspection. The technique, outlined by Check Point Research (CPR), exploits the web-browsing and URL-fetch capabilities…

Pompelmi: Open-source Secure File Upload Scanning for Node.js

Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle untrusted file uploads. An open-source project called Pompelmi aims to insert malware scanning and policy checks directly into Node.js applications before files reach storage or business logic. The post Pompelmi: Open-source Secure File Upload Scanning for Node.js appeared first on Linux…

Everyone uses open source, but patching still moves too slowly

Enterprise security teams rely on open source across infrastructure, development pipelines, and production applications, even when they do not track it as a separate category of technology. Open source has become a default building block in many environments, and the operational risks now look like standard enterprise security problems: patch delays, version sprawl, and aging…

Proofpoint Wants Visibility Into How AI Really Works

Security teams are being asked to protect a workspace that now includes AI acting alongside people. Once AI has access to systems and data, securing the workflow becomes a very different animal. That’s the backdrop for Proofpoint’s acquisition of Acuvity, a startup focused on AI security and governance. The deal is aimed at adding AI-native…

Java security work is becoming a daily operational burden

Security teams in large enterprises already spend significant time tracking vulnerabilities across software supply chains, third-party libraries, and internal codebases. Java environments add another layer of exposure because so many mission-critical systems still run on the JVM. A 2026 Azul survey of more than 2,000 Java professionals found that 64% said more than half of…

NinjaOne Debuts IT Asset Management to Streamline IT Ops

NinjaOne has unveiled NinjaOne IT Asset Management (ITAM), a new solution that gives IT teams visibility and control across their IT environment by unifying endpoint and asset management.  Built into the NinjaOne platform, ITAM aims to help organizations extend the life of their assets, reduce costs, and improve compliance by turning fragmented asset data into…

How AI is reshaping attack path analysis

Cybersecurity teams are overwhelmed with data and short on clarity, while adversaries use AI to move faster and operate at unprecedented scale. Most organizations collect enormous volumes of findings: vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, penetration test results, detection gaps, threat intelligence, and control assessments. Individually, these data points may be accurate, but they don’t always reflect the big…

Allama: Open-source AI security automation

Allama is an open-source security automation platform that lets teams build visual workflows for threat detection and response. It includes integrations with 80+ types of tools and services typical in security operations, including SIEM systems, endpoint detection and response products, identity providers, and ticketing systems. The project supports alerts from many sources. Once alerts enter…

Allama: Open-source AI security automation

Allama is an open-source security automation platform that lets teams build visual workflows for threat detection and response. It includes integrations with 80+ types of tools and services typical in security operations, including SIEM systems, endpoint detection and response products, identity providers, and ticketing systems. The project supports alerts from many sources. Once alerts enter…

ScienceLogic Launching AI Advisor to Guide IT Operations

ScienceLogic has announced the launch of Skylar Advisor, an AI-native advisor designed to help IT teams turn overwhelming data into valuable outcomes and proactively guide IT operations. ScienceLogic promises IT teams automated and verifiable guidance Skylar Advisor combines real-time observability data with customer-owned knowledge to reason across IT environments and deliver transparent, explainable, and verifiable…

MintMCP’s governance platform helps organizations deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents

MintMCP launched its enterprise governance platform for AI agents and MCP servers, enabling teams to deploy, monitor, and secure agent infrastructure at scale. The platform enables organizations to deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents at scale while maintaining complete audit trails and policy enforcement. As enterprises race to deploy AI agents, security teams face a…

OpenClaw and the Growing Security Risks of Agentic AI

OpenClaw, a fast-growing open-source AI agent, is drawing attention from security teams as its rapid adoption collides with emerging risks around autonomous AI behavior.  Designed to act as a personal assistant that can connect to large language models (LLMs), call external APIs, and execute tasks independently, OpenClaw represents a form of agentic AI designed to…

Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive

Teams often rely on shared document collections to track project history, decisions, and operational knowledge. To support this workflow, Microsoft introduced Agents in OneDrive, allowing users to create AI assistants built from selected files and folders. The feature allows users to group project plans, meeting notes, technical specifications, presentations, and research materials into a single…

AI is driving a new kind of phishing at scale

Email remains a primary entry point for attackers, and security teams continue to manage high volumes of malicious messages that change form across campaigns. Attackers generate large numbers of messages with small variations in wording, structure, and delivery paths. AI systems now sit at the center of this activity, supporting generation, testing, and rollout of…