Top cybersecurity vendors said AI won’t replace entry-level – only routine ticket-taking and triage
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Akamai Joins Growing Chorus of Vendors Betting Big on Secure Enterprise Browsers
When Akamai announced its LayerX acquisition, the company joined a growing list of vendors adding secure enterprise browsers to their product portfolios.
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Major tech manufacturer Foxconn confirms cyberattack hit North American factories
Foxconn, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronics sold by major tech vendors, is recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted some of the company’s factories in North America. Nitrogen, a ransomware group that’s known for targeting organizations in the manufacturing, construction and technology sectors, claimed responsibility for the attack on its data leak site…
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Cybersecurity M&A Targets AI Agents and Browser Security
AI has upended long-held assumptions about cybersecurity, and a wave of acquisitions by large vendors indicates a race to secure the tools and talent needed to navigate the new landscape. This is a new layer to the cybersecurity stack, adding agents, prompts, and data flows to the list of items that need to be monitored,…
AI, china, Europe, Global Security News
Germany’s sovereign AI hope changes hands
As Europe seeks to assert its technological independence from the US vendors Aleph Alpha, once seen as Germany’s sovereign AI hope, is the target of a transatlantic takeover. Aleph Alpha is set to merge with Canada’s Cohere in a deal that will bring together Cohere’s global AI clout and Aleph Alpha’s background in research. The…
AI, china, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Surveillance campaigns use commercial surveillance tools to exploit long-known telecom vulnerabilities
Campaigns employing commercial surveillance vendors tracked targets by exploiting mobile phone network vulnerabilities in what researchers said Thursday was the first-ever linking of “real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure.” The two unknown parties behind the campaigns mimicked the identities of mobile phone operators with customized surveillance tools, and manipulated signaling protocols and steered…
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AWS, Wasabi, Cloudflare, and Backblaze go head-to-head in new cloud storage test
Cloud storage buyers rarely get vendor-provided performance data that includes the vendor’s own weak spots. Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Performance Stats report, attempts to do exactly that, sharing benchmark results for Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Wasabi Object Storage across US-East and EU-Central regions, and including results where Backblaze’s own rate limits affected the…
AI, Apps, china, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Europe, Exploits, Global Security News, Government & Policy, privacy, Risk Management
California to bar AI vendors that can’t prove bias safeguards
AI vendors selling to the California state government must prove they have safeguards against algorithmic bias, civil rights violations, and illegal content, or risk being barred from state contracts, under an executive order signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The order directs the Department of General Services and the California Department of Technology to develop new…
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Top product launches at RSAC 2026
RSAC 2026 showcased a wave of innovation, with vendors unveiling technologies poised to redefine cybersecurity. From AI-powered defense to breakthroughs in identity protection, this year’s conference delivered a glimpse into the future. Here are the most interesting products that caught our attention, and could shape what’s next. Astrix advances AI agent security platform to govern…
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RSAC 2026: AI Security Tools Aim to Cut Response Time
Security vendors at RSAC 2026 are zeroing in on one core problem: investigation speed. Across the show floor, new AI-powered tools promise to cut threat response times from hours to seconds while helping overwhelmed security teams keep pace with rising alert volumes. From autonomous investigation agents to platforms designed to secure enterprise AI systems, this…
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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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How AI Coding Tools Crushed the Endpoint Security Fortress
Security vendors have spent years building up defenses around the endpoint, but one researcher says AI coding tools have brought the walls down.
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Exclusive Networks Launches Ignition in North America
Exclusive Networks is expanding its incubation model for emerging cybersecurity vendors into North America, aiming to give MSPs and solution providers earlier access to next-generation, AI-driven technologies while accelerating vendor go-to-market timelines. Exclusive Networks launches Ignition in North America at RSA Conference Exclusive Networks this week announced the North American debut of its “Ignition” program,…
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Cisco’s latest vulnerability spree has a more troubling pattern underneath
Cisco customers have confronted a flood of actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting the vendor’s network edge software since late February, and researchers say that five of the nine vulnerabilities Cisco disclosed in its firewalls and SD-WAN systems over the past three weeks have already been exploited in the wild. Attackers exploited a pair of these defects…
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Security is a team sport: AWS at RSAC 2026 Conference
The RSAC 2026 Conference brings together thousands of professionals, practitioners, vendors, and associations to discuss issues covering the entire spectrum of cybersecurity—a place where innovation meets collaboration and the industry’s brightest minds converge to shape its future. This March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) returns to the annual RSAC Conference in San Francisco to share how…
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With attention shifting to AI smart glasses, VR faces another reality check
As tech vendors shift their attention to AI-enabled smart glasses, the momentum behind virtual reality (VR) headsets appears to slowing once again. It’s not the first time the technology has seen expectations outstrip real-world demand. An initial wave of interest in the early 1990s generated predictions of mainstream adoption, before fading as the decade progressed. …
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Anthropic Pushes Claude Deeper Into Knowledge Work
While the market remains rattled over how new AI tools threaten traditional software-as-a-service vendors, Anthropic pushes forward with new updates to its Claude Cowork platform.
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HPE bets on AMD ‘Helios’ rack-scale AI and puts Ethernet at the centre of scale-up
HPE says it will be among the first vendors to offer AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI architecture, a turnkey system designed for trillion-parameter model training and high-throughput inference.
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Selling AI Software Isn’t as Easy as It Used to Be
The golden age of unbridled spending on AI software might be behind us, as vendors say it’s a lot harder to make a sale than it used to be.
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Pedaling AI Software Isn’t As Easy as It Used to Be
The golden age of unbridled spending on AI software might be behind us, as vendors say it’s a lot harder to make a sale than it used to be.
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‘Woke’ AI Spat Escalates Between Pentagon and Anthropic
The Pentagon might ask contractors and vendors to certify that they don’t use Anthropic’s Claude amid tensions over how the startup’s tools are used for defense work.
Exploits, Global Security News
Over 60 Software Vendors Issue Security Fixes Across OS, Cloud, and Network Platforms
It’s Patch Tuesday, which means a number of software vendors have released patches for various security vulnerabilities impacting their products and services. Microsoft issued fixes for 59 flaws, including six actively exploited zero-days in various Windows components that could be abused to bypass security features, escalate privileges, and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Elsewhere