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February 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Lots of OOB love this month
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Microsoft has been giving us a lot of love with a non-stop supply of patches starting with January 2026 Patch Tuesday. The …
The hidden cost of putting off security decisions
In this Help Net Security video, Hanah Darley, Chief AI Officer, Geordie AI, talks about how putting off security risk decisions creates long-term costs that often stay …
Major vulnerabilities found in Google Looker, putting self-hosted deployments at risk
Researchers at Tenable have disclosed two vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as “LookOut,” affecting Google Looker. Because the business intelligence platform is …
How Secure by Design helps developers build secure software
Security isn’t just a feature, it’s a foundation. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and regulations tighten, developers are being asked to do more than just write clean …
Why incident response breaks down when it matters most
In this Help Net Security video, Jon David, Managing Director, NR Labs, discusses why incident response often breaks down during a breach. Drawing on years of experience …
Download: Tines Voice of Security 2026 report
Security teams everywhere are adopting AI. Yet manual work persists, workloads are rising, and burnout continues to climb. To understand what’s really changing, Tines surveyed …
Why boards must prioritize non-human identity governance
Boards of Directors (BoDs) do three things exceptionally well when cyber is framed correctly. They set risk appetite, they allocate capital, and they demand evidence that the …
Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good
AI has come a long way in the pentesting world. We are now seeing open-source tools that can genuinely mimic how a human tester works, not just fire off scans. I dug into …
What boards need to hear about cyber risk, and what they don’t
In this Help Net Security video, Rishi Kaushal, CIO at Entrust, explains how security leaders should talk to the board about cyber risk. He focuses on what matters to board …
Week in review: Microsoft fixes exploited Office zero-day, Fortinet patches FortiCloud SSO flaw
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: When open science meets real-world cybersecurity In this Help Net Security …
A practical take on cyber resilience for CISOs
In this Help Net Security video, Shebani Baweja, CISO, Wealth and Retail Banking & Markets at Standard Chartered, explains how security leaders should think about cyber …
Why prevention-first secrets security will define enterprise scale: Learnings from a leading telecom
Once a secret enters Git, it’s expensive to remediate. But the real problem runs deeper than cost. Grégory Maitrallain, Solution Architect at Orange Business, discovered …
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