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Only 7% of companies are ready for the AI agents they deployed

Most organizations now run or pilot AI agents that operate on company data with limited human direction at each step, a share that reaches 88% in Veeam Software’s Data …

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23 ClawHub plugins squatting official scopes expose AI registry security gaps

Plugin registries for AI agents use npm-style scopes like @openclaw/ and @clawhub/ to signal who published a package. But on ClawHub, a registry whose plugins run with Claude, …

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Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents

AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Claude Cowork run on developer laptops, CI jobs, cloud environments, where they edit files, run commands, and call …

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Google’s open standard for AI agents to discover and verify tools

AI agents depend on tools, skills, and other agents spread across many teams, organizations, and platforms. These capabilities live in separate systems with their own …

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What happens to oversight when AI agents write a lab’s own code

Inside the labs building frontier AI, a growing share of the coding gets done by the AI itself. These agents write, edit, and run software with light human oversight between …

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Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies

Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report by OALABS (Open Analysis) researchers bears that …

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The SOC’s visibility gap comes down to staffing

AI has settled into security operations centers faster than any earlier wave of technology. Around four in five practitioners report reaching for AI or machine learning tools …

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The rise of machine identities and agentic AI: Securing trust in the next era of digital autonomy

In the latest episode of Identity Insider, I sat down with Chris Hughes, a cybersecurity expert who’s involved in OWASP’s work on non-human and machine identity …

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How to use NIST and ISO frameworks to govern AI agents

Security leaders no longer need convincing that AI agents introduce risk. What’s missing is how to govern them once they move into production and begin operating autonomously …

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Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production

A backdoor sat on PyPI for three hours in March 2026. Nearly 47,000 downloads occurred during the window. The compromised package, LiteLLM, serves as the language-model …

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Organizations can’t see much of their mobile AI activity

Organizations have limited visibility into AI activity on mobile devices despite security leaders expressing confidence in their AI governance, according to Lookout’s …

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Building reusable workflows with custom agents in Copilot CLI

Developers spend much of their working time in the terminal, generating commands, debugging issues, and running scripts close to their systems. Repeated terminal work tends to …

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