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AI infrastructure is cracking under sovereignty demands

AI deployments are moving into environments with tighter controls around data, infrastructure, and system operations. Organizations are building AI systems across multiple …

code
AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports

AI-assisted vulnerability research has exploded, unleashing a firehose of low-quality reports on overworked software maintainers who are wasting hours sifting through noise …

door
The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see

Enterprises deploying LLMs have spent the past two years building defenses around a reasonable assumption: malicious behavior leaves a trace in the input. Scan for suspicious …

Lyrie
Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent

Penetration testing has usually required weeks of manual work, specialized tooling, and teams with narrow skill sets. Lyrie, an open-source autonomous security agent built by …

downtime
AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours

Time has become organizations’ biggest vulnerability because the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has narrowed to hours, according to Synack’s 2026 State …

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The AI oversight paradox: Is the investment worth the cost of watching it?

Unlike in 2025, when AI adoption and testing drove business strategies, organizations in 2026 want proven ROI before committing budgets, according to a report by Globalization …

Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft turns Copilot Studio into an AI agent control center

The Microsoft Copilot Studio April 2026 updates improve visibility and governance for admins and expand workflow capabilities for managing agents. Copilot surfaces agent …

AI
AI cyber capability is speeding past earlier projections

AI cyber capability is improving faster than expected, with newer models surpassing earlier projections, according to the UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI). AISI …

VectorSmuggle
Vector embedding security gap exposes enterprise AI pipelines

Enterprise adoption of retrieval-augmented generation has moved sensitive corporate content into a new storage format that existing security tools cannot inspect. Companies …

door
Closing the AI governance gap in your enterprise

In this Help Net Security video, Casey Bleeker, CEO at SurePath AI, talks about the AI governance gap that exists in almost every organization. Drawing from three years of …

identity
Machine identities outnumber humans 109 to 1

Organizations manage an average of 109 machine identities for every human identity. AI agents account for a growing share of those identities, with companies expecting AI …

Microsoft
Microsoft’s agentic security system found four critical Windows RCE flaws

Microsoft responded to growing competition in AI security by announcing that its new agentic security system helped researchers discover 16 new vulnerabilities in the Windows …

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