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Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results

In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of large SOCs will …

botnet
What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into something that will …

AI
Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks

AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, and troubleshooting, according to Google …

Doppler secrets management platform
Product showcase: Doppler secures secrets for humans, pipelines, and AI agents

Every engineering team has spent years trying to keep credentials out of source code. Then AI agents moved the problem. Coding agents review code, agents run workflows, and …

Microsoft
Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs

Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without …

OpenAI
OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI

OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined …

ToolHive
ToolHive: The open-source way to run any MCP server securely

ToolHive is an open-source platform that runs Model Context Protocol servers inside containers. An MCP server is the connector that lets an AI client like Cursor or Claude …

AI write
18 ways to check whether data can be trusted for AI

ETSI has published TR 104 180, a technical report that defines 18 metrics for measuring data quality, giving companies a way to check whether their data is good enough for AI …

Bot
A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials

In this Help Net Security video, Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid, explains why AI agents hold credentials that nobody reviews. Organizations build agents in AI …

OpenAI
OpenAI is putting $1 billion behind Daybreak for defenders working without enterprise budgets

OpenAI committed $1 billion to subsidize access to its Daybreak cyber models, along with training and technical support, for organizations defending water and wastewater …

Claude
Most of the bugs Claude Mythos found have never been checked by a human

Anthropic pointed Claude Mythos Preview at 281 open-source projects and collected 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities. External security firms reviewed 1,900 of them. Maintainers …

Google AI
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash takes on bigger AI models at a lower cost

Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, available to developers today, and a gated sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for vetted security teams. “Our 3rd Flash …

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