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compliance
Half the defense base still builds security around compliance

CMMC requirements are appearing in defense contracts and moving down through supplier networks to thousands of companies new to this kind of compliance work. Many run on …

DarkMoon
DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform

Penetration testing has long run on expert time, with specialists spending days probing a network or web application by hand. Manual engagements stretch across weeks, expert …

AI
Scoring AI hackers when there is no answer key

AI models are solving more and more of the offensive-cyber tests built to measure them. Once a model solves most of a benchmark, that benchmark runs out of room and says …

signal
Most agentic AI projects in production have stalled over data problems

Enterprises are connecting AI agents to live data feeds and putting them to work on tasks that once required human review, from IT operations to software development. The …

Nichole Windholz
Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short

In this interview with Help Net Security, Nichole Windholz, CISO at Onspring, talks about the limits of automated GRC systems and continuous control monitoring. She explains …

CI/CD Abuse Detector
Open-source CI/CD abuse detector guards against stolen credential attacks

CI/CD Abuse Detector is an open-source project that uses a large language model to flag suspicious changes to continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, …

AI
Most pros have seen AI hallucinations in IT operations

Autonomous AI is taking action inside enterprise IT environments. Software is restarting services, isolating risky devices, and applying patches without waiting for a human to …

Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Scout agent opens a new category of always-on Autopilots

Workplace AI assistants have mostly waited for a prompt before doing anything. A user asks, the tool answers, and the exchange ends there. Microsoft is putting a different …

Windows
Microsoft’s new cloud PCs place AI agents under enterprise controls

Microsoft’s Windows 365 for Agents, a cloud PC platform for agentic workloads, runs AI agents in secure environments. Organizations can direct agents with natural language to …

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
Security teams are turning to AI to survive alert overload

The World Economic Forum white paper “Empowering Defenders: AI for Cybersecurity” identified AI as the biggest driver of change in cybersecurity for 94% of survey respondents. …

bots
Bad bots make up 40% of internet traffic

The normalization of AI and automation within internet infrastructure is changing how organizations interpret traffic. Activity that once appeared anomalous is now treated as …

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