cybersecurity

You inherit two thousand detection rules from an acquisition. They are written for a platform your company does not use. Your senior detection engineer estimates six months to …

Production scripts that read a log file generally hold the same permissions as scripts that delete one. The execution context decides what gets touched, and that gap widens …

Emergency alerts for disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis are messages we hope we never see, and we trust them when they arrive. Researchers have shown that this trust can …

Developers leave fingerprints in the code they write. Naming choices, indentation patterns, preferred APIs, and the way someone structures a loop or handles a pointer all …

Enterprise deployments of AI agents lean on two extension mechanisms that introduce risk at different layers of the stack. MCP servers expose deterministic code functions with …

AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one …

In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures …

Security operations centers are running into the same wall everywhere. Detection tools generate more alerts than analysts can work through, and the early stages of any …

Automated red teaming of large language models has settled into a familiar pattern over the past two years. An attacker model generates jailbreak attempts against a target …

OpenAI is outlining a plan to expand access to advanced AI tools for cybersecurity defenders, warning that attackers are already using the technology to scale operations. In …

In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Schnoll, Microsoft MVP for Exchange, breaks down the Shared Responsibility Model, where Microsoft secures the cloud while …

If you ask a CISO what keeps them up at night, the answer usually isn’t “lack of tools.” It’s uncertainty. Uncertainty about what they don’t see. Uncertainty about how far an …