Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question
In this interview with Help Net Security, Roger Halbheer, Customer Security Officer at Microsoft, argues that digital sovereignty is a security question first. He explains why …
AI agent permissions are outrunning security
Most organizations have handed AI agents work that used to need a person’s sign-off. In a survey of 1,100 IT and security decision-makers, 70% said they now let AI make …
Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, sparking claims that Russian troll farms went quiet
Russian tech giant Yandex confirmed that drones hit three of its data centers, shutting down the facilities in Sasovo and Vladimir and knocking out part of the infrastructure …
Half of threat hunters say bad data is their biggest problem
Half of security professionals name data quality or quantity as their biggest barrier to effective threat hunting, according to the SANS 2026 Threat Hunting Survey. Teams with …
What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data
In this interview with Help Net Security, Kelly Herrell, CEO at Nol8, explains where AI agents create exposure inside organizations. The first thing to examine is the data …
Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE
Six months after Iranian drone strikes tore through its Middle East infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acknowledged the permanent loss of customer data in Bahrain …
Most chief audit executives can’t tell you what AI is worth yet
Auditors are using AI in their daily work, and their departments have mostly left them to figure it out alone. 93% of audit leaders and auditors report some level of AI use, …
Anthropic’s Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets your Claude logs stay in your cloud
Eight members of the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk, a group whose roster includes the CISOs of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Bank of America, and …
Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research
Smart home security research runs on a scarce ingredient: recordings of how real people use the gadgets in their homes. Getting that data means wiring up someone’s house …
This supercomputer encrypts your data even while it’s running it
Most people who handle sensitive data already encrypt it in two places. They lock it down when it sits on a hard drive, and they lock it down when it moves across a network. …
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 …
Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files
Decentralized storage networks already hand pieces of people’s data to strangers’ machines. The lasting question across these networks is whether the machine …
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