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signal
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 …

Kelly Herrell
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 …

AWS
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 …

Gartner
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
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 …

smart home
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 …

DNA
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. …

danger
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 …

laptop
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 …

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 …

GitHub
GitHub releases an open dataset for multilingual developer content

Developers coordinate code across README files, issue threads, and pull request discussions. Much of that exchange happens in English, and a large share happens in other …

AI
A $2 trillion revenue shift hinges on AI data governance

Across large enterprises, a single question keeps surfacing when teams want to put customer data to work. Can this record be used for a given purpose, and does the consent …

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