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AI
87% say their AI controls need to work better

The AI running inside large companies has stopped waiting for permission. Across five categories of AI, from chatbots to process automation, more than half of 3,600 business …

healthcare
Healthcare can’t govern the AI tools it hasn’t found yet

Nearly nine in ten healthcare leaders say security or compliance staff always or usually review AI-written code that touches patient data before it goes live, and seven in ten …

AI vs human
Security pros reckon the biggest AI risk comes with an employee badge

Employees pasting company data into AI tools worry security teams more than AI-powered attacks do. Most-concerning risks of AI agents (Source: O’Reilly) AI-generated phishing, …

AI
AI agent observability is struggling to keep up with hallucinations

Sixty-two percent of IT and engineering professionals now rely on AI agents frequently to work out why their systems broke, and more than half have no way to measure whether …

keys
Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt

Frontline workers in healthcare and manufacturing are getting around slow, unreliable logins by staying signed in, sharing credentials and trying to bypass multifactor …

CISO
Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability

Software that works on an employee’s behalf is now turning up in incident reports. At 95% of the companies in a Trellix survey of 600 CISOs, an AI agent or other autonomous …

critical infrastructure
Even with OT network visibility, critical infrastructure operators struggle with legacy equipment

Large critical infrastructure operators run seven separate security tools on average, and most still cannot see every asset on their operational technology (OT) networks. That …

open vault
Automation, AI agents or people? Sorting out who handles each security finding

Just over half of the 200 senior security and technology leaders polled for ArmorCode say their organizations will struggle to simplify their software security programs if …

AI
AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns

Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 …

AI
Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list

Companies are putting more money into AI while naming attacks on AI systems as the threat they are least ready to face. PwC surveyed 3,934 business and technology leaders in …

danger
Employment scam victims tripled at financial firms in 21 countries

Reported victims of employment scams more than tripled over the past 12 months at more than 370 banks and other financial institutions in 21 countries. The 258% rise outran …

broken
Most open critical and high flaws are over 90 days old

Detectify analyzed exposure data from 1,293 of its customers in the US, the UK and the Nordics and found that most serious flaws still open on their internet-facing systems …

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