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Mary Rose Martinez
Marathon Petroleum’s CISO on OT security automation, supply chain risk

In this interview with Help Net Security, Mary Rose Martinez, CISO at Marathon Petroleum, talks about what happens to security when automation reaches deep into refineries, …

open source
Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed

Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A …

person
Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents

The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to …

Benjamin Bachmann
The air gap is a myth and other OT security truths

Benjamin Bachmann, Director Group Information Security at Bilfinger, speaks with Help Net Security about defending industrial plants. He explains why attackers want to control …

business
Reading between the lines of a cyber insurance policy

Enterprises in regulated industries often carry cyber insurance policies because contracts require it or boards ask for documented risk transfer. The global market for these …

Miranda Ritchie
Orbia CISO Miranda Ritchie on building security into sustainable infrastructure

In this interview with Help Net Security, Miranda Ritchie, CISO at Orbia, talks about protecting industrial systems where software runs water, chemical and manufacturing …

Person
OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions

Companies are handing routine operational decisions to AI agents that plan, remember, and act on their behalf. These agents run on statistical models, and their behavior can …

LLM
Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist

Autonomous AI agents have started doing real security work. Language-model agents probe software for flaws, run penetration tests, and chain together attack steps that once …

email
Securing the inbox: Where identity, brand and security meet

Getting a verified logo to appear next to your email has traditionally meant having to work with two separate entities. You have to work with a DMARC partner for setting up …

Matthias Haas
The endpoint recovery gap many teams discover during an incident

In this interview with Help Net Security, IGEL CTO Matthias Haas explains why backups alone do not equal recovery. He makes the case that endpoint recovery is often …

Apple AirDrop
AirDrop and Quick Share vulnerabilities affect protocols on five billion devices as fixes begin

Phones and laptops ship with a feature that sends files to nearby devices over the air, with no cables, accounts, or prior pairing. Apple calls its version AirDrop. Google and …

Mattias Geniar
The uptime questions every engineering leader should ask this week

In this interview with Help Net Security, Mattias Geniar, CTO at Oh Dear, explains why most outages start quietly, as creeping latency or a slow rise in errors. He argues …

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