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Startup Boosts AI-Driven Detection, MSP Channel Outreach and Hiring With Series BGuardz has secured $56 million to deepen AI-powered threat detection and enhance automation for MSPs. The Series B funding will support platform engineering, channel marketing and operational scaling as Miami-based Guardz targets a simplified and consolidated cybersecurity future.

Opaque Decision-Making, Lack of Guardrails, Poor Auditability are RisksThe dream of replacing burned-out SOC analysts with autonomous AI agents is as premature as it is persistent. Cybersecurity leaders are finding that deploying such tools inside security operations centers may do less to eliminate toil than to shift it.

Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday's massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms. [...]

Agentic AI Is Creating New Risks, New Career Opportunities for Cyber ProfessionalsIf your AI agent decided to act on its own tomorrow, would your systems know who it was, what it did, and whether it had the right to do it? If the answer is no, it's time to give your new coworker a badge and a policy framework. These non-human identities are creating new career opportunities.

Security Leadership in Focus - From AI Risks to Cloud ResponsibilityAI fragmentation, non-human identities and nation-state threats dominated conversations at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. ISMG editors discuss how the event stood out for its vendor-neutral focus and strategic discussions tailored for senior security decision-makers.

Security Leadership in Focus - From AI Risks to Cloud ResponsibilityAI fragmentation, non-human identities and nation-state threats dominated conversations at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. ISMG editors discuss how the event stood out for its vendor-neutral focus and strategic discussions tailored for senior security decision-makers.

Researchers have found a flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allows the exfiltration of sensitive corporate data with a simple email

ThreatQuotient Deal Brings Deeper Context to Alerts and Streamlines SOC WorkflowsSecuronix has acquired ThreatQuotient to modernize SOC platforms with external threat intelligence and agentic AI. The combined solution aims to help CISOs manage alert overload, boost detection precision and support global scale across regulated industries.

Andrea Isoni of AI Technologies on Certifications, Deepfakes and ISO 42001AI misuse - from deepfakes to cyber incidents - continues to outpace regulation. Andrea Isoni, chief AI officer at AI Technologies discusses why stronger cyber laws, certification frameworks like ISO 42001 and risk-based prioritization are necessary to manage AI risks safely and compliantly.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel attack technique called TokenBreak that can be used to bypass a large language model's (LLM) safety and content moderation guardrails with just a single character change

AI is changing everything — from how we code, to how we sell, to how we secure. But while most conversations focus on what AI can do, this one focuses on what AI can break — if you’re not paying attention

A novel attack technique named EchoLeak has been characterized as a "zero-click" artificial intelligence (AI) vulnerability that allows bad actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from Microsoft 365 Copilot's context sans any user interaction

ChatGPT o3, which has been available via API, is now 80% cheaper for developers, and there's no visible impact on performance. [...]

'BrowserVenom' is pure poison Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom".…

Agentic AI Is Creating New Risks, New Career Opportunities for Cyber ProfessionalsIf your AI agent decided to act on its own tomorrow, would your systems know who it was, what it did, and whether it had the right to do it? If the answer is no, it's time to give your new coworker a badge and a policy framework. These non-human identities are creating new career opportunities.

Firm Hits $6B Valuation, Eyes Fast Delivery of Unified DSPM, DLP and Identity ToolsCyera’s latest $540 million Series E funding underscores growing urgency among global firms to secure sensitive data before feeding it into AI models. With demand soaring, the startup is investing heavily in DSPM, DLP and identity innovation across cloud and on-prem environments.

Agentic AI was everywhere at Gartner's Security & Risk Management Summit in Washington, DC, this year, as the AI security product engine chugs ahead at full speed.

Researchers Turn to AI to Fix a Zombie Flaw that AI Helped PropagateArtificial intelligence tools that inadvertently perpetuated a decade-old bug may now also help eliminate it. The path traversal vulnerability became so embedded in developer culture that it found its way into training data for today’s AI models.

A new attack dubbed 'EchoLeak' is the first known zero-click AI vulnerability that enables attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data from Microsoft 365 Copilot from a user's context without interaction. [...]