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CEO David Primor Says AI Has Boosted Engineering Productivity up to ThreefoldCynomi CEO David Primor says AI has increased engineering productivity by up to threefold while the company develops autonomous security agents capable of generating remediation plans, managing compliance workflows and executing predefined security tasks with human oversight only when needed.

AI coding tools cost $19-$200/month/user, but security scanning, remediation, and false positives add hidden costs. Are the productivity gains worth it?

Era of Self-Replicating AI Is Coming, Firm SaysAnthropic's latest data shows Claude now authors more than 80% of code merged into its systems and is improving at tasks ranging from software debugging to research execution. The company also reported measurable gains in AI-assisted productivity and experimental problem-solving.

Frontier AI Models Accelerate Tasks Once Measured in Months to Weeks or DaysSentinelOne will cut about 240 employees, citing productivity gains from frontier AI models that have dramatically accelerated internal workflows, while redirecting savings into AI security, cloud, data and endpoint initiatives to drive long-term growth and profitability.

Microsoft says an ongoing incident is preventing users of its Teams collaboration platform and Office for the web cloud-based productivity suite from opening files. [...]

Monday hit like a cron job with anger issues

Cloud Connectivity, Security Operations Providers Reportedly Chop 20%, 7% of StaffCloudflare cut more than 1,100 workers from its 5,483-person staff, saying the layoffs will align Cloudflare's operations with AI-driven workflows and productivity gains. And Arctic Wolf laid off 250 workers from its estimated staff of 3,402 to free resources for investment in AI initiatives.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new credential theft framework dubbed PCPJack that targets exposed cloud infrastructure and ousts any artifacts linked to TeamPCP from the environments

Every AI tool, workflow automation, and productivity app your employees connected to Google or Microsoft this year left something behind: a persistent OAuth token with no expiration date, no automatic cleanup, and in most organizations, no one watching it. Your perimeter controls don't see it. Your MFA doesn't stop it. And when an attacker gets hold of one, they don't need a password

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech.…

State CIO Brandon Ragle on AI Governance, Risk and Workforce ImpactIllinois is taking a cautious, governance-first approach to AI, focusing on workforce productivity and citizen services. CIO Brandon Ragle explains how the state is balancing innovation with data protection, identity controls and oversight as it scales AI across agencies.

Threat actors have been observed weaponizing n8n, a popular artificial intelligence (AI) workflow automation platform, to facilitate sophisticated phishing campaigns and deliver malicious payloads or fingerprint devices by sending automated emails

As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of security teams, bypassing controls and creating new blind spots in what is known as shadow AI. While similar to the phenomenon of

Going Beyond the Copilot Pilot - A CISO's PerspectiveWith 60% of businesses piloting M365 Copilot but only 6% scaling, this webinar explores why gen AI deployments stall — and what CISOs and IT leaders must know to roll out secure, compliant, and effective AI productivity tools.

What is really slowing Tier 1 down: the threat itself or the process around it? In many SOCs, the biggest delays do not come from the threat alone. They come from fragmented workflows, manual triage steps, and limited visibility early in the investigation. Fixing those process gaps can help Tier 1 move faster, reduce unnecessary escalations, and improve how the entire SOC responds under pressure

Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.…

How Silos Drain Time, Money and AI Value Across Modern EnterprisesSilos are draining organizations more than leaders realize. From duplicated work and stalled decisions to fragmented AI adoption and shadow tools, internal barriers are eroding productivity and digital transformation. The cost is measurable and preventable for those willing to act.

State CIOs Are Exploring How AI Agents Can Boost Productivity, EfficiencyReputation aside, most pen pushers in state governments don't actually like pushing paper. They also don't care to force citizens to fill out forms in triplicate. Two decades of promises to minimize those chores may be on the cusp of gloriously coming true with the advent of agentic AI.

As AI becomes the central engine for enterprise productivity, security leaders are finally getting the green light — and the budget — to secure it. But there’s a quiet crisis unfolding in the boardroom: many organizations know they need "AI Governance," but they have no idea what they are actually looking for