A smart TV makes an almost perfect proxy. It is always plugged in, always on a high-speed connection, sitting on standby around the clock, rarely watched, unmanaged, with no one...

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There’s no question that AI has transformed healthcare research and completely changed the trajectory of the healthcare industry. What would have taken researchers months to uncover even just a decade ago can...

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Cybersecurity has spent decades focused on the human adversary. We built models for nation-state actors, cybercriminal gangs, insiders, access brokers, ransomware affiliates, and fraud operators. We mapped their Tactics, Techniques,...

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Security teams are entering a period where many of the assumptions that shaped modern cybersecurity programs no longer hold the way they once did. Until recently, the security industry has...

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The Migration Nobody Plans For — Until It’s Too Late Most enterprise security teams treat Network Access Control as infrastructure — stable, durable, unglamorous. Honestly, it’s the kind of system...

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Every few weeks I talk to a security leader who tells me they have shadow AI in progress. They wrote an acceptable use policy. They published a list of approved...

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For decades, cybersecurity strategies have been built around a single objective: preventing attacks. Organizations invested heavily in perimeter defenses, endpoint security, identity controls, and threat detection technologies with the expectation...

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Cybersecurity leaders are dealing with a threat landscape where disruption spreads quickly across systems, vendors, and business operations. AI is accelerating how quickly attackers identify and exploit weaknesses, while identity-based...

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Enterprise cybersecurity is undergoing a structural shift driven by two converging forces: the collapse of traditional network perimeters and the rapid weaponization of artificial intelligence by threat actors. Industry research...

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In discussions about safety, assurance, and governance, evidence is often treated as a matter of age. A certificate issued ten years ago is viewed differently from one issued last month....

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As AI accelerates the scale, sophistication, and speed of cyberattacks, the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation is narrowing. Recent reports found that AI-enabled adversaries increased attacks by 89% year-over-year in 2025, while the average eCrime breakout time...

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Cyberhaven’s Office of the CISO is setting a higher standard for cybersecurity by embracing a new paradigm: autonomous, agent-driven security. Faced with an ever-widening gap between engineering velocity and security...

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Emerging technology devices always leave a trace when they are within some network. This means not only if they are activated, they might be traceable in terms leaking some information...

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Insider threats are among the most difficult security challenges an organization can face. Unlike external attackers who must breach multiple layers of security designed to keep them out, insiders already...

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The online gaming industry has exploded, attracting not only millions of legitimate players but also sophisticated fraudsters who are looking to exploit vulnerabilities. In fact, two men were recently charged...

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Security teams today are more capable than ever, yet they are still falling behind. Organizations have invested heavily in tools designed to stop ransomware, malware, credential theft, and the attack...

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I build workforce development solutions. My whole job is recognizing where skill gaps may be opening up before they become crises, and I’m seeing a gap forming in cybersecurity that...

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Modern Cloud Security programs are getting good at finding problems; they can detect exposed storage, vulnerable workloads, excessive permissions, misconfigured networks, risky sign-ins, and policy drift within minutes. The actual...

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Across healthcare systems, AI has moved decisively out of experimentation mode. What began as narrowly scoped pilots – automating documentation, assisting with coding, or summarizing clinical notes, has rapidly evolved...

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Brand impersonation is one of the fastest growing threats facing organizations today. Bad actors create fake websites using an organization’s name, logos, and visual identity to exploit brand trust and steal a customer, partner, or employee’s credentials, money, or sensitive data. The FTC received 3 million fraud...

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