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Shadow AI is becoming enterprise security’s biggest blind spot

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Shadow AI is becoming enterprise security’s biggest blind spot 2026-07-23 at 09:00 By Help Net Security Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to everyday business operations with remarkable speed. Employees are using it to summarize documents, draft communications, analyze spreadsheets, write code, build automations, and create AI-powered workflows across nearly every business function. Microsoft’s 2026 […]

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The MDR renewal question: What changes when AI can handle the alerts

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The MDR renewal question: What changes when AI can handle the alerts 2026-07-15 at 08:00 By Help Net Security For most of the past decade, the managed detection and response (MDR) decision was a simple one: teams that couldn’t staff a 24/7 SOC outsourced detection and response to a provider who could. It solved a

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Why SBOMs, signing, and provenance still don’t tell you if software is safe

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Why SBOMs, signing, and provenance still don’t tell you if software is safe 2026-07-13 at 09:30 By Help Net Security We have made real progress in software supply chain security, improving visibility into software components, authenticity and build integrity. Much of this progress traces back to Executive Order 14028, which pushed agencies, contractors and enterprises

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July 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Is CVE tracking still practical?

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July 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Is CVE tracking still practical? 2026-07-10 at 10:30 By Help Net Security I was off by a month in my forecast of record-setting CVE releases from Microsoft. In June, we saw the deluge of over 200 reported CVEs that I expected in May. There were 116 CVEs for Windows 11

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How to implement a continuous offensive security testing program

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How to implement a continuous offensive security testing program 2026-07-08 at 07:30 By Help Net Security The hard part was never finding the exposure. It was deciding what to do about it: whether to patch, mitigate, monitor, or accept, and banking that that decision would still hold tomorrow. A penetration test answers this question for

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How to prioritize AI agent security by business impact

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How to prioritize AI agent security by business impact 2026-07-06 at 09:30 By Help Net Security Your CEO calls about an AI agent security incident in finance. He wants to know whether money moved, whether financial data was exposed, who owned the agent and why it had this level of access. The agent was connected

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What a financial planner taught me about cybersecurity

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What a financial planner taught me about cybersecurity 2026-07-01 at 09:30 By Help Net Security When I spoke at a recent cybersecurity awareness event for financial planners and tax advisors, the audience really engaged with the subject. As happens at conferences the world over, people often come up to speakers to ask follow-up questions, or

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EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad

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EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad 2026-06-16 at 08:30 By Help Net Security Over recent years we’ve witnessed the EU becoming increasingly serious about cybersecurity. After years of watching high profile breaches, many resulting from supply chain attacks targeting our critical infrastructure, that seriousness is welcome. But good intentions and good policy

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How to use NIST and ISO frameworks to govern AI agents

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How to use NIST and ISO frameworks to govern AI agents 2026-06-12 at 11:07 By Help Net Security Security leaders no longer need convincing that AI agents introduce risk. What’s missing is how to govern them once they move into production and begin operating autonomously across enterprise environments. AI agents already read sensitive documents, invoke

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The architecture of subtraction: Why it’s time to erase the roads, not just map the traffic

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The architecture of subtraction: Why it’s time to erase the roads, not just map the traffic 2026-06-09 at 09:42 By Help Net Security The advent of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and autonomous exploit development has brought about a new age in cybersecurity—one in which we can no longer rely on patching as a primary defense mechanism.

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June 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Where are the CVEs?

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June 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Where are the CVEs? 2026-06-05 at 10:16 By Help Net Security My forecast from last month was only partly right. After the Anthropic Mythos announcements and the deluge of newly discovered vulnerabilities from vendors like Mozilla, Microsoft’s updates were standard fare, 65 CVEs reported in Windows 11 and 58 in

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The modern-day business can learn a lot about risk from this year’s mega events

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The modern-day business can learn a lot about risk from this year’s mega events 2026-06-04 at 13:17 By Help Net Security Every year brings its share of global events, but 2026 is proving to be a banner year for mega-scale entertainment. The year got off to a roaring start with the Winter Olympics, and now

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Attackers already know the secrets are on your developers’ machines. Do you?

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Attackers already know the secrets are on your developers’ machines. Do you? 2026-06-04 at 09:26 By Help Net Security In a recent GitGuardian analysis, an average of 150 secrets were found on a sample of developer endpoints. Private keys accounted for 38% of unique secrets, while cloud, identity provider, and secret management credentials (AWS IAM,

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From critical to controlled: Cutting vulnerabilities in a live manufacturing environment

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From critical to controlled: Cutting vulnerabilities in a live manufacturing environment 2026-06-04 at 09:26 By Help Net Security A vulnerability scanner flags a critical CVSS 10 vulnerability on an industrial asset. The report lands in the boss’ inbox and now he wants to know why we’re sitting on a critical vulnerability. In a normal IT

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Why you need BAS and autonomous pentesting together

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Why you need BAS and autonomous pentesting together 2026-06-02 at 09:09 By Help Net Security Most security teams know the drill: A new autonomous penetration testing tool gets deployed, and the first run is genuinely impressive. The dashboard surfaces critical findings, maps lateral movement paths nobody had documented before, and exposes a legacy service account

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Manage machine identities: The hidden privileged access layer you need to manage

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Manage machine identities: The hidden privileged access layer you need to manage 2026-05-26 at 08:37 By Help Net Security Why are machine identities becoming the majority of “things with access”? Every automation, integration, and workload needs a way to authenticate and the right permissions to act. That quiet requirement has created a massive population of

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Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

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Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report 2026-05-25 at 08:59 By Help Net Security This is my favourite time of the year, not just because spring is here and the promise of summer is on the way. But also, because one of my must reads each year gets published. There are

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7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report

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7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Help Net Security In 2025, trusted Git hosting platforms became a playground for cyber criminals. This is the main conclusion from the latest “DevOps Threat Unwrapped Report 2026” by GitProtect. If you want to effectively counter attacks targeted at your

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What the EU AI Act requires for AI agent logging

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What the EU AI Act requires for AI agent logging 2026-04-16 at 09:02 By Help Net Security The EU AI Act is 144 pages long. The logging requirements that matter for AI agent developers sit across four articles that keep referencing each other. Here’s what they say, when the deadlines hit, and where the gaps

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29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control

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29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control 2026-04-14 at 08:11 By Help Net Security AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of external services. Every integration point requires an identity. Most

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