U.S. Bank CISO says the security role keeps growing and no one can own all of it 2026-10-06 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Ann Barron-DiCamillo, EVP, CISO at U.S. Bank, talks about how the CISO role has grown to cover fraud, resilience, third-party risk, and AI governance. She […]
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NIS2 compliance: 7 low-cost steps to secure credentials 2026-10-06 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Security budgets rarely stretch to cover a full NIS2 programme in one pass. Credential controls are where a constrained team can start, because they make access visible, revocable, and reviewable without new infrastructure. NIS2 compliance rests on risk-management measures that […]
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Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor 2026-10-05 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security video, Drew McCombs, CTO and CISO at Cylerity, explains how he balances both roles. Security work is scheduled into every sprint, and issues touching patient data or funds disbursement come first. He covers […]
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If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory 2026-09-28 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Chris Latimer, CEO of Vectorize, talks about the security risks hiding in AI agent memory. He found coding agents storing API keys, credentials, and sensitive documents in plain text on […]
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Stop watching what AI agents say and start watching what they do 2026-09-25 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Ariel Assaraf, CEO of Coralogix, explains why a system prompt can describe a boundary for an AI agent but cannot enforce one. Assaraf covers how his team builds AI agent […]
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What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data 2026-09-24 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Kelly Herrell, CEO at Nol8, explains where AI agents create exposure inside organizations. The first thing to examine is the data path: what an agent can reach, what […]
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Know what was tested before your SAP ECC migration goes live 2026-09-21 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Guilherme Joventino, COO of MIGNOW, explains why some large companies plan to stay on ECC past the 2027 deadline and pay SAP for extended support until 2030. The interview covers what that […]
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The AI security question leaders should be asking instead 2026-09-17 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Frederic Bull, Security Officer at Gremlin, talks about what AI means for security teams. The conversation covers why asking what data a model was trained on is only part of the picture, and why […]
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What happens when AI agent governance is missing at scale 2026-09-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Gourab Basu, Global Head of Engineering at meshIQ, discusses governance in AI agent systems. He argues that instructions written into a prompt are not enough to control what an agent does, since […]
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Getting a stranger’s phone kicked off the cellular network costs a few dollars 2026-09-11 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Researchers at Michigan State University and three partner schools bought a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, copied the identification number printed on the sealed box, and reported the phone to its carrier as lost. Then they […]
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When AI quietly breaks things, who pays? 2026-09-03 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz David Halbreich, an insurance recovery partner at Reed Smith, breaks down how AI companies should handle coverage gaps that come up as the industry grows. He covers straddle claims that fall between tail and go-forward D&O policies after a merger, how governance […]
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A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller 2026-09-02 at 12:00 By Mirko Zorz Batteries connected to the grid make money by reacting to frequency, pushing power out when it sags and soaking it up when it rises. A few hundred of them moving together, on command from someone who should […]
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National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years 2026-09-02 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer is VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers why patch cycles built for human speed cannot […]
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Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported 2026-09-02 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed something more uncomfortable: reporting a bad ad to […]
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What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready 2026-09-01 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Dr. Yaakov Stein, VP CTO of Allot, discusses what post-quantum readiness looks like inside a mobile network. The discussion covers which operator traffic stays sensitive for years, including subscriber identity […]
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What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree 2026-08-31 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Joye Purser, Global Field CISO at Cohesity, explains how to rank vulnerabilities when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS point in different directions. Active exploitation comes first, then exploit likelihood, then technical severity, […]
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What 90 days and a small budget can buy in AI agent security 2026-08-28 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Prasad Tharippala, Field CISO at Versa, explains what organizations miss when they run open-weight models in house. He covers the hidden costs of GPU infrastructure, licensing review and staffing, […]
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AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate 2026-08-27 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Camera systems often outlive the companies that install them. In this Help Net Security interview, Rob Janssens, EMEA Cyber Security Director at Hikvision Europe, discusses what happens when the integrator is gone, the documentation is lost, and nobody […]
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Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone 2026-08-26 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, talks about keeping production data out of test environments and why she thinks the alternatives are good enough now. She explains how her team caught […]
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AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows first 2026-08-25 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Jaushin Lee, CEO of Zentera Systems, discusses where AI supply chain risk shows up. He says most incidents still hit developer workflows and open-source package repositories, while poisoned model weights and […]
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