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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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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The modern attack chain: Rethinking Google Workspace security in the age of AI 2026-09-16 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Over the past two months, I’ve written about the Vercel breach and the Composio breach separately. Both offer lessons to learn on their own. But reading them together, I keep coming back to the same […]
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Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results 2026-09-09 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of large SOCs will pilot AI agents to augment […]
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What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era 2026-09-09 at 07:30 By Help Net Security Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into something that will actually run against your controls. That somebody […]
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Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes 2026-09-03 at 08:30 By Help Net Security The advice is to consume shared threat intelligence. Join the ISAC. Wire the community feeds into your pipeline. This looks like a fine advice and I agree to it. What nobody mentions you is […]
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NIS2 compliance: Fixing IAM and access control before the 2026 audit 2026-09-01 at 08:00 By Help Net Security The NIS2 Directive places direct obligations on organizations across supply chain risk management, incident reporting, and board-level accountability. October brings a new wave of legally binding deadlines across the EU, as member states move from transposition into […]
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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 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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Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key 2026-08-12 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords and admin keys still held by former employees. He explains where post-quantum key sizes break […]
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Who will be the Stanislav Petrov in your organization? 2026-08-11 at 09:00 By Help Net Security The recent news coverage of “rogue AI” systems hacking innocent companies reminded me of one of the world’s most unsung heroes and genuinely someone who may well have saved the world. In 1983, the USSR’s early warning systems reported […]
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Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs 2026-08-04 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of executives. He describes a case where a draft report sat in an executive’s personal email […]
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Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you 2026-08-03 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far a malware campaign spread. He walks through […]
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Aviation cyber risk sits on the ground, the blindness sits in the air 2026-07-31 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Eliran Almong, CEO of Cyviation, explains why airline cyber losses happen on the ground while the aircraft stays unmonitored. He walks through GNSS jamming that leaves no trace in […]
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200 new CVEs a day and no realistic way to patch them all 2026-07-30 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Ryan Dewhurst, CEO at KEVIntel, explains how his team confirms exploitation that CISA’s catalog has not listed yet. He describes a global honeypot sensor network, AI triage, and human verification in a lab before a vulnerability […]
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The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced 2026-07-29 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to bring them online meets […]
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Shadow AI incident response begins with logs that may already be gone 2026-07-28 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Brandy Wityak, VP of Complex Matters at LevelBlue, explains what happens in the hours after a shadow AI incident. She describes how quickly logs roll over, why firewall records of outbound […]
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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 air gap is a myth and other OT security truths 2026-07-21 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Benjamin Bachmann, Director Group Information Security at Bilfinger, speaks with Help Net Security about defending industrial plants. He explains why attackers want to control operations instead of stealing data, and why the air gap is mostly a myth. […]
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