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AI agent detection signals that still work when agents look human

AI agent detection signals that still work when agents look human 2026-11-05 at 08:45 By Mirko Zorz Bots follow a script. AI agents work toward a goal and choose their own steps, which makes them harder to catch. In this Help Net Security interview, Zohaib Ahmed, CEO of Resemble AI explains how agents arrive as […]

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What AI-generated malware looks like under the microscope

What AI-generated malware looks like under the microscope 2026-11-04 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Lindsay Kaye, VP of Threat Intelligence at HUMAN Security, talks about what AI-generated malware looks like on the bench. She points to tidy comments, uniform logging messages, and emojis as signs a script came from […]

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Secure your containers without breaking what works

Secure your containers without breaking what works 2026-11-04 at 08:35 By Help Net Security Container security has a familiar problem. Teams identify vulnerabilities, but turning those findings into lower risk is much harder. A standard container image may include operating-system packages, development tools, debugging utilities and libraries that an application never uses. Each unnecessary component […]

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What human hackers still do better than AI, according to HackerOne’s CEO

What human hackers still do better than AI, according to HackerOne’s CEO 2026-11-03 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz AI can find vulnerabilities in minutes, but people still hold the edge in judging what a flaw means for a business. In this Help Net Security interview, Kara Sprague, CEO of HackerOne, talks about business logic bugs, […]

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The first ten lines of a command policy for AI coding agents

The first ten lines of a command policy for AI coding agents 2026-11-02 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Vinay Thakker, CTO of KloudStax, explains how to set identity, credentials, and network limits for AI agents. He argues that agents should run under their own identity, with the person’s identity […]

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What exactly is ISOC? And what does it mean for you?

What exactly is ISOC? And what does it mean for you? 2026-10-30 at 08:36 By Help Net Security Gartner recently released a new category of assessing security tools: the Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC). Even though SIEM isn’t going anywhere, a rapidly evolving threat landscape is forcing a shift in industry logic that is reflected […]

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Qualys CISO on what security teams can do as exploit campaigns grow

Qualys CISO on what security teams can do as exploit campaigns grow 2026-10-29 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Nathan Smolenski, CISO at Qualys, talks about how security teams can handle the growing volume of AI-discovered vulnerabilities. He explains why CISOs should track the average window of exposure instead of […]

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I underestimated how fast security teams would trust AI to act in the SOC

I underestimated how fast security teams would trust AI to act in the SOC 2026-10-28 at 17:25 By Help Net Security For most of my career, I have watched new security platforms work through enterprise programs at a slow pace, so when AI began showing up in security operations tools, I assumed it would follow […]

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Bellini Capital CISO on AI security governance and the limits of patching faster

Bellini Capital CISO on AI security governance and the limits of patching faster 2026-10-28 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital, explains why AI makes finding vulnerabilities faster while fixing them still takes time. He argues that “patch faster” is not enough and that teams […]

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Several AI security market categories are headed for bigger platforms

Several AI security market categories are headed for bigger platforms 2026-10-27 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Jonathan Care, Lead Analyst and Practice Lead AI at KuppingerCole Analysts, compares AI security startups to the early fraud market he helped define at Gartner. He explains which categories will survive as […]

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Drone program compliance: What a CTO says most agencies get wrong

Drone program compliance: What a CTO says most agencies get wrong 2026-10-23 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Nick Donarski, CTO at RotorLab, explains what councils, records clerks, insurers, and auditors expect from a public safety drone program, and where most programs fall short. He covers chain of custody […]

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Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question

Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question 2026-10-22 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Roger Halbheer, Customer Security Officer at Microsoft, argues that digital sovereignty is a security question first. He explains why organizations underestimate speed, the time it takes to detect and stop […]

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Why security tools lose sight of the credential

Why security tools lose sight of the credential 2026-10-21 at 10:02 By Help Net Security Security teams have tools for code, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, identity, and secrets management. Credentials cut across all of them. A developer finds an AWS key in a repository. The first step is obvious: remove it. But that does not answer […]

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Why Active Directory weaknesses stay open for years in teams with one or two admins

Why Active Directory weaknesses stay open for years in teams with one or two admins 2026-10-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz David Fuhr, CTO at intcube, talks about a security cohort for public administration, where 27 municipalities hardened Windows Server and Active Directory together over 12 weeks. This Help Net Security interview covers how a […]

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Immuta CISO predicts critical AI incidents at major enterprises within 18 months

Immuta CISO predicts critical AI incidents at major enterprises within 18 months 2026-10-15 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Michael Scott, CISO at Immuta, talks about how organizations should handle permissions for AI agents. He argues agents should be treated as lower-trust identities that don’t inherit everything their user can […]

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Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn?

Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn? 2026-10-14 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Kunal Modasiya, Senior VP & GM at Qualys, talks about why patching is still hard to get right. He explains how business pressure, revenue-critical systems, and patches that break things keep fixes […]

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Be a good AI ancestor: Cybersecurity already gave us the playbook

Be a good AI ancestor: Cybersecurity already gave us the playbook 2026-10-13 at 08:30 By Help Net Security AI has brought us to a familiar inflection point in the story of privacy, cybersecurity, and online safety. We have an opportunity to apply decades of cybersecurity experience before the next generation of technology creates consequences we […]

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Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model

Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model 2026-10-12 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Akshay Joshi, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, talks about how AI, geopolitics and industrialized fraud are changing cyber risk. He discusses findings from the Global Cybersecurity […]

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What the BPFDoor backdoor tells us about attacks on the network edge

What the BPFDoor backdoor tells us about attacks on the network edge 2026-10-09 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz A backdoor that makes no noise is hard to catch, and that’s the point of BPFDoor. The Linux malware waits for a special “magic packet” before it acts. In this interview with Help Net Security, Christiaan Beek, […]

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