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How AI can fix cybersecurity compliance: From dashboards to continuous execution

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How AI can fix cybersecurity compliance: From dashboards to continuous execution 2026-10-08 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Most compliance work goes into proving security, not improving it. That isn’t because the rules are unreasonable. Regulators, customers, and cyber insurers are right to expect organizations to implement hundreds of technical and administrative controls, monitor their […]

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AI endpoint management: Visibility, compliance, and remediation

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AI endpoint management: Visibility, compliance, and remediation 2026-10-07 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Endpoint estates are growing faster than the teams that look after them. Hybrid work, cloud adoption, contractor laptops, a steady stream of new CVEs, and rising compliance pressure mean security teams manage more devices, more software, and more exceptions than a […]

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U.S. Bank CISO says the security role keeps growing and no one can own all of it

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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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Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor

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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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A single market worth protecting: Getting the MiCA review right

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A single market worth protecting: Getting the MiCA review right 2026-09-30 at 14:00 By Cointelegraph by Simon Schneider As the European Commission’s MiCA review consultation closes, Europe must decide whether its crypto rulebook is protecting the market without making it too costly to build in. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original […]

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EU Cyber Resilience Act requirements for containers and Kubernetes

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EU Cyber Resilience Act requirements for containers and Kubernetes 2026-09-30 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Starting in full force on Dec. 10, 2024, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a regulation (EU 2024/2847) that defines mandatory cybersecurity requirements for all products with digital elements sold in EU markets. Reporting obligations will begin on Sept. 11, 2026, […]

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If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory

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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

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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

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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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Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative

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Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative 2026-09-24 at 01:15 By Anamarija Pogorelec American attitudes toward data centers have turned noticeably more negative over the course of 2026, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. 54% of U.S. adults now say data centers are mostly bad for the environment, up from 39% […]

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Know what was tested before your SAP ECC migration goes live

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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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What happens when AI agent governance is missing at scale

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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