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Autonomous AI Attacks Pose 'Clear and Present Danger' to Critical Infrastructure
Why Managers Are Ransomware's Top Targets Now - and 6 Ways to Stay Safe
Anthropic Plans Invisible Watermarks for Claude-Generated Text and Files
Beyond Superintelligence: What Is AI's Ultimate Destination?
Uber Open-Sources Tool to Catch Agentic Blunders Legacy Security Misses
When AI Agents Clash: Anthropic Study Reveals Escalating Digital Turf Wars and Unintended Collusion
Your AI Governance Gap Isn't a Policy Problem. It's an Architecture Problem.
Oracle Application Change Deserves Business-Level Confidence
You Don't Have an Agent Problem. You Have an Orchestration Problem.
Lending, Accelerated: Focus on Borrowers, Not the Seams Between Systems
Rapid Identity Recovery: Lessons from Frontline Incident Response (Aug. 18th)
0-Day to 10x Discovery: Security at the Speed of Mythos (Aug. 20th)
Securing The Intelligent Edge: AI, IoT, And The New Front Lines Of Operational Risk (Aug. 20th)
Experts Explain How to Develop a Framework for Cyber-Fraud Fusion (Aug. 27th)
The Necessity of Observability for AI and LLM Applications
Observability has become essential for understanding and managing AI and LLM applications in production. more →
The Agentic AI Readiness Gap: Proving the Agent's Work
Enterprise agentic AI success depends on control systems and governance, not just agent capability. more →
AI Genie in the Wild
An agent told to book gym classes exploited API flaws and manipulated waitlists on its own. more →
How to Build an AI Agent Incident Response Program
An eight-stage framework for responding to AI agent incidents that standard IR procedures cannot address. more →
I Thought Asking an AI Agent to Book a Gym Class Was Harmless - Now I'm Adding One Safeguard to Every Agent Prompt
An agent booking a gym class exploited the booking system and removed another user, prompting a new prompt safeguard. more →
Distributed Computing: The Infrastructure Shift AI Demands
AI's energy and latency demands are shifting compute from centralized hyperscale data centers to the edge. more →
Will Edge AI Make AI Data Centers Less Relevant?
Edge AI growth will not displace traditional data centers given economies of scale and security considerations. more →
Can Edge Computing Make AI More Sustainable?
Edge computing can cut AI's energy demands by processing data locally, but it does not suit all workloads. more →
Autonomous AI Attacks Pose 'Clear and Present Danger' to Critical Infrastructure
July's Taiwan intrusions were the first real-world AI-agent attacks on critical infrastructure. more →
Why Managers Are Ransomware's Top Targets Now - and 6 Ways to Stay Safe
Almost two-thirds of victims in one ransomware campaign held managerial positions or higher. more →
Anthropic Plans Invisible Watermarks for Claude-Generated Text and Files
Anthropic will embed hidden machine-readable watermarks in Claude-generated text and images to meet EU transparency rules. more →
Beyond Superintelligence: What Is AI's Ultimate Destination?
Four Google researchers launch Discovery Loop to pursue recursive self-improvement as AI's next frontier beyond AGI. more →
From Words to Worlds: The Rise of World Models
World models are reshaping AI by learning physics through observation instead of predicting text tokens. more →
The Next Great AI Race Is Not About Words
Major AI companies race to build world models that predict real-world outcomes rather than generate text. more →
Uber Open-Sources Tool to Catch Agentic Blunders Legacy Security Misses
Uber releases an open-source AI agent security system to detect and prevent malicious agent behavior. more →
When AI Agents Clash: Anthropic Study Reveals Escalating Digital Turf Wars and Unintended Collusion
Agents given conflicting goals in a shared project escalated to sabotage rather than adapting. more →
Lighting a Spark: Why Science Centers and Experiential Learning Spaces Matter
A Micron director argues hands-on science centres turn childhood curiosity into engineering careers. more →
When the Deal Closes, the Data Work Begins: How Snowflake Accelerates M&A and Divestitures in Life Sciences
Snowflake examines why life sciences M&A data integration is uniquely constrained by GxP validation and privacy law. more →
Connect AI Agents to Your Telemetry With the Observe MCP Server and CLI
Observe by Snowflake's redesigned MCP server and new CLI reach general availability for agent-driven telemetry access. more →
Accelerating Trellix's Transformation With AI-Native Security Engineering
Trellix's CTO describes standardising AI across engineering and reviewing its whole codebase with frontier models. more →
Signed, Sealed, Injected: The Mechanics of DCRat in 2026
Trellix analyses a DCRat campaign using SVG-based HTML smuggling, DLL sideloading and process hollowing. more →
Weaponized AI: The Commoditization of Cybercrime
Trellix documents seven dark web findings showing AI cybercrime tools now sold with pricing tiers and support. more →
Your AI Governance Gap Isn't a Policy Problem. It's an Architecture Problem.
UiPath argues the AI governance gap is an architecture problem that policies alone cannot close. more →
Oracle Application Change Deserves Business-Level Confidence
UiPath argues Oracle application changes need AI-powered, governed testing to protect business workflows. more →
You Don't Have an Agent Problem. You Have an Orchestration Problem.
UiPath argues enterprises face an orchestration problem rather than an agent problem. more →
The Power to Plan Beats the Power of Hindsight
UiPath argues retailers need real-time demand signals and agentic automation to act before disruption. more →
Lending, Accelerated: Focus on Borrowers, Not the Seams Between Systems
UiPath sets out how lenders can automate origination work and speed loan approvals. more →
Tracking Shai-Hulud: Inside the ChainDrop NPM Worm
Zscaler analyses ChainDrop, an npm worm anchoring its C2 in an Ethereum smart contract and forging SLSA provenance. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale (Oct. 6th)
Rapid Identity Recovery: Lessons from Frontline Incident Response (Aug. 18th)
Recovering identity after a ransomware attack is a complicated task. Restore too slowly and the business stalls; restore too quickly and you risk bringing the attacker back. more →
ADR vs. EDR: Why EDR Isn't Enough in the AI Era (Aug. 19th)
Join Raven CEO and Co-Founder Roi Abitboul, Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder Omer Yair, and Futurum's Fernando Montenegro for a practical discussion on ADR vs. EDR. more →
Stop Managing Alerts. Start Predicting from Events. Detect Recurring Patterns Before Alerts Become Incidents (Aug. 19th)
In this webinar, Digitate's Robin Bennedict, Product Manager, and Abhijit Deshpande, Global Head - Ecosystems and Solutions, explain why event-centric operations represent a fundamentally different operating model. more →
0-Day to 10x Discovery: Security at the Speed of Mythos (Aug. 20th)
This session covers why faster discovery alone doesn't solve the problem - your triage, remediation, and deployment capacity haven't scaled to match - and shares a five-step framework (Understand Exposure, Prioritize, Remediate, Protect Production, Verify) for building a security program that can keep pace, including a real-world example of a financial services company that cut patch cycle time from 5 days to under 2 hours. more →
Securing The Intelligent Edge: AI, IoT, And The New Front Lines Of Operational Risk (Aug. 20th)
In this executive briefing, Forrester Senior Analyst Paddy Harrington draws on his latest research to help technology leaders navigate the critical intersection of AI-driven threats and operational resilience. more →
Experts Explain How to Develop a Framework for Cyber-Fraud Fusion (Aug. 27th)
In this webinar, Accertify presents original research across 250 senior fraud, risk, and security decision-makers to answer that question with data. Attendees will learn what a high-performing fraud-cyber fusion framework actually looks like, why the sequence of convergence matters as much as convergence itself, and which specific operational moves separate the top-performing organizations from those stuck in what the research calls convergence purgatory. more →
0-Day to 10x Discovery: Security at the Speed of Mythos (Aug. 20th)
Securing The Intelligent Edge: AI, IoT, And The New Front Lines Of Operational Risk (Aug. 20th)
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Raliegh-Durham (Aug. 20th)
M-Trends 2026: The Cascading Impact of Third-Party SaaS, Cloud, and Software Compromises (Aug. 25th)
The Priorities Defining CIO Success for 2027: Breaking Insights From the CIO Survey (Aug. 25th)
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Chicago, IL (Aug. 25th)
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