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Top Ten Insights from Forrester’s 2026 Cybersecurity Budget Benchmarks "With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities," states Forrester's 2026 Budget Planning Guide. The resear...

Top Ten Insights from Forrester’s 2026 Cybersecurity Budget Benchmarks linkedin.com/pulse/top-te... #CyberSecurity #GenerativeAI #SecurityBudgets #RiskManagement #ZeroTrust #QuantumSecurity #Deepfakes #Forrester #CISO #CyberResilience

Why 60% of CISOs are betting big on generative AI, despite early challenges The global threatscape is becoming dominated by all forms of weaponized LLMs, AI, and conversational agents, all aimed at launching lethal attacks that cripple companies and entire supply chains in mi...

Why 60% of CISOs are betting big on generative AI, despite early challenges www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-60... #Cybersecurity #GenerativeAI #CISO #ThreatIntelligence #GartnerResearch #AI #NIST #RiskManagement

Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web Plus: The Jaguar Land Rover hack sets an expensive new record, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser raises security fears, Starlink cuts off scam compounds, and more.

Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy

Interested in writing for MIT Technology Review (@technologyreview.com)? Here's our pitch guide. Now with 2026 magazine themes! www.technologyreview.com/how-to-pitch...

Security leaders lose visibility as consultants deploy shadow AI copilots to stay employed Fearing sweeping layoffs driven by AI and automation, elite consultants and high performers are turning to shadow AI for a competitive edge.

Security leaders lose visibility as consultants deploy shadow AI copilots to stay employed venturebeat.com/security/sha... #ai #genai #shadowAI

Tines The world’s best companies – from startups to the Fortune 10 – trust Tines with their mission-critical security workflows.

The latest update for #Tines includes "Is the future of the SOC autonomous? A Q&A with #Forrester's Allie Mellen" and "RegScale's Travis Howerton on taking the pain out of #compliance in highly-regulated industries".

#cybersecurity #nocodesecurity #appsec https://opsmtrs.com/3LFedhc

Shrink exploit windows, slash MTTP: Why ring deployment is now a must for enterprise defense Ring deployment slashes MTTP and legacy CVE risk. Learn how Ivanti and Southstar Bank are modernizing patch strategy with real-time intel.

Shrink exploit windows, slash MTTP: Why ring deployment is now a must for enterprise defense
venturebeat.com/security/rin... #AI #cybersecurity #patching #SOC #CISO

The walled garden cracks: Nadella bets Microsoft’s Copilots—and Azure’s next act—on A2A/MCP interoperability Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s endorsement of Google DeepMind‘s A2A open protocol and Anthropic's MCP is huge sign the industry is moving to an open garden.

The walled garden cracks: Nadella bets Microsoft’s Copilots—and Azure’s next act—on A2A/MCP interoperability venturebeat.com/ai/the-walle... $MSFT #Azure #AgenticAI #agenticautomation

RSAC 2025: Why the AI agent era means more demand for CISOS RSAC 2025 made one thing clear: AI agents are entering security workflows, but boards want proof they work.

Insightful article and insights from RSA2025 and SVP Report about state of cybersecurity, agentic AI and AI/ML model protection ...
venturebeat.com/security/rsa... #cybersecurity #AI #AIagents #AIMLmodelProtection #CISO

RSAC 2025: Why the AI agent era means more demand for CISOS RSAC 2025 made one thing clear: AI agents are entering security workflows, but boards want proof they work.

RSAC 2025: Why the AI agent era means more demand for CISOS venturebeat.com/security/rsa... #AI #CISO #cybersecurity #RSAC2025

#Manufacturers have had a bumpy ride this year, give them credit for navigating turbulence while continuing to manage and grow revenue. www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ma...

This is riveting

#RSAC2025 Starter Pack. Red Bull? check. Party invites? check. Best booth giveaways including whack-the-attack? check. #cybersecurity #humor

From friction to flow: Why Swissport scrapped its VPN maze for Cato’s SASE fabric Swissport ditches legacy tech, deploying a global, Zero Trust SASE architecture with Cato Networks securing 26,000 users, unlocking real-time control.

From friction to flow: Why Swissport scrapped its VPN maze for Cato’s SASE fabric venturebeat.com/security/swi... #CatoNetworks, #DigitalTransformation #NetworkSecurity #SASE #SecureAccess #Swissport #ZeroTrust

Amex GBT puts AI at the center of SOC automation, threat modeling… | Louis C. 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐱 𝐆𝐁𝐓’𝐬 𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐎 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 🥷 Adversaries are relentless in the pace at which they’re weaponizing AI and launching machine-to-machine at...

Amex GBT’s CISO Builds an AI-driven threat detection engine that slashes response latency linkedin.com/posts/louisc... #Cybersecurity #AIsecurity #MachineSpeed #CISO #ThreatManagement

Identity as the new perimeter: National Oilwell Varco’s approach to… | Louis C. 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐢𝐥𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐂𝐈𝐎 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐜𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝟑𝟓𝐗   Cyber threats continue to evolve faster than legacy security platforms can respond, especially when 79% of attacks no...

Identity as the new perimeter: National Oilwell Varco’s approach to stopping the 79% of attacks that are malware-free #CISO #cybersecurity #zerotrust www.linkedin.com/posts/louisc...

Attention!

Check your Compromised Website Report for critical events tagged “fortinet-compromised” and follow Fortinet's mitigation advice on compromised devices:

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Data available from 2025-04-11+

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Amex GBT puts AI at the center of SOC automation, threat modeling, incident response Amex GBT CISO David Levin is accelerating AI security, cutting false positives and speeding SOC response to anticipate and shut down threats.

Amex GBT puts AI at the center of SOC automation, threat modeling, incident response venturebeat.com/security/ame... $AXP #amexgbt #CISO #CyberSecurity

Cisco: Fine-tuned LLMs are now threat multipliers—22x more likely to go rogue Cisco warns LLMs fine-tuned for business are now being weaponized. Guardrails aren't failing. They're being engineered around.

Louis Columbus looks at how easy it is to extract proprietary data and do crimes with weaponized large language models (LLMs).

@louiscolumbus.bsky.social
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Google introduces Firebase Studio, an end-to-end platform that builds custom apps in-browser, in minutes Devs and non-devs can use the cloud-based, Gemini-powered platform to build, launch, iterate and monitor apps, APIs, backends and frontends.

Devs and non-devs can use the cloud-based, Gemini-powered platform to build, launch, iterate and monitor apps, APIs, backends and frontends. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GoogleCloudNext

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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

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Oracle plays coy on reported Cloud, Health security breaches : 1990s incident response in 2025

Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence vanishes

Gartner’s 1Q25 Cybersecurity Forecast: Where CISOs are betting big through 2029 www.linkedin.com/pulse/gartne... #AI, #CISO #CloudSecurity, #AIsecurity #ZeroTrust #CNAPP

We are excited to present our #PIVOTcon25 #Keynote speaker: Jackie Burns Koven! She is Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at @chainalysis.bsky.social where her team tracks the wallets of those who scam, steal, and extort for cryptocurrency 💰💸🦹
#CTI #ThreatIntel
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How do you get ChatGPT to create malware strong enough to breach Google's password manager? Just play pretend. Cybersecurity researchers were able to bypass security features on ChatGPT by roleplaying with it, getting the bot to write password-stealing malware.

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#cybersecurity #ChatGPT #LLMs #malware #infostealer

Speed is King: How Google’s $32B Wiz play rewrites DevOps security rules The real story behind Google acquiring Wiz is how the need for speed and better cloud security dominates every enterprise’s devops cycles.

Speed is King: How Google’s $32B Wiz play rewrites DevOps security rules venturebeat.com/security/goo... #AI #CNAPP #cybersecurity #devops $GOOG

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

When everything is evidence. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

AI vs. AI: 6 ways enterprises are automating cybersecurity to counter AI-powered attacks AI-powered cybersecurity threats include deepfakes, automating breaches, and morphing malware in real time, challenging cyberdefenses.

AI vs. AI: 6 ways enterprises are automating cybersecurity to counter AI-powered attacks venturebeat.com/security/ai-... #AI #genAI #cybersecurity #cyberattacks

The Value of IIoT and Connected Applications <p>By continuously monitoring equipment and production processes, manufacturers can detect anomalies, predict equipment failures&nbsp;and take corrective actions before issues escalate.</p>

@louiscolumbus.bsky.social shares how the IIoT and connected applications drive efficiency gains in manufacturing: ow.ly/7KAM50V4pla via Automation.com

2024: 79% of cyber intrusions were malware-free, up from 40% in 2019. Voice phishing has overtaken phishing as the top first access method. #CyberSecurity #CrowdStrike #VoicePhishing #MalwareFree #Phishing #CyberTrends #DataSecurity #ThreatDetection #TechNews