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fromThe Hacker News
2 days ago

Securing AI to Benefit from AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale that human analysts alone can't match. But realizing that potential depends on securing the systems that make it possible. Every organization experimenting with AI in security operations is, knowingly or not, expanding its attack surface.
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fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

Qualys expands ETM security platform with identity security and better insight into threats

Qualys ETM introduces AI-driven ETM Identity, TruLens, and TruConfirm to predict and prevent cyber threats by securing identities, feeding real-time threat intelligence, and automating responses.
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fromZDNET
2 weeks ago

Unchecked AI agents could be disastrous for us all - but OpenID Foundation has a solution

Agentic AI can bypass connectivity barriers and expose sensitive corporate data unless organizations adopt interoperable AI-specific IAM standards and extend governance practices.
fromSecurityWeek
3 weeks ago

Descope Raises $35 Million in Seed Round Extension

Identity and access management (IAM) provider Descope has announced raising $35 million in a seed funding extension that brings the total raised by the company to $88 million. The cash infusion came from existing investors Cerca Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Triventures, and Unusual Ventures. Founded in 2022, the Los Altos, California-based startup landed a large $53 million seed funding round in 2023, aiming to disrupt the customer identity and authentication market.
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fromTechzine Global
4 weeks ago

Commvault and BeyondTrust strengthen access security

Integration of Commvault Cloud and BeyondTrust Password Safe centralizes privileged credential management, issues temporary credentials, and strengthens security, resilience, and compliance.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

This Microsoft Entra ID Vulnerability Could Have Caused a Digital Catastrophe

Mollema has studied Entra ID security in depth and published multiple studies about weaknesses in the system, which was formerly known as Azure Active Directory. But while preparing to present at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas in July, Mollema discovered two vulnerabilities that he realized could be used to gain global administrator privileges-essentially god mode-and compromise every Entra ID directory, or what is known as a "tenant."
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fromComputerWeekly.com
1 month ago

How to manage Active Directory security | Computer Weekly

Active Directory remains the critical, high-risk identity backbone for enterprises and requires proactive hardening, visibility, automation, and recovery readiness to prevent ransomware compromise.
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fromThe Hacker News
2 months ago

Webinar: Discover and Control Shadow AI Agents in Your Enterprise Before Hackers Do

Unidentified AI agents operate within organizations, creating security risks by running without identities, owners, or oversight and enabling rapid compromise and privilege escalation.
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fromSecuritymagazine
4 months ago

71% of Organizations Cannot Cover the Cloud Environment With Current Tools

Complex cloud environments challenge organizations' cloud security management.
Despite high confidence in security, significant concerns about unauthorized services and tool coverage exist.
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