Topic: proactive security
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ConnectSecure automates M365 security fixes for MSPs
ConnectSecure launched M365 Auto Remediation and AI-powered Training Assessments, enabling MSPs to directly address Microsoft 365 security findings and create, assign, and track training assessments within a single console. M365 Auto Remediation allows MSPs to fix supported findings (e.g., missin...
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How AI Exposed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot, According to Rob Gurzeev
AI adoption has created a massive blind spot in cybersecurity, as companies rapidly integrate AI tools without understanding their expanding attack surface. Traditional security approaches focused on patching known vulnerabilities are insufficient; organizations must first gain complete visibilit...
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Microsoft Predicts More Windows Security Bugs from AI Detection
Microsoft warns Windows users to expect a higher volume of security patches due to its increased use of AI to detect vulnerabilities in its codebase. The AI tools uncover flaws more efficiently than manual reviews, leading to more security updates that Microsoft frames as a proactive cybersecurit...
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New AI Browser Attack Highlights Security Risks
AI browser makers promote effortless productivity but downplay the growing security risk when web browsing merges with giving sensitive instructions to large language models. Current defenses rely on reactive guardrails that block dangerous requests, but this approach treats symptoms rather than ...
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Infosecurity Europe: Reactive Security Fails Healthcare, Experts Warn
Cybersecurity experts at Infosecurity Europe 2026 warned that healthcare organizations must urgently adopt AI-powered security tools to prevent catastrophic harm, including patient deaths, as the sector remains the most targeted by cybercriminals with 93% of organizations experiencing attacks in ...
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Faster Vulnerability Alerts Reduce Cyber Risk
Cybersecurity threats are escalating rapidly, with a 67% surge in new vulnerabilities and exploit time dropping to a median of 1.6 days, making immediate response critical. Traditional vulnerability management often fails due to overwhelming software inventories and delays in the National Vulnera...
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Qumulo NeuralProtect AI stops ransomware before encryption
Qumulo NeuralProtect is a new ransomware resilience solution that detects and stops threats before encryption, corruption, or data loss occurs. Deeply integrated into the Qumulo Data Platform, it uses advanced analytics to identify suspicious activity in real time and prevent data locking or dest...
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OpenAI Launches Daybreak for Secure by Design Software
OpenAI's Daybreak initiative uses advanced AI to help developers build "secure by design" software by embedding security into the development process from the start, rather than treating it as an afterthought. The program aims to reduce common vulnerabilities like injection attacks and memory saf...
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South Staffordshire Water Hit With £1m Fine Over Data Breach
The UK's data watchdog fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1 million for a two-year data breach affecting over 633,000 individuals, caused by a phishing email that went undetected until 2022 when unscheduled database exports prompted an investigation. The breach exposed highly sensitive data ...
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Why Basic Breach Monitoring Falls Short Today
The digital threat landscape has shifted, with modern adversaries using infostealer malware to harvest session cookies and authentication tokens in real-time, bypassing multi-factor authentication. Traditional breach monitoring is insufficient due to its reactive nature and fundamental delay, as ...
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Boost Cyber Resilience: Proactive Wazuh Strategies
Cyber resilience is a proactive strategy that enables organizations to anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from attacks with minimal operational impact, moving beyond traditional reactive security models. The Wazuh security platform provides unified visibility, early threat detection, ...
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Secure Your Systems: Why Non-Human Identity Governance is Critical
Boards must govern cybersecurity by setting risk tolerance, allocating resources, and ensuring operational resilience, as regulations and major incidents make it a top-level issue. A critical vulnerability is the ungoverned sprawl of non-human identities (like API keys), which vastly outnumber hu...
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AI security flagged student's clarinet as a gun, and company defends it
An AI security system at a Florida middle school triggered a lockdown after falsely identifying a student's clarinet as a firearm, highlighting the persistent issue of false positives in automated threat detection. The company behind the system defended its "better safe than sorry" alert, while t...
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Transform Cyber Defense with Exposure Management
Effective cybersecurity requires a proactive shift to exposure management, moving beyond reactive tools to first gain complete visibility of all digital assets that could be targeted. Attackers use reconnaissance to map an organization's external presence, enabling them to exploit new vulnerabili...
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Trend Vision One: Proactive AI Security for Your Environment
Trend Vision One's AI Security Package, launching in December, provides centralized exposure management and protection across the entire AI application lifecycle, from development to runtime operations. The solution addresses the limitations of conventional security tools by offering specialized ...
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Microsoft's New AI Security Agents Outsmart Hackers
Microsoft has launched advanced AI security agents that proactively identify and neutralize cyber threats, available at no extra cost for Security Copilot users on Microsoft 365 E5 plans. These AI agents are integrated into platforms like Defender, Entra, and Intune to shift security from reactiv...
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Barracuda Assistant: Turbocharge Your Security Operations
Barracuda Assistant is an AI-driven tool integrated into the BarracudaONE platform, designed to accelerate security operations and enhance cyber resilience, productivity, and ROI. It simplifies security workflows by providing a unified interface for threat investigation and response, reducing hum...
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Secure Your Hybrid Cloud Data with Fortra DSPM
Fortra has launched a new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution to help organizations discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in hybrid cloud environments, enhancing visibility and control over data assets. The DSPM platform automates data discovery and classification, continuou...
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Unified Exposure Management: The Future of Cyber Defense
The traditional cybersecurity model focused on detecting and responding to breaches is no longer sufficient, as modern organizations require proactive defense strategies to prevent attacks before they occur. A shift towards Unified Exposure Management Platforms (UEMPs) addresses this need by cont...
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Cranium AI Boosts Compliance, Security & Scalability
Cranium AI has launched new agentic AI features to help businesses accelerate AI agent use, simplify compliance, and strengthen security with operational control and automated monitoring. Key products include AgentSensor for visibility into AI agents, CloudSensor for cloud security monitoring, an...
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