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How Walmart Turned Its Security Red Team and Blue Team Into Allies
Rather than letting offensive and defensive security testers work against each other in secret, Walmart's security chief put them in the same room and changed the rules of the exercise.

How Walmart's Security Chief Stopped Saying No and Started Saying 'Yes, and…'
Walmart's global head of security operations explains why friction is the enemy, why trust is the currency, and what the rest of the retail sector can learn from running cybersecurity at a $700 billion company.

Four Gaps That Are Keeping AI Out of Your Security Team's Hands
Security operations centres are spending big on artificial intelligence, but most are not seeing results. Here is why the problem is not the technology.

AI Start-Up Corma Raises $60 Million to Build a Cybersecurity Defence System That Never Sleeps
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco company says existing AI tools can attack but not defend. Its answer is a model built from scratch for security teams.

Patched Doesn't Mean Safe: Why Security Teams Need to Test After They Fix
A new survey of 750 security leaders finds that fewer than one in three organisations check whether a fix actually stopped an attacker. The gap between completing work and reducing risk is where breaches still happen.

One C2 Kit, 30 Customers, Two Governments: How Criminal Infrastructure Is Hiding State Hackers
A security researcher traced a single command-and-control tool to roughly 30 separate operators, including two with suspected government ties. The finding breaks a core assumption most security teams quietly rely on every day.

Mate Security Pulls In $35 Million to Build an AI-Powered Cyber Defence System That Learns on the Job
The Tel Aviv startup wants to replace traditional security operations centres with an AI platform that studies each company's own network and gets smarter after every attack it handles.

Abstract Security Raises $25 Million to Build a Smarter Way of Watching for Cyber Threats
The startup wants to replace the industry's ageing security dashboards with a system that catches problems while data is still moving, not after the fact.

Most AI Models Fail New Malware-Investigation Test Inspired by Nuclear Sabotage
A benchmark built around a real industrial-attack case shows that today's leading AI systems struggle to follow a malware investigation all the way to a conclusion.

AI Is Compressing the Cybersecurity Timeline. Security Teams Are Racing to Keep Up.
Artificial intelligence is speeding up both attack and defence at the same time. The organisations that survive the shift may not be the best-defended. They may simply be the fastest to act.

How to actually test an AI SOC before you buy one
A new buyer's guide argues that vendor demos hide more than they reveal, and lays out how to stress-test AI security tools against your own data.

Google Spent $32 Billion on Wiz. Now It Wants AI to Fight Hackers So Fast Humans Can't Keep Up
Criminals can hand off access to a breached company in 22 seconds. Google says only AI can respond that quickly, and it has built a new automated defence platform to prove it.

Beacon Security Raises $13 Million to Help Companies Make Sense of Security Data
A New York startup founded by Israeli military veterans wants to give security teams a single, AI-ready picture of everything happening across their networks. Investors just backed that bet with $13 million.

Cribl Buys CardinalOps to Close the Gap Between Collecting Security Data and Acting on It
The $3.5 billion data-pipeline company moves beyond simply gathering security information, adding AI-powered tools that tell defenders where their defences are actually failing.

When the IT Team Is at the Beach, Who's Watching the Alerts?
Summer holiday rotas leave security desks thin. Kaseya argues AI-driven automation can hold the line, but only if it's set up before the out-of-office replies start.