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Are Your AI Safety Tools Actually Watching What Employees Type?
Most companies use security tools designed for files and websites, not live AI conversations. That gap is becoming a serious problem.
Your Company's Vendor Problem Starts Before Anyone Calls Security
When businesses pick software first and ask security questions second, they hand criminals a head start. Here is why fixing that order matters, and what a grown-up process actually looks like.
Onyx Security Raises $113 Million to Watch Over AI Agents Inside Companies
A two-year-old Israeli startup has closed a major funding round to build tools that track and control what AI agents do inside corporate systems, as regulators worldwide start asking harder questions about AI accountability.
The AI helpers your staff installed without telling IT
Autonomous AI agents are quietly attaching themselves to company accounts, often with wide permissions and no oversight. Here is what that means and how to get a grip on it.
Why the fastest way to get AI into your company is through the security team
Three-quarters of employees are already using AI at work. Security chiefs who build safe on-ramps are winning influence; those who say 'no' are being routed around.
Code Red Turns 25: The Worm That Still Has Things to Teach Us
A worm that spread across the internet in 2001 exposed a security blind spot that organisations keep rediscovering. Today, AI tools are the new version of the same problem.
A Quarter of Security Chiefs Thought About Quitting Last Year. AI is Why.
New survey data from Splunk shows the people responsible for keeping companies safe are burning out under the weight of AI risk, personal legal exposure, and executives who do not understand the problem.
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.
Your Boss Is the Biggest Shadow AI Risk in the Building
New survey data shows senior executives are far more likely than ordinary staff to use unapproved AI tools, and that gap is quietly undermining every security policy their IT teams try to enforce.
The AI Blind Spot in Corporate Security: Why Old Traffic Inspection Is Falling Behind
Employees are pasting company secrets into ChatGPT and installing rogue browser add-ons. The security tools most firms rely on can't see any of it.
Zero Trust as the AI Control Plane: What Zscaler's Vienna Pitch Means for APAC CISOs
AI agents are joining the workforce whether security teams are ready or not. At Zenith Live 2026, Zscaler made its case for why zero trust should govern them the same way it governs humans.
Shadow AI Is an IAM Problem Now, Not a DLP Problem
The risk isn't what employees paste into ChatGPT. It's what tokens, scopes, and service accounts the AI agents they spin up are quietly holding.
Shadow AI Is the Governance Gap Nobody Wants to Admit
A mid-year security forum puts unmonitored generative AI use front and center. The problem is older than the hype.
12 Questions That Expose Whether Your Security Program Is Actually Working
A roundup of hard questions CISOs should already be asking — about blast radius, nonhuman identities, and whether 'vibe coding' has eaten your attack surface.
The Gaps CISOs Keep Losing Sleep Over — And Why They're Getting Harder to Close
Proofpoint's 2025 survey found 58% of organizations unprepared to respond to a cyberattack. The reasons why are structural, not just technical.