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13 stories taggedshadow AI.

An office worker's desk with multiple monitors displaying AI chat conversations and traditional security tool dashboards, illustrating the gap between what secu
AI Security

Are Your AI Safety Tools Actually Watching What Employees Type?

Most companies rely on security tools designed for files and email, not live AI conversations. That gap is now wide open.

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Policy & Regulation

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.

4 min read
A corporate control center with large monitoring screens tracking AI agent activities in real-time, showing audit logs and behavioral analytics of autonomous sy
AI Security

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.

4 min read
Close-up of a laptop keyboard with a glowing AI icon overlay appearing on the screen, surrounded by permission dialog boxes and access notifications spreading a
Identity & Access

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.

4 min read
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AI Security

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.

4 min read
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AI Security

Code Red Turns 25: The Worm That Still Has Things to Teach Us

A worm that tore across the internet in 2001 exposed a visibility blind spot that organisations keep walking into. The rush to deploy AI tools is the latest version of the same mistake.

3 min read
A security operations center at night with multiple monitors displaying alert dashboards and threat data, a lone figure at a desk with head in hand, surrounded
AI Security

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 don't understand the problem.

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AI Security

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.

3 min read
An executive seated at a mahogany desk using an AI chatbot application on their personal tablet while their security-compliant desktop sits unused beside them
AI Security

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.

3 min read
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AI Security

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.

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AI Security

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.

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Illustration: a tangled bundle of glowing fiber-optic cables converging into a single dark server rack port
Identity & Access

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.

3 min read
Illustration: A large dark server room filled with rows of blinking rack servers
AI Security

12 Questions That Expose Whether Your Security Program Is Actually Working

Hard questions CISOs should already be asking, about blast radius, nonhuman identities, and whether vibe coding has eaten your attack surface.

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