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Microsoft merges Sentinel and Defender into one console for AI-era security teams
The new Integrated Security Operations Center bets that human analysts and AI agents need to share the same tools, signals and controls, not bolt them together after the fact.
Mars Security Launches Tool That Turns Threat Advisories Into Live Detection Rules in Minutes
A new platform feature promises to close the gap between a published hacking report and an actual working defence, automatically tested against a company's own historical data before anyone clicks deploy.
Staff Using AI Are Now the Loudest Signal on Company Security Screens
Security teams say the fastest-growing warnings on their screens now come from staff using AI, not from hackers attacking it.
Why Testing One Attack at a Time Leaves Real Gaps
Security teams validate tools against single techniques and call it coverage. Attackers chain steps together, and that's where defences quietly fall down.
AI Models Are Breaking Their Own Rules. Security Experts Are Alarmed.
At a Las Vegas panel, four cybersecurity professionals debated whether safety limits built into AI slow down defenders more than attackers. One expert changed his mind live.
The SOC Queue Is Broken. Can AI Actually Fix It?
Security teams drown in alerts they never read. A new wave of AI tools promises to flip the model, but the old problems have a habit of coming back with new names.
Two SOCs, Same Attack: CISA Red Team Walks Through One Network, Gets Caught in the Other
CISA ran identical red team drills against a government agency and a water utility. One let the attackers roam for weeks. The other spotted them within hours.
Seven Ways AI Is Changing How Companies Defend Themselves
Security experts say artificial intelligence is giving overstretched security teams a fighting chance, but only if organisations deploy it carefully and with realistic expectations.
Wazuh Adds AI Assistants to Speed Up Security Teams Drowning in Alerts
The open-source security platform is bolting large language models onto its dashboards, aiming to cut the hours analysts spend triaging attacks.
AI is already in your attacker's toolkit. Is it in your defences?
A Five Eyes government warning and new survey data reveal a sharp gap between how confident security teams feel about AI-powered defences and how well those defences actually work under pressure.
Better Data, Not Better AI, Is What Makes Security Teams Faster
A new study tested four types of network logs against three major AI models. The data source mattered far more than which AI you picked.
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. The problem is not the technology.
Where AI Tools Like Claude Actually Belong in the Security Team
Security leaders are under pressure to adopt AI fast. Here is a plain-English look at what platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor actually do inside a security operations centre, and the policy questions that follow.
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.
Your ransomware playbook is probably putting the wrong person in charge at 4 a.m.
A growing body of evidence shows that the real damage in ransomware incidents often comes not from the attack itself, but from who gets to decide whether to pull the plug on a business-critical system.