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Your employees are already using AI tools you never approved

OneTrust report: 74% of organizations have scaled AI adoption, but only 17% embed governance by design and agent use outpaces oversight.

OneTrust's 2026 AI-Ready Governance Report finds 74% of respondents report departmental or scaled AI adoption, yet only 17% report governance embedded by design and just 5% have coordination and accountability defined across the AI lifecycle. Nearly half experienced at least one incident in the past year where AI systems or agents took unapproved actions, with data loss, corruption, and misclassification cited as the most likely and least prepared-for risks. 33% say employees used unapproved AI tools because approved options were not available quickly enough, and 98% plan to increase AI governance technology budgets next financial year.

Help Net Security · 2d agoIndustry

Rapid7 Named Among Notable Vendors in Forrester MDR Landscape: Why the Future is Exposure-informed, Preemptive MDR

Rapid7 touts its listing in Forrester's Q3 2026 MDR Landscape, arguing MDR must converge with exposure management for measurable risk reduction.

Forrester's Managed Detection and Response Services Landscape, Q3 2026 names Rapid7 among notable providers and predicts MDR services will converge with exposure and posture improvement. Rapid7 pitches its exposure-informed, preemptive MDR built on its own SIEM, combining vulnerability findings and asset risk scoring with detection and response. The service includes unlimited incident response and a human-led, AI-enhanced investigation model. Forrester advises buyers to demand providers prove investigations rather than narrate dashboards.

Rapid7 Blog · 2d agoIndustry

Cyberthreats are moving faster than SMBs: Readiness must accelerate

ESET's SMB Cyber Readiness Index 2026 finds 73% of SMBs adopting AI while 40% lack AI policy, and reports 3,000+ malicious AI agent skills.

ESET argues AI is accelerating cyberthreats while expanding the attack surface: its SMB Cyber Readiness Index 2026 found 73% of SMBs integrating AI and 40% of businesses lacking a proper AI policy. ESET analyzed 900,000 AI agent skills across popular repositories between March and May 2026, finding over 25,000 suspicious and more than 3,000 malicious skills that exfiltrate data, execute malware, or abuse prompt injection. The piece also cites AI-assisted reconnaissance, exploit development, and social engineering, plus PromptSpy, an Android spyware abusing Google Gemini at runtime for persistence.

ESET WeLiveSecurity · 23h agoIndustry

Weekly Cybersecurity Newsletter – Top 50 Biggest Cybersecurity Stories of the Week

GBHackers weekly digest rounds up 50 stories including Microsoft's 973-CVE patch drop, exploited Cisco FMC flaws, and Claude agent attacks.

GBHackers' September 7-12, 2026 newsletter summarizes the 50 biggest cybersecurity stories of the week. Highlights include Microsoft patching a record 973 CVEs with two exploited zero-days, active exploitation of Cisco FMC, Check Point VPN and Ivanti flaws, China-linked crews chaining Chrome and Windows zero-days, AI agents mass-exploiting PaperCut to compromise 440 servers, and the emergence of Panzer cross-platform ransomware. It also covers Anthropic and OpenAI agentic AI incidents and CrowdStrike's SafeMind launch.

GBHackers · 1d agoIndustry in the wild

Major Cyber Threat Detection Vendors Shift from MITRE to UK Testing Program

SE Labs launched PIVOT, a six-month vendor detection testing program backed by CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Sophos, as major vendors exit MITRE evaluations.

SE Labs unveiled PIVOT on September 15, a six-month testing program in which its ethical hackers replicate nation-state and criminal attack chains against participating vendor products, with results due January 2027. Broadcom (Symantec/Carbon Black), CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Sophos have confirmed participation, and Gartner and Forrester analysts will verify the underlying evidence before publication. The launch follows declining participation in MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations: Enterprise, which fell from 30 vendors in 2023 to 11 in 2025 after public withdrawals by Microsoft, SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks.

Infosecurity Magazineupdated · 20m agofirst · 23h agoIndustry 12 sources

Riverbed NPM 360 uses AI to predict and prevent network disruptions

Riverbed launched Network 360 observability offerings embedding agentic AI (Riverbed IQ and Q) into AppResponse and NetProfiler for predictive network troubleshooting.

Riverbed announced its Network 360 intelligent network observability solutions, natively integrating the agentic AI layers Riverbed IQ and Riverbed Q into AppResponse and NetProfiler, with NPM+ extending visibility across remote users, Zero Trust, and public cloud. Riverbed IQ applies causal, predictive, generative, and agentic AI to correlate network evidence, identify root causes, and recommend actions, while Q provides a natural-language conversational assistant for investigations. The launch aims to shift NetOps teams from manual, reactive troubleshooting to AI-guided workflows that predict and prevent disruptions before user impact.

Help Net Security · 2h agoIndustry

Exein Secures $270M at $1.7B Valuation for Physical AI Security

IoT security firm Exein raised $270 million at a $1.7 billion valuation to expand runtime protection and physical AI security agents.

Italy-based IoT security startup Exein announced a $270 million oversubscribed round led by Headline, bringing total funding above $600 million and valuing the company at $1.7 billion. Exein builds embedded and kernel-level runtime protection for IoT devices and is developing a proprietary foundation model for physical AI security powering autonomous defense agents. The funding will accelerate expansion, particularly into the US market.

SecurityWeek · 1d agoIndustry

Hackuity Raises $19 Million for AI-Powered Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management vendor Hackuity raised $19 million led by Forgepoint Capital, bringing total funding to $38 million for its AI-driven prioritization platform.

Hackuity, a Lyon, France-based vulnerability management vendor founded in 2018, raised $19 million led by Forgepoint Capital, bringing total funding to $38 million. Its platform aggregates and normalizes vulnerability and asset data from more than 130 security products, adding threat intelligence and business context for risk-based prioritization and remediation orchestration. Existing investors Bright Pixel Capital, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners participated; the funds will strengthen AI capabilities and support expansion across Europe and Asia.

SecurityWeek · 21h agoIndustry

AI Changed the Exposure Problem. Validation Needs to Change With It.

Picus Security argues vulnerability validation must combine exploitability, control validation, and agentic pentesting as AI accelerates disclosure volume.

Picus Security reports 35,853 CVEs were published in H1 2026, roughly 49% more than the prior year, while only 495 were catalogued as exploited in the wild and 116 were attacked on disclosure day. The vendor argues CVSS-based triage is inadequate and promotes combining exploitability validation, security control validation, and agentic pentesting into one program. The post also cites Anthropic data showing Mythos-class models surfaced 26,153 open-source vulnerability candidates with only 421 patched upstream, and promotes Picus's Validation Summit '26 on October 14-15.

The Hacker News · 2d agoIndustry

Google Search Makes It Harder to See Where a Link Really Goes Before You Click

Google now routes some Search results through opaque google.com/goto redirects, weakening hover-to-verify anti-phishing checks.

Google has begun serving some organic search results as opaque google.com/goto?url= redirects whose destinations can only be resolved server-side by Google, likely to raise scraping costs for rank trackers and archival services. The change removes the pre-click hover preview of the true destination URL, undermining a long-standing anti-phishing habit for spotting lookalike, typosquatted, or search-optimized phishing domains. Security teams are advised to rely on layered defenses such as domain reputation, DNS and web filtering, browser isolation, and user training rather than hover text.

GBHackers · 1d agoIndustry

Virtual Event Today: Attack Surface Management Summit

SecurityWeek's 2026 Attack Surface Management Summit runs today as a virtual event covering asset discovery, SBOMs, red teaming, and pen-testing.

SecurityWeek is hosting its fully virtual 2026 Attack Surface Management Summit from 11AM-3PM, focused on continuous asset discovery, prioritization, and risk reduction. Sessions cover proving exploitability, SBOM and AIBOM software supply chain risk with Dr. Allan Friedman, demos from Wiz and Horizon3's NodeZero, and the roles of red teaming, bug bounty, and penetration testing in enterprise defense.

SecurityWeek · 18h agoIndustry

Threat Intelligence Alone Won't Close the Exploitation Gap

Pentera argues threat intelligence alone leaves a validation gap, promoting threat-led penetration testing that auto-tests leaked credentials against real attack surfaces.

A contributed Pentera piece argues that threat intelligence signals such as leaked credentials and vulnerability advisories often sit unactioned in queues because teams lack the offensive capacity to validate them against live environments. It promotes threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) and highlights Pentera's integration with Recorded Future, which triggers automated validation of leaked credentials against an organization's external attack surface. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts cybersecurity VP Joseph Gothelf is quoted supporting the convergence of threat intelligence and security validation.

The Hacker News · 21h agoIndustry

11 Best CSPM Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

CSPM comparison ranks Wiz first for agentless attack-path analysis; notes Ermetic absorbed into Tenable and Lacework into Fortinet FortiCNAPP.

An editorial comparison of eleven CSPM tools ranks Wiz as the agentless attack-path momentum leader, Prisma Cloud as the breadth benchmark, and Orca as the agentless SideScanning pioneer. It highlights consolidation: Ermetic now powers Tenable Cloud Security and Lacework became Fortinet's FortiCNAPP. The guide recommends starting with free tiers from Defender for Cloud, Prowler, and native cloud tools before buying.

GBHackers · 2d agoIndustry1

12 Best CNAPP Platforms Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

Independent comparison of 12 CNAPP platforms finds identical estates draw quotes 2-3x apart; Microsoft Defender for Cloud is the only fully published per-resource option.

A vendor-independent buyer's guide compares twelve CNAPP platforms including Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz, Uptycs, Aqua, Zscaler, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud on pricing mechanics, procurement leverage, and capability-per-dollar. It finds quotes swing 2-3x on identical estates because vendors define 'workload' differently. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is highlighted as the only major with fully published per-resource rates.

GBHackers · 2d agoIndustry1

Top 10 Best Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Tools in 2026

A 2026 scorecard ranks DSPM tools with Wiz and Cyera tied first, documenting consolidation via Palo Alto, Rubrik, Proofpoint, and CrowdStrike acquisitions.

The article ranks ten DSPM platforms: Wiz and Cyera tie at 8.7/10, followed by BigID at 8.5 and Securiti at 8.4, scored on discovery breadth, classification accuracy, access context, remediation, and value. It highlights heavy market consolidation, noting Dig Security was acquired by Palo Alto Networks, Laminar by Rubrik, Normalyze by Proofpoint, and Flow Security by CrowdStrike. Buyers are advised to purchase from current owners and confirm post-acquisition integration state.

Cyber Security News · 1d agoIndustry1