Cisco is making significant strides in quantum computing by focusing on quantum networking, aiming to bring practical applications closer to reality. The company recently introduced a prototype of its Quantum Network Entanglement Chip and inaugurated the Cisco Quantum Lab in…
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ServiceNow unveils AI agents to accelerate enterprise self-defense
ServiceNow launched a new, agentic chapter in enterprise security and risk, introducing AI agents to power the rise of self-defending enterprises. The new agents, available within ServiceNow’s Security and Risk solutions, are designed to improve consistency, identify insights, and reduce…
ProcessUnity Evidence Evaluator flags discrepancies in a third-party’s controls
ProcessUnity introduced Evidence Evaluator, an generative AI that reduces the manual lift of assessing and validating third-party security controls. A key component of ProcessUnity’s Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Platform, Evidence Evaluator automatically reviews third-party evidence and populates assessment responses complete…
How agentic AI and non-human identities are transforming cybersecurity
Within the average enterprise, non-human identities (NHIs) now outnumber employees, contractors, and customers by anything between 10-to-1 and 92-to-1. Add to this the fragmentation of human identity management resulting from authorizing a single person’s access to multiple on-premises, cloud computing…
Even the best safeguards can’t stop LLMs from being fooled
In this Help Net Security interview, Michael Pound, Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham shares his insights on the cybersecurity risks associated with LLMs. He discusses common organizational mistakes and the necessary precautions for securing sensitive data when integrating…
Wave of tech layoffs leads to more job scams
The tech industry is experiencing significant layoffs, leaving thousands of IT and cybersecurity professionals in search of new employment opportunities. Unfortunately, as these individuals search for new opportunities, scammers are actively preying on them. Losing a job, especially when you…
Global cybersecurity readiness remains critically low
Only 4% of organizations worldwide have achieved the ‘mature’ level of readiness required to withstand cybersecurity threats, according to Cisco’s 2025 Cybersecurity Readiness Index. This is a slight increase from last year’s index, in which 3% of organizations worldwide were…
Healthcare workers regularly upload sensitive data to GenAI, cloud accounts
Healthcare organizations are facing a growing data security challenge from within, according to a new report from Netskope Threat Labs. The analysis reveals that employees in the sector are frequently attempting to upload sensitive information, including potentially protected health data,…
Searchlight Cyber adds AI capabilities to summarize dark web posts and threads
Searchlight Cyber has launched new AI capabilities within its dark web investigations platform, Cerberus. The new Cerberus AI Insights feature summarizes dark web posts and threads to help analysts to quickly triage information and focus on the dark web content…
Barracuda Networks strenghtens threat detection with multimodal AI
Barracuda Networks unveiled next-generation threat detection capabilities fueled by multimodal AI. Barracuda now delivers adaptive, context-aware protection against emerging attacks with accuracy and speed by simultaneously correlating and analyzing diverse text and visual data types – including URLs, documents, images,…