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What 170,000 job cuts have done to the credentials nobody was tracking
With 109 machine identities for every human, the accounts and keys that departing engineers created are surviving restructuring after restructuring, because the people who could explain what they do have already gone.
BeyondTrust extends privileged access control to AI agents and service accounts
NHI Governance sets out to close the gap between seeing non-human identities and controlling the privilege they carry, bringing AI agents under the same lifecycle governance as human access.
Half of Security Leaders Report an AI Risk Programme. Their Practitioners Cannot Find It
The 2026 SANS AI Survey asked 57 CISOs and 536 practitioners the same questions about AI governance and got a 14-point gap in return, alongside a leadership priority shift that the survey's own attack data contradicts.
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle: Why the AI Agent Explosion Is Rewriting Enterprise Security Faster Than Anyone Can Patch
As autonomous agents proliferate inside enterprises faster than security teams can see or govern them, BeyondTrust Field CTO James Maude and Censys regional Vice President Meriam ElOuazzani argue that identity, privilege and external exposure now matter more than any single vulnerability, with Microsoft's latest disclosures illustrating where the risk is concentrating.
Vulnerabilities by the minute: TrendAI’s UAE debut and the race to secure agentic AI
Trend Micro’s enterprise security business has launched in the UAE as TrendAI, warning that frontier models will soon surface vulnerabilities at machine speed and pairing the rebrand with an Anthropic partnership and an unresolved agentic governance challenge.
The Deepfake Wire Transfer Has Become Routine, and Most Finance Functions Are Defending the Wrong Perimeter
Fraud attempts using synthetic voice and video have surged by over 2,000% in three years, billions in deepfake losses were absorbed in 2025 alone, and nearly half of Indian adults have been touched by AI voice-cloning scams. Security leaders nonetheless continue to treat weaponised human trust as a communications glitch, and the organisations paying for it rarely discover their exposure until the money has already moved.
Who Controls the Proof Now Controls the Internet
Six separate announcements in one week converged on a single argument about power, that whoever issues the proof holds the leverage.
The Velocity Gap: Why Record Middle East Cyber Spending Is Losing to AI Attackers
Investment in regional cyber defence is climbing toward record levels, yet Help AG’s State of the Market Report 2026 shows attackers are pulling ahead — compressing time-to-impact by 65% as AI rewrites the relationship between security and time.
A 500 billion query problem hiding inside the enterprise network
Infoblox Threat Intel research finds residential proxies embedded across two-thirds of its cloud customers, putting corporate reputation and IP space at risk without security teams ever seeing it
Business as Usual: How Attackers Are Turning IT Tools Into Backdoors
HP threat researchers found criminals using LogMeIn and ScreenConnect, tax-themed phishing, and AI-assisted scripts to take over PCs without triggering alarms that detect conventional malware.
BeyondTrust Gains Access to Anthropic's Restricted Frontier Model to Hunt Flaws in Its Own Code
The identity security vendor joins Project Glasswing, turning a model Anthropic withholds from the public against the vulnerabilities in software that underpins governments and essential services.
AI security has a detection problem, and Check Point’s 2026 report puts a number on it
Only 13% of organisations can block a malicious prompt and just 5% can stop unsafe AI outputs, according to Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report. Why detection has outpaced prevention.
The 2026 World Cup Is the Most Predictable Cyberattack Window Ever Handed to Adversaries
A Palo Alto Networks assessment finds disruptive intrusions, fraud at scale and hacktivist operations against the tournament are highly likely, with an active Iran-nexus campaign already targeting the municipal infrastructure 16 host cities will run under tournament load.
The 1% Problem: Inside Qualys’s bet that most of cybersecurity has been chasing the wrong list
This article is part of an editorial series produced in partnership with Qualys, exploring how the Risk Operations Center, is reshaping the way enterprises think about cyber risk. The reporting, interviews, and views are The Source Code’s own.
From Backup to AI Trust: What Veeam Announced at VeeamON New York and Why It Matters
Three announcements in three days: a new platform built from the Securiti AI acquisition, a preview of Data Platform v13.1, and a governance framework exposing the gap between AI confidence and AI readiness.
Why Acronis Is Betting That the Next Decade of Managed Services Gets Built at the Infrastructure Layer, Not Bolted On to It
Cyber Frame, Cyber Console, Cyber Intelligence, Cyber Studio, and a rebuilt partner programme announced in a single broadcast signal that Acronis is no longer positioning itself as a backup and security vendor. It is positioning itself as the platform MSPs run their entire business on.