ITSecurityWire

09/04/2026

What if the biggest value of cyber insurance is avoiding the claim altogether?

Luke Fardell, Lead Cyber Analyst at Tokio Marine Kiln, explains how leading insurers are moving upstream - using continuous attack-surface monitoring and human-led threat analysis to identify and fix exposures before attackers can exploit them.

Read the full article: https://tinyurl.com/272s28jj

09/02/2026

63% of CISOs believe attackers have the AI advantage.

Alfredo Hickman, CISO at Kai, explains why security teams must rethink workflows, automation, and governance to respond at machine speed without losing human accountability.

Read the full article: https://tinyurl.com/y249k2n4

08/31/2026

AI agents can make decisions but can your security team see what they’re doing?

As autonomous agents gain access across enterprise systems, assigned permissions alone are no longer enough.

Shlomi Yanai, CEO of AuthMind, explains why identity observability, continuous monitoring, and behavior-based security are becoming critical to managing autonomous AI at scale.

Read the full article: https://tinyurl.com/435fzhcf

08/28/2026

AI is changing AppSec. The bigger question is how we use it.

Jeff Williams, Co-Founder & CTO of Contrast Security, explores how AI can strengthen threat modeling, secure architecture, and context-driven vulnerability prioritization.

Read the full article: https://tinyurl.com/3ukaxkdk

08/27/2026

The clock is ticking.

74% of organizations expect AI to increase attacks on identity infrastructure. Unmanaged agents, excessive permissions and shadow AI are adding to the risk.

Dan Lattimer of Semperis explains how stronger identity governance and Zero Trust can help contain the threat.

Get full insights: https://tinyurl.com/2jkdcfkd

08/26/2026

AI can find more vulnerabilities. But can it tell you which ones actually matter?

In this Enterprise Unlocked episode, Jeff Williams, Co-Founder & CTO of Contrast Security, explains why context is key to using AI effectively in AppSec and how runtime security and traditional tools can help prioritize real risk.

Watch the full conversation: https://tinyurl.com/bdh4tfnc

08/25/2026

28.6M AI agents were already active in 2025.

That scale brings new risks from prompt injection and memory poisoning to identity-based attacks. This article breaks down the five key threats and the security controls SOCs need to keep agentic AI secure.

Read the full article: https://tinyurl.com/yyaxp9p4

08/24/2026

AI doesn’t need to run the attack to make it more dangerous.

Threat actors are weaponizing AI’s novelty to make ClickFix campaigns more convincing and target macOS with sophisticated malware.

Chet Wisniewski of Sophos explains why phishing defenses must evolve beyond email to address the new social-engineering attack surface.

Read the full article: https://tinyurl.com/ahd2as73

08/20/2026

What happens when vulnerabilities move faster than your security program?

Rob T. Lee, Chief AI Officer at SANS Institute, explains how AI is shrinking vulnerability discovery and exploitation from weeks to hours and why security teams must accelerate remediation to keep pace.

Read the full article: https://tinyurl.com/56jbf7fb

08/18/2026

31 seconds.
That’s all it took for an AI-driven ransomware operator to adapt to a failed login.

At Black Hat 2026, security leaders highlighted how agentic AI is accelerating attacks and shrinking remediation windows. The takeaway: cybersecurity must move at machine speed - from detection and prioritization to response.

Explore the key insights shaping cybersecurity’s next phase: https://tinyurl.com/bde48yn5

Read about the major discussions, product announcements, and highlights of Black Hat 2026 to understand what it signals for the future of cybersecurity.