How the City of Toronto embeds security across governance and operations
In this Help Net Security interview, Andree Noel, Deputy CISO at City of Toronto, discusses how the municipality strengthens its cyber defense by embedding security…
Category: HelpnetSecurity
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: October 2025
This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Chekov: Open-source static code analysis tool Checkov…
Email breaches are the silent killers of business growth
78% of organizations were hit by an email breach in the past 12 months, according to the Email Security Breach Report 2025 by Barracuda. Phishing,…
ZEST Security launches free AI-based remediation risk assessment for security teams
ZEST Security announced its free remediation risk assessment. The industry is overflowing with tools to identify vulnerabilities, but these tools all fail to provide context…
OpenAI’s gpt-oss-safeguard enables developers to build safer AI
OpenAI is releasing a research preview of gpt-oss-safeguard, a set of open-weight reasoning models for safety classification. The models come in two sizes: gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and…
Sanctions won’t stop cyberattacks, but they can still “bite”
Sanctions are one of the tools Western governments use when they want to hit back at state-sponsored cyber threat actors. But do they actually work?…
Commvault introduces Data Rooms to securely connect backup data with AI platforms
Commvault introduced Data Rooms, a secure environment that enables enterprises to safely connect their trusted backup data to the AI platforms they rely on, or…
Python Foundation rejects US government grant earmarked for security improvements
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has rejected a $1.5 million government grant due to restrictive conditions that would force the foundation to betray its mission…
Privado.ai introduces AI agents to automate privacy assessments and real-time data mapping
Privado.ai released several new capabilities to automate privacy assessments and data maps for privacy teams amid growing privacy enforcement for non-compliant personal data sharing. Leveraging…
Palo Alto Networks launches Prisma AIRS 2.0 to deliver end-to-end security across the AI lifecycle
Palo Alto Networks announced Prisma AIRS 2.0, a major platform upgrade that completes the native integration of recently acquired Protect AI to deliver a comprehensive…
Scammers target international students by threatening their visa status
In 2025, the U.S. government revoked thousands of visas from international students, often without warning or explanation. According to a newly released study, this opened…
AI agents can leak company data through simple web searches
When a company deploys an AI agent that can search the web and access internal documents, most teams assume the agent is simply working as…