Elastic introduces Agent Builder to simplify AI agent development
Elastic released Agent Builder, a complete set of capabilities powered by Elasticsearch, that makes it easy for developers to build custom AI agents on company…
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Keycard emerges from stealth with identity and access solution for AI agents
Keycard emerged from stealth with its identity and access platform for AI agents that integrates with organizations’ existing user identity solutions. Keycard’s platform identifies AI…
Life, death, and online identity: What happens to your online accounts after death?
The rapid technological advances of recent decades have transformed nearly every aspect of our lives. One major shift is that many of us now maintain…
For blind people, staying safe online means working around the tools designed to help
Blind and low-vision users face the same password challenges as everyone else, but the tools meant to make security easier often end up getting in…
OpenFGA: The open-source engine redefining access control
OpenFGA is an open-source, high-performance, and flexible authorization engine inspired by Google’s Zanzibar system for relationship-based access control. It helps developers model and enforce fine-grained…
Companies want the benefits of AI without the cyber blowback
51% of European IT and cybersecurity professionals said they expect AI-driven cyber threats and deepfakes to keep them up at night in 2026, according to…
Google introduces agentic threat intelligence for faster, conversational threat analysis
Security teams spend much of their day pulling data from reports, forums, and feeds, trying to connect clues across multiple sources. Google says that work…
Dataminr’s $290 million ThreatConnect deal expands AI for real-time cyber defense
Dataminr has announced its intent to acquire ThreatConnect in a transaction valuing the company at $290 million. The fusion of Dataminr’s AI platform for public…
Illumio unveils AI Insights Agent to cut alert fatigue and accelerate threat response
Illumio has released Insights Agent, a new capability within Illumio Insights, the company’s AI-driven cloud detection and response (CDR) solution. Agent is an AI-powered, persona-driven…
Official Xubuntu website compromised to serve malware
The official website for Xubuntu, a community-maintained “flavour” of Ubuntu that ships with the Xfce desktop environment, has been compromised to serve Windows malware instead…
Agentic AI security: Building the next generation of access controls
As artificial intelligence (AI) solutions continue to evolve, the rise of agentic AI—intelligent systems that can act autonomously on behalf of an organization—presents new security…
When everything’s connected, everything’s at risk
In this Help Net Security interview, Ken Deitz, CISO at Brown & Brown, discusses how the definition of cyber risk has expanded beyond IT to…