Every major building in America has three things: a physical address, a legal owner, and an unmonitored attack surface.

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That surface extends from the ground up through every floor, every facade, and … (more…)

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For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable.

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Two developments this month brought the … (more…)

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As if securing the enterprise against a tidal wave of AI tools wasn’t hard enough, it turns out the geopolitical instability of the moment is making things worse.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Enterprises rushing to deploy AI in their operations are opening a security exposure most of their existing tools were never designed to address. That’s the hard message coming out of RSAC 2026 — and it’s one worth … (more…)

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SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-four thousand cybersecurity practitioners converged on Moscone Center this week with an urgent question: how do you secure a network when everything — the technology, the threats, the tools — is changing faster than anyone can govern … (more…)

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The authentication layer that corporate America spent a decade building is now a liability.

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That’s the blunt assessment of Kevin Surace, chairman of Token, a Rochester, N.Y.-based security company … (more…)

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SAN FRANCISCO — RSAC 2026 opens here Monday at Moscone Center, with upwards of 40,000 cybersecurity professionals, executives, and policy leaders, myself among them, filing in to take stock of an industry under acute pressure.

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In our recent report, Beyond the Black Box, we found a striking gap: 80% of executives believe their organizations have strong security coverage for AI systems. Only about 40% of AppSec practitioners agree.

Related: AI moves mainstream

That’s not … (more…)

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I ran an experiment this week that I did not expect to be instructive, and it was.

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The setup was simple. I had been working through a spontaneous personal essay — about cognitive … (more…)

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Security teams are drowning in signals. Alerts fire. Logs accumulate. Dashboards light up. Yet breaches still unfold quietly, often through a series of low-level actions that never trigger a single catastrophic alarm.

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Attackers do not … (more…)

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KINGSTON, Wash. — On Friday afternoon, President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic’s AI technology. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed by designating the company a “supply-chain risk to national security,” a label the government typically reserves for … (more…)

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