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Security teams are leaning hard into AI, and fast. A recent survey of 500 senior cybersecurity pros at big U.S. companies found that 86% have ramped up their AI use in the past year. The main reason? They’re trying to keep up with a surge in AI-p… Continue reading AI threats leave SecOps teams burned out and exposed
In this Help Net Security interview, Renana Friedlich-Barsky, EVP and CISO at LPL Financial, discusses how threat actors are targeting high-net-worth clients and exploiting digital touchpoints in wealth management. She explains why firms must embed sec… Continue reading Balancing cybersecurity and client experience for high-net-worth clients
The threat landscape in the bioeconomy is different from what most CISOs are used to. It includes traditional risks like data breaches, but the consequences are more complex. A compromise of genomic databases, for example, does not just expose personal… Continue reading CISOs, are you ready for cyber threats in biotech?
fiddleitm is an open-source tool built on top of mitmproxy that helps find malicious web traffic. It works by checking HTTP requests and responses for known patterns that might point to malware, phishing, or other threats. fiddleitm features “I c… Continue reading fiddleitm: Open-source mitmproxy add-on identifies malicious web traffic
In this Help Net Security interview, Benny Porat, CEO at Twine Security, discusses applying AI agents to security decisions. He explains why identity and access management (IAM) is the ideal starting point for both augmentation and automation, and shar… Continue reading Why IAM should be the starting point for AI-driven cybersecurity
Ransomware, trojans, and malware delivered through USB devices are putting growing pressure on industrial systems, according to the Honeywell 2025 Cyber Threat Report, which draws on data from monitoring tools deployed across industrial sites around th… Continue reading Ransomware and USB attacks are hammering OT systems
Meta has released an open source AI tool called Automated Sensitive Document Classification. It was originally built for internal use and is designed to find sensitive information in documents and apply security labels automatically. The tool uses cust… Continue reading Meta open-sources AI tool to automatically classify sensitive documents
In this Help Net Security interview, Thomas Squeo, CTO for the Americas at Thoughtworks, discusses why traditional security architectures often fail when applied to autonomous AI systems. He explains why conventional threat modeling needs to adapt to a… Continue reading Agentic AI and the risks of unpredictable autonomy
Decentralized identity (DID) is gaining traction, and for CISOs, it’s becoming a part of long-term planning around data protection, privacy, and control. As more organizations experiment with verifiable credentials and self-sovereign identity mod… Continue reading Rethinking governance in a decentralized identity world
Infosecurity Europe 2025 is a cybersecurity event taking place from June 3 to 5 in London. Help Net Security is on-site and here’s a closer look at the conference. The first gallery is here. The featured vendors are: Bitdefender, Qualys, Sonatype… Continue reading Photos: Infosecurity Europe 2025, part 2