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AI Agent Governance Part 2 - What Good Looks Like: Governing AI Agents in Practice

Read Part 1 If AI agents are becoming organizational actors, then governance needs to move beyond principles and into operational structure. In Camille Stewart Gloster’s upcoming book The ...

8 Ways to Reduce False Positives in Email Security

False positives can disrupt inbound email security as much as missed threats by slowing business workflows and eroding trust in security controls.

Ransomware Attacks Drive a Surge in Cyber Insurance Claims

Cyber insurance claims surged by 40% over the past eighteen months, while ransomware payments have dropped by 44%, according to a new report from Cowbell Cyber. The three most common ...

My Favorite 5 KnowBe4 Agents

With over 10 years of experience in implementing AI, KnowBe4 has a ton of agents on its platform which customers can use to significantly lower risk. They help to secure the digital ...

Perry Carpenter KB4-CON 2026 Q&A: Deepfakes & Deception

In just a couple years, deepfakes have gone from cartoonishly silly and largely academic exercises to sophisticated audio and video creations with the potential to trick just about anyone ...

Free Gift Fallacy: How Attackers Harvest Credit Cards via Fake Surveys

Lead Analysts: Jeewan Singh Jalal, Dilsha Dines, Karthikeyan Dharmaraj

When Global Conflict Becomes a Cyber Weapon: How Iran Tensions and Other Stressful Events Fuel Social Engineering Attacks

When geopolitical tensions rise, whether due to conflicts like the current one involving Iran or other global flashpoints, many organizations focus on physical security, supply chains, or ...

Alert: Extortion Groups Are Using Phishing Kits to Automate Their Attacks

Researchers at Push Security have analyzed a phishing platform used by organized criminal threat actors like ShinyHunters and BlackFile, finding more than 400 domains linked to attacks ...

Beyond the Chatbot: Why Your AI Agents are Your Newest (and Most Vulnerable) Colleagues

The era of "typing into a box" is over. For years, we viewed artificial intelligence as a digital assistant—a sophisticated autocomplete tool that waited for human input. But according to ...