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Athletes Are Increasingly Targeted by Social Engineering Attacks

Scammers are increasingly targeting athletes with advanced social engineering attacks, the Guardian reports. The Guardian cites a recent report from Ernst & Young that found that ...

AI Agent Governance Part 3 - Runtime Governance: The Hidden Performance Cost of Agentic AI

Read Part 1 and Part 2 At the World Economic Forum cyber meeting in Geneva recently, I had an interesting conversation with Vinh Nguyen, who is a strategic security advisor and Senior ...

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 ...