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Opinion and analysis on the latest developments in artificial intelligence as they relate to cybersecurity and how stay protected.

Unmasking the Invisible: How to Identify AI Tools, Hidden Devices, and Other Unknown Assets on Your Network

You cannot protect what you do not know exists.

Shadow AI: The New Frontier of Shadow IT

As a CISO advisor, I am observing a familiar pattern gaining a new, critical dimension. What we historically identified as "Shadow IT", the use of unapproved SaaS and tools, is rapidly ...

Iranian APT Launches AI-Assisted Spear Phishing Attacks

The Iran-linked threat actor APT42 is using AI-assisted phishing attacks to target U.S. organizations amidst the Iran-US war, according to researchers at DarkAtlas.

Report: Employees Are Overconfident in Their Ability to Spot Scams

A survey from Trustmi found that most employees believe they’d be able to spot a social engineering attack, but those same employees still rely primarily on outdated guidance to spot red ...

Why Securing AI Agents Is More Critical Than Ever

AI agents offer unprecedented capabilities, speed, automation, deep context, and hyper-personalization, that will transform how we work. However, these same capabilities make AI agents ...

Introducing Real-Time Coaching in KnowBe4’s AI-Native Security Awareness Training

Attackers are getting smarter. AI is making social engineering more convincing, more personalized, and harder to spot than ever before. Training the digital workforce, employees and ...

AI Did Not Invent Social Engineering But It Did Industrialize It.

This year National Social Engineering Day falls on Aug. 6. This day is designed to give us an opportunity to remind people that cybercriminals do not always need sophisticated malware, an ...

Agent Risk Manager Moves into Early Access

When we first introduced Agent Risk Manager, the response was clear: many security teams are actively looking for a way to secure the AI agents already running in their environment and ...

Everyone's a Builder Now. That Changes Security Training.

I've spent my career figuring out what makes content stick, from early work for brands like Apple and onward across two decades across film, animation and generative AI. Different tools ...

New Phishing Kits Use Open-Source Tools to Bypass MFA

Researchers at Lexfo are tracking three sophisticated phishing kits that were built using open-source components, primarily based on the publicly available adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) ...