Whether you’re generating data from scratch or transforming sensitive production data, performant test data generators are critical tools for achieving compliance in development workflows.
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Identity systems hold modern life together, yet we barely notice them until they fail. Every time someone starts a new job, crosses a border, or walks into a secure building, an official must answer one deceptively simple question: Is this person really who they claim to be? That single moment—matching a living, breathing human to..
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Over the past week, enterprise security teams observed a combination of covert malware communication attempts and aggressive probing of publicly exposed infrastructure. These incidents, detected across firewall and endpoint security layers, demonstrate how modern cyber attackers operate simultaneously. While quietly activating compromised internal systems, they also relentlessly scan external services for exploitable weaknesses. Although the
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Labeling adversary activity with ATT&CK techniques is a tried-and-true method for classifying behavior. But it rarely tells defenders how those behaviors are executed in real environments.
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As organizations accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, from deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) to integrating autonomous agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, risk management has transitioned from a theoretical exercise to a critical business imperative. The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) has emerged as the standard for managing these risks, offering a structured approach to designing, developing, and deploying trustworthy AI systems.
However, AI systems do not operate in isolation. They rely heavily on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to ingest training data, serve model inferences, and facilitate communication between agents and servers. Consequently, the API attack surface effectively becomes the AI attack surface. Securing these API pathways is fundamental to achieving the "Secure and Resilient" and "Privacy-Enhanced" characteristics mandated by the framework.
The NIST AI RMF is organized around four core functions that provide a structure for managing risk throughout the AI lifecycle:
While the "GOVERN" function in the NIST framework focuses on organizational culture and policies, API Posture Governance serves as the technical enforcement mechanism for these policies in operational environments.
Without robust API posture governance, organizations struggle to effectively Manage or Govern their AI risks. Unvetted AI models may be deployed via shadow APIs, and sensitive training data can be exposed through misconfigurations. Automating posture governance ensures that every API connected to an AI system adheres to security standards, preventing the deployment of insecure models and ensuring your AI infrastructure remains compliant by design.
Salt Security provides a tailored solution that aligns directly with the NIST AI RMF. By securing the API layer (Agentic AI Action Layer), Salt Security helps organizations maintain the integrity of their AI systems and safeguard sensitive data. The key features, along with their direct correlations to NIST AI RMF functions, include:
Trustworthy AI requires secure APIs. By implementing API Posture Governance and comprehensive security controls, organizations can confidently adopt the NIST AI RMF and innovate safely. Salt Security provides the visibility and protection needed to secure the critical infrastructure powering your AI. For a more in-depth understanding of API security compliance across multiple regulations, please refer to our comprehensive API Compliance Whitepaper.
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Breaking Free from Security Silos in the Modern Enterprise Today’s organizations face an unprecedented challenge: securing increasingly complex IT environments that span on-premises data centers, multiple cloud platforms, and hybrid architectures. Traditional security approaches that rely on disparate point solutions are failing to keep pace with sophisticated threats, leaving critical gaps in visibility and response
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SoundCloud confirmed today that it experienced a security incident involving unauthorized access to a supporting internal system, resulting in the exposure of certain user data. The company said the incident affected approximately 20 percent of its users and involved email addresses along with information already visible on public SoundCloud profiles. Passwords and financial information were […]
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This article was originally published in T.H.E. Journal on 12/10/25 by Charlie Sander. Device-based learning is no longer “new,” but many schools still lack a coherent playbook for managing it. Many school districts dashed to adopt 1:1 computing during the pandemic, spending $48 million on new devices to ensure every child had a platform to take classes ...
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The coming shift to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is not a distant, abstract threat—it is the single largest, most complex cryptographic migration in the history of cybersecurity. Major breakthroughs are being made with the technology. Google announced on October 22nd, “research that shows, for the first time in history, that a quantum computer can successfully run a verifiable algorithm on hardware, surpassing even the fastest classical supercomputers (13,000x faster).” It has the potential to disrupt every industry. Organizations must be ready to prepare now or pay later.
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Why fixing every vulnerability is impossible—and unnecessary. Learn how risk-based vulnerability management prioritizes what to patch, what to defer, and why context matters more than CVSS.
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In early December 2025, the React core team disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting React Server Components (RSC). These issues – Denial-of-Service and Source Code Exposure were found by security researchers probing the fixes for the previous week’s critical RSC vulnerability, known as “React2Shell”. While these newly discovered bugs do not enable Remote Code Execution, meaning […]
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You’ve spent weeks, maybe months, crafting your dream Electron app. The UI looks clean, the features work flawlessly, and you finally hit that Build button. Excited, you send the installer to your friend for testing. You’re expecting a “Wow, this is awesome!” Instead, you get: Windows protected your PC. Unknown Publisher.” That bright blue SmartScreen… Read More How to Sign a Windows App with Electron Builder?
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Explore how AI-driven threat detection can secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments from data manipulation attempts, with a focus on post-quantum security.
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How a simple “I found your photo” message can quietly take over your account
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There's a strange thing that happens when a person you once knew as your child seems, over years, to forget the sound of your voice, the feel of your laugh, or the way your presence once grounded them. It isnt just loss - it's an internal inversion: your love becomes a shadow. Something haunting, familiar, yet painful to face.
I know this because I lived it - decade after decade - as the father of two sons, now ages 28 and 26. What has stayed with me isn't just the external stripping away of connection, but the internal fracture it caused in myself.
Some days I felt like the person I was before alienation didn't exist anymore. Not because I lost my identity, but because I was forced to confront parts of myself I never knew were there - deep fears, hidden hopes, unexamined beliefs about love, worth, and attachment.
This isn't a story of blame. It's a story of honesty with the inner terrain - the emotional geography that alienation carved into my heart.
Love doesn't disappear when a child's affection is withdrawn. Instead, it changes shape. It becomes more subtle, less spoken, but no less alive.
When your kids are little, love shows up in bedtime stories, laughter, scraped knees, and easy smiles. When they're adults and distant, love shows up in the quiet hurt - the way you notice an empty chair, or a text that never came, or the echo of a memory that still makes your heart ache.
This kind of love doesn't vanish. It becomes a quiet force pulling you inward - toward reflection instead of reaction, toward steadiness instead of collapse.
There's a psychological reality at play here that goes beyond custody schedules, angry words, or fractured holidays. When a person - especially a young person - bonds with one attachment figure and rejects another, something profound is happening in the architecture of their emotional brain.
In some dynamics of parental influence, children form a hyper‑focused attachment to one caregiver and turn away from the other. That pattern isn't about rational choice but emotional survival. Attachment drives us to protect what feels safe and to fear what feels unsafe - even when the fear isn't grounded in reality. High Conflict Institute
When my sons leaned with all their emotional weight toward their mother - even to the point of believing impossible things about me - it was never just "obedience." It was attachment in overdrive: a neural pull toward what felt like safety, acceptance, or approval. And when that sense of safety was threatened by even a hint of disapproval, the defensive system in their psyche kicked into high gear.
This isn't a moral judgment. It's the brain trying to survive.
Here's the part no one talks about in polite conversation:
You can love someone deeply and grieve their absence just as deeply - at the same time.
It's one of the paradoxes that stays with you long after the world expects you to "move on."
You can hope that the door will open someday
and you can also acknowledge it may never open in this lifetime.
You can forgive the emotional wounds that were inflicted
and also mourn the lost years that you'll never get back.
You can love someone unconditionally
and still refuse to let that love turn into self‑erosion.
This tension - this bittersweet coexistence - becomes a part of your inner life.
This is where the real work lives.
When children grow up in an environment where one caregiver's approval feels like survival, the attachment system can begin to over‑regulate itself. Instead of trust being distributed across relationships, it narrows. The safe figure becomes everything. The other becomes threatening by association, even when there's no rational basis for fear. Men and Families
For my sons, that meant years of believing narratives that didn't fit reality - like refusing to consider documented proof of child support, or assigning malicious intent to benign situations. When confronted with facts, they didn't question the narrative - they rationalized it to preserve the internal emotional logic they had built around attachment and fear.
That's not weakness. That's how emotional survival systems work.
One of the hardest lessons is learning to hold ambivalence without distortion. In healthy relational development, people can feel both love and disappointment, both closeness and distance, both gratitude and grief - all without collapsing into one extreme or the other.
But in severe attachment distortion, the emotional brain tries to eliminate complexity - because complexity feels dangerous. It feels unstable. It feels like uncertainty. And the emotional brain prefers certainty, even if that certainty is painful. Karen Woodall
Learning to tolerate ambiguity - that strange space where love and loss coexist - becomes a form of inner strength.
I write this not to indict, accuse, or vilify anyone. The human psyche is far more complicated than simple cause‑and‑effect. What I've learned - through years of quiet reflection - is that:
Attachment wounds run deep, and they can overshadow logic and memory.
People don't reject love lightly. They reject fear and threat.
Healing isn't an event. It's a series of small acts of awareness and presence.
Your internal world is the only place you can truly govern. External reality is negotiable - inner life is not.
I have a quiet hope - not a loud demand - that one day my sons will look back and see the patterns that were invisible to them before. Not to blame. Not to re‑assign guilt. But to understand.
Hope isn't a promise. It's a stance of openness - a willingness to stay emotionally available without collapsing into desperation.
Healing isn't about winning back what was lost. It's about cultivating a life that holds the loss with compassion and still knows how to turn toward joy when it appears - quietly, softly, unexpectedly.
Your heart doesn't have to choose between love and grief. It can carry both.
And in that carrying, something deeper begins to grow.
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Parental Alienation & Emotional Impact
International Society for the New Definition of Abuse & Family Violence - overview on parental alienation as child abuse: https://isnaf.info/our-mission-2/
Research on adult impacts of alienating behaviours (mental health, trauma, identity): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9026878/
Attachment & Alienation Theory
Attachment and alienation discussion from High Conflict Institute: https://www.highconflictinstitute.com/attachment-and-alienation/
Attachment‑based model of parental alienation (PDF overview): https://menandfamilies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/An-Attachment-Based-Model-of-Parental-Alienation-Foundations.pdf
General Parental Alienation Background
Wikipedia on parental alienation (neutral background): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_alienation
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In cybersecurity, being “always on” is often treated like a badge of honor.
We celebrate the leaders who respond at all hours, who jump into every incident, who never seem to unplug. Availability gets confused with commitment. Urgency gets mistaken for effectiveness. And somewhere along the way, exhaustion becomes normalized—if not quietly admired.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Always-on leadership doesn’t scale. And over time, it becomes a liability.
I’ve seen it firsthand, and if you’ve spent any real time in high-pressure security environments, you probably have too.
The Myth of Constant Availability
Cybersecurity is unforgiving. Threats don’t wait for business hours. Incidents don’t respect calendars. That reality creates a subtle but dangerous expectation: real leaders are always reachable.
The problem isn’t short-term intensity. The problem is when intensity becomes an identity.
When leaders feel compelled to be everywhere, all the time, a few things start to happen:
Decision quality quietly degrades
Teams become dependent instead of empowered
Strategic thinking gets crowded out by reactive work
From the outside, it can look like dedication. From the inside, it often feels like survival mode.
And survival mode is a terrible place to lead from.
Burnout isn’t just about being tired. It’s about losing margin—mental, emotional, and strategic margin.
Leaders without margin:
Default to familiar solutions instead of better ones
React instead of anticipate
Solve today’s problem at the expense of tomorrow’s resilience
In cybersecurity, that’s especially dangerous. This field demands clarity under pressure, judgment amid noise, and the ability to zoom out when everything is screaming “zoom in.”
When leaders are depleted, those skills are the first to go.
One of the biggest mindset shifts I’ve seen in effective leaders is this:
They stop trying to be the system and start building one.
That means:
Creating clear decision boundaries so teams don’t need constant escalation
Trusting people with ownership, not just tasks
Designing escalation paths that protect focus instead of destroying it
This isn’t about disengaging. It’s about leading intentionally.
Ironically, the leaders who are least available at all times are often the ones whose teams perform best—because the system works even when they step away.
There’s a difference between being reachable and being present.
Presence is about:
Showing up fully when it matters
Making thoughtful decisions instead of fast ones
Modeling sustainable behavior for teams that are already under pressure
When leaders never disconnect, they send a message—even if unintentionally—that rest is optional and boundaries are weakness. Over time, that culture burns people out long before the threat landscape does.
Good leaders protect their teams.
Great leaders also protect their own capacity to lead.
In a field obsessed with uptime, response times, and coverage, it’s worth asking a harder question:
If I stepped away for a week, would things fall apart—or function as designed?
If the answer is “fall apart,” that’s not a personal failure. It’s a leadership signal. One that points to opportunity, not inadequacy.
The strongest leaders I know aren’t always on.
They’re intentional. They’re disciplined. And they understand that long-term effectiveness requires more than endurance—it requires self-mastery.
In cybersecurity especially, that might be the most underrated leadership skill of all.
World Health Organization (WHO) — Burn-out an “occupational phenomenon” (ICD-11 overview)
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon-international-classification-of-diseases
World Health Organization (WHO) — Burn-out: an occupational phenomenon (FAQ / definition)
https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon
Harvard Business Review — When You’re the Executive Everyone Relies On—and You’re Burning Out (Oct 9, 2025)
https://hbr.org/2025/10/when-youre-the-executive-everyone-relies-on-and-youre-burning-out
Harvard Business Review — Preventing Burnout Is About Empathetic Leadership (Sep 28, 2020)
https://hbr.org/2020/09/preventing-burnout-is-about-empathetic-leadership
Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE Book) — Eliminating Toil
https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/
Google SRE Workbook — Eliminating Toil (operational efficiency)
https://sre.google/workbook/eliminating-toil/
NIST — SP 800-61r3 (PDF): Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management (CSF 2.0 Community Profile)
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-61r3.pdf
NIST CSRC — SP 800-61r3 publication landing page
https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/61/r3/ipd
NIST News — NIST Revises SP 800-61 (incident response recommendations)
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/04/nist-revises-sp-800-61-incident-response-recommendations-and-considerations
CDC / NIOSH — Stress…At Work (NIOSH Publication No. 99-101)
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/99-101/default.html
OSHA — Workplace Stress: Guidance and Tips for Employers
https://www.osha.gov/workplace-stress/employer-guidance
Mind Garden — Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (official distributor page)
https://www.mindgarden.com/117-maslach-burnout-inventory-mbi
Training Industry — Developing Conscious Leaders for a Fast-Changing World
https://trainingindustry.com/articles/leadership/developing-conscious-leaders-for-a-fast-changing-world/
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How Do Non-Human Identities Transform Cloud Security Management? Could your cloud security management strategy be missing a vital component? With cybersecurity evolves, the focus has expanded beyond traditional human operatives to encompass Non-Human Identities (NHIs). Understanding NHIs and their role in modern cloud environments is crucial for industries ranging from financial services to healthcare. This […]
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How Do Non-Human Identities Impact Cybersecurity? What role do Non-Human Identities (NHIs) play cybersecurity risks? Where machine-to-machine interactions are burgeoning, understanding NHIs becomes critical for any organization aiming to secure its cloud environments effectively. Decoding Non-Human Identities in the Cybersecurity Sphere Non-Human Identities are the machine identities that enable vast numbers of applications, services, and […]
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Is Your Organization Prepared for the Evolving Landscape of Non-Human Identities? Managing non-human identities (NHIs) has become a critical focal point for organizations, especially for those using cloud-based platforms. But how can businesses ensure they are adequately protected against the evolving threats targeting machine identities? The answer lies in adopting a strategic and comprehensive approach […]
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The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is now in full effect, and financial institutions across the EU face mounting pressure to demonstrate robust ICT risk management and cyber resilience. With...
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Official AppOmni Company Information AppOmni delivers continuous SaaS security posture management, threat detection, and vital security insights into SaaS applications. Uncover hidden risks, prevent data exposure, and gain total control over your SaaS environments with an all-in-one platform. AppOmni Overview Mission: AppOmni’s mission is to prevent SaaS data breaches by securing the applications that power […]
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) today published a report detailing a series of cyberattacks occurring over multiple years attributable to Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) that were aimed primarily at the energy sector in North America, Europe and the Middle East. The latest Amazon Threat Intelligence report concludes that the cyberattacks have been evolving since 2021,..
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“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi In the 12th century, St. Francis wasn’t talking about digital systems, but his advice remains startlingly relevant for today’s AI governance challenges. Enterprises are suddenly full of AI agents such as copilots embedded in …
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State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments operate the systems that keep American society functioning: 911 dispatch centers, water treatment plants, transportation networks, court systems, and public benefits portals. When these digital systems are compromised, the impact is immediate and physical. Citizens cannot call for help, renew licenses, access healthcare, or receive social services. Yet
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A data breach of credit reporting and ID verification services firm 700Credit affected 5.6 million people, allowing hackers to steal personal information of customers of the firm's client companies. 700Credit executives said the breach happened after bad actors compromised the system of a partner company.
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ServiceNow Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal that could reach $7 billion, its largest ever, according to reports. Bloomberg News first reported the discussions over the weekend, noting that an announcement could come within days. However, sources cautioned that the deal could still collapse or attract competing bidders...
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Session 6A: LLM Privacy and Usable Privacy
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Xiaoyuan Wu (Carnegie Mellon University), Lydia Hu (Carnegie Mellon University), Eric Zeng (Carnegie Mellon University), Hana Habib (Carnegie Mellon University), Lujo Bauer (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Transparency or Information Overload? Evaluating Users' Comprehension and Perceptions of the iOS App Privacy Report
Apple's App Privacy Report, released in 2021, aims to inform iOS users about apps' access to their data and sensors (e.g., contacts, camera) and, unlike other privacy dashboards, what domains are contacted by apps and websites. To evaluate the effectiveness of the privacy report, we conducted semi-structured interviews to examine users' reactions to the information, their understanding of relevant privacy implications, and how they might change their behavior to address privacy concerns. Participants easily understood which apps accessed data and sensors at certain times on their phones, and knew how to remove an app's permissions in case of unexpected access. In contrast, participants had difficulty understanding apps' and websites' network activities. They were confused about how and why network activities occurred, overwhelmed by the number of domains their apps contacted, and uncertain about what remedial actions they could take against potential privacy threats. While the privacy report and similar tools can increase transparency by presenting users with details about how their data is handled, we recommend providing more interpretation or aggregation of technical details, such as the purpose of contacting domains, to help users make informed decisions.
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The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies.
Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.
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Your employees are using AI whether you’ve sanctioned it or not. And even if you’ve carefully vetted and approved an enterprise-grade AI platform, you’re still at risk of attacks and data leakage.
Security leaders are grappling with three types of risks from sanctioned and unsanctioned AI tools. First, there’s shadow AI, all those AI tools that employees use without the approval or knowledge of IT. Then there are the risks that come with sanctioned platforms and agents. If those weren’t enough, you still have to prevent the exposure of sensitive information.
The prevalence of AI use in the workplace is clear: a recent survey by CybSafe and the National Cybersecurity Alliance shows that 65% of respondents are using AI. More than four in 10 (43%) admit to sharing sensitive information with AI tools without their employer’s knowledge. If you haven’t already implemented an AI acceptable use policy, it’s time to get moving. An AI acceptable use policy is an important first step in addressing shadow AI, risky platforms and agents, and data leakage. Let’s dig into each of these three risks and the steps you can take to protect your organization.
The key risks: Each unsanctioned shadow AI tool represents an unmanaged element of your attack surface, where data can leak or threats can enter. For security teams, shadow AI expands the organization's attack surface with unvetted tools, vulnerabilities, and integrations that existing security controls can’t see. The result? You can’t govern AI use. You can try to block it. But, as we’ve learned from other shadow IT trends, you really can’t stop it. So, how can you reduce risk while meeting the needs of the business?
The key risks: Good AI governance means moving users from risky shadow AI to sanctioned enterprise environments. But sanctioned or not, AI platforms introduce unique risks. Threat actors can use sophisticated techniques like prompt injection to trick the tool into ignoring its guardrails. They might employ model manipulation to poison the underlying LLM model and cause exfiltration of private data. In addition, the tools themselves can raise issues related to data privacy, data residency, insecure data sharing, and bias. Knowing what to look for in an enterprise-grade AI vendor is the first step.
The key risks: Even if you’ve done your best to educate employees about shadow AI and performed your due diligence in choosing enterprise AI tools to sanction for use, data leakage remains a risk. Two common pathways for data leakage are:
When your employees adopt AI, you don't have to choose between innovation and security. The unified exposure management approach of Tenable One allows you to discover all AI use with Tenable AI Aware and then protect your sensitive data with Tenable AI Exposure. This combination gives you visibility and enables you to manage your attack surface while safely embracing the power of AI.
Let’s briefly explore how these solutions can help you across the areas we covered in this post:
Unsanctioned AI usage across your organization creates an unmanaged attack surface and a massive blind spot for your security team. Tenable AI Aware can discover all sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage across your organization. Tenable AI Exposure gives your security teams visibility into the sensitive data that’s exposed so you can enforce policies and control AI-related risks.
Threat actors use sophisticated techniques like prompt injection to trick sanctioned AI platforms into ignoring their guardrails. The prompt-level visibility and real-time analysis you get with Tenable AI Exposure can pinpoint these novel attacks and score their severity, enabling your security team to prioritize and remediate the most critical exposure pathways within your enterprise environment. In addition, AI Exposure helps you uncover AI misconfiguration that could allow connections to an unvetted third-party tool or unintentionally make an agent meant only for internal use publicly available. Fixing such misconfigurations reduces the risks of data leaks and exfiltration.
The static, rule-based approach of traditional data loss prevention (DLP) tools can’t manage non-deterministic AI outputs or novel attacks, which leaves gaps through which sensitive information can exit your organization. Tenable AI Exposure fills these gaps by monitoring AI interactions and workflows. It uses a number of machine learning and deep learning AI models to learn about new attack techniques based on the semantic and policy-violating intent of the interaction, not just simple keywords. This can then help inform other blocking solutions as part of your mitigation actions. For a deeper look at the challenges of preventing data leakage, read [add blog title, URL when ready].
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Campus Technology & THE Journal Name Cloud Monitor as Winner in the Cybersecurity Risk Management Category BOULDER, Colo.—December 15, 2025—ManagedMethods, the leading provider of cybersecurity, safety, web filtering, and classroom management solutions for K-12 schools, is pleased to announce that Cloud Monitor has won in this year’s Campus Technology & THE Journal 2025 Product of ...
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Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill. Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted Cruz dropped a ticking time bomb of tech policy: a ten-year moratorium on the ability of states to regulate artificial intelligence. To many, this was catastrophic. The few massive AI companies seem to be swallowing our economy whole: their energy demands are overriding household needs, their data demands are overriding creators’ copyright, and their products are triggering mass unemployment as well as new types of clinical ...
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This is the third installment in our four-part 2025 Year-End Roundtable. In Part One, we explored how accountability got personal. In Part Two, we examined how regulatory mandates clashed with operational complexity.
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Navigating the Most Complex Regulatory Landscapes in Cybersecurity Financial services and healthcare organizations operate under the most stringent regulatory frameworks in existence. From HIPAA and PCI-DSS to GLBA, SOX, and emerging regulations like DORA, these industries face a constant barrage of compliance requirements that demand not just checkboxes, but comprehensive, continuously monitored security programs. The
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The cybersecurity battlefield has changed. Attackers are faster, more automated, and more persistent than ever. As businesses shift to cloud, remote work, SaaS, and distributed infrastructure, their security needs have outgrown traditional IT support. This is the turning point:Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are evolving into full-scale Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) – and the ones
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Launching an AI initiative without a robust data strategy and governance framework is a risk many organizations underestimate. Most AI projects often stall, deliver poor...Read More
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Learn why modern SaaS platforms are adopting passwordless authentication to improve security, user experience, and reduce breach risks.
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Most enterprise breaches no longer begin with a firewall failure or a missed patch. They begin with an exposed identity. Credentials harvested from infostealers. Employee logins are sold on criminal forums. Executive personas impersonated to trigger wire fraud. Customer identities stitched together from scattered exposures. The modern breach path is identity-first — and that shift …
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Join us in the midst of the holiday shopping season as we discuss a growing privacy problem: tracking pixels embedded in marketing emails. According to Proton’s latest Spam Watch 2025 report, nearly 80% of promotional emails now contain trackers that report back your email activity. We discuss how these trackers work, why they become more […]
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Bugcrowd unveils AI Triage Assistant and AI Analytics to help security teams proactively defend against AI-driven cyberattacks by accelerating vulnerability analysis, reducing MTTR, and enabling preemptive security decisions.
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Learn how fine-grained access control protects sensitive Model Context Protocol (MCP) data. Discover granular policies, context-aware permissions, and quantum-resistant security for AI infrastructure.
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Understand the key differences between CIAM and IAM. Learn which identity management solution is right for your business for customer and employee access.
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United States of America’s NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir’s Hanukkah Wishes from the International Space Station: Happy Hanukkah to all those who celebrate it on Earth! (Originally Published in 2019)
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Are You Overlooking the Security of Non-Human Identities in Your Cybersecurity Framework? Where bustling with technological advancements, the security focus often zooms in on human authentication and protection, leaving the non-human counterparts—Non-Human Identities (NHIs)—in the shadows. The integration of NHIs in data security strategies is not just an added layer of protection but a necessity. […]
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Why Are Non-Human Identities Essential for Secure Cloud Environments? Organizations face a unique but critical challenge: securing non-human identities (NHIs) and their secrets within cloud environments. But why are NHIs increasingly pivotal for cloud security strategies? Understanding Non-Human Identities and Their Role in Cloud Security To comprehend the significance of NHIs, we must first explore […]
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What Challenges Do Organizations Face When Managing NHIs? Organizations often face unique challenges when managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs). A critical aspect that enterprises must navigate is the delicate balance between security and innovation. NHIs, essentially machine identities, require meticulous attention when they bridge the gap between security teams and research and development (R&D) units. For […]
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What Role Do Non-Human Identities Play in Securing Our Digital Ecosystems? Where more organizations migrate to the cloud, the concept of securing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is becoming increasingly crucial. NHIs, essentially machine identities, are pivotal in maintaining robust cybersecurity frameworks. They are a unique combination of encrypted passwords, tokens, or keys, which are akin to […]
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Session 5D: Side Channels 1
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jonas Juffinger (Graz University of Technology), Fabian Rauscher (Graz University of Technology), Giuseppe La Manna (Amazon), Daniel Gruss (Graz University of Technology)
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Secret Spilling Drive: Leaking User Behavior through SSD Contention
Covert channels and side channels bypass architectural security boundaries. Numerous works have studied covert channels and side channels in software and hardware. Thus, research on covert-channel and side-channel mitigations relies on the discovery of leaky hardware and software components. In this paper, we perform the first study of timing channels inside modern commodity off-the-shelf SSDs. We systematically analyze the behavior of NVMe PCIe SSDs with concurrent workloads. We observe that exceeding the maximum I/O operations of the SSD leads to significant latency spikes. We narrow down the number of I/O operations required to still induce latency spikes on 12 different SSDs. Our results show that a victim process needs to read at least 8 to 128 blocks to be still detectable by an attacker. Based on these experiments, we show that an attacker can build a covert channel, where the sender encodes secret bits into read accesses to unrelated blocks, inaccessible to the receiver. We demonstrate that this covert channel works across different systems and different SSDs, even from processes running inside a virtual machine. Our unprivileged SSD covert channel achieves a true capacity of up to 1503 bit/s while it works across virtual machines (cross-VM) and is agnostic to operating system versions, as well as other hardware characteristics such as CPU or DRAM. Given the coarse granularity of the SSD timing channel, we evaluate it as a side channel in an open-world website fingerprinting attack over the top 100 websites. We achieve an F1 score of up to 97.0. This shows that the leakage goes beyond covert communication and can leak highly sensitive information from victim users. Finally, we discuss the root cause of the SSD timing channel and how it can be mitigated.
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How can we describe the past year in cybersecurity? No doubt, AI was front and center in so many conversations, and now there’s no going back. Here’s why.
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