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News alert: Aembit brings ‘Workload IAM’ to Microsoft stack, secures hybrid AI and app access - The Last Watchdog
Silver Spring, MD, June 3, 2025, CyberNewswire -- Aembit, the workload identity and access management (IAM) company, today announced a major expansion of its platform to support Microsoft environments. With this launch, enterprises can now enforce secure, policy-based access for software workloads and agentic AI running on Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and
MY TAKE: Are we ‘Super f**ked’ by agentic AI — or finally able to take charge of what comes next? - The Last Watchdog
When VC mogul Chris Sacca declared AI is the death knell for professional services, I flinched. Not because he’s wrong — but because it’s only half the story. Related: GenAI grows up - at RSAC 2025 As a journalist who’s covered multiple technology shifts from the inside, I’ve learned to distinguish hype from real inflection
SHARED INTEL Q&A: When every IoT Device and AI assistant has an identity — who’s in control? - The Last Watchdog
As enterprise adoption of generative AI accelerates, security teams face a new identity dilemma — not just more users and devices, but a growing swarm of non-human agents and autonomous systems requesting access to sensitive assets. Related: Top 10 Microsoft Copilot risks At the same time, traditional identity and access management (IAM) tools are buckling
RSAC Fireside Chat: Human and machine identity risks are converging — and they’re finally visible - The Last Watchdog
Non-human service accounts have quietly become one of the biggest liabilities in enterprise security. Related: Why identity is the cornerstone of cyber defense These machine credentials — used to automate connections between systems — now outnumber humans by 30 to 1. That gap is likely even wider in cloud-intensive environments. Yet despite their scale, service
RSAC Fireside Chat: Cyber risk mitigation turns personal–defending the CEO as an attack vector - The Last Watchdog
Executives are under digital siege—and most don't even know it. Related: Shareholders sue over murder At RSAC 2025, I sat down with Chuck Randolph, SVP of Strategic Intelligence and Security at 360 Privacy, to unpack a trend reshaping the threat landscape: the weaponization of personal data against corporate leaders and high-net-worth individuals. For a full
RSAC Fireside Chat: ‘Purple’ teams dismantle the reactive trap — and can help restore cyber readiness - The Last Watchdog
Reactive security isn’t just outdated — it’s become a liability. Attackers have figured out how to weaponize speed, and defenders are struggling to keep pace. Related: Mastering adversary emulation At RSAC 2025, I spoke with Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist and Global VP of Threat Intelligence at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, about how and why the
SHARED INTEL Q&A: Visibility, not volume — reframing detection for the AI-enabled SOC - The Last Watchdog
For years, network security has revolved around the perimeter: firewalls, antivirus, endpoint controls. But as attackers grow more sophisticated — and as operations scatter to the cloud, mobile, and IoT — it’s increasingly what happens inside the network that counts. Related: The NDR evolution story Enter Network Detection and Response (NDR) — a space once
News alert: INE Security, Abadnet Institute partner to deliver cybersecurity training in Saudi Arabia - The Last Watchdog
Cary, NC. May 22, 2025, CyberNewswire -- INE Security, a global leader in Cybersecurity training and certifications, has announced a strategic partnership with Abadnet Institute for Training, a Riyadh-based leader in specialized Information Technology, Cybersecurity, and Networking training. The collaboration leverages INE Security's internationally recognized cybersecurity training content and Abadnet's established presence in the Saudi
News Alert: Halo Security reaches SOC 2 milestone, validating its security controls and practices - The Last Watchdog
Miami, Fla., May 22, 2025, CyberNewsWire -- Halo Security, a leading provider of attack surface management and penetration testing services, today announced it has successfully achieved SOC 2 Type 1 compliance following a comprehensive audit by Insight Assurance. This certification validates that Halo Security's security controls and practices are properly designed and implemented to meet
News alert: Attaxion integrates its EASM Platform with ENISA’s EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD) - The Last Watchdog
Dover, Del., May 21, 2025, CyberNewswire -- Attaxion, the external attack surface management (EASM) vendor with industry-leading asset coverage, announces the integration of the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) into its platform. Operated by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the EUVD is a publicly accessible vulnerability repository developed in response to the NIS2 Directive.
News alert: DataHub secures $35M Series B to enable AI to safely manage and use data - The Last Watchdog
Palo Alto, Calif., May 21, 2025 – DataHub, by Acryl Data, the leading open source metadata platform, today announced it has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This latest round brings the company's total funding to $65 million, enabling accelerated development of its context management platform that provides discovery,
RSAC Fireside Chat: Enterprise browsers arise to align security with the modern flow of work - The Last Watchdog
A quiet but consequential shift is underway in enterprise workspace security. The browser has effectively become the new operating system of business. Related: Gartner's enterprise browser review It didn’t happen all at once. But as SaaS took over, remote work went mainstream, and generative AI entered the picture, the browser quietly assumed a central role.
MY TAKE: Semantics aside, “agentic AI” is already reshaping how we work, think, envision what’s next - The Last Watchdog
Stephen Klein didn’t just stir the pot. He lit a fire. Related: Klein's LinkedIn debate In a sharply worded post that quickly went viral on LinkedIn, the technologist and academic took direct aim at what he called the “hype-as-a-service” business model behind so-called agentic AI. His critique was blunt: what the industry is selling as
SHARED INTEL Q&A: AI in the SOC isn’t all about speed — it’s more so about smoothing process - The Last Watchdog
The SOC has long been the enterprise’s first line of defense. But despite years of investment in threat feeds and automation platforms, the same question persists: why does intelligence still struggle to translate into timely action? Related: IBM makes the AI speed argument for SOCs The 2023 disclosure of Volt Typhoon was a case in
GUEST ESSAY: Cybercrime for hire: small businesses are the new bullseye of the Dark Web - The Last Watchdog
Small businesses make up 90% of all companies worldwide and account for half of global GDP. Yet despite their importance, many lack the cybersecurity expertise and resources to fend off a rising tide of digital threats. Related: Protecting lateral networks in SMBs Rich in sensitive data and often connected to larger supply chains, small businesses
News alert: INE Security highlights monthly CVE Labs aimed at sharpening real-world defense - The Last Watchdog
Cary, NC, May 14, 2025, CyberNewswire -- INE Security, a global leader in hands-on cybersecurity training and certifications, today highlighted how ongoing real-world practice with the latest CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is essential for transforming security teams from reactive to proactive defenders. With over 26,000 new CVEs documented in the past year, security teams
News Alert: INE Security outlines top 5 training priorities emerging from RSAC 2025 - The Last Watchdog
Cary, NC, May 13, 2025, CyberNewswire --Fresh from a high-impact presence at RSAC 2025, where INE Security welcomed thousands of visitors to its interactive booth at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, the global cybersecurity training and certification provider is addressing some of the top cybersecurity priorities emerging from the industry-leading event. As an exhibitor that engaged
Author’s Q&A: It’s high time for CISOs to start leading strategically — or risk being scapegoated - The Last Watchdog
The cybersecurity landscape has never moved faster — and the people tasked with defending it have never felt more exposed. Related: How real people are really using GenAI Today’s Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) operate in a pressure cooker: responsible for protecting critical assets, expected to show up in the boardroom with fluency, yet rarely
MY TAKE: Beyond agentic AI mediocrity — the real disruption is empowering the disenfranchised - The Last Watchdog
Is agentic AI accelerating mediocrity? Plenty of folks on LinkedIn seem to think so. Related: The 400th journalist A growing chorus of academics, tech workers, and digital culture watchers are pointing out the obvious: the more we prompt, the more we flatten. Across marketing, B2B, and even journalism, GenAI is churning out clean, inoffensive, structurally
RSAC Strategic Reel: Cyber experts on the front lines unpack ‘Shadow AI,’ ‘Ground Truth’ - The Last Watchdog
The response to our first LastWatchdog Strategic Reel has been energizing — and telling. Related: What is a cyber kill chain? The appetite for crisp, credible insight is alive and well. As the LinkedIn algo picked up steam and auto-captioning kicked in, it became clear that this short-form format resonates. Not just because it’s fast
INTRODUCING: LastWatchdog strategic LinkedIN reels – insights from the ground floor at RSAC 2025 - The Last Watchdog
Every year at RSAC, the cybersecurity conversation swells with new terms, emerging threats, and fresh takes on familiar problems. What exactly is 'agentic AI?' At RSAC 2025, the volume knob turned to AI — its potential, its peril, and its increasingly complex role in enterprise defense. But behind the keynote gloss, what often resonates most
Benchmarks Q&A: What the finance sector’s new X9 PKI standard signals for other industries - The Last Watchdog
As organizations brace for the rising tide of machine identities and prepare for a post-quantum cryptographic era, a quiet but crucial shift is underway in the financial sector: the deployment of a new, private PKI standard designed specifically to meet banking’s complex operational and compliance needs. Related: Why crypto-agility is a must have While the
MY TAKE: RSAC 2025’s big takeaway — GenAI is growing up fast, but still needs human direction - The Last Watchdog
SAN FRANCISCO — The cybersecurity industry showed up here in force last week: 44,000 attendees, 730 speakers, 650 exhibitors and 400 members of the media flooding Moscone Convention Center in the City by the Bay. Related: RSAC 2025 by the numbers Beneath the cacophony of GenAI-powered product rollouts, the signal that stood out was subtler:
MY TAKE: RSAC 2025 – Conversing with vendors hanging out in the Marriott Marquis mezzanine - The Last Watchdog
SAN FRANCISCO — Sometimes, the best insights come not from the keynote stage, but from the hotel lobby. Related: RSAC 2025 top takeaways In between sessions at RSAC 2025, I slipped over to the Marriott lobby and held quick, off-the-cuff interviews with a handful of cybersecurity vendors — each doing something genuinely different, often radical,
News alert: Link11 integrates DOSarrest, Reblaze to deliver advanced, integrated security platform - The Last Watchdog
Frankfurt, Apr.30, 2025, CyberNewswire – Link11, DOSarrest, and Reblaze have combined their strengths into a single, integrated platform with a new brand identity. The result: a consistent user experience, maximum efficiency, and seamless security. As a European provider, Link11 addresses the current business risks associated with geopolitical uncertainties and growing compliance requirements. At the same
News alert: At RSAC 2025, SecAI unveils platform that fuses agentic AI, contextual threat intelligence - The Last Watchdog
San Francisco, Calif., Apr 29, 2025, CyberNewswire -- SecAI, an AI-enriched threat intelligence company, made its official debut today at RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco, marking the company’s first public appearance on the global cybersecurity stage. At the event, the SecAI team is showcasing the latest version of its platform to security professionals from
RSAC Fireside Chat: Shift left, think forward — why MDR is emerging as cyber’s silver bullet - The Last Watchdog
With RSAC kicking off next week, the conversation is shifting—literally. Cybersecurity pros are rethinking how “shift left” applies not just to code, but to enterprise risk. Related: Making sense of threat detection In this Fireside Chat, I spoke with John DiLullo, CEO of Deepwatch, who makes a compelling case for how Managed Detection and Response
News alert: Case dismissed against VPN executive, affirms no-logs policy as a valid legal defense - The Last Watchdog
Toronto, Canada, Apr. 28, 2025, CyberNewswire -- Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by a court in Athens, Greece, following a two-year legal battle in which Sak was personally charged in connection with an alleged internet offence by an unknown user of the
MY TAKE: As RSAC 2025 opens, Microsoft, Amazon make GenAI grab — will control tighten? - The Last Watchdog
SAN FRANCISCO — RSAC 2025 kicks off today at Moscone Center, with more than 40,000 cybersecurity pros, tech executives, and policy leaders gathering to chart the future of digital risk management. Related: RSAC 2025's full agenda One dominant undercurrent is already clear: GenAI isn’t coming. It’s here — embedded in enterprise security architectures, compliance tools,
MY TAKE: Notes on how GenAI is shifting tension lines in cybersecurity on the eve of RSAC 2025 - The Last Watchdog
SAN FRANCISCO -- The first rule of reporting is to follow the tension lines—the places where old assumptions no longer quite hold. Related: GenAI disrupting tech jobs I’ve been feeling that tension lately. Just arrived in the City by the Bay. Trekked here with some 40,000-plus cyber security pros and company execs flocking to RSAC
RSAC Fireside Chat: Attackers are exploiting gaps in business logic created by proliferation of APIs - The Last Watchdog
APIs have become foundational to digital business operations, serving as the behind-the-scenes glue that connects apps, platforms and partners. Related: OWASP’s Top 10 Web App Security Risks But this growing reliance has opened a new front in cybersecurity—one where attackers are quietly exploiting weaknesses buried deep in business logic. In this RSAC Fireside Chat, I
RSAC Fireside Chat: The NDR evolution story—from open source start to kill chain clarity - The Last Watchdog
As enterprises brace for a new wave of stealthy intrusions — so-called Typhoon attacks — security leaders are doubling down on network intelligence that goes beyond surface-level alerts. Related: What is NDR? In this RSAC 2025 Fireside Chat, I sat down with Corelight CEO Brian Dye to unpack how Network Detection and Response (NDR) is
RSAC Fireside Chat: X9 PKI emerges to help financial sector interoperate, get ready for ‘Q-Day’ - The Last Watchdog
As RSAC 2025 convenes next week in San Francisco, digital trust is poised to take center stage. Related: PKI and the IoT cloud One quiet but consequential development now taking root in the financial sector could prove pivotal: the emergence of a dedicated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) framework, tailored to banks and payment networks, guided
RSAC Fireside Chat: Enterprise storage security – ground zero for protecting data, preserving resilience - The Last Watchdog
It’s no secret that cyber criminals go after data. What’s often overlooked is shoring up direct protection where that data typically resides: in enterprise storage systems. That’s beginning to change. Related: The data storage economy Enterprise storage security has moved to the front burner. The emerging best practice is to approach it as a core
GUEST ESSAY: Ponemon study warns: AI-enhanced deepfake attacks taking aim at senior execs - The Last Watchdog
A new study by the Ponemon Institute points to a concerning use of AI: deepfake attacks are on the rise and are taking a financial and reputational toll on companies and their executives. Related: Tools to fight deepfakes Deepfake Deception: How AI Harms the Fortunes and Reputations of Executives and Corporations details the results of a
RSAC Fireside Chat: Zero Networks harnesses automation, zero trust to advance microsegmentation - The Last Watchdog
Cybercriminals are moving faster than ever, exploiting implicit trust within networks to spread ransomware and execute supply chain attacks. Related: Protecting cloud assets with microsegmentation In response, microsegmentation is gaining momentum as a key cybersecurity strategy—one that could take center stage as RSAC 2025 gets underway next week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. At its
MY TAKE: The CVE program crisis isn’t over — it’s a wake-up call for cybersecurity’s supply chain - The Last Watchdog
Just hours before it was set to expire on April 16, the federal contract funding MITRE’s stewardship of the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) program was given a temporary extension by CISA. Related: Brian Krebs' take on MITRE funding expiring This averted an immediate shutdown, but it didn’t solve the underlying problem. Far from it.
News alert: SquareX to present on uncovering data splicing attacks at BSides San Francisco 2025 - The Last Watchdog
Palo Alto, Calif, Apr. 16, 2025, CyberNewswire -- SquareX researchers Jeswin Mathai and Audrey Adeline will be disclosing a new class of data exfiltration techniques at BSides San Francisco 2025. Titled “Data Splicing Attacks: Breaking Enterprise DLP from the Inside Out”, the talk will demonstrate multiple data splicing techniques that will allow attackers to exfiltrate any
News alert: AcceleTrex unveils referral exchange that turns trusted conversations into scalable growth - The Last Watchdog
Miami, FL, Apr. 14, 2025 — Today, AcceleTrex Corporation officially emerged from stealth, unveiling a first-of-its-kind platform that transforms expert referrals into a powerful growth engine for innovators. Grounded in the belief that genuine relationships drive meaningful results, AcceleTrex combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Actual Intelligence — the practical expertise of Market Experts — to provide genuine Actionable Intelligence
My Take: Is Amazon’s Alexa+ a Gutenberg moment — or a corporate rerun of history’s greatest co-opt? - The Last Watchdog
Last Friday morning, April 11, I was making my way home from NTT Research’s Upgrade 2025 innovation conference in San Francisco, when it struck me that we’re at a watershed moment. I was reflecting on NTT’s newly launched Physics of Artificial Intelligence Lab when a GeekWire article crossed my LinkedIn feed, touting a seemingly parallel