Vulnerability management

2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report: AI Is Changing Cybersecurity

2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report: AI Is Changing Cybersecurity

The 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report reveals how AI is transforming cybersecurity, accelerating both attack sophistication and defense capabilities. It highlights rising breach costs, persistent vulnerabilities like phishing and ransomware, and the critical need for organizations to leverage AI and automation to reduce financial impact, improve response times, and strengthen overall security posture against AI-driven threats and future risks like quantum computing.

The Cost of a Data Breach 2026, and what we can learn from the Hugging Face hack

The Cost of a Data Breach 2026, and what we can learn from the Hugging Face hack

This episode unpacks IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, revealing how attackers are leveraging AI faster than defenders, leading to increased costs and persistent security gaps. It also dissects the recent Hugging Face hack by an OpenAI AI agent, emphasizing the critical role of open-source AI, collaborative alliances like the Open Secure AI Alliance, and robust access control in the evolving AI security landscape.

Through the AI Fog: The Architectural Decision Agentic Security Depends On — Manoj Nair, Snyk

Through the AI Fog: The Architectural Decision Agentic Security Depends On — Manoj Nair, Snyk

Manoj Nair of Snyk reveals alarming data on AI-driven security risks, emphasizing that generative AI and validation systems cannot be the same. He highlights issues like autonomous attacks, rampant vulnerabilities in AI-generated code and skills, and PII leakage. Snyk's solution, Evo, integrates deterministic prevention and remediation to secure the agentic development lifecycle.

AI agents can manage your passwords. Should we let them? Plus: The biggest Patch Tuesday ever.

AI agents can manage your passwords. Should we let them? Plus: The biggest Patch Tuesday ever.

This episode of Security Intelligence delves into three critical cybersecurity topics: the implications of AI agents managing passwords, the impact of AI on vulnerability discovery and "Patch Tuesday" volumes, and the C-suite's evolving appetite for cyber risk in pursuit of innovation. Experts discuss the promises, pitfalls, and necessary strategic shifts in an AI-driven security landscape.

OpenAI’s Daybreak and Mistral’s Mythos competitor

OpenAI’s Daybreak and Mistral’s Mythos competitor

This week's podcast delves into the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-powered vulnerability management, discussing OpenAI's Daybreak, Microsoft's MDASH, and Mistral's Mythos competitor. The panel analyzes the measured real-world results of Anthropic's Mythos on the curl project and explores the implications of the notorious Shai-Hulud npm worm going open source.

Perplexity Comet, agentic blabbering, and the shift-left failure

Perplexity Comet, agentic blabbering, and the shift-left failure

This episode explores the security risks of AI, including 'agentic blabbering' in AI browsers that aids phishing attacks, the ability of models like Claude Opus to resurrect vulnerabilities in legacy code, the debate on 'shift left' security practices, and new threats like AI-generated 'ephemeral malware' and the challenges of the post-authentication perimeter.