Monthly Archives: August 2025

Cybersecurity and the development of software-defined vehicles

In many automotive companies, the same systems-engineering teams are responsible for both safety and security. As a result, cybersecurity is treated as a subset of safety, undergirded by an implicit assumption: “If it’s safe, it must be secure.” But that’s not necessarily always the case. As so many chief information and product security officers across the industry have seen, a vehicle deemed functionally safe under ISO 26262 can be highly vulnerable to cyber threats, especially … More → The post Cybersecurity and the development of software-defined vehicles appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Do sextortion scams still work in 2025?, (Wed, Aug 6th)

Sextortion e-mails have been with us for quite a while, and these days, most security professionals tend to think of them more in terms of an “e-mail background noise” rather than as if they posed any serious threat. Given that their existence is reasonably well-known even among general public, this viewpoint would seem to be justified… But are sextortion messages really irrelevant as a threat at this point, and can we therefore safely omit this topic during security awareness trainings?
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Cyware unveils open-source MCP Server to power AI-driven cyber defense

Cyware has released Cyware MCP Server (Model Context Protocol Server) to advance the future of AI-powered cyber defense. The new open-source capability is purpose-built to enable generative AI-native workflows, allowing seamless integration between Cyware’s threat intelligence; security automation platforms and large language models (LLMs). “Cyware MCP Server exposes our Agentic AI components to AI Assistants enabling access to key tools and actions which then empowers security teams to retrieve insights, take action, and orchestrate complex … More → The post Cyware unveils open-source MCP Server to power AI-driven cyber defense appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Sysdig Sage delivers AI-driven remediation and risk prioritization for cloud

Sysdig has unveiled an agentic cloud security platform. With Sysdig’s autonomous AI agents, designed to analyze cloud environments end to end and surface hidden business risks, organizations can remediate threats in minutes and deliver measurable improvements in their security posture. Sysdig Sage, the company’s fully integrated AI cloud security analyst, understands context from the entire business and provides clear, contextual remediation recommendations, reducing an organization’s exposure time to critical vulnerabilities from days to minutes. “Businesses … More → The post Sysdig Sage delivers AI-driven remediation and risk prioritization for cloud appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Forter launches Identity Monitoring to secure agentic commerce

Forter has launched Identity Monitoring for agentic commerce, the first in a series of new capabilities that enable ecommerce enterprises to recognize both bot and human behavior and confidently trust AI agents from discovery through payment. Gartner and other research organizations are projecting that AI agents will be responsible for 20% of commerce digital traffic in the next five years, making it critical that merchants evolve now to embrace the opportunity the booming agentic race … More → The post Forter launches Identity Monitoring to secure agentic commerce appeared first on Help Net Security.
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HPE unveils unified cybersecurity portfolio with AI-driven networking and data protection

HPE announced expansion of its cybersecurity, resiliency, and compliance solutions, taking a multi-layered approach to protect enterprises through industry-leading data, network, and system security. HPE is introducing its combined secure networking portfolio, built on HPE Aruba Networking and HPE Juniper Networking, and announcing expansive updates across its portfolio: HPE advances network security with a new SASE copilot for HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect that provides AI-driven insights on network activity, security gaps and more. HPE Aruba … More → The post HPE unveils unified cybersecurity portfolio with AI-driven networking and data protection appeared first on Help Net Security.
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RedSeal launches RedSeal One to simplify exposure management across hybrid environments

RedSeal unveiled RedSeal One, an AI-enabled exposure management platform designed to help organizations reduce risk, streamline operations, and strengthen resilience across hybrid environments. RedSeal One combines the company’s four foundational capabilities—hybrid environment modeling, attack path analysis, business-contextual risk prioritization, and continuous compliance—into a single, streamlined platform. Enabled by agentic AI, the platform continuously models the full hybrid digital environment and delivers actionable insights with the context teams need to reduce risk, validate defenses, and take … More → The post RedSeal launches RedSeal One to simplify exposure management across hybrid environments appeared first on Help Net Security.
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OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry 

With the launch of OpenAI’s gpt‑oss models—its first open-weight release since GPT‑2—we’re giving developers and enterprises unprecedented ability to run, adapt, and deploy OpenAI models entirely on their own terms. For the first time, you can run OpenAI models like gpt‑oss‑120b on a single enterprise GPU—or run gpt‑oss‑20b locally. The post OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry  appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
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Searchlight Cyber unveils AI Agent to automate dark web threat actor summaries

Searchlight Cyber has released a new AI capability that summarizes the activity of a threat actor in its dark web investigation platform, Cerberus. The Searchlight AI Agent uses the Cerberus’ dark web data lake to provide a quick overview of a threat actor, including their activity, conversation history, aliases, and associations, helping law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals to quickly identify profiles of interest and areas of investigation to pursue. Criminals use the dark web to … More → The post Searchlight Cyber unveils AI Agent to automate dark web threat actor summaries appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Concentric AI enhances data security with new platform integrations

Concentric AI announced new integrations that enhance the AI-driven capabilities of its Semantic Intelligence data security governance platform, expanding data governance functionality for organizations. Concentric AI’s new integration with Wiz, gives Wiz customers unique contextual insights into their cloud data and allows them to identify precisely which data is sensitive. In addition, the company’s new integration with GitHub enables the Concentric AI platform to preemptively watermark source code, helping prevent unauthorized access. Finally, the company … More → The post Concentric AI enhances data security with new platform integrations appeared first on Help Net Security.
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