Monthly Archives: June 2026

Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard

In this interview with Help Net Security, Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, talks about the gap between what organizations think they know about their data and what discovery scans turn up. She shares stories of shadow data in abandoned cloud storage, post-merger surprises where duplicated datasets slowed integration, and why synthetic data is overmarketed while confidential computing stays underappreciated. Desai also explains why smaller companies often beat large enterprises on compliance, and the one question … More → The post Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard appeared first on Help Net Security.
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EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure

Cybersecurity governance in the EU is shifting under expanding frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA, while AI raises new questions for security teams. What the future brings is hard to predict, and organizations must find a way to cope. Antonija Vojnović, Governance, Risk and Compliance Department Manager at Span, spoke with Help Net Security at the Span Cyber Security Arena conference about how these regulatory frameworks are shaping compliance priorities and day-to-day decision-making. Compliance overload … More → The post EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure appeared first on Help Net Security.
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OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory

AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a privileged input the agent reads back later. An attacker who plants text in the wrong field can override an agent’s instructions, pull out user data, or steer future tool calls, and the effect survives across sessions because the memory does. Agent Memory Guard is an open-source runtime defense layer that … More → The post OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Governing shadow AI without killing innovation

In this Help Net Security video, Alan Snyder, CEO at NowSecure, talks about governing shadow AI without stopping innovation. He frames the problem as two opposing forces. Companies need to adopt AI fast because attackers and competitors will outpace them otherwise, but they also need to do it safely. Snyder argues the pressure to move quickly will win, so leaders must work hard to manage AI risk along the way. He references the first 8-K … More → The post Governing shadow AI without killing innovation appeared first on Help Net Security.
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145 AI laws passed in 2025 and privacy teams aren’t catching a break

145 AI-related laws were enacted by state legislatures in 2025, and more than 1,000 additional bills were introduced or revised, according to DataGrail’s Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026. Average cost of manual data subject request management (Source: DataGrail) Shadow AI risks Of the 2,400 popular business software providers that advertised AI capabilities, 63.6% did not disclose third-party AI subprocessors in their legal documentation, exposing businesses to shadow AI risks they may not be aware … More → The post 145 AI laws passed in 2025 and privacy teams aren’t catching a break appeared first on Help Net Security.
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