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Vanta embeds agentic AI into policy and evidence workflows

Vanta has unveiled a new set of capabilities that integrates AI across core compliance and risk workflows. These features unify policy management with the Vanta AI Agent, expand first-party risk oversight and continuous monitoring for vendors, and deepen integrations, providing security leaders with a single system of record to act on risk before it escalates. Risk management is fragmented across siloed tools, teams and manual processes. Internal issues live in one system, vendor reviews in … More → The post Vanta embeds agentic AI into policy and evidence workflows appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Hummingbird’s compliance and risk platform helps financial institutions manage risk

Hummingbird announced its unified platform for risk and compliance operations. The expanded platform brings together the full risk and compliance lifecycle with the launch of new solutions for both Transaction & Risk Monitoring and Customer Screening. Financial institutions, long stymied by fragmented workflows, will find immediate value in Hummingbird’s Transaction & Risk Monitoring and Customer Screening solutions, which strengthen risk detection and accelerate decision-making. While Hummingbird may now be deployed end-to-end, the platform’s modular design … More → The post Hummingbird’s compliance and risk platform helps financial institutions manage risk appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Cisco puts agentic AI at the core of Splunk Enterprise Security

Cisco introduced Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials Edition and Splunk Enterprise Security Premier Edition, providing customers two agentic AI-powered SecOps options that unify security workflows across threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). Delivered within Splunk Enterprise Security 8.2, these advancements streamline offerings and empower customers with faster threat response and simplified security solutions. Cisco also unveiled a series of AI features that it intends to release to power the agentic Security Operations Center (SOC) of the future, … More → The post Cisco puts agentic AI at the core of Splunk Enterprise Security appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Fake npm 2FA reset email led to compromise of popular code packages

Malicious versions of at least 18 widely used npm packages were uploaded to the npm Registry on Monday, following the compromise of their maintainer’s account. “The packages were updated to contain a piece of code that would be executed on the client of a website, which silently intercepts crypto and web3 activity in the browser, manipulates wallet interactions, and rewrites payment destinations so that funds and approvals are redirected to attacker-controlled accounts without any obvious … More → The post Fake npm 2FA reset email led to compromise of popular code packages appeared first on Help Net Security.
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NetApp StorageGRID 12.0 powers AI and data-intensive workloads

NetApp has released NetApp StorageGRID 12.0, a scalable, software-defined object storage solution designed for unstructured data. This latest version of StorageGRID introduces new capabilities designed to enhance AI initiatives, improve data security, and modernize organizations’ data infrastructure. Whether businesses are in the early stages of modernizing their data lakes or experimenting with advanced AI applications, they need to manage and store exploding volumes of unstructured data such as text, video, machine and sensor data, server … More → The post NetApp StorageGRID 12.0 powers AI and data-intensive workloads appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Download: Cyber defense guide for the financial sector

Data breaches cost more for financial organizations than they do for those in many other industries. In attempting to strengthen your financial organization’s cybersecurity, you must contend with evolving regulatory obligations, outdated IT infrastructure, and other challenges. How do you manage it all? The Center for Internet Security (CIS) offers a free guide containing cybersecurity compliance tips and risk controls for banks, credit agencies, lenders, and other financial sector organizations. You can use these resources … More → The post Download: Cyber defense guide for the financial sector appeared first on Help Net Security.
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CSF 2.0 Webinar Series: Deep-Dive into the CSF 2.0 Govern Function to Improve Cybersecurity

One of the major updates to CSF 2.0 is the creation of the Govern Function, highlighting the importance of ensuring cybersecurity capabilities support the broader mission through Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Governance is the process of
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Salesforce still sees a place for live customer service agents after massive cuts

The company slashed about 4,000 customer service agents as its use of AI picked up, but CEO Marc Benioff still expects people and AI to work together.
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Light-powered chip makes AI 100 times more efficient

Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for a core AI function. By etching microscopic lenses directly onto silicon, they’ve enabled laser-powered computations that cut power use dramatically while maintaining near-perfect accuracy.
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Scientists build quantum computers that snap together like LEGO bricks

Like LEGO for the quantum age, researchers have created modular superconducting qubits that can be linked with high fidelity. This design allows reconfiguration, upgrades, and scalability, marking a big step toward fault-tolerant quantum computers.
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