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CEOs think AI use is mandatory — but employees don’t agree, survey says

Perception of AI tools as equal members of the team varies drastically between employeers and workers as adoption advances.
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YouTube draws a line on deepfakes involving politicians and journalists

With deepfakes becoming more common, YouTube has expanded access to its AI-driven likeness detection system to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates. The step follows an earlier rollout of the tool to creators in the company’s Partner Program. AI video tools are easy to access, and the content they produce keeps getting more realistic, flooding social media platforms, including YouTube. Issues arise when this content is used beyond entertainment to fabricate … More → The post YouTube draws a line on deepfakes involving politicians and journalists appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Armis improves vulnerability accuracy and speed with unified real-time visibility

Armis has announced Armis Centrix for Vulnerability Management Detection and Response. The solution enables security teams to identify and validate vulnerabilities across all organizational assets in real time. Armis’ unified approach to vulnerability assessment delivers greater accuracy, faster detection times, and reduced operational costs. “Waiting weeks for a vulnerability scan that still misses essential assets is no longer sufficient to combat AI-powered cyberattacks,” said Nadir Izrael, CTO at Armis. “Organizations need a continuous view of … More → The post Armis improves vulnerability accuracy and speed with unified real-time visibility appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Virtana enables full-stack root cause analysis beyond legacy APM

Virtana has launched an Application Observability offering that traces performance issues from application code through infrastructure, networks, storage, and AI workloads to deliver evidence-based root cause analysis without manual correlation. Built for autonomous operations at scale, the solution redefines the application as a system rather than software, automatically correlating performance issues across the full enterprise stack, from code and services to infrastructure, networks, storage, and AI platforms. By enabling operators and AI agents to identify … More → The post Virtana enables full-stack root cause analysis beyond legacy APM appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Forescout replaces manual audits with automated, always-on compliance validation

Forescout Technologies has announced Automated Security Controls Assessment, a new Forescout 4D Platform capability that continuously evaluates trust, control effectiveness and compliance posture across an organization’s attack surface. Replacing manual, static and error-prone spreadsheet-driven audits with real-time, automated evidence-based collection and reporting, the Automated Security Controls Assessment feature gives security and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams immediate visibility into control effectiveness and compliance posture as it exists. This enables continuous verification rather than point … More → The post Forescout replaces manual audits with automated, always-on compliance validation appeared first on Help Net Security.
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OPSWAT delivers AI-powered perimeter defense with unified zero-day verdicts

OPSWAT has introduced MetaDefender Aether, an AI-powered decision engine for fast zero-day detection, purpose-built for the perimeter. Unlike sandbox or antivirus solutions designed for endpoint protection, MetaDefender Aether intercepts files at every entry point, e.g. file transfers, removable media, email attachments, cloud storage, and web traffic, to detect unknown threats before they reach users, devices, or internal systems. Every file is processed through four progressively deeper AI-powered layers of threat reputation, dynamic analysis, threat scoring … More → The post OPSWAT delivers AI-powered perimeter defense with unified zero-day verdicts appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Secureframe automates CMMC compliance with secure infrastructure and AI SSPs

Secureframe has launched Secureframe Defense, an end-to-end solution for CMMC certification. It provides secure infrastructure deployment, AI-generated System Security Plans (SSPs), policies, and comprehensive monitoring that Defense Industrial Base (DIB) organizations need to achieve and maintain certification faster, without unnecessary cost or complexity. With CMMC enforcement underway, readiness across the DIB remains critically low. The Department of Defense (DoD) estimates nearly 80,000 organizations will ultimately require CMMC Level 2 certification, yet fewer than 800 organizations—less … More → The post Secureframe automates CMMC compliance with secure infrastructure and AI SSPs appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner

Running AWS security audits without a dedicated security team typically means choosing between enterprise platforms with per-check billing and generic open-source scanners that produce findings with no remediation guidance. Cloud-audit, a Python CLI tool published on GitHub by Mariusz Gebala, takes a narrower scope and attaches a fix to every finding it generates. The tool runs 45 curated checks across 15 AWS services, including IAM, S3, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, ECS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, KMS, SSM, … More → The post Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Zero trust, zero buzzwords: Here’s what it means

In this Help Net Security video, Murat Balaban, CEO of Zenarmor, breaks down zero trust and zero trust network access (ZTNA) without the buzzwords. The video covers why this approach matters, including the risk of lateral movement after a breach and the growing number of remote workers accessing private resources. Murat walks through three real-world scenarios: stolen VPN credentials, a compromised employee laptop, and third-party contractor access. In each case, he contrasts how a traditional … More → The post Zero trust, zero buzzwords: Here’s what it means appeared first on Help Net Security.
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