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ControlMonkey connects backup visibility with cloud recovery readiness

ControlMonkey announced its Data Backup Correlation, a new capability that extends its Cyber Resilience Platform by connecting data backup posture with cloud configuration recovery. The first release supports AWS Backup and Azure Backup. CISOs and cloud teams often lack full visibility into data backup coverage and available recovery points across critical data sources, including databases, storage accounts, and cloud data services, making it harder to understand what data assets are actually recoverable when it matters … More → The post ControlMonkey connects backup visibility with cloud recovery readiness appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Veritone introduces Assess to streamline evidence analysis and compliance reviews

Veritone has announced the launch of Veritone Assess, an AI-powered data analysis solution designed to help public sector agencies identify inconsistencies, missing information, and critical intelligence gaps hidden within complex datasets. By automatically evaluating reports, witness statements, financial records, and other evidentiary materials against policies, regulations, and investigative criteria, Assess reduces the time required for manual reviews while helping improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making. As public sector agencies face growing volumes of digital … More → The post Veritone introduces Assess to streamline evidence analysis and compliance reviews appeared first on Help Net Security.
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runZero 5.0 unifies exposure management to accelerate risk reduction

runZero has announced runZero 5.0, a major platform evolution designed to help organizations defend their expanding attack surfaces against high-velocity, AI-fueled threats. The new release unifies the exposure management lifecycle into an automated workflow that enables security teams to seamlessly discover assets and network connections, identify and prioritize critical risks, and initiate and validate remediation to proactively reduce exposure and achieve operational resilience. For years, defenders have been overwhelmed by siloed asset and vulnerability data, … More → The post runZero 5.0 unifies exposure management to accelerate risk reduction appeared first on Help Net Security.
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BlackLine enhances Agentic Financial Operations Platform with CFO-focused AI oversight tools

BlackLine has announced new governance and observability capabilities within its Agentic Financial Operations Platform, further advancing the trust infrastructure finance organizations need to deploy, govern, and scale AI across the Office of the CFO. As finance teams transition from deploying a handful of AI agents to managing potentially hundreds of thousands across BlackLine, partner, customer-developed, and third-party applications, the challenge shifts from automation to governance and control. The Finance Control Console provides a centralized layer … More → The post BlackLine enhances Agentic Financial Operations Platform with CFO-focused AI oversight tools appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Hacker gets 18 months for attack that compromised 60,000 betting accounts

A 21-year-old man known online as “Snoopy” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme that hacked user accounts on a fantasy sports and betting website and sold access to them, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. Nathan Austad of Farmington, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. According to prosecutors, Austad and his co-conspirators launched a credential stuffing attack … More → The post Hacker gets 18 months for attack that compromised 60,000 betting accounts appeared first on Help Net Security.
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SpyCloud automates threat investigations with new Research Agent

SpyCloud has announced the launch of SpyCloud Research Agent, a conversational AI investigation agent now available in its Cybercrime Investigations console. Cybercrime investigations have a tax: hours of manual pivot work that experienced analysts run by instinct and junior analysts struggle to replicate. SpyCloud Research Agent eliminates it. Security practitioners, CTI analysts, SOC teams, fraud investigators, and IR leads, can now give the agent a subject, a hypothesis, or a batch of assets, and it … More → The post SpyCloud automates threat investigations with new Research Agent appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Flare unveils new CTI capabilities and Okta support

Flare has announced the expanded capabilities for Flare CTI, and an Okta integration within its Identity Exposure Management (IEM) offering. These updates extend Flare’s identity expertise into tactical threat intelligence use cases and agentic workflows to reshape security operations. As security teams face growing volumes of threats, many continue to rely on costly, disconnected tools for threat intelligence, threat investigation, and identity risk management. Flare’s latest platform enhancements help organizations consolidate those workflows, giving analysts … More → The post Flare unveils new CTI capabilities and Okta support appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Seemplicity AI Analysts focus remediation on exploitable risks

Seemplicity has launched AI Analysts for exposure management and response. The autonomous agents replace manual vulnerability triage by working directly within remediation workflows to conduct structured, evidence-based exploitability investigations. The old playbook is broken. AI-generated exploits have collapsed the window between disclosure and weaponization from days to hours, and the static scores and external signals teams once trusted can no longer keep pace. “The danger was never the alerts we could see, it was the … More → The post Seemplicity AI Analysts focus remediation on exploitable risks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Entrust uses biometrics to verify users during high-risk transactions

Entrust has introduced a new approach to preventing account takeover. As attackers increasingly target high-risk moments like account recovery, device changes, and large transactions, organizations need to modernize authentication from verifying access to verifying the real human behind the transaction. The Entrust Biometric Authentication solution brings identity-centric assurance to these critical interactions, helping organizations reduce fraud while delivering fast, easy end-user experiences. “Too many organizations are treating authentication as a login problem, but attackers have … More → The post Entrust uses biometrics to verify users during high-risk transactions appeared first on Help Net Security.
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YesWeHack automates penetration testing with AI-powered agents

YesWeHack announces Agentic Pentest, an on-demand solution using autonomous AI agents to test organisations’ assets and deliver same-day findings. Shaped by YesWeHack’s extensive offensive security experience, Agentic Pentest helps organisations identify vulnerabilities, test their real-world exploitability and uncover attack paths across in-scope assets. The solution supports black box, grey box and white box testing of web applications, mobile apps, APIs and other internet-facing assets. YesWeHack, leader in offensive security in Europe and APAC, leverages the … More → The post YesWeHack automates penetration testing with AI-powered agents appeared first on Help Net Security.
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