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There's growing concern that AI automation is removing the hands-on experience junior analysts need to develop into senior defenders. In this Intel Chat, Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft challenge that assumption. Matt breaks down why the traditional entry-level path of endless log review and alert triage was never the best training ground to begin with. Log detection, alert triage, and drift detection are often cited as how defenders learn the trade. But most analysts never had time to get to drift detection because they were buried in repetitive work.

Stop Gambling on Compliance: Why Near100% Recall Is the Only Standard for AI Data

LLMs, agents and retrieval‑augmented models are increasingly being adopted for product analytics, customer support and decision‑making workflows. With that scale comes exposure: AI privacy and security incidents incidents involving customer PII are more common than ever and becoming a compliance issue. Let’s look at the statistics: These underscore the importance of robust guardrails and why relying on privacy tools with mediocre recall is a gamble.

Fixing Shadow APIs: Why True Remediation is Critical in the Age of AI

Fixing Shadow APIs: Why True Remediation is Critical in the Age of AI Agentic AI is fundamentally changing the security landscape, transforming how we think about API protection. In this insightful discussion, A10 Networks security experts Jamison Utter and Carlo Alpuerto dive deep into the challenges presented by this new wave of automation and API consumers.

From manual to intelligent: How the Vanta AI Agent transforms compliance work

Since the launch of the Vanta AI Agent, teams using the Vanta AI Agent are saving an average of four hours a week—time they can reinvest in building, shipping, and scaling securely. ‍ According to a recent Vanta customer survey, 91% of Vanta AI Agent users say it’s improved their audit readiness, and 86% report faster audit preparation overall. Teams had less manual work, fewer last-minute scrambles, and more time to focus on meaningful security improvements. ‍ ‍ ‍

Communicating AI Risk to the Board: Bridging the AI Governance Gap

‍AI is altering business operations and workflows at a pace that few leaders have experienced before. GenAI deployments are rising across every department, expanding their influence and maximizing business productivity and efficiency. However, the moment the conversation shifts from AI's advantages to its inherent risk, the dynamic changes.

Product Spotlight: Building an AI-driven SOC at scale, with Reddit

Your security team is one-of-a-kind. Your AI SOC should be too. Join Thomas Kinsella, Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Tines, and Nick Fohs, Senior Manager, Enterprise Systems & Security, at Reddit, for a conversation around building and scaling an AI SOC - one that’s adaptable to your evolving needs. They’ll share how you can maximize your investments and the efficiency of your SOC by combining predictable, rule-based workflows with fully autonomous agents.

WatchGuard Threat Lab's top six cybersecurity predictions for 2026

WatchGuard has revealed its top six cybersecurity predictions for 2026, forecasting a year where AI-driven threats, regulatory pressures, and the decline of legacy tools will reshape the security landscape. Corey Nachreiner, chief security officer at WatchGuard Technologies, emphasises that organisations must prepare for rapid evolution in both attack methods and defensive strategies.

Reach Security Joins the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program to Accelerate Agentic AI for E3/E5 Security Optimization

Reach Security announces its acceptance into the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program. Through the Pegasus Program, Reach will collaborate with Microsoft to help enterprise customers optimize their use of Microsoft E3 and E5 security suites by addressing configuration, visibility, and operational gaps through agentic AI.

Cyber Startup Frenetik Launches with Patented Deception Technology That Bets Against the AI Arms Race

While most cybersecurity companies pour resources into AI models, massive compute, hoovering up all the data, and enhanced analytics to detect and prevent threats, Frenetik, a Maryland cyber startup, is betting on something simpler: making sure attackers don't know what defenders know. The company emerged today with a fundamentally different approach using novel cyber deception and a newly issued U.S. patent to back it.