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Recent research from Forrester Consulting commissioned by Tines, Unlocking AI’s full value: How IT orchestrates secure, scalable innovation, underscores the essential role IT leaders must play in AI orchestration, as well as the challenges that stall adoption – and the opportunities that await those who overcome them. But how do these findings translate to real life, and what are leaders and practitioners doing to navigate this landscape?

Language models now touch contracts, tickets, CRM notes, recordings, and code. That means personal data, trade secrets, and regulated content move through prompts, embeddings, caches, and third-party endpoints. If your audit still reads like a generic security review, you will miss the places where leaks actually happen. A modern LLM Privacy Audit Framework starts where the risk starts.

Government administration, defense, and finance sector organizations are the primary areas Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups are targeting, according to the most recent data from the Trustwave SpiderLabs’ Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team. The team found most attacks are launched from China, Russia, and Iran, with the primary targets residing in the US, Ukraine, and, interestingly, Russia. The groups tracked include Lapsus$, ShinyHunters, and Silk Typhoon.

Breaking down the trade-offs between API integration and proxy gateways for modern access management The way organizations manage access has fundamentally shifted. In the past, infrastructure was mostly static—centralized data centers, long-lived servers, and predictable traffic patterns. You could rely on VPNs, firewalls, and a fixed set of roles in your identity provider. Access paths were clear, and change was infrequent. But that’s no longer the case.

Government administration, defense, and finance sector organizations are the primary areas Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups are targeting, according to the most recent data from the Trustwave SpiderLabs’ Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team. The team found most attacks are launched from China, Russia, and Iran, with the primary targets residing in the US, Ukraine, and, interestingly, Russia. The groups tracked include Lapsus$, ShinyHunters, and Silk Typhoon.

Remote access isn’t optional in critical infrastructure anymore; it’s operationally essential. Whether for maintenance, OEM support, remote field work, or incident response, industrial organizations must enable access to critical systems. But, legacy access methods like VPNs, jump servers, and even agent-based Zero Trust or IT-based remote privileged access management (RPAM) tools all share one dangerous flaw: they implicitly trust the endpoint.

For many organizations, vendor risk management (VRM) feels like an endless chase—gathering evidence, trudging through questionnaires, wrangling spreadsheets. Add expanding risk surfaces and new scrutiny from AI-driven regulations and customers, and it’s no wonder teams feel overwhelmed.

When it comes to managing cyber risk, the financial sector is squarely at the top of the food chain. It’s simple economics (and the plot of many movies): financial institutions have the money, and cybercriminals are always looking for ways to take it. As a result, institutions have invested heavily in strengthening their internal systems and cybersecurity controls. Those investments have paid off.

A phishing campaign is targeting LastPass users with phony notifications informing users that someone has notified the company of the user’s death and is trying to gain access to their account. The emails have the subject line, “Legacy Request Opened (URGENT IF YOU ARE NOT DECEASED).” LastPass describes the following attack flow: Notably, the attackers are also calling recipients of the emails and posing as LastPass representatives, adding another layer of legitimacy to the campaign.

I received this email the other day to my personal email account. It is a “Security Alert” from “Microsoft Helpdesk.” Oh, my! Not only is Microsoft holding five emails headed to me, but my “subscription” is expiring on the same day. The “Unsubscribe” link was just a graphic, no URL. The URL to the main button, “Review All Held Messages results” was linked to the following path (shown below): That is clearly not Microsoft or microsoft.com.