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Is AI really new-or just automation with better branding?

“AI is just automation by a different name.” It’s a bold claim—but one that Brandon Heller, CTO and co-founder of Forward Networks, and Howard Holton, CEO of GigaOm, unpack in a way that will make you think. In their recent conversation on Discovering Disruptions in Tech, they make the case that artificial intelligence, especially generative AI, is not delivering brand-new capabilities.

Microsoft 365: What Are Your Duties Within The Shared Responsibility Model

Microsoft operates under the Shared Responsibility Model. This means that certain areas of security tasks are your duties, as a customer, and some are the cloud provider’s while others may be a shared responsibility. Most importantly, Microsoft is responsible for its global infrastructure, including each data center and the uptime of the Microsoft 365 service. Your responsibility as the user is to manage and protect your customer data within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Olymp Loader: A new Malware-as-a-Service written in Assembly

Olymp Loader is a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) advertised on underground forums and Telegram since June 5, 2025. The seller, “OLYMPO”, presents Olymp Loader as fully written in assembly language and frequently markets it as FUD (Fully UnDetectable). Despite its recent appearance, many underground forum users have already posted positive reviews.

Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Enterprises Must Prepare Now

In Dune, Frank Herbert’s eponymous sci-fi work, there is a phrase that is often repeated – ‘fear is the mind killer’. We can juxtapose this saying with the cybersecurity landscape, as the fear of not being future-ready is what keeps CISOs up at night. The very thought that a cybersecurity strategy, created and implemented with great effort, won’t be able to keep every evolving and increasingly sophisticated threat at bay is disconcerting.

Ephemeral accounts don't leave an audit trail, and that's a problem

Ephemeral accounts are temporary, high-privilege accounts created for short-term use. They’re a convenient way to get quick, temporary access to systems, data or applications for one-off tasks. Need temporary admin rights for a few minutes? Just create an ephemeral account, complete your task and move on. But behind the convenience of these temporary credentials loom serious security threats.

BlueVoyant Adopts a New Naming Convention to Bring Clarity to Cyber Threat Analysis

The lack of a universal standard for naming threat actors often creates confusion in the cybersecurity community. The same threat actor can be identified by multiple aliases depending on the vendor or team tracking it. For example, a Russian government-sponsored cyber threat group is referred to alternatively as “APT29”, “Cozy Bear”, “Midnight Blizzard” and “Nobelium”.

Master quantitative risk analysis: A step-by-step guide for better business decisions

Risk is an ever-present factor in business, influencing almost every decision that organizations make. From investments and operations to market expansion and product development, every decision carries with it inherent risks that could either be mitigated or amplified based on how well they are understood and managed. Quantitative risk analysis offers a structured, data-driven approach to assess these risks, paving the way toward more informed and resilient business decisions.

Black box penetration testing: pros and cons

Black box penetration testing is one method among many potential approaches to securing systems, applications, networks and cloud environments. As with anything, it has pros and cons. Black box penetration testing involves assessing an asset without any prior knowledge or access to its internals, for example authenticated features, application code, user credentials or network architecture.