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Researchers at Permiso warn that threat actors can plant phishing messages within Copilot AI summaries. Notably, the researchers found that attackers can trick Copilot into including internal information to craft a more targeted message.

If 2025 was the year of AI adoption, 2026 is when AI evolves from a software story to a people story. Katya Laviolette, our Chief People Officer, explored this idea in a recent Forbes article about how 1Password’s internal network of AI Champions is shaping this evolution and helping us set the standard for how we use AI to drive impact across 1Password.

The generative AI revolution isn't on the horizon. It's already reshaping the way your employees work. Across every industry, workers are adopting AI-powered productivity tools at a pace that far outstrips most organizations' security and governance programs. The question is no longer whether your organization will use AI, but whether you're prepared to use it securely. The challenge is real, but so are the misconceptions that keep organizations from taking action.

Navia Benefit Solutions, Inc. is a consumer-focused benefits administrator headquartered in Renton, Washington. Founded in 1989, the company provides comprehensive employee benefits administration services to more than 10,000 employers across the United States. Navia manages tax-advantaged healthcare and dependent care accounts, serving more than 1 million participants nationwide.

QualDerm Partners, LLC is a healthcare management services provider headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee. The company offers comprehensive administrative, clinical, and operational support to dermatology practices nationwide. QualDerm provides management resources, funding, and operational services, including patient records management, billing, insurance processing, and other essential services to improve efficiency and care quality across its network of clinics.

• Ransomware complaints filed with the FBI rose 9% in 2024; the FBI describes ransomware as the most pervasive threat to critical infrastructure (FBI IC3 2024 Annual Report). • The average ransom payment reached $2 million in 2024 — a fivefold increase from 2023 — while recovery costs averaged $2.73 million excluding any ransom paid (Sophos State of Ransomware 2024).

QUICK DEFINITIONS MSP (Managed Service Provider): A third-party company that remotely manages IT infrastructure and services for client organizations. Managed service providers typically offer a broad range of IT services — including baseline security — often from a Network Operations Center (NOC). MSSP (Managed Security Service Provider): A specialist provider focused exclusively on cybersecurity.

The pace of software flaw creation is officially outpacing remediation capacity. Right now, 82% of organizations carry security debt. Traditional security methods simply cannot keep up with modern development speeds. As engineering teams ship code faster than ever, vulnerability backlogs grow, compounding challenges and leaving organizations exposed to threats. Data from the 2026 State of Software Security Report reveals a 36% relative increase in high-risk vulnerabilities.

DLP and Secude solutions work together to protect your IP data from creation to deletion - no matter where it travels. Here’s how. Engineering simulations. Machinery instructions. Prototype designs. CAD software is essential across the modern manufacturing production chain and contains manufacturers’ most confidential intellectual property (IP). Yet, much of the manufacturing industry still relies on Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools to protect its CAD data.

Each year, the threat environment changes, and the way we measure cyber risk has to keep up. Attackers adjust quickly. At the same time, organizations add cloud services, SaaS applications, and third parties to their environments. That makes it harder to maintain a stable, external measure of security performance. At Bitsight, the Ratings Algorithm Update (RAU) is one of the major initiatives that helps keep the Bitsight Security Rating a reliable indicator of security performance.