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Ransomware is evolving well beyond locking systems, and agentic AI is introducing a category of security risk most organizations are not yet equipped to handle. On The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, Behnaz Karimi, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at Accenture and independent ransomware researcher, walks through what that shift actually looks like. The full conversation includes.

AI workloads are appearing across AWS environments faster than most teams can inventory them. New APIs, EKS clusters, model integrations, and AI services are showing up across accounts and regions without a clear ownership trail or centralized visibility. By the time security catches up, the environment has already changed again.

True infrastructure protection requires balancing public configuration diversity with active vulnerabilities found in the CISA KEV catalog. Watch the full video on our channel.

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Active Roles by One Identity version 8.3 provides several highly requested features to fortify and enrich the integration capabilities of Active Roles. These new features bring unmatched flexibility and security to Active Directory environments, supporting customers where they are today and where they want to go in the future. Watch this short video to find out how these features can help streamline and protect your Active Directory.

SecurityScorecard's MAX Managed Questionnaires handles your entire vendor questionnaire process end-to-end, design, outreach, response collection, and expert analysis — with no additional headcount required. In this installment of SecurityScorecard's Demo Tuesday series, see MAX Managed Questionnaires in action and what your security program looks like when your team is free to focus on risk strategy instead of assessment admin.

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Automatically detect suspicious story deletions and insider threats in Tines before they become a bigger problem. This five-minute flow monitors your Tines audit logs on a schedule, checks for both soft and hard story deletions, and flags unusual user behaviour. When something looks off, an LLM summarizes the user's recent activity and a Case is automatically created for your team to investigate.

Investigators have turned the tables on one of the world’s most elusive regimes. After a security firm hired a man calling himself "Joseph," a team of private investigators did what no one had done before: they infiltrated a North Korean remote worker cell from the inside. Head to our YouTube channel and watch the full episode of To Catch a Thief, Season 2.

This week on the podcast, we review an after action report from CISA on a security incident they responded to back in May. After that, we cover a vulnerability in Amazon's Q Extension for VSCode before covering a research post from Microsoft on Giga Wiper.