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A few years ago, cloaking was mostly a black hat SEO problem. Someone would serve one version of a page to Googlebot and another to human visitors, and the worst outcome was a spammy search result. It has since become one of the more effective evasion techniques in the phishing and malvertising toolkit, and most security teams are still measuring their external exposure from a vantage point that attackers stopped caring about some time ago.

Personal injury law firms spend a significant amount of time on administrative work that supports-but does not replace-legal expertise. Reviewing medical records, preparing demand letters, drafting litigation documents, organizing case files, summarizing evidence, and communicating with clients are all essential parts of managing a case, yet they can consume valuable hours every week.

Security teams spent a decade wrestling shadow IT - the unsanctioned SaaS accounts, personal Dropboxes, and rogue cloud instances that employees adopted faster than governance could follow. That battle produced hard-won playbooks: discover, broker, monitor. Now the same movie is replaying with AI, at higher speed and with higher stakes. Developers embed model APIs into services over a lunch break, marketing teams paste customer data into chatbots, and product features quietly ship with third-party inference behind them. Most organizations today cannot answer a basic question.

Cybersecurity has become significantly more complex over the past few years. Attackers no longer rely solely on mass phishing campaigns or simple malware. Modern threat actors use automation, artificial intelligence, credential theft, living-off-the-land techniques, and multi-stage attacks designed to evade traditional security controls. As a result, organizations that still depend on conventional monitoring tools often struggle to detect and contain threats before damage occurs.

New capabilities help organisations control security data costs, strengthen Microsoft Sentinel detection coverage and response, and govern enterprise AI agent activity.

The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards today announced the winners of the 2026 Community Choice Award, selected through 79,455 votes cast during the awards season. AI security ranked among the highest-voted award categories this season. The results arrive during Black Hat USA week, where AI risk is also among the most prominent themes on the conference agenda.