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2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Community Choice Winners Selected Through 80,000 Votes

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.

Mallory Unifies Threat Intelligence, Exposure Context, and Response Into One Architecture for Security Teams

As AI-assisted attackers compress exploitation timelines to hours, Mallory turns live adversary intelligence into prioritized, policy-governed action across the tools security teams already run.

Airlock Digital Unveils Agentic AI Control & Governance to Extend Preventative Endpoint Security

Airlock Digital announces Agentic AI Control & Governance, extending its preventative endpoint security solution with visibility into trusted AI agent behavior and governance over what trusted agents are allowed to do on endpoints.

Insider Risk Is Not Just a SOC Problem

A working insider risk program pulls in more than the security team. HR, existing cyber teams, and the SOC all own a piece of it, and each becomes a critical stakeholder from an IRM standpoint. Security leaders map out who actually needs a seat at the table. From The Insider Risk Authority Series by Teramind. Subscribe for more conversations with security leaders on managing insider risk. Learn more at teramind.co.

Where Insider Risk Programs Actually Begin

The first conversations are senior level for a reason. Before you touch a single alert, you define the remit, set the scope, and decide which data and telemetry the program will process. Security leaders walk through how to scope an insider risk program before you build it. From The Insider Risk Authority Series by Teramind. Subscribe for more conversations with security leaders on managing insider risk. Learn more at teramind.co.

How to Identify Users Exposed to Brand Impersonation Attacks

Most organizations have become better at finding brand impersonation attacks. They can detect fake domains, identify cloned websites, report phishing pages, initiate takedowns, and warn customers when an impersonation campaign becomes visible. That work matters. But it does not answer the question that often matters most once the attack is live: Which users were exposed? Finding fake sites is only half the problem. Understanding who encountered them is where effective protection begins.

From Data Classification to Runtime Data Security for AI

Authentication used to be a login form. Then it became IAM: identity providers, roles, federation, lifecycle. Then it became Zero Trust: no built-in trust, every request checked in context. Each step did not replace the last so much as fold it into a bigger runtime decision. The login still happens, but it is now one input to a constant, context-based check.