Four priorities for AI-powered identity and network access security in 2026

No doubt, your organization has been hard at work over the past several years implementing industry best practices, including a Zero Trust architecture. But even so, the cybersecurity race only continues to intensify. AI has quickly become a powerful tool misused by threat actors, who use it to...

The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts

The Problem: The Identities Left Behind As organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go - but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or “orphan” accounts sit dormant across applications, platforms, assets, and cloud consoles. The reason they persi...

Predicting 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. It's become traditional at this time of year to make predictions about cybersecurity for the coming year. Obviously, no one has a crystal ball to predict the future, and if they did, they would be quietly making a fortune rather than...

Gamifying Cyber Governance: A Virtual Escape Room to Transform Cybersecurity Policy Education

Serious games are gaining popularity as effective teaching and learning tools, providing engaging, interactive, and practical experiences for students. Gamified learning experiences, such as virtual escape rooms, have emerged as powerful tools in bridging theory and practice, fostering deeper...

Microsoft named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms

As organizations rapidly embrace generative and agentic AI, ensuring robust, unified governance has never been more critical. That’s why Microsoft is honored to be named a Leader in the2025-2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms Vendor Assessment US53514825, December...

Microsoft named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms

As organizations rapidly embrace generative and agentic AI, ensuring robust, unified governance has never been more critical. That’s why Microsoft is honored to be named a Leader in the2025-2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms Vendor Assessment US53514825, December...

New Research: 64% of 3rd-Party Applications Access Sensitive Data Without Justification

Research analyzing 4,700 leading websites reveals that 64% of third-party applications now access sensitive data without business justification, up from 51% in 2024. Government sector malicious activity spiked from 2% to 12.9%, while 1 in 7 Education sites show active compromise. Specific...

How Microsoft builds privacy and security to work hand-in-hand

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start and stop deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the...

KryptoPilot: An Open-World Knowledge-Augmented LLM Agent for Automated Cryptographic Exploitation

Capture-the-Flag CTF competitions play a central role in modern cybersecurity as a platform for training practitioners and evaluating offensive and defensive techniques derived from real-world vulnerabilities. Despite recent advances in large language models LLMs, existing LLM-based agents remain...

CVE-2023-49058

SAP Master Data Governance File Upload application allows an attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provided by users, thus characters representing ‘traverse to parent directory’ are passed through to the file APIs. As a result, it has a low impact to the confidentiality...

CVE-2022-35646

IBM Security Verify Governance, Identity Manager 10.0.1 software component could allow an authenticated user to modify or cancel any other user's access request using man-in-the-middle techniques. IBM X-Force ID: 231096...

A Survey of Agentic AI and Cybersecurity: Challenges, Opportunities and Use-Case Prototypes

Agentic AI marks an important transition from single-step generative models to systems capable of reasoning, planning, acting, and adapting over long-lasting tasks. By integrating memory, tool use, and iterative decision cycles, these systems enable continuous, autonomous workflows in real-world...

What is Identity Dark Matter?

The Invisible Half of the Identity Universe Identity used to live in one place - an LDAP directory, an HR system, a single IAM portal. Not anymore. Today, identity is fragmented across SaaS, on-prem, IaaS, PaaS, home-grown, and shadow applications. Each of these environments carries its own...

EUVD-2025-206108

To maintain compliance with CNA rules, we have rejected this CVE record because it has not been used...

EUVD-2025-206124

To maintain compliance with CNA rules, we have rejected this CVE record because it has not been used...

Securing Agentic AI Systems -- a Multilayer Security Framework

Securing Agentic Artificial Intelligence AI systems requires addressing the complex cyber risks introduced by autonomous, decision-making, and adaptive behaviors. Agentic AI systems are increasingly deployed across industries, organizations, and critical sectors such as cybersecurity, finance, an...

The Case for Dynamic AI-SaaS Security as Copilots Scale

Within the past year, artificial intelligence copilots and agents have quietly permeated the SaaS applications businesses use every day. Tools like Zoom, Slack, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and ServiceNow now come with built-in AI assistants or agent-like features. Virtually every major SaaS vendor...

Why Data Security and Privacy Need to Start in Code

AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number of applications and the pace of change within those applications. Security and privacy teams are under significant pressure as t...

Data Protection and Corporate Reputation Management in the Digital Era

This paper analyzes the relationship between cybersecurity management, data protection, and corporate reputation in the context of digital transformation. The study examines how organizations implement strategies and tools to mitigate cyber risks, comply with regulatory requirements, and maintain...

AIAuditTrack: A Framework for AI Security System

The rapid expansion of AI-driven applications powered by large language models has led to a surge in AI interaction data, raising urgent challenges in security, accountability, and risk traceability. This paper presents AiAuditTrack AAT, a blockchain-based framework for AI usage traffic recording...