Charting the future of SOC: Human and AI collaboration for better security

Security operations centers are under pressure from unprecedented scale and complexity. Speed, precision, and consistency matter more than ever, and AI is everywhere—but hype alone doesn’t solve the challenge. This blog shares our journey and insights from building autonomous AI agents for MDR...

Mastering Software Governance with Hosted Technologies Inventory

Gain visibility into every technology in your environment and eliminate governance gaps...

Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide

Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that democracy will be the worse for it. We have another narrative. Yes, there are risks to democracy from A...

Securing the Model Context Protocol (MCP): Risks, Controls, and Governance

The Model Context Protocol MCP replaces static, developer-controlled API integrations with more dynamic, user-driven agent systems, which also introduces new security risks. As MCP adoption grows across community servers and major platforms, organizations encounter threats that existing AI...

Blueprint for Security: A Guide to Code, Governance, and Response Frameworks

Building a Foundation for Security and Compliance...

​​Ambient and autonomous security for the agentic era​​

Over the past year, I've had countless conversations with customers who are striving to unlock human ambition with AI. They are on their journey to become Frontier Firms, where humans and agents push the boundaries of innovation and create new possibilities, empowering humans to become limitless...

​​Ambient and autonomous security for the agentic era​​

Over the past year, I've had countless conversations with customers who are striving to unlock human ambition with AI. They are on their journey to become Frontier Firms, where humans and agents push the boundaries of innovation and create new possibilities, empowering humans to become limitless...

What It Takes to Design Trust into Event-Driven Architectures with Amazon EventBridge

How disciplined design turns Amazon EventBridge from an open event bus into a system of verified trust. Event-driven architecture has become essential for achieving agility in the cloud. Yet as integrations multiply, so do the hidden pathways that adversaries can exploit. Amazon EventBridge helps...

7 Steps for Securing Generative AI in Enterprises

Think of your AI strategy like building a skyscraper. You wouldn't construct twenty floors and then try to figure out where the foundation should go. Security must be part of the blueprint from the very beginning. Bolting on security measures after an AI model is already in use is a recipe for...

The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World

As AI capabilities grow, we must delineate the roles that should remain exclusively human. The line seems to be between fact-based decisions and judgment-based decisions. For example, in a medical context, if an AI was demonstrably better at reading a test result and diagnosing cancer than a huma...

​​Securing our future: November 2025 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative ​​

When we launched the Secure Future Initiative SFI, our mission was clear: accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and lead the industry toward a safer digital future. Today, we’re sharing our latest progress report that reflects steady progress in every area and engineering pillar,...

Designing Proportionate Cybersecurity Frameworks for European Micro-Enterprises: Lessons from the Squad 2025 Case

Micro and small enterprises SMEs account for most European businesses yet remain highly vulnerable to cyber threats. This paper analyses the design logic of a recent European policy initiative -- the Squad 2025 Playbook on Cybersecurity Awareness for Micro-SMEs -- to extract general principles fo...

Will AI Strengthen or Undermine Democracy?

Listen to the Audio on NextBigIdeaClub.com Below, co-authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders share five key insights from their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. What's the big idea? AI can be used both for and against the public...

Discover Practical AI Tactics for GRC — Join the Free Expert Webinar

Artificial Intelligence AI is rapidly transforming Governance, Risk, and Compliance GRC. It's no longer a future concept—it's here, and it's already reshaping how teams operate. AI's capabilities are profound: it's speeding up audits, flagging critical risks faster, and drastically cutting down o...

AAGATE: A NIST AI RMF-Aligned Governance Platform for Agentic AI

This paper introduces the Agentic AI Governance Assurance & Trust Engine AAGATE, a Kubernetes-native control plane designed to address the unique security and governance challenges posed by autonomous, language-model-driven agents in production. Recognizing the limitations of traditional...

Covert Surveillance in Smart Devices: A SCOUR Framework Analysis of Youth Privacy Implications

This paper investigates how smart devices covertly capture private conversations and discusses in more in-depth the implications of this for youth privacy. Using a structured review guided by the PRISMA methodology, the analysis focuses on privacy concerns, data capture methods, data storage and...

Agentic AI Security: Threats, Defenses, Evaluation, and Open Challenges

Agentic AI systems powered by large language models LLMs and endowed with planning, tool use, memory, and autonomy, are emerging as powerful, flexible platforms for automation. Their ability to autonomously execute tasks across web, software, and physical environments creates new and amplified...

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Secure AI at Scale and Speed — Learn the Framework in this Free Webinar

AI is everywhere—and your company wants in. Faster products, smarter systems, fewer bottlenecks. But if you're in security, that excitement often comes with a sinking feeling. Because while everyone else is racing ahead, you're left trying to manage a growing web of AI agents you didn't create,...

Securing AI to Benefit from AI

Artificial intelligence AI holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale that human analysts alone can't match. But realizing that potential...