Game Theory Meets LLM and Agentic AI: Reimagining Cybersecurity for the Age of Intelligent Threats

Protecting cyberspace requires not only advanced tools but also a shift in how we reason about threats, trust, and autonomy. Traditional cybersecurity methods rely on manual responses and brittle heuristics. To build proactive and intelligent defense systems, we need integrated theoretical...

Learn how to build an AI-powered, unified SOC in new Microsoft e-book

The sheer volume of cyberattacks continues to increase at a breathtaking scale worldwide, with customers facing more than 600 million cybercriminal and nation-state attacks every day.1 To stem the growing tide of malicious cyber activity takes a commitment from all of us—individuals from operatio...

From AI to Zero-Days: Why CISOs Can’t Ignore the 2024 Threat Shifts

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Two weeks ago, we published the key insights from our Cyber Horizons 2025 Threat Report ,...

Navigating cyber risks with Microsoft Security Exposure Management eBook

Imagine steering a vessel through Arctic waters where 90% of iceberg mass lies hidden beneath the surface; your lookouts equipped only with telescopes and blind to the submerged threats. This parallels today's cybersecurity landscape: According to the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024, nearly...

6 Steps to 24/7 In-House SOC Success

Hackers never sleep, so why should enterprise defenses? Threat actors prefer to target businesses during off-hours. That's when they can count on fewer security personnel monitoring systems, delaying response and remediation. When retail giant Marks & Spencer experienced a security event over...

Playbook: Transforming Your Cybersecurity Practice Into An MRR Machine

Introduction The cybersecurity landscape is evolving rapidly, and so are the cyber needs of organizations worldwide. While businesses face mounting pressure from regulators, insurers, and rising threats, many still treat cybersecurity as an afterthought. As a result, providers may struggle to mov...

Cyber resilience begins before the crisis

In this blog you will hear directly from Microsoft’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer CISO for Customer Security, Ann Johnson, about the need for proactive planning in cyber incidents, particularly surrounding communications. This blog is part of a new, ongoing series where our Deputy...

MalGEN: a Generative Agent Framework for Modeling Malicious Software in Cybersecurity

The dual use nature of Large Language Models LLMs presents a growing challenge in cybersecurity. While LLM enhances automation and reasoning for defenders, they also introduce new risks, particularly their potential to be misused for generating evasive, AI crafted malware. Despite this emerging...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Customer Panel on Future-Proofing VM Programs

One of the most actionable sessions at the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit came directly from the field. In a panel hosted by Aniket Menon, VP of Product Management at Rapid7, security leaders from Cross Financial Corp, Phibro Animal Health Corporation, and Miltenyi Biotec shared h...

CVE-2024-48569

Proactive Risk Manager version 9.1.1.0 is affected by multiple Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the add/edit form fields, at the urls starting with the subpaths: /ar/config/configuation/ and /ar/config/risk-strategy-control/...

Managerial Insights on Investment Strategy in Cybersecurity: Findings from Multi-Country Research

This study examines the strategic role of cybersecurity based on survey data from 1,083 managers across Europe, the UK, and the United States. The findings indicate growing recognition of cybersecurity as a source of competitive advantage, although firms continue to face barriers such as limited...

GenAI Security: Outsmarting the Bots with a Proactive Testing Framework

The increasing sophistication and integration of Generative AI GenAI models into diverse applications introduce new security challenges that traditional methods struggle to address. This research explores the critical need for proactive security measures to mitigate the risks associated with...

Using a Mythic agent to optimize penetration testing

Introduction The way threat actors use post-exploitation frameworks in their attacks is a topic we frequently discuss. It's not just about analysis of artifacts for us, though. Our company's deep expertise means we can study these tools to implement best practices in penetration testing. This hel...

Proactive threat hunting with Talos IR

At Cisco Talos, we understand that effective cybersecurity isn't just about responding to incidents -- it's about preventing them from happening in the first place. One of the most powerful ways we do this is through proactive threat hunting. Our Talos Incident Response Talos IR team works closel...

From Exposure to Assurance: Unified Remediation Across the Security Lifecycle

When it comes to defending your organization, every second counts. The time to detect, respond, and remediate is critical, but speed alone isn't enough. Fragmentation across security tools, siloed teams, and manual workflows leaves organizations constantly reactive, overwhelmed by alerts, and at...

Product Walkthrough: Securing Microsoft Copilot with Reco

Find out how Reco keeps Microsoft 365 Copilot safe by spotting risky prompts, protecting data, managing user access, and identifying threats - all while keeping productivity high. Microsoft 365 Copilot promises to boost productivity by turning natural language prompts into actions. Employees can...

TrojanDam: Detection-Free Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning through Proactive Model Robustification Utilizing OOD Data

Federated learning FL systems allow decentralized data-owning clients to jointly train a global model through uploading their locally trained updates to a centralized server. The property of decentralization enables adversaries to craft carefully designed backdoor updates to make the global model...

Top Lessons from Take Command 2025

The live sessions may be over, but with every talk now available on demand, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the biggest takeaways from this year’s summit—and how they can help security teams move faster, act smarter, and take control of their attack surface. From red teaming tactics to...

PCDiff: Proactive Control for Ownership Protection in Diffusion Models with Watermark Compatibility

With the growing demand for protecting the intellectual property IP of text-to-image diffusion models, we propose PCDiff -- a proactive access control framework that redefines model authorization by regulating generation quality. At its core, PCDIFF integrates a trainable fuser module and...

Closing the Security Gap From Threat Hunting to Detection Engineering

Closing the Security Gap From Threat Hunting to Detection Engineering By Ilya Kolmanovich, Alejandro Houspanossian, Joe Malenfant and Tomer Shloman · April 16, 2025 In today's rapidly evolving AI-fueled threat landscape, every organization is trying to stop threats as early as possible. Threat...