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Cybersecurity Risk

AI Cybersecurity Basics: What AI Changes and What Still Matters

Recent 2026 breach data shows AI spreading across attack techniques while familiar vulnerabilities remain major entry points. Here’s what security leaders should treat as foundational now.

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AI Governance

Continuous Authorization to Operate: Who Owns the Risk Decision?

CSET’s ATO reform proposals push automation into evidence, risk determinations, and some continued authorization decisions—within defined guardrails, tolerances, and escalation rules.

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Cybersecurity Risk

Water Utility OT Cybersecurity: Who Owns the Control Path?

FBI findings on attacks against internet-exposed water-sector PLCs raise a broader governance issue: utilities need to verify external OT access, current configurations, manual fallback, and third-party-provided network paths.

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AI Governance

OpenAI Astra: What Its Critical Cyber Threshold Means

OpenAI has tightened safeguards around Astra while its Critical cyber classification remains unresolved. The episode shows how capability uncertainty can trigger operational controls before a final determination.

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Cybersecurity Risk

AI Vulnerability Discovery Is Outpacing Patch Workflows

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing shows AI vulnerability discovery is moving faster than validation, disclosure, patching, and evidence workflows can absorb.

Supply chain risk

GAO Chinese Telecom Equipment Review Flags Supply-Chain Visibility Gaps

GAO found little covered Chinese telecom equipment on selected agency IT networks, but documented supply-chain visibility gaps tied to scans, records, white-labeling, subsidiaries, and affiliates.

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Cybersecurity Risk

CISA CI Fortify: Continuity Under Compromise for Critical Infrastructure

CISA’s CI Fortify guidance urges critical infrastructure operators to plan for isolation, recovery, vendor dependencies, and essential service continuity during cyber disruption.

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Cybersecurity Risk

ServiceNow Patches AI Agent Vulnerability

ServiceNow has patched a critical vulnerability affecting certain AI agent and virtual assistant features, highlighting how authentication and workflow logic issues can emerge as enterprise platforms expand AI-driven functionality.

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Cybersecurity Risk

macOS as an Increasingly Central Target in Contemporary Malware Campaigns

Objective-See’s 2025 macOS malware report shows how modern campaigns increasingly treat Apple environments as stable, persistent components of enterprise attack surfaces—revealing long-term visibility patterns rather than isolated incidents.