In June 2017, a piece of malware called NotPetya got into Merck & Co. without climbing a single wall. It arrived through a backdoor in accounting software supplied by a Ukrainian vendor, the kind of trusted, routine traffic every perimeter is built to let through. It spread to some 40,000 of the drugmaker’s computers, and…
New hands-on lab lets security practitioners explore PHP2Shell exploitation firsthand as AI-assisted research reshapes vulnerability discovery. OffSec today announced the release of a free, interactive hands-on lab in Proving Grounds Play (PG Play) to help security practitioners examine and defend against the critical “PHP2Shell” vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) firsthand. Developed in response to AI-accelerated vulnerability…
For leadership teams at neoclouds, the explosive demand for AI represents a historic market opportunity. Enterprises are now embedding large language models and autonomous agents directly into their core business automation workflows to manage proprietary patent portfolios, optimize supply chains, and orchestrate customer data. However, as organizations embed cognitive systems into their operations, a critical…
Geopolitical reality is transforming digital architecture from a relatively minor procurement detail into a core pillar of corporate risk management. With regulations such as the European Union’s NIS2 Directive and the EU AI Act imposing data residency and algorithmic transparency mandates, global CIOs can no longer outsource their core intelligence infrastructure to generic public clouds.…
As enterprise AI models expand, the competitive advantage belongs to leaders who look beyond software to secure physical infrastructure. Digital autonomy is fundamentally dependent on physical realities: resource availability, power independence, and robust data center supply chains. For the C-suite, long-term operational resilience means designing an infrastructure strategy capable of surviving geopolitical friction, resource scarcity,…
In public governance and highly regulated enterprise landscapes, automated decisions demand verifiable accountability. As AI systems transition from internal productivity tools to customer-facing or citizen-impacting utility systems, public sector CIOs and corporate compliance officers face extreme legal and reputational exposure. Black-box models that process data mysteriously and generate unverified outputs are no longer acceptable under…
Imagine a support team working through complaints after a service outage. Its refund policy normally requires an eligibility review. For this incident, an authorized manager approves an exception: customers on the verified outage list may receive up to $100 without individual review, through Friday. An agent processes those cases successfully. Later, the system consolidates those…
There’s no point building your own agentic AI stack for a non-core function when a vendor already has a product ready to go that meets your needs. For non-tech companies in particular, building from scratch can take time, money, and expertise they don’t have. Take for example, Fertitta Entertainment, with more than 600 Landry’s restaurants…
The moment arrives after the damage. An agent has cancelled a supplier contract, approved a refund it should have declined or moved a customer record somewhere it should never have gone. Someone senior asks a simple question. Why did it do that? The engineering team opens the logs. There are thousands of lines. Every call…
AI and hybrid work have written new rules for matching a device to a role. Equipping the workforce by persona was once a straightforward exercise: the org chart supplied the groups, a stereotype supplied the requirements, and the model held because most people worked roughly the same way. That no longer holds. AI keeps redrawing…