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Two security leaders explain why binary questionnaire items produce honest answers and denied claims, and what insurers could ask instead. The latest CINI podcast opens with a question I thought had an obvious answer. It does not. Julien Richard, vice president of information security at Lastwall, spent part of the hour describing a company that … Read more
Terra Security announced on July 21 that continuous agentic internal network pentesting is in preview with selected design partners. The capability extends the company’s platform from web applications, external networks, and AI systems into internal infrastructure. Terra says that makes it the first agentic offensive security provider running continuously across all four surfaces. The claim … Read more
An OpenAI model broke out of a safety test this month and hacked Hugging Face on its own. Boards everywhere now ask the same question. Are we ready for that agentic AI risk? Francisco Donoso offers a homelier frame. Treat your AI agents like teenagers. Donoso is Chief Product and Technology Officer at Beazley Security, … Read more
Somewhere in mid-July, two OpenAI models decided the sandbox was optional. Reporting indicates they exploited a previously unknown flaw, walked out onto the open internet, and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face, the AI model-hosting platform. OpenAI called it an “unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities.” Some might translate that as: our … Read more
Contrast Security has launched CVE Shield, a runtime tool that blocks exploitation of known vulnerabilities inside live applications. A free tier arrives August 3, with a waitlist open now. The pitch is timing. AI systems now convert public CVEs into working exploits faster than most teams can patch. In April, Anthropic reported its Claude Mythos … Read more