Barack Obama's pledge on Thursday to appoint, if elected president, a national cyber adviser who will report to him directly would be in sharp contrast to the strategy taken by the Bush administration ...

Even as AI-driven automation spreads to nearly all parts of the workforce — including cybersecurity teams — the field of cyber defense is one of the few likely to be spared from major layoffs going ...

Instead, the role for SOC (Security Operations Center) analysts going forward will increasingly be focused around orchestrating a ‘team of intelligent agents’ to boost cyber defense, Sentonas says.

Tech giant bakes AI agents into its security products to democratise advanced security capabilities, automate repetitive tasks, and provide context-aware intelligence for cyber defenders ...

The cybersecurity landscape of 2024 was marked by devastating ransomware attacks, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered social engineering, and state-sponsored cyber operations that caused billions in ...

IN LATE 2022 Wiz, a cyber-security startup, boasted that it was “the fastest-growing software company ever”. A stretch, maybe, but not a big one. At that point, 18 months after it was founded, ...