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Ep. 49 - Iran's AI-Powered Cyber Warfare: The Next Phase of the Global Cyber Threat

Iranian cyber operations are entering a new era. In this final episode of our Iran cyber series, we explore how Iranian APT groups are evolving — leveraging AI, targeting supply chains, and bypassing the billion-dollar security stacks built to stop them. Hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley break down the emerging threats shaping 2026, including: The perimeter is gone. Your weakest vendor may now be your biggest risk.

AI Security for Apps is now generally available

Cloudflare’s AI Security for Apps detects and mitigates threats to AI-powered applications. Today, we're announcing that it is generally available. We’re shipping with new capabilities like detection for custom topics, and we're making AI endpoint discovery free for every Cloudflare customer—including those on Free, Pro, and Business plans—to give everyone visibility into where AI is deployed across their Internet-facing apps.

What is Agentic AI vs GenAI?

Everyone knows ChatGPT, but Agentic AI is where the real work happens. In this Agentic AI vs GenAI breakdown, we explain why Agentic AI is the next major leap, and what it means for your business and career. Here’s the difference: Generative AI (GenAI): Creates content. You ask, it writes, summarizes, or creates. Agentic AI: Does work. It is built on three core components: a brain (reasons), memory (context), and tools (the key that lets agents touch real systems like APIs and databases).

The Economic Argument: The Real Cost of Insecure APIs in the AI Era

When cybersecurity teams talk about risk, they usually speak in technical terms like vulnerabilities, exploits, and attack vectors. But when they walk into the boardroom, they need to speak a different language. They need to speak about cost. In the era of AI, the cost of insecure APIs has shifted from a potential liability to a tangible line item on the balance sheet. It is no longer just about the cost of a data breach.

Introducing System Prompt Hardening: production-ready protection for system prompts

Today, we’re launching System Prompt Hardening, Mend.io’s new capability that defends the hidden instructions that control how your AI systems behave. Unlike user-facing prompts, system prompts live behind the scenes, and when attackers manipulate them, the result can be data leaks, policy bypasses, or unsafe model behavior. System prompt hardening stops those attacks at the source and gives security, engineering, and risk teams a practical, auditable way to secure AI in production.

Now Available: Cyberhaven's Free AI App Risk Checker

Most security teams are being asked to "enable AI" before they have any real sense of which tools are safe to use. That gap is costing them. Cyberhaven's research found that the majority of AI tools in active enterprise use today fall into high or critical risk categories, and more than 80% of enterprise data flowing into AI is going to those risky tools, not to platforms built with serious security in mind. To help security teams cut through the noise, we built the Cyberhaven AI App Risk Checker.