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Building and Enforcing an AI Acceptable Use Policy

An AI acceptable use policy (AUP) is a formal set of rules that defines how employees can safely and responsibly use AI tools in the workplace. Its purpose is to encourage AI-driven productivity while protecting the organization from data leaks, intellectual property exposure, compliance violations, and the security vulnerabilities that unsanctioned AI usage introduces. Every organization deploying or permitting AI tools needs one. ‍

The Best Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Tools of 2026

Cybersecurity risk assessment has fragmented into distinct categories of tooling, and no single platform covers every dimension enterprise programs need. Governance, risk, and compliance platforms handle framework mapping and audit workflows. Vulnerability management tools scan technical exposure at the infrastructure layer. ‍

How to build a continuous feedback loop between risk management and control monitoring

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

Agent Identity: Why It Matters for AI Security

AI agent identity is a unique, digitally verifiable credential assigned to an autonomous AI system that defines who the agent is, what resources it can access, and on whose behalf it is acting. As AI systems move from answering questions to executing real-world actions independently, agent identity has become the new control plane for enterprise cybersecurity. Legacy identity and access management tools were built for humans behind a login screen and static service accounts running deterministic code.

How to Turn Cyber Risk Insights Into Concrete Mitigation Decisions

Every mature cyber program eventually hits the same wall. Security teams collect enormous amounts of telemetry, threat intelligence, and control data, and yet the conversation with the CFO about what to fund next still feels like an argument about opinions rather than evidence. The reason is not that the data is missing.

The Fuyao Enterprise: Building an Ad-Fraud Empire with AI and Kids' Coding Blocks

In this post, we will uncover the “Fuyao Enterprise,” a previously unknown, sophisticated and highly modular botnet operating within Android TV boxes. This operation marks a shift in modern ad-fraud, where automated bots fake both clicks and views to defraud advertisers and ad-networks. While deploying novel tactics and techniques, Fuyao managed to escape public research for several years. Now, its operators openly advertise their network of over 120,000 “AI digital humans.".

What Claude Mythos Means for Vulnerability Management Programs

If you've been following the cybersecurity conversation over the last several weeks, you've heard some version of the phrase “Claude Mythos changes everything.” It’s dominated the industry news cycles since early April. While the capabilities these stories tout are very much real, I have an issue with the framing being wrong when it comes to vulnerability management. There’s a narrative that Mythos and other frontier models will find too many vulnerabilities to deal with.

How to have an epic lunch break (UpGuard edition)

Chris O'Brien, Head of Sales Engineering at UpGuard, spent his lunch break at his local fair — carnival games, rides, and all. When we say work-life balance matters to us, we mean it. Sometimes that looks like stepping away from back-to-back meetings to grab a corn dog and a life-size plushie. UpGuard helps organizations manage third-party risk and monitor their attack surface — but great security work starts with a team that's supported enough to log off, recharge, and show up sharp.

TITAN AI Demo Series: How the MAX Customer Portal Gives Real-Time Questionnaire Visibility

Handing Third-Party Risk Management work to a managed service only pays off if you can see what your provider actually does. Step inside the MAX Customer Portal in this SecurityScorecard demo. It gives your team real-time visibility into every questionnaire, monitoring alert, and vendor engagement MAX handles on your behalf, backed by service-level agreements you can hold us to. TITAN MAX runs on the TITAN AI platform and is delivered by SecurityScorecard's expert team, combining SLA-backed outcomes with full transparency into how they're achieved.

Guide to measuring risk management performance with the right focus areas

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

The ECB's AI Cybersecurity Action Plan: Why Speed, Visibility, and Evidence Matter

AI is compressing the cybersecurity timeline faster than most institutions can adapt to it. Not only do security leaders have to deal with this new reality, they have to answer key questions to internal and external audiences about their efforts — including regulators.

No Hackers Required: 10 Shadow AI Leaks Hiding in Plain Sight

“The call is coming from inside the house.” It’s one of horror’s oldest lines, and you already know how the scene goes. The team scrambles, rechecks every firewall, audits every login, hunting for an intruder. Then the trace comes back, and there isn’t one because there is no malware or forced entry. Just an employee, at their own desk, with their own login, who pasted a confidential spreadsheet into an unapproved AI tool to save 10 minutes before a deadline.

CultureAI: In Partnership with Microsoft & NVDIA

CultureAI is a UK-founded AI security and governance platform that enables organisations to adopt AI safely, confidently, and at scale. Sensitive data is flowing into AI tools, SaaS applications with embedded AI, shadow AI, and personal accounts, creating compliance, privacy, and data loss risks that traditional security and governance tools were never built to understand.

The Cyber Risk Register, Reimagined With Quantification | Kovrr

For years, security and risk managers have relied on spreadsheets to track their cyber risk. But as regulatory expectations tighten and threats grow more sophisticated, manual tracking cannot keep up. In this video, Kovrr walks through what a modern cyber risk register looks like when cyber risk quantification is built into its foundation. We cover.

TITAN AI Demo Series: Detect and Respond to Zero-Days across Your Supply Chain with TITAN MAX

When a new zero-day drops, security teams need one answer fast: which vendors are exposed right now? Most teams find out weeks later, once a vendor questionnaire finally catches up. SecurityScorecard's MAX applies live threat intelligence to your vendor ecosystem instead, flagging exposed vendors the moment threats emerge and engaging them directly to drive remediation. In one case, MAX helped a large bank reach a 70% vendor engagement rate. High- and critical-risk vendors dropped 80%, without adding internal resources.

TITAN AI Demo Series: What a Mature TPRM Program Looks Like with TITAN MAX

Most Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) programs can be compliance-driven and reactive. A mature program looks different. See what threat-informed TPRM with continuous monitoring looks like in SecurityScorecard's Demo Tuesday series. Vendor engagement drives real remediation. Your team spends time on risk decisions instead of manual busywork. TITAN MAX pairs the TITAN AI platform with SecurityScorecard's expert team to run these workflows on your behalf Continuous monitoring through a dedicated Vendor Risk Operations Center Faster questionnaire cycle times, without adding headcount.

America's New Security Doctrine: Hardening Digital and Supply Chain Borders

In the span of six weeks this summer, the United States government issued three separate security directives that, on the surface, appear to address completely different problems. One tightens how federal agencies patch software vulnerabilities. Another creates a government-industry clearinghouse to triage AI-discovered bugs. The third restructures how defense contractors source the raw materials that go into missiles, aircraft, and military electronics. Different agencies. Different languages.

How to Quantify Cyber Risk for Board-Level Reporting

Quantifying cyber risk for the board means translating technical exposure into dollar-denominated financial risk that the audit committee, CFO, and directors can act on. Boards care about strategic business impact like operational downtime, regulatory penalties, and reputational damage. ‍ They do not care about patch rates, blocked emails, or firewall logs, which are the metrics cyber teams have historically brought to board meetings and which board members have historically ignored.

AI Agents and MCP: Security Implications

The Model Context Protocol has quietly become the connective tissue of enterprise agentic AI. MCP standardizes how AI agents discover, request, and invoke tools, data sources, and external systems, replacing the custom integration code that used to sit between every agent and every backend. ‍ That standardization is what made agents commercially viable at scale. It is also what turned MCP into one of the largest and least-understood attack surfaces in enterprise AI.

Closing the Gap Between Cybersecurity and Building Operations

Modern organizations depend on connected buildings, networked equipment, digital access systems, environmental sensors, and cloud-based operational platforms. These technologies improve efficiency, but they also blur the boundary between cybersecurity and physical operations. A malfunctioning controller, neglected door sensor, or unpatched building device can become more than a maintenance problem. It may interrupt business, expose sensitive information, weaken access controls, or create an opening for attackers seeking a path into corporate systems.

EveryOps in 1 Minute: What is GRC?

Governance, Risk, and Compliance — better known as — is an integrated approach that helps organizations align their objectives, manage risks, and meet regulatory requirements, all at the same time. In this quick explainer, we break down: Whether you're new to GRC or looking for a simple way to explain it to your team, this short video gives you the essentials without the jargon.

How to create risk reports for operations, executives, and auditors

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

How Emerging AI Regulations Impact Organizational Risk Governance

Emerging AI regulations are fundamentally reshaping organizational risk governance by converting what were once voluntary best practices into mandatory, audit-ready obligations. The most significant impact is the move from informal AI risk assessments and optional frameworks to documented, repeatable governance programs that regulators can inspect, penalize, and enforce.

How to Reduce Risk Without Shutting Down Operations

Discovering a vulnerable asset doesn't have to trigger panic. In this video, Daniel dos Santos explains how organizations can reduce risk while investigations are still underway by limiting reachability, tightening access controls, and using segmentation to restrict exposure—without disrupting critical business operations.

Enterprise risk designations and multiple risk registers: when are they relevant?

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

Bitsight's Ratings Algorithm Update for 2026 Makes Risk Vectors More Impactful

Bitsight's annual Ratings Algorithm Update (RAU) has been in effect as of July 16, 2026. In preparation, RAU 2026 Preview was made available in April 2026. As in the past, RAU 2026 is an effort to account for the continuous evolution of the threat landscape the Bitsight security ratings seek to quantify. This year's update is focused on modernizing the rating by improving how it is composed from various risk vectors (RVs). In particular, this entails the following.

What Is a Cyber Risk Register? Definition, Structure, and Best Practices

A cyber risk register is a centralized, continuously updated record of every cybersecurity threat, vulnerability, and scenario an organization is tracking, structured so security, risk, and executive teams can prioritize, quantify, and act on each entry. Done well, it becomes the operational backbone of the cyber GRC program, translating technical security data into the business language leadership needs to make investment decisions.

What to Look for in an AI Security Platform for Enterprise Deployment

The enterprise AI security market in 2026 is crowded and confusing. Vendors that built their products to use AI for cybersecurity operations now market themselves alongside vendors that built their products to secure AI systems and govern AI usage. These are fundamentally different product categories solving different problems, and conflating them leads to evaluation errors that leave organizations protected against external threats but exposed to the risks their own AI systems introduce. ‍

The New Face of AI Risk

Cybercrime used to have a ‘"tell." It was the digital equivalent of a villain stroking their cat - clunky grammar, misspelt links and suspicious attachments that screamed ‘phishing’. But the arrival of AI has changed everything. Typos have been replaced by perfect prose. Generic lures have evolved into highly personalized attacks that mimic your internal language and align with your project timelines.

Oracle Just Shipped 1,449 Security Patches in One Quarter. We Checked How Much of It Is Actually New.

Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) is nearly three times larger than any release in the company's history. To understand it, we parsed all 23 of Oracle's quarterly advisories going back to 2021, matched them against the official CVE record, and compared Oracle against eight other major vendors. We set out to answer three questions: How much of this is genuinely new? Does it really reflect AI-accelerated patching? And how unusual is it?

How to design a risk register: A guide for GRC practitioners

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

How to Benchmark Your Cyber Risk Against Industry Peers

Cyber risk benchmarking is the practice of measuring an organization's security posture, quantified exposure, and operational metrics against comparable companies in the same sector and size band. Done well, it answers three questions a board expects the CISO to answer. ‍ ‍ Done poorly, it produces vanity metrics that look impressive in a slide deck and mean nothing when the auditors, regulators, or insurance carriers start asking questions. ‍

How to Discover, Monitor, and Manage Shadow AI Across the Enterprise

Shadow AI is the fastest-growing unmanaged risk surface in most organizations. Employees are adopting AI tools through browser extensions, free-tier SaaS accounts, personal logins, and embedded platform features without involving IT, security, or procurement. The result is an expanding footprint of AI systems that process corporate data, generate business outputs, and create compliance exposure while remaining invisible to the governance program responsible for managing those risks. ‍

How to report risk to leadership and the board: A guide for security and GRC executives

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

When VulnOps Meets the Vendor Blind Spot: Why Post-Mythos Modernization Needs to Include TPRM

The security world has a new focus: VulnOps. In response to Mythos, Daybreak, and the other frontier models that are sure to follow, organizations are racing to build permanent vulnerability operations functions that combine vulnerability management with more robust automation. The need for this discipline was always there. But now that AI can discover and help weaponize vulnerabilities at machine speed, the old quarterly-scan-and-patch approach is becoming less viable.

TITAN AI Demo Series: Security Events in TITAN Secure - From Fragmented Threat Data to One Live Feed

Threat data lives everywhere: news outlets, hacker forums, breach reports. Correlating all of it to your vendor ecosystem by hand costs precious response time. SecurityScorecard's new Security Events feature inside TITAN Secure automates that mapping. It turns fragmented signals into a live feed showing exactly who's affected, what happened, and when. Event tags separate confirmed compromises from unverified hacker chatter Status badges show whether an event is active or still under investigation Impact summaries surface how many vendors are confirmed or potentially affected.

The Security Risks of AI Agents in the Enterprise

AI agents introduce a category of security risk that traditional application security, identity management, and even standard AI security programs were not designed to handle. Unlike a generative model that only produces text, an agent takes autonomous action against real systems, chains API calls together to accomplish goals, and often holds permissions broad enough to touch data across multiple business systems.

Kovrr's Insurance Data Insights: Connecting Cyber Exposure to Coverage

‍ ‍Cyber insurance has become a standard line item in enterprise risk management, and for good reason. The financial consequences of a significant cyber event, whether a ransomware attack that halts operations for weeks or a data breach that triggers regulatory scrutiny and third-party liability, can far exceed what any operational budget was sized to absorb. Insurance exists to handle that tail. Most organizations recognize this benefit and carry a policy.

7 Cybersecurity Metrics Every CISO Should Report to the Board

For years, CISOs have walked into boardrooms with technical data dumps that don't land. In this video, Kovrr breaks down the 7 cybersecurity metrics that actually resonate with board directors, all framed in the financial and business terms they use to govern the enterprise. We cover: Generated with the help of AI.

Best Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) Platforms

The modern security landscape is an unfair fight. The perimeter is gone—replaced by a borderless terrain where a team of one to 10 is expected to defend the same footprint as a 50-person security operations center (SOC). Attack surface. Vendor ecosystem. Workforce identity. Even fully-staffed teams struggle to cover them all. For a lean team, that coverage fractures almost instantly.

5 reasons why spreadsheets for risk management don't work (and what you can do instead)

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

The 30-Minute Cloud Risk Assessment Every MSP Should Be Offering

Every time a client gets breached through a cloud app, it's the MSP who gets the call. Compromised Microsoft 365 accounts, unauthorized AI tools, and misconfigured sharing settings. Attackers aren't breaking in anymore. They're logging in through gaps that your endpoint, firewall, and MDR tools were never designed to see.

AI in risk management: Practical applications and considerations

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

Best Dark Web Monitoring Tools, Software, and Services in 2026

Confidential and sensitive data moves across the dark web every second of every day, and that stolen data has become a reliable fuel source for breaches. In 2025, reports from Cybernews revealed that researchers had uncovered roughly 16 billion exposed credentials and that artificial intelligence (AI) now accelerates what attackers can do with that data once they have it.

Find and Fix Risky Firewall Rules | Reach Security Demo

A firewall rule set to allow any source to any destination can stay live for months. It cancels out the rules beneath it and lets traffic pass unchecked. That kind of drift sets off no alarm. It builds up between quarterly reviews, while small teams govern 50 or more firewalls and hundreds of rule changes a week. Reach Network Security Assurance finds these controls, shows how long each has been open, ties the finding to real exposure, and guides the fix.

TeamPCP Profile: Why Developer Tools Are Becoming the Attack Path

TeamPCP is a financially motivated ransomware group tied to software supply chain compromise, credential theft, extortion, and abuse of developer infrastructure. The group is also tracked through aliases including ShellForce, PCPcat, TeamPCP, DeadCatx3, Altered Spider, and PersyPCP. The group has also claimed ownership of CipherForce, which it describes as its private locker.

AI Man-in-the-Middle: The Trust Problem Hiding in Plain Sight

I remember the days when merely saying “AI” was enough to earn glares for bringing up such a taboo subject, almost equivalent to saying “Voldemort.” Now, AI is at the center of many people’s daily lives and certainly at the center of business operations. I find myself using AI for everyday tasks. Unfortunately for security teams, the bad guys are using it too.

Agentic AI vs. Generative AI: What Enterprises Need to Know

Agentic AI and generative AI both build on large language models, but they behave in fundamentally different ways once deployed. Generative AI produces content in response to a specific prompt and then stops. Agentic AI receives a goal, then autonomously plans, decides, and executes multi-step workflows to accomplish that goal, often across systems and tools the enterprise runs. That difference is the difference between an AI that helps a human do work faster and an AI that does the work itself. ‍

Cyber Risk Quantification Methodologies: A Practical Comparison

Cyber risk quantification methodologies translate technical exposure into structured financial estimates using mathematical, statistical, and actuarial techniques instead of ordinal ratings like high, medium, or low. The methodological landscape has matured enough that buyers now face real choices between frameworks that describe how to reason about risk, models that produce the numbers, and automated platforms that combine both.

Cyber Risk Intelligence Brief: Supply Chain Trust Erosion and Ransomware Velocity Require Preventive Control Discipline

This CISO Executive Cyber Risk Intelligence Briefing covers the Past Week (July 8–14, 2026) and the Past Month (June 15–July 14, 2026). Analysis draws exclusively from verified incident disclosures, CISA KEV activity, threat intelligence platforms, and platform telemetry. Focus remains on material risk to AppSec posture, software supply chain integrity, cloud/IaC, identity fabrics, and business enablement.

TITAN AI Demo Series: How MAX Managed Questionnaires Eliminates Your Assessment Backlog

SecurityScorecard's MAX Managed Questionnaires handles your entire vendor questionnaire process end-to-end, design, outreach, response collection, and expert analysis — with no additional headcount required. In this installment of SecurityScorecard's Demo Tuesday series, see MAX Managed Questionnaires in action and what your security program looks like when your team is free to focus on risk strategy instead of assessment admin.

The best risk management software for enterprises

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

Finding Just Got Free: That's Why Fixing Is the Only Game That Matters

When Anthropic revealed Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing, the industry did what the industry always does with a frontier-AI story: it reached for the alarm. The headlines, Reddit threads, and back-channel conversations all focused on the same things: All of that is real, and none of it is the part that should keep a security leader up at night. Here is the part that should.

Erasing Security Debt with an App Risk Remediation Platform

A risk remediation platform is the operational infrastructure that transforms security debt from an unmanaged backlog into a structured, measurable program. With 82% of organizations now carrying security debt and the average fix half-life sitting at 243 days, the gap between vulnerability discovery and resolution is where breaches happen.

Data leakage risks with DBHub MCP servers

Organizations keep their databases behind firewalls for a reason: the data inside is the data they can least afford to lose. A new class of AI middleware–Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers–exists specifically to reach into those protected systems on an AI model's behalf. One of them, DBHub, connects directly to SQL databases.

How Organizations Can Assess and Manage AI-Related Risks

Organizations assess and manage AI-related risks by establishing a cross-functional governance framework, mapping risks based on impact and financial likelihood, and instituting continuous monitoring that connects AI asset discovery to risk quantification, compliance, and enforcement. The most effective programs treat AI risk management not as a one-time assessment but as a continuous, data-driven discipline that evolves alongside the AI systems it governs. ‍

What AI Governance Tools Exist in the Market Today

‍AI governance tools are software platforms designed to help organizations manage AI risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and enforce responsible AI use across the machine learning lifecycle. The market has expanded rapidly, and in 2026 it includes tools spanning compliance automation, model observability, data governance, infrastructure security, and integrated risk quantification.

The Best Cyber Risk Quantification Tools in 2026: A Buyer's Guide

Cyber risk quantification tools translate technical exposure into the same financial language a CFO uses for market, credit, and operational risk. The best of them run probabilistic models on real telemetry, produce defensible loss distributions in dollar terms, and connect quantified exposure to the day-to-day workflows security teams already run: risk registers, board reporting, budget prioritization, and cyber insurance decisions. The wrong tool produces a static number no one trusts.

Weekly Brief: Threat Intelligence Edition | How AI Agents Help Security Teams Prioritize Risk

In this week's SecurityScorecard Weekly Brief: Threat Intelligence Edition, Richard Hummel explains why third-party risk has become one of the biggest challenges facing security teams, and why humans alone can no longer keep pace. Attackers are moving faster than ever, exploiting vulnerabilities across complex vendor ecosystems long before traditional assessment cycles can react. As Richard notes, the question is no longer, "Am I secure?" It's "Are all of my vendors secure?".

Best Tools for Securing MCP and LLM Integrations

Shadow IT used to mean employees spinning up unsanctioned software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps that stored company data without approval. Today, shadow MCP and unsanctioned LLM integrations represent the next evolution, and they're more dangerous. Model context protocol (MCP) servers don't merely store data; they act on it, executing code, calling APIs, and accessing internal tools on behalf of AI agents that developers connect with a config file.

TITAN AI Demo Series: How AI Pre-fills Vendor Assessments from Security Policies

TITAN Assess reads vendor security policies and pre-fills assessment responses automatically so your team reviews findings instead of copying answers from PDFs. In this installment of SecurityScorecard's TITAN AI demo series, see AI pre-fill from vendor policies in action and find out how much faster your team moves through assessments when the manual work disappears.

The best third party risk management software solutions for enterprises

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

How to Identify and Track AI Use Across Business Units

Tracking AI use across business units requires a purpose-built approach that combines endpoint monitoring, browser-level telemetry, network security tools, and a centralized AI governance platform. Most organizations rely on some combination of IT asset management, SaaS monitoring, and manual surveys to understand what AI tools employees are using.

How to Translate Cyber Risk Into Financial Terms the CFO Understands

Cyber risk assessed on a red-yellow-green heatmap will never survive a serious CFO conversation. Boards and finance leaders make decisions in dollars, using probability distributions and expected-value calculations. When cybersecurity walks in with a qualitative rating and a request for more budget, it is speaking a different language than the room. A modern cyber risk register built on quantified exposure fixes that at the source.

Token Torching: Why Attackers Care About Your Usage Limits

AI is becoming part of almost everything: customer support, security operations, software development, research, analytics, internal workflows, and, most importantly, drafting emails. AI is increasingly embedded in real business processes, and that creates new risks, not to mention the level of unprecedented access mainly of these platforms to our data. Token torching (a type of Denial-of-Wallet (DoW) attack) is one emerging AI risk.

TITAN AI Demo Series: Build Custom Assessment Templates in Minutes with TITAN Agent

Building a strong vendor assessment template used to take hours. With our TITAN Agent, it takes minutes. In this installment of SecurityScorecard's TITAN demo series, see how our TITAN Agent builds customized, comprehensive assessment templates — so your team gets to evaluation faster and with more consistency across every vendor engagement.

What Tools Help Build and Maintain an AI Asset Inventory?

Managing an artificial intelligence (AI) footprint has emerged as one of the most complex challenges for modern enterprise security and risk teams. As shadow AI, autonomous agents, and embedded third-party models infiltrate corporate environments, traditional methods of software tracking have broken down. Organizations are quickly realizing that maintaining an accurate inventory is not just an IT best practice.

How to Build an AI Asset Inventory

Most organizations that have invested in AI governance have done so without first solving the problem that makes governance possible in the first place: knowing what AI they are actually running. An AI governance program built on an incomplete inventory is governing a partial picture of actual exposure. ‍ The risks concentrated in the AI systems that never made it into the formal catalog are not lower priority because they were not captured. They are simply invisible, which is considerably worse.

Bringing Real-World Cyber Events Directly Into the Cyber Risk Register

Kovrr's cyber risk quantification (CRQ) models are built on a continuously updated database of real-world cyber events, drawing on regulatory disclosures, company filings, legal reports, and proprietary insurance claim intelligence to produce financial exposure estimates grounded in how incidents actually unfold. That intelligence foundation has always informed everything the platform produces, from frequency and severity calculations to the event catalogs that drive each organization's quantification.

TITAN AI Demo Series: How to Send Vendor Questionnaires with TITAN Assess

Vendor questionnaires out the door faster. Responses back sooner. No manual coordination required. In this week's edition of SecurityScorecard Demo Tuesdays, see how TITAN Assess streamlines the entire questionnaire outreach process — so your team spends less time on admin and more time acting on what vendors actually tell you.

After Mythos: What Cyber Insurers Should Actually Be Asking

One issue we keep hearing from insurance underwriters and portfolio managers is some version of the same question: how do you price a risk that can change between bind and the very next day? The steady stream of headlines about Claude Mythos is the latest reason why this question comes up, but it isn’t really all about Mythos. Frontier AI is collapsing the gap between vulnerability disclosure and weaponized exploit, and the numbers are no longer subtle.
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The biggest security risks facing financial institutions in 2026

Financial institutions are spending more on security than they were five years ago. They have more security tools, invest more in training, have more policies in place and report on security more regularly. That sounds positive, but it does not automatically make them more secure. One of the biggest challenges for security leaders is deciding where to focus. New vulnerabilities, threat reports and regulatory requirements appear all the time. With so much competing for attention, it can be difficult to separate genuine priorities from the latest headline.

Why third-party risk management is broken, according to CISOs and analysts

Independent journalists, analysts, and working CISOs are all reaching the same conclusion about questionnaire-based, point-in-time risk assessment: it’s no longer enough. Risk and vulnerabilities keep growing, compliance obligations keep stacking up, and AI adds an entirely new surface to account for. CISOs need something better: a continuous approach with visibility across their business, that actually reduces risk rather than just documenting it.

Zero-Day Minus the Scramble: A Better Approach to Vulnerability Risk Management

SCA tools are good at identifying vulnerabilities in your dependencies. They’re not built for the harder part of vulnerability risk management: telling you whether those vulnerabilities are actually reachable in your application, or which assets are running an affected component the moment a zero-day drops. Seemplicity’s SCA Analyst solves both problems inside a single centralized vulnerability management platform.

Higher Education TPRM in 2026: New Research Maps the Vendor Visibility Gap

Higher education institutions are the most targeted sector for cyberattacks. Yet the teams responsible for managing that risk often face a structural disadvantage: they’re accountable for a vendor ecosystem they can’t fully see. Academic autonomy and the scale of university operations mean that vendors enter the institution through departments, research groups, and administrative teams before InfoSec has full visibility. This challenge is built into how higher education operates.

Best TPRM Software for Higher Education: What to Look For

Higher education institutions don’t run on a single vendor ecosystem. They run on dozens of overlapping ones. Teaching, research, identity, payments, student services, cloud infrastructure, alumni engagement, and campus operations all rely on different third-party vendors. These often enter the institution through departments and administrative teams before InfoSec becomes aware of them. This is the operational reality that higher education TPRM software addresses.

Weekly Brief: Driftnet Edition | Automatically Enforce Vendor Security Standards

In this week's SecurityScorecard Weekly Brief, Brandon Torio explains how leading security organizations are moving beyond annual vendor reviews and enforcing security standards continuously. Instead of waiting for the next assessment cycle, mature security teams are defining clear security policies, and automatically identifying when vendors fall out of compliance. With Driftnet and TITAN Secure, organizations can.

Best Threat Intelligence Platforms and Vendors

A threat intelligence platform (TIP) is the software layer that bridges the gap between raw threat data and your team's security decisions. It aggregates signals from open, deep, and dark web sources, normalizes indicators of compromise (IOCs), enriches them with context like reputation scores and malware family attribution, and maps adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) so analysts can act instead of investigating.

It's the speed we're adopting it

AI! It's in everything, everywhere, all at once! It’s reading emails, summarising meetings, drafting documents, and writing code, and it’s no longer just giving us answers. We now also have agents that act on their own, access other systems, and make decisions with little to no human oversight. From a capability standpoint, it’s amazing.

AI Risk Categorization and Prioritization for Effective Governance

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, but it also introduces new risks that organizations must manage carefully. This article explains how to develop and apply AI risk categories aligned with recognized frameworks, focusing on operational, technical, and ethical risks. Readers will learn how to prioritize these risks based on their potential impact on the organization.

How State Governments Can Navigate the Resource Crunch and Achieve Resiliency

The 2026 NASCIO-Deloitte Cybersecurity Study reveals a stark reality for CISOs in state governments: while cyber threats are growing in both sophistication and volume, the resources available to combat them are failing to keep pace. As foreign adversaries and cybercriminals weaponize AI to probe for vulnerabilities, state CISOs find themselves at a critical juncture, navigating expanding responsibilities amidst tightening budgets.

7 risk management best practices as regulatory pressure intensifies in 2026

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Why Your Asset Counts Are Wrong (And What to Do About It)

If you've ever pulled an asset count from one tool and compared it to another, you've probably noticed they don't match. The discrepancy isn’t minor, either. The difference is likely to be substantial. One scanner says you have 4,200 assets. Your CMDB says 3,800. Your cloud inventory says 1,100. None of them agree, and none of them are right. That's not a data hygiene problem you can solve with a spreadsheet cleanup.

Top AI Governance Tools for Shadow & Agentic Risks

AI governance platforms are evolving rapidly to manage new challenges such as shadow AI and agentic AI. These complexities arise as AI systems grow beyond traditional boundaries, operating autonomously and often without clear oversight. This article explores how leading AI governance solutions, especially Kovrr’s integrated platform, address these challenges through comprehensive visibility, risk quantification, compliance automation, and active enforcement.