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When a cyber incident occurs, every second matters. Organizations with an incident response retainer can act immediately, while others are still trying to define their response strategy.

Today, Cato Networks announced an integration of Cato XOps with the Cyera AI-native Data Security Platform Management (DSPM). The integration brings Cyera’s data security telemetry directly into Cato XOps, giving security teams visibility into the sensitivity and exposure of data involved in security events. In today’s distributed environments, data lives across the cloud, SaaS, endpoint, and network.

Your AI agents had a productive day. Nobody can tell you what data they touched. A developer opens Cursor and connects it to a GitHub MCP server and a Postgres MCP server. The agent reads the repo to understand a schema change, finds an AWS access key in a config file, and uses it to run a migration against staging. The key now lives in the agent's context, in the Postgres query log, in the chat history, and in whatever artifact the developer copies out. No alert fired. No policy triggered.

When the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) asked for public input on securing agentic AI systems, the response was massive: over 500 detailed submissions from Fortune 500 companies, defense contractors, AI startups, and cybersecurity firms. The result is substantial insight into how industry views the regulatory challenges of autonomous AI agents and what they think policymakers should do about it.

This article was originally published in TechRadar Pro. The Iran conflict is serving as an AI testbed for the next era of cyber conflict. Most organizations are watching the tactics and impact unfold with cybersecurity defenses that are simply not prepared for this level of sophistication. Meanwhile, technology leaders are seeing AI as both their biggest opportunity and a major new attack vector.

SophosLabs analysts investigated WantToCry ransomware attacks that involved the threat actors abusing the Server Message Block (SMB) service for initial access and then exfiltrating files to attacker-controlled infrastructure for remote encryption. The detection surface is significantly reduced because WantToCry operates without local malware execution, and there is no post-compromise activity beyond exfiltrating files and rewriting them to disk.

Security teams that deployed legacy DLP years ago built something real. The rules fire. The alerts go out. Compliance boxes get checked. The problem is not that those programs stopped working. It is that the threat moved, and the architecture did not. Agentic AI has introduced a class of data movement that legacy DLP was never designed to govern: autonomous, continuous, multi-step, and operating at machine speed across systems that static rules cannot enumerate in advance.

For MSPs, patching has evolved beyond a routine maintenance task into a core security service that directly impacts client protection, helping reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and create scalable recurring revenue opportunities. Unpatched vulnerabilities remain one of the primary exposure vectors for organizations today.

In a typical enterprise, non-human identities (NHIs) are thought to outnumber human users by at least 50:1. NHIs are various and include: It is estimated that the NHI: human ratio may have leapt to 144:1 as more AI agents were deployed over the last year. CISOs are already alive to the risks posed by orphaned accounts on their systems. They know that automated rotation is required to revoke privileges as soon as NHIs complete tasks.