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CrowdStrike

How AI-leading Security Teams Are Building the Agentic SOC

Jul 6, 2026 By Nico Lozano - Lucia Stanham In CrowdStrike
AI-enabled attacks move faster than human analysts can track, at a scale that traditional SOCs weren’t designed to withstand. eCrime breakout times collapsed to 29 minutes on average in 2025, with the fastest clocked at 27 seconds. The rise of frontier AI models is expected to compress the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, intensifying pressure on SOC teams. Defending against AI-accelerated adversaries requires a new operating model.
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sophos

"Exploit mitigation" stalled around 2008. The attacks didn't.

Jul 6, 2026 By Mark Loman In Sophos
"Exploit mitigation" stalled around 2008. The attacks didn't. AI turns a patched bug into a working exploit in hours. Why endpoint exploit mitigation stalled in 2008, and what a default-on mitigation layer looks like now. The core of my last post was an asymmetry. An attack can unfold in two steps or 20, but the vocabulary it draws from never grows.
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acronis

Manufacturing compliance for MSPs: A practical guide to audit-ready resilience

Jul 6, 2026 By Acronis In Acronis
Quick answer: What is manufacturing cybersecurity compliance? Manufacturing cybersecurity compliance is the process of aligning a manufacturer’s security controls, documentation, backup practices, incident response workflows and reporting with relevant cybersecurity standards or client requirements. For MSPs, the goal is not to act as legal counsel.
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bluevoyant

Canada's Bill C-8 Raises the Stakes for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Jul 6, 2026 By Gina Orlando In BlueVoyant
Canada’s critical infrastructure cybersecurity rules are becoming more explicit — and more enforceable. Historically, these organizations have navigated a patchwork of sector-specific requirements, privacy breach reporting rules, regulator guidance, and voluntary frameworks. Bill C-8 raises the stakes by creating statutory cybersecurity obligations for designated operators of critical cyber systems.
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miniorange

How to secure your Jira & Confluence data with Atlassian Data Encryption?

Jul 6, 2026 By miniOrange In miniOrange
Data encryption is a way to protect your business data from unauthorized users even if they get access to your apps. Atlassian apps like Jira and Confluence store sensitive information like financial data, intellectual property, and customer details. By implementing Atlassian data encryption, all data sent to and from Atlassian apps gets encrypted, ensuring that it remains safe both in transit (moving between devices & servers) and at rest (stored on servers).
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veriato

5 Sentiment Signals That Can Reveal Insider Risk Before It Escalates

Jul 6, 2026 By Veriato Team In Veriato
Traditional insider risk tools are designed to detect actions. They identify unusual access patterns, policy violations, suspicious activity, and data movement after those behaviors occur. But actions rarely happen without context. Frustration. Burnout. Disengagement. Mistrust. Policy friction. These organizational signals can influence employee behavior long before a security alert is triggered. That is where sentiment analysis adds value.
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Why Direct Booking Technology Is the Future of Short-Term Rentals

Why Direct Booking Technology Is the Future of Short-Term Rentals

Jul 6, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
For most of the last decade, listing on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com wasn't optional for short-term rental hosts. It was the only realistic way to get seen. That came at a price: commission fees eating into every booking, plus a guest relationship the host never actually owned. It's a fundamental restructuring of the relationship between hosts, guests and the platforms that sit between them, and it's changing the benefits of owning a rental property in the process. Direct booking tools that were once out of reach for anything but large property management companies are now accessible to independent hosts running one or two properties.
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cyberint

BlackMatter Ransomware Explained: Delivery Methods, Tactics, and Targets

Jul 5, 2026 By Adi Bleih In Cyberint
Emerging in July 2021, BlackMatter is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform that permits the developers of the ransomware to generate income through the actions of their cybercriminal associates, referred to as BlackMatter actors, who utilize it against targets. BlackMatter is potentially a reimagining of DarkSide, another RaaS that remained operational from September 2020 to May 2021.
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UTMStack

Managed SOC Services: Your 2026 Selection Guide

Jul 5, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
The managed security services market is projected to reach US$ 87.9 Billion by 2033, up from US$ 41.3 Billion in 2026 at an 11.4% CAGR according to Persistence Market Research. That number matters because it reframes managed SOC services from a niche outsourcing decision into a mainstream operating model for security teams that can't afford blind spots, delayed response, or constant hiring battles.
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5-Hour Online Pre-Licensing Course - How Registration, Timing, and ID Verification Actually Work

5-Hour Online Pre-Licensing Course - How Registration, Timing, and ID Verification Actually Work

Jul 5, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
New York rolled out an online version of its 5-hour pre-licensing course a few years back, and on paper it sounds like the easy option: no classroom, no fixed schedule, just log in and get through the material. In practice, the state built in a set of checks that a lot of first-time applicants never see coming, and a couple of deadlines that do not bend for anyone. None of it is designed to trip people up, but the 5 hour online pre-licensing course runs on rules that reward knowing them in advance and punish finding them out the hard way.
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