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Credential sprawl has long been an issue IT and security teams have had to grapple with, and solutions like single-sign-on (SSO) have never been able to contain it completely. Now, AI is accelerating the problem. AI agents need access to credentials at an unprecedented scale, leaving IT and security teams struggling even more to ensure that every credential, across every department, is secure.

Black Hat is where the security industry gathers to compare notes on what works. In recent years, supply chain attacks have been a recurring topic, and the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report shows security teams are struggling to find a solution. According to the report, third-party involvement increased by 60% over the last year and now accounts for 48% of all breaches.

Your environment probably already looks like this. Active Directory on-prem, a couple of cloud accounts, SaaS apps the business adopted faster than security could review them, remote laptops, service accounts nobody wants to touch, and a SIEM full of logs that don't yet add up to control. That's where most first Zero Trust projects begin.

GitGuardian is now live on the Kiro Powers marketplace. Install the Power once, and Kiro's agent scans for exposed secrets automatically every time it writes or modifies code that handles credentials.

Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity, and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are at the forefront of that evolution. That's why we're launching the WatchGuard AI Innovation Challenge, an opportunity for MSPs to share ideas for AI agents and automations that help security teams work smarter, operate more efficiently, and better protect their customers.

BitRAT is a potent and versatile Remote Access Trojan (RAT) commonly sold on underground forums. Its popularity stems from a robust feature set and an emphasis on stealth, allowing it to evade detection by hiding command-and-control (C2) communications over seemingly benign protocols. This makes traditional detection methods more challenging. By examining the subtle artifacts it leaves behind, even in encrypted traffic, defenders can expose these elusive threats.

Dependency management tools are software solutions designed to automate and streamline the process of handling external libraries, modules, or packages that a project relies on. These tools help developers specify, install, update, and track dependencies, ensuring that all required components are present and compatible.

VMware migration has become a strategic priority for many managed service providers (MSPs), cloud service providers (CSPs) and hosters. After years of relying on VMware as the foundation for virtualization and hosting services, many providers are reassessing their infrastructure strategy. Licensing changes, cost pressure, uncertainty around partner programs and customer demand for more predictable infrastructure services are pushing providers to evaluate their options.

RSA and ECC, cryptographic algorithms that we’ve all relied on for decades, are vulnerable to the attack of sufficiently advanced quantum computers. Such quantum computers do not exist yet, but they seem to be coming sooner than expected. Luckily, the solution is already available: migrate to ML-KEM encryption and ML-DSA signatures, which are designed to be resistant to quantum attack. They were standardized in 2024 by the U.S.

Here's a genuinely unsettling way to lose control of your laptop in 2026. You clone a normal-looking repo, ask your AI coding assistant to "set it up," and it writes an attacker's SSH key into your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys -- without ever really telling you that's what it did. No memory corruption, no zero-day, nothing clever. Just a file in the repo that wasn't the file it claimed to be. That attack is real, it's this week's news, and I'll walk through it. But the trick underneath is decades old.