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On September 1, OpenAI announced that its new model, GPT-6 Astra, had become the first to cross the “Critical” cybersecurity threshold in the company’s Preparedness Framework. Most coverage focused on the safety implications, and fairly so, but buried in the announcement sits a benchmark result that should change how every security leader reads their next vulnerability report.

This article was first published on LinkedIn. Consider a cybersecurity alert for a potentially malicious PowerShell script that downloads and runs a file. An AI agent in a security operations center (SOC) can handle it by picking from a fixed set of actions: close the alert as benign, collect more evidence, or send it to an analyst. Before letting the agent act on such alerts, the SOC needs to know how often it picks correctly and whether its confidence helps identify its mistakes.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a good time to review the everyday habits that protect our accounts, devices, information, and organizations.

That might sound like a trick question since it’s what we do as a managed infrastructure services provider. But it really isn’t. Here is the quick answer: Managed services let organizations outsource day-to-day IT operations, including networks, security, connectivity, and policy management, to a specialized provider.

Part 3 of the Enterprise OIT Series By Bill Moore, Founder & CEO, Xona Systems TL;DR -- Intelligence vs.

AI agents are already operating across the enterprise. As they become more autonomous in accessing data, using credentials, executing code, and acting across critical systems, the security boundary is changing with them. The question is no longer whether enterprises will adopt agents. It's how they give agents greater autonomy without giving up control.

Modern insider risk demands more than anomaly detection. Behavioral analytics, intent intelligence, and governed AI can help security teams recognize developing risk earlier—and act before it becomes business impact. Beth Dannemiller, Senior Director, Product Marketing The most dangerous insider risks rarely begin with an event that screams security incident. They begin with something that almost looks normal. A contractor comes in at an unusual time.