News Alert: NTT Research launches SaltGrain—advanced Attribute-Based Encryption security

News Alert: NTT Research launches SaltGrain—advanced Attribute-Based Encryption security

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr. 15, 2026 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced the launch of Scale Academy, a startup incubator responsible for bringing to market products and services based upon technologies studied within the … (more…) The post News Alert: NTT Research launches SaltGrain—advanced Attribute-Based Encryption security first appeared on ... Read More
GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes readiness gap as move to quantum-safe crypto lags

GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes readiness gap as move to quantum-safe crypto lags

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For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable. Related: AI spawns semantic attacks Two developments this month brought the … (more…) The post GUEST ESSAY: Google’s 2029 deadline exposes ... Read More
Geopolitics collides with AI risk by Byron Acohido

FIRESIDE CHAT: Geopolitical turmoil, rising AI risk add a new layer to enterprise cyber defense

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As if securing the enterprise against a tidal wave of AI tools wasn’t hard enough, it turns out the geopolitical instability of the moment is making things worse. That wasn’t the headline at RSAC 2026 last week — agentic AI … (more…) The post FIRESIDE CHAT: Geopolitical turmoil, rising AI ... Read More
Using AI agents  to exploit mobile APIs by Byron Acohido

Fireside Chat: AI agents are reshaping mobile attacks — and exposing weak API trust models

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SAN FRANCISCO — A new exposure is emerging in mobile security as AI begins to act on behalf of users — and attackers move to exploit that shift. Related: RSAC wrap-up—no easy fixes for AI exposures In a Fireside Chat … (more…) The post Fireside Chat: AI agents are reshaping ... Read More
Treat AI as  a privileged user by Byron Acohido

FIRESIDE CHAT: AI gives rise to a semantic attack surface, forcing a new class of network defense

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SAN FRANCISCO — Enterprises rushing to deploy AI in their operations are opening a security exposure most of their existing tools were never designed to address. That’s the hard message coming out of RSAC 2026 — and it’s one worth … (more…) The post FIRESIDE CHAT: AI gives rise to ... Read More
RSAC 2026: No easy fixes for expanding AI attack surface, but a coordinated response is emerging

RSAC 2026: No easy fixes for expanding AI attack surface, but a coordinated response is emerging

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SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-four thousand cybersecurity practitioners converged on Moscone Center this week with an urgent question: how do you secure a network when everything — the technology, the threats, the tools — is changing faster than anyone can govern … (more…) The post RSAC 2026: No easy fixes for ... Read More
MY TAKE: A decade of cyber collaboration, built under Obama, is now hostage to a political grudge

MY TAKE: A decade of cyber collaboration, built under Obama, is now hostage to a political grudge

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SAN FRANCISCO — I was in the room at Stanford in February 2015 when President Obama used the bully pulpit to launch what became a decade of hard-won public-private collaboration in cybersecurity. It didn’t take much to tear it asunder.… (more…) The post MY TAKE: A decade of cyber collaboration, ... Read More
The day MFA became the problem by Byron Acohido

FIRESIDE CHAT: In the AI age, your MFA, authentication apps can be compromised in minutes

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The authentication layer that corporate America spent a decade building is now a liability. Listen to the podcast:The day MFA became the problem That’s the blunt assessment of Kevin Surace, chairman of Token, a Rochester, N.Y.-based security company … (more…) The post FIRESIDE CHAT: In the AI age, your MFA, ... Read More
MY TAKE: As RSAC 2026 opens, AI has bifurcated cybersecurity into two wars—the clock is running

MY TAKE: As RSAC 2026 opens, AI has bifurcated cybersecurity into two wars—the clock is running

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SAN FRANCISCO — RSAC 2026 opens here Monday at Moscone Center, with upwards of 40,000 cybersecurity professionals, executives, and policy leaders, myself among them, filing in to take stock of an industry under acute pressure. Related: RSAC 2026’s full agenda… (more…) The post MY TAKE: As RSAC 2026 opens, AI ... Read More
GUEST ESSAY: Executives trust AI security even as security teams confront blind spots, new risks

GUEST ESSAY: Executives trust AI security even as security teams confront blind spots, new risks

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In our recent report, Beyond the Black Box, we found a striking gap: 80% of executives believe their organizations have strong security coverage for AI systems. Only about 40% of AppSec practitioners agree. Related: AI moves mainstream That’s not … (more…) The post GUEST ESSAY: Executives trust AI security even ... Read More