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Shadow MCP Servers: The AI Infrastructure You Can't See

In 2012, the "Shadow IT" crisis was employees putting files in Dropbox for convenience. In 2026, the crisis is Shadow MCP. Instead of a simple file storage app, security teams are now facing unvetted AI agents with the power to read from and write to internal systems. These servers are often running on infrastructure that was never reviewed, never approved, and remains entirely invisible to governance.

How AI Is Transforming Detection Engineering

One of the most important shifts AI enables in detection engineering is changing where engineers spend their time. Traditionally, a significant portion of detection development effort is consumed by implementation details: writing complex SQL queries, building enrichment pipelines, handling edge cases, tuning rule logic, writing tests, documenting detections, and repeatedly iterating on detection logic. Those tasks are necessary, but they are also time-consuming.

Misconfigured Security Controls Open the Door for Storm-2949

The Microsoft Defender Security Research Team and Microsoft Threat Intelligence documented a campaign in which Storm-2949 abused Microsoft Entra ID accounts to exfiltrate data from Microsoft 365 and Azure environments. The attack shows how cloud intrusions increasingly unfold through identity systems, administrative features, and legitimate platform capabilities rather than obvious malware or traditional endpoint compromise.

Essay Grader AI: The Complete Guide to Saving 80% of Your Grading Time

Teachers spend countless hours every week reviewing student essays, providing feedback, and assigning grades. For many educators, grading has become one of the most time-consuming and mentally exhausting parts of the job. What if you could dramatically reduce that burden while actually improving the quality of feedback your students receive?

Partnerships, AI, and Emerging Threats with Peter Johnson - The 443 Podcast - Episode 371

Recorded at WatchGuard’s EMEA Partner Conference, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, this episode of 443 – Security Simplified features Peter Johnson from Schwartz GmbH for a conversation on how cybersecurity priorities are evolving across Europe. Peter discusses the increasing complexity organizations face when balancing security, compliance, and operational efficiency, along with the challenges of supporting customers and partners with varying levels of cybersecurity maturity.

The Path to Autonomous Networking Starts Here

Networks have never been more critical, more complex, or more difficult to run with confidence. The infrastructure powering global finance, healthcare, and commerce has outgrown the tools built to manage it, and the teams responsible for keeping it running deserve better than guesswork. Forward is on a mission to change that.

Forward Predict: Know the Impact of Your Network Changes Before You Push

What if your team could know exactly what a network change would do before it touched production, not a best guess, not built on incomplete data, but a mathematically verified outcome drawn from an accurate model of your actual network? That is what Forward Predict delivers.