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This is SecurityScorecard's Weekly Brief: The Adversary Insights Edition with SecurityScorecard's CISO Steve Cobb. Critical infrastructure security in the U.S. remains an important element of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Iran with Iranian-linked threat actors targeting US-based assets. Iranian threat actors have focused their efforts on the fastest methods of attack by searching for what Cobb calls “low hanging fruit” in critical infrastructure environments where many organizations have exposed systems.

Think your iPhone is invincible against viruses? Not so fast! While Apple devices have strong built-in security, they are far from invulnerable to modern cyber threats.

FedRAMP 20x → continuous monitoring. Moving from point-in-time audits to real-time visibility.

AI agents are tireless, highly capable, eager to please, but difficult to manage. George Chamales (CriticalSec) and Josh Rector (Ace of Cloud) unpack the identity and access challenges posed by agentic AI. How do you verify it was the right agent, doing the right action, approved by the right person? How do we bound, constrain, govern agentic behavior? Ultimately, the same frameworks built for human identity and access should be applied to agents.