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protecto

Stop Blaming AI for Bad System Design | Fix MCP Security

May 7, 2026 By Amar Kanagaraj In Protecto
Every few weeks, a new story surfaces: an AI agent deletes a production database, an autonomous coding tool racks up a five-figure cloud bill, or a chatbot exfiltrates internal documents through a prompt injection attack. The reaction is predictable. “AI is dangerous.” “LLMs can’t be trusted.” “We need better guardrails on the model.” But if you look at the root cause of these incidents, the model is rarely the problem. The system around it is.
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jumpsec

What's happening to DevOps Security?

May 7, 2026 By Sean Moran In JUMPSEC
As 2026 rolls on, our capacity to prompt ourselves silly appears to be limitless. We’ve already seen the financial, legal, and reputational damage to Deloitte as they partly refunded the Australian government for a 237-page audit report containing LLM-generated hallucinations like fabricated academic references, fake footnotes, and a false quote attributed to a judge.
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armo

AI Agents in the Cloud: A Risk Management Framework for Security Leaders

May 7, 2026 By Shauli Rozen In ARMO
Your risk committee meets Thursday. The agenda has a new item: AI agent risk posture. You open the register. The fraud detection agent shipped in March is on it. So is the customer service agent. Neither row is useful — “likelihood: medium, impact: high, control: service account scoped via IAM.” Three months ago that was approximately right. Last week the platform team added two MCP connections, the model was upgraded, and the agent now touches data classes the entry never anticipated.
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armo

Why Editing IAM Policies Won't Fix Your AI Agent Identity Problem

May 7, 2026 By Ben Hirschberg In ARMO
Editing IAM policies cannot fix the most common architectural mistake in shipping AI agents on Kubernetes. It happens in thirty seconds: a platform engineer reuses an existing ServiceAccount with an IRSA annotation for Bedrock access because creating a new one takes thirty minutes plus a Terraform pull request. The new agent ships under the existing identity.
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armo

Privacy and Data Residency for AI Agents: What GDPR Requires That Static Controls Can't Show

May 7, 2026 By Yossi Ben Naim In ARMO
The residency evidence GDPR and the EU AI Act now expect lives in the runtime trajectory of every AI agent execution, not in the deployment configuration. Your residency compliance dashboard — every workload in eu-west-3, sovereign cloud configured, SCCs signed — cannot produce it. Your AI agent’s last thousand inferences crossed an external border, on average, eight times each. The translation API routed through us-east-1 when the EU endpoint hit capacity.
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sophos

How AI-accelerated threat discovery is reshaping network security

May 7, 2026 By Barbara Hudson In Sophos
How AI-accelerated threat discovery is reshaping network security As vulnerabilities are discovered faster than ever, organizations must rethink how they reduce exposure and contain risk at the network edge. Claude Mythos Preview has reignited debate about AI-driven cyber attacks, but the real shift isn’t what AI finds, it’s how quickly issues at the network edge can turn into impact. This post explores what’s changed and how network security must adapt to keep up.
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Donuts and Beagles: Fake Claude site spreads backdoor

May 7, 2026 By Chaitanya Ghorpade In Sophos
A malicious imitation of Anthropic’s Claude site leads to DLL sideloading – and a backdoor As we reported on social media recently, Sophos X-Ops has been investigating reports of a fake Claude AI website distributing malware. Like other researchers, we thought this might be a PlugX-like campaign, given that the attack chain shares several characteristics with observed PlugX attacks.
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persona

Introducing early access for Case Review Agents: AI decisioning for high-stakes identity decisions

May 7, 2026 By Sam Breitbach In Persona
Every day, your review team makes hundreds of decisions that determine who gets access to your platform. These decisions carry a lot of weight. Get them right, and you protect your business while delivering a seamless user experience. Get them wrong, and you either block legitimate users or open the door to fraud. As your business scales, these decisions get harder to manage. Case volume climbs, fraud tactics shift, and regulatory expectations evolve.
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Top 7 Best ERP Authorisation Software Providers Active in Europe

Top 7 Best ERP Authorisation Software Providers Active in Europe

May 7, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Unauthorised access within ERP systems remains one of the most underestimated risks in enterprise security. A 2023 threat report by Onapsis and SAP revealed that new SAP vulnerabilities were being weaponised within 72 hours of patch release. That finding alone should make any compliance officer rethink how access rights are governed internally.
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The New Vanguard: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Autonomous Threats

The New Vanguard: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Autonomous Threats

May 7, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
The threat landscape of 2026 is no longer defined by the singular hacker or the isolated malware strain. We have entered the era of the "Autonomous Adversary"-a period where AI-driven social engineering, automated vulnerability discovery, and polymorphic code are the standard tools of state-sponsored and criminal actors alike. For the security professional, the traditional defensive perimeter has dissolved. To navigate this complexity, the industry is moving away from purely tactical responses toward a model of "Cyber-Resilience and Strategic Governance.".
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