Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report puts a number behind a problem retailers have been watching build for months. Nearly half of all AI bot traffic observed across Akamai’s global network between July and December 2025 was directed at the commerce sector. The more revealing figure, however, is what happened after that traffic arrived....Read More

Google Cloud has urged boards of directors to make AI threat defence a standard part of security governance, setting out five areas for directors to question management on as companies adopt AI more widely. In a commentary by Chief Information Security Officer Chris Betz and Senior Director, Office of the CISO, Alicja Cade, Google Cloud...Read More

Agentic AI , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Data Security CIOs Must Match Architecture to Workloads, Governance and Business Context Jennifer Lawinski • July 31, 2026     Enterprise AI is exposing the limits of data platform, forcing CIOs to decide when to extend a warehouse, adopt a lakehouse and invest in the semantic...Read More

MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AccuKnox, a leading Zero Trust Security platform, today announced that SabPaisa, an RBI-authorised digital payments company, has selected its AI-powered cloud security platform to ensure robust security of its payments platform. SabPaisa joins a growing roster of financial services leaders using AccuKnox to meet stringent compliance...Read More

ReliaQuest, a global leader in Agentic AI cybersecurity, has unveiled GreyMatter Attack, a new agentic capability within the GreyMatter platform designed to help security teams proactively identify, validate, and remediate security exposures before adversaries can exploit them. The solution combines AI-driven red teaming, visual attack path mapping, and prioritized remediation recommendations, enabling defenders to stay...Read More

Apple has capped the number of security reports researchers can keep open at once after AI bug hunting put its review process under pressure, according to the Financial Times. Some submissions describe hallucinated or purely theoretical risks. Others uncover vulnerabilities serious enough to require patches. Bynario told the FT that it found more than 50...Read More

Sunday, August 02, 2026 • 1 min read Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang speaks at a corporate event detailing open technology initiatives for enterprise systems | Interesting Engineering Nvidia, Microsoft, and SpaceX form an alliance to build open cybersecurity tools defending software and critical systems against AI threats. A group of major technology and cybersecurity...Read More

Okta’s acquisition of Permiso Security adds ITDR for non-human and AI agent identities — the fastest-growing blind spot in enterprise security. Okta has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a cloud-native identity security platform that detects and mitigates threats across human, non-human, and AI agent identities in multi-cloud environments. The deal, valued at...Read More

This week, WIRED obtained a memo that tied dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water and wastewater utilities to Iran, the first official documentation of Iran’s likely responsibility for the most impactful campaign of cyberattacks to hit the US in the midst of the war that began nearly six months ago. In other news, more details...Read More

While exploits in crypto often grab headlines because of the sheer amount of money that gets stolen, Coates emphasized that many of these hacks actually originate outside of blockchain compromises themselves. “In many cases, it is an operational security issue or a Web2 issue that led to a key compromise,” he said. This will only...Read More