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Graham Cluley has spent more than three decades watching cybercrime grow from niche computer mischief into a boardroom threat.  The award-winning cyber security expert, speaker, blogger and podcaster began his career in the early 1990s, writing the first Windows version of Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit before holding senior roles at Sophos and McAfee. Today, he is one of the few voices in cyber security who can explain hacking, scams and AI risk without burying audiences...

Compliance has long been characterised by what many security leaders now recognise as “audit chaos” –  a constant cycle of manual evidence collection, fragmented workflows and point-in-time reporting that struggles to match the pace of AI risk. In response, a new model is growing: agentic compliance. By embedding AI agents directly into trust and security workflows, organisations are beginning to move from reactive, audit-led processes to continuous, real-time assurance. These systems can coordinate tasks, collect...

Almost every enterprise development team is now using AI coding assistants, but the same research that confirms that breakthrough adoption rate also reveals a security and governance crisis quietly building in the background. That is the central finding of The State of AI-Powered Software Development, a report published this week by application security firm Black Duck, based on an independent survey of 831 software engineers and DevOps professionals conducted in March 2026 with research partner...

Check Point Software has named UCEN Manchester an official SecureAcademy partner, extending the cybersecurity vendor's growing footprint in UK higher education and giving students direct access to industry-validated curriculum, hands-on lab environments, and professional certification routes. The partnership, announced on 8 June, positions UCEN Manchester's School of Computing and Cybersecurity within Check Point's global academic network, a programme that now reaches institutions across multiple continents and is designed specifically to address the persistent shortfall of...

Filigran has unveiled XTM One, an AI-native orchestration layer designed to automate Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) workflows, as organisations struggle to keep pace with growing volumes of threat intelligence, vulnerabilities and attack data. The launch reflects a broader challenge facing security teams. While many organisations have invested heavily in threat intelligence, attack surface management and security validation tools, turning that information into meaningful action remains difficult. Security teams are often left moving manually between...

The rapid adoption of AI coding assistants is creating a new governance challenge for enterprise security teams, according to research released by Salt Security, which found that nine in ten security leaders are concerned about the security risks associated with AI-generated code. The research, AI Coding Assistants and the New Security Challenge, surveyed 100 IT security leaders across the UK and US and highlights the growing tension between software development speed and security oversight. According...

Evolution of AI Phishing As with most cyber threats, AI has created a fundamental shift in the phishing threat landscape. It has become a precision operation powered by AI systems that research, build, deliver, and adapt campaigns autonomously. AI acts as a force multiplier: it scales targeted techniques that previously required experience and time, while simultaneously lowering the barrier to entry once again. To understand the scope of this shift, consider that AI can now...

This week the European Central Bank (ECB), which supervises about 111 of the eurozone's largest banks, convened at an urgent meeting with major lenders to accelerate efforts around AI security and heed caution on the cyber risks of AI. Officials have warned banks specifically about the risks linked to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and similar systems, amid growing concern that AI can now identify and exploit software flaws faster than institutions can patch them. Sam...

A new report released today by Check Point Software lays out in stark terms how far enterprise security architecture has fallen behind AI adoption and the incidents already resulting from that gap. The 2026 Cloud Security Report, produced in partnership with Cybersecurity Insiders and based on responses from 1,042 cybersecurity and IT professionals surveyed in early 2026, finds that 77% of organisations have updated their security strategy in response to AI. Only 26% say they...

The Cyber Agony Aunts - Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Sophos, and Amelia Hewitt, Founder of CybAid and Co-Founder and Director of Cyber Consulting at Principle Defence - are back! After a whirlwind of a year, with the release of their first co-authored book 'Securely Yours' in early 2025 and the launch of their joint podcast, The Cyber Agony Aunt Podcast, Rebecca and Amelia are back with book two: Resilient You: An Agony...