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WorkNest Secure has achieved CREST Simulated Targeted Attack & Response for Financial Services (STAR-FS) accreditation, recognising its ability to deliver intelligence-led red teaming assessments for organisations operating in high-risk and regulated environments. The accreditation confirms that WorkNest Secure meets CREST's standards for conducting threat-led penetration testing, using realistic attack scenarios to assess how effectively organisations can prevent, detect and respond to sophisticated cyber threats. Developed in collaboration with the Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority...

AI agents are rapidly becoming part of everyday business operations and this increases non-human insider risk. They can improve productivity, reduce repetitive work and help organisations accomplish tasks far more efficiently. The answer, therefore, is not to ban them. Instead, organisations need to manage AI agents with the same discipline applied to human identities, privileged accounts and other powerful technologies. Following on from last weeks article where we explained the ways organisations create non-human insider...

Huntress researchers have uncovered two phishing attacks that combined convincing fake browser windows with legitimate remote management software to establish persistent access to victims' devices. Both incidents, observed in August, began with phishing messages directing victims to attacker-controlled websites. The attackers then used a browser-in-the-browser (BiTB) technique to create what appeared to be a legitimate Adobe webpage, before convincing victims to download malicious software disguised as an Adobe Reader update. Rather than deploying conventional malware,...

Filigran has launched a new attack chaining capability for its OpenAEV platform, designed to help security teams test how multiple weaknesses can be combined to create a viable path through an organisation’s environment. Released as part of OpenAEV v3, Attack Chaining allows penetration tests and red team exercises to adapt dynamically based on what a simulated attack discovers. Rather than testing individual techniques in isolation or following a fixed sequence, the platform can use findings...

If your website is attracting visitors but not generating enough enquiries, sales or leads, there are several techniques you can use to improve your conversion rate. From adding a website toolbar and interactive calculators to using limited-time offers and personalised pop-ups, the key is to make it easier and more compelling for visitors to take the next step. This is particularly important because even small improvements can have a meaningful impact. For example, Baymard Institute...

A laptop can be removed from an employee’s desk, disconnected from the network and marked retired in an asset system within the same afternoon. None of those steps means the data risk has disappeared. Retired technology often sits in storage rooms or staging locations before reaching its final destination. During that period, devices still contain business records, credentials, customer information and employee files. Once hardware leaves normal IT operations, familiar controls such as endpoint monitoring...

Vega, the pioneer of Agentic Cyber Defense, today launched Detection Skills: an open standard that redefines security operations for the AI era. The standard captures a team’s expert judgment as a self-improving agentic loop across detection, triage, and investigation. Available to the community as an open standard, or natively within the best-in-class Vega platform, they allow modern Cyber Defense Engineers to architect their reasoning once and scale it across everything they defend. It gives every...

Margarita Howard has spent two decades running a company in a government contracting market where the rules rarely hold still. HX5, the defense and aerospace services firm she founded in 2004 and still leads, supports Department of Defense and NASA missions and has employed over 1,000 people across 34 states and 90 government locations over the course of its history. For most of that span, the price of remaining eligible to do the work has...

Authority in podcasting is earned slowly and lost fast. Any host can launch a show. Building a reputation that makes listeners return for your take, over everyone else’s on the same subject, requires something more deliberate: a consistent editorial identity that holds up episode after episode, not just on the days when the topic lands perfectly. Why Podcast Thought Leadership Works Differently From Other Platforms LinkedIn posts, op-eds, and keynote talks can signal expertise. Podcasting...

The Forescout 2026 H1 Threat Review found that more than 37,000 vulnerabilities were published during the first six months of the year, representing a 51% increase year on year. More than half were classified as high or critical severity, while ransomware attack claims rose by 25% to 4,544 incidents, averaging 25 attacks every day. The report, published by Forescout Research – Vedere Labs, analysed more than 37,000 vulnerabilities, over 1,000 tracked threat actors and thousands...