23 articles that week
Security Boulevard, December 12,2025
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) went from Anthropic's internal project to industry standard in just twelve months. Now governed by the Linux Foundation, backed by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AWS, and downloaded over 97 million times monthly, MCP has become the universal language for connecting AI agents to your enterprise tools.
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Security Boulevard, December 12,2025
Whether you run CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, or provide a Managed XDR (Extended Detection and Response) across a mixed vendor stack, the operational challenge is the same. Modern XDRs are intentionally sensitive. They are built to flag everything that might be suspicious, and indicative of malicious behavior.
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This episode of the Defenders Log features host David Redekop and guest Andreas Taudte discussing the often-overlooked world of DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management) and its critical role in network security.
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming the backbone of how AI agents interact with the outside world. It gives agents a standardized way to discover tools, trigger actions, and pull data. MCP dramatically simplifies integration work.
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Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data that can identify a person directly or indirectly. It includes obvious details such as names, ID numbers, and email addresses. It also includes less obvious data points like job titles, ZIP codes, and birth dates.
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A significant portion of cyber breaches begin with one simple issue: weak passwords. With modern cracking tools capable of testing billions of combinations per second, many passwords that users consider 'strong' can be compromised in minutes - sometimes even faster.
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Are you familiar with the virtual tourists navigating your digital right now? These tourists, known as Non-Human Identities (NHIs), are machine identities pivotal in computer security, especially within cloud environments.
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There's a major problem in application security: Organizations secure code before release, but attackers strike in production. This gap is exactly where runtime application security comes in.
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OpenAI sounded the alarm this week that the advanced AI models it has on deck will probably ratchet up cybersecurity risks, which should come as a surprise to exactly no one.
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For decades, there was a general 'gentleman's agreement' on the web regarding automated traffic. Good bots (like search engine crawlers) identified themselves clearly with specific user agent strings (e.g., 'Googlebot') and respected rules laid out in robots.txt. Bad bots masqueraded as legitimate users to scrape content, probe for vulnerabilities, or launch attacks.
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The convergence of physical and digital security is driving a shift toward software-driven, open-architecture edge computing.
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API testing: it's kinda a big deal, right? But are you sure your tests are really doing what you think they are? Unit and characterization tests are two strategies that get used a lot; but honestly, folks mix them up all the time.
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Modern internet users navigate an increasingly fragmented digital ecosystem dominated by countless applications, services, brands and platforms. Engaging with online offerings often requires selecting and remembering passwords or taking other steps to verify and protect one's identity. However, following best practices has become incredibly challenging due to various factors.
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What role do Non-Human Identity and Secrets Security Management (NHIDR) play in safeguarding your organization's digital assets?
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Across government teams, legal departments, and highly regulated industries like healthcare and banking, redaction workflows have remained stubbornly manual even as AI transforms how sensitive information is detected.
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How Can Organizations Securely Manage Non-Human Identities in Cloud Environments?
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Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are drowning, and while this is a cliched statement, it remains an unsolved and costly problem.
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This is a predictions blog. We know, we know; everyone does them, and they can get a bit same-y. Chances are, you're already bored with reading them. So, we've decided to do things a little bit differently this year.
more → Security Boulevard, December 10,2025
In December 2025, a ransomware attack on Marquis Software Solutions, a data analytics and marketing vendor serving the financial sector, compromised sensitive customer information held by multiple banks and credit unions, according to Infosecurity Magazine.
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Split Learning (SL) is a distributed deep learning approach enabling multiple clients and a server to collaboratively train and infer on a shared deep neural network (DNN) without requiring clients to share their private local data.
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The OWASP GenAI Security Project today published a top 10 list of the potential security threats that organizations are likely to encounter as they build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is building a taxonomy of attack and mitigations for securing artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
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Digital transformation, eh? It's more than just slapping a new coat of paint on your website. It's about fundamentally rethinking how you do, well, everything. But how do you even define it?
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