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How Do We Manage Vulnerabilities?

Do CVEs make sense anymore? As vulnerabilities are discovered and remediated through the assistance of AI, what timeline are they viable? In cloud native architectures with CI/CD pipelines, where remediation can occur quickly, how do we reshape the value of understanding vulnerabilities? Who owns this process? Is it the development team alone? What signals are needed in the short duration of time that a vulnerability might exist? Does the value of threat feeds dwindle? Removing vulnerabilities that no longer exist to reduce the noise becomes increasingly important to sort through what’s needed and what’s actually harmful from a process standpoint.

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Non-human Identity (NHI) for Workloads and AI Agents: Current State and a Call for Industry Collaboration

Non-human identity (NHI) for workloads, API, and AI agents are quickly evolving due to high demand and proliferation of services using machine identity and automated API connections. The intent of this blog is to increase collaboration and provoke thoughts on the next set of challenges for NHI, while providing an update on the current state in the evolution toward secure credentials.

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Rethinking “The Human Firewall”: Build security that works when people can’t

Rethink the 'Human Firewall': Phishing success rates prove human cognition is not the last line of defense. We must shift the burden from tired, stressed users to Secure-by-Design systems. Learn how memory-safe languages, Protective DNS, Zero Trust defaults, and AI-era controls are essential to building security that works when people can't. Stop blaming users; start fixing the architecture.

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