Navigating Data Privacy for Modern Innovation

The thrust of the problem is that the AI agents will have access to corporate systems and sensitive information in many of the same ways as human workers, but the technology to manage that access -- including verifying the identity of an AI agent, and verifying the things they have privileged access to -- is poorly organized for the rapid expansion of the workforce via agents. "It requires tons of infrastructure investment, it requires tons of planning. And that's what worries me, is that our enterprises are still under the illusion that they are extremely secure." The problem is made more acute, said Nikesh Arora, chief executive of cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks, by the fact that bad actors are ramping up efforts to use agents to infiltrate systems and exfiltrate data, increasing the number of entities that must be verified or rejected for access. The lack of preparedness stems from the underdevelopment of techniques for identifying, authenticating, and granting access, said Arora. Most users in an organization are not regularly tracked, he said. Link to article by Tiernan Ray: https://lnkd.in/eWkP5veD

At CyDeploy in Baltimore, co-founder Tina William-Koroma is using Google AI to help organizations bolster their cybersecurity and help protect critical infrastructure across America — such as electricity and transportation. Read how her team is utilizing Gemini Code Assist and Google AI Studio to help clients make more efficient security updates → https://goo.gle/portraits

Tech Tuesday: Why Sovereign AI Matters More Than Ever Yesterday’s global outage showed one thing clearly — when your data, apps, and security depend on overseas hosting, your business isn’t really protected. 🌍⚠️ While thousands of systems went dark, the UK’s sovereign networks — built with true local redundancy — stayed online. That’s the power of owning your infrastructure. At BlackGrid, we’re proving that same principle for cybersecurity: ✅ 100% UK-built, hosted, and controlled ✅ Dual sovereign backups — no dependency on overseas clouds ✅ AI trained on British data, governed by British law ✅ Live protection against both legacy and AI-powered threats When global clouds fail, Sovereign AI stands strong. The future of resilience isn’t global — it’s sovereign. #TechTuesday #SovereignAI #CyberSecurity #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #DataProtection #DigitalTransformation #Technology #Infrastructure #TrustTech #FraudPrevention #FinTech #Telecommunications 🛡️ Always Watching. Always Learning. Never Sleeping.

Tech Tuesday: The Case for Sovereign AI When parts of the world went dark on Monday due to overseas cloud outages, BlackGrid’s sovereign systems stayed online. That’s because resilience isn’t just about redundancy — it’s about sovereignty. BlackGrid is built, hosted, and protected entirely within the UK. ✅ 100% UK-controlled infrastructure ✅ Dual sovereign backups – no overseas dependencies ✅ AI trained on British threat data and governed by British law ✅ Live interception of both legacy and AI-powered threats When global clouds fail, Sovereign AI Defence keeps critical systems running. BlackGrid is redefining national resilience — proving that the future of cybersecurity isn’t global, it’s sovereign. #TechTuesday #SovereignAI #CyberSecurity #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #DataProtection #DigitalTransformation #Technology #Infrastructure #TrustTech #FraudPrevention #FinTech #Telecommunications 🛡️ Always Watching. Always Learning. Never Sleeping

Everything we avoided addressing over the years is now being exploited as a massively enlarged attack surface: Old accounts that were never deleted, shadow‑IT devices left powered on and connected. The VPN we’ve relied on for years, almost impossible to imagine going without, now needs rethinking. AI tools and AI-assisted applications can, due to limited visibility, act as "deputy apps" and grant themselves or compromised accounts more rights than intended. The danger isn’t just the new entry points, it’s the chains they create. One weak link can escalate rapidly across IT and OT systems. What we need now: 1. Internal scanning to identify vulnerabilities, unused accounts, open ports, unknown devices and hidden interfaces. 2. Extremely dynamic cybersecurity, blast zones, honeypots and defences that can redirect attacks like water. Static systems will break. 3. Deep understanding of networks, applications and users, how they connect, interact, and where we can reduce unnecessary privileges, especially in AI systems. Technical debt + ungoverned AI + outdated approaches = a battlefield waiting for attackers. Resilience requires discovery, dynamic defence and strict identity & AI governance. #Cybersecurity #OTsecurity #ZeroTrust #AIsecurity #IncidentResponse #CriticalInfrastructure #CyberResilience

Tech alone doesn’t build trust, if only it were that easy. As digital ecosystems expand to include AI agents and other non-human actors, trust is shifting from one-time verification to continuous, adaptive assurance. It requires thoughtful planning, careful implementation, and ongoing management. Organisations that treat trust as a living system, not a checkbox, will lead in security, resilience, and digital confidence. #DigitalTrust #CyberSecurity #AI #Innovation #ZeroTrust #FutureOfIT

🤖 𝗔𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 The 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 has now become the world’s 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆, worth an estimated $𝟴 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 a year. Artificial Intelligence can strengthen digital defence, but in the wrong hands it can just as easily accelerate and amplify cyberattacks, as recent 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘢 data confirms. Here’s the critical point: 🔐 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲’𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹. At Avaneidi, we believe AI-driven cybersecurity must begin where the data resides. This is why our 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 integrates: ✔ Advanced CyberShield ✔ Your-Own Data Governance ✔ Secure hardware storage ✔ 𝗢𝗻-𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺 𝗔𝗜, running directly inside your sovereign infrastructure 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮. 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. #DataSovereignty #AIonPrem #SecureHardware #CyberStorage #Avaneidi

Two things keeping CISOs up at night (based on 50+ conversations last month) ➡️ Post-Quantum Readiness Quantum computing will break the encryption that holds everything together. TLS — the standard that secures data in motion across nearly every enterprise — won’t survive. And since TLS is everywhere, fixing it isn’t a patch. It’s an overhaul. Preparing for post-quantum encryption is less about fear of the future and more about protecting what’s already in place. ➡️ AI-Enhanced Ransomware AI isn’t just writing code. It’s writing phishing emails perfectly tailored, endlessly scalable, and more convincing than ever. The new ransomware threat isn’t brute force. It’s precision social engineering powered by large language models that never sleep. That means breaches are faster, stealthier, and harder to trace and the weakest link isn’t your firewall, it’s your inbox.  The real threat isn’t any single technology. It’s the speed at which all of them are evolving, faster than most enterprises can adapt. 

🛡️ 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 Despite the rapid advances in AI and automation, today’s Internet defense systems still depend heavily on human-intensive, heuristic-based methods — resembling the reactive fortifications of the Middle Ages more than the intelligent, adaptive systems our era demands. As attackers increasingly deploy AI-driven and automated tools to discover and exploit vulnerabilities, our defense systems struggle to keep up. This imbalance not only widens the gap between offense and defense but also highlights a critical weakness in the very foundations of today’s digital infrastructure. In our latest SCION blog post, we explore why existing “modern” defense mechanisms — from packet filtering to spam detection — remain vulnerable and inefficient, and how SCION’s cryptographic, zero-trust approach can transform network security from reactive guesswork into a proactive, provable model. 🔗Read the article here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eBBEFEuy #NetworkSecurity #CyberResilience #criticalinfrastructure #ZeroTrust #InternetArchitecture #SCION #ETHZurich ETH Zürich Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), ETH Zürich Network Security Group (ETH Zurich) #FutureInternet SCION Association SIX Fritz Steinmann

While there are many ingredients these days to create a safe environment and to beef up security, the foundation is still neglected and involves a lot of manual work, exceptions, is prone to false positives and unfortunately misses one or the other intrusive packet. It will be a journey to fortify the landscape, but we should rather start now than defer to the future.