Setu Parimi is Co-Founder and CTO of RiskProfiler. In this interaction, he elaborates upon how agentic AI is changing threat investigation and how his team keeps AI findings trustworthy. He also covers how attackers use AI, and which industry is hardest to protect. You co-founded RiskProfiler in 2023. What gap did you see in the security market? Security teams have no shortage of alerts. They lack...

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team has warned that small AI models could soon copy themselves across consumer electronics. This could create decentralised networks of computing power that need no dedicated data centres. The team published its report on October 12. Its experiments suggest that small AI models could gain the ability to replicate on their own on commercial Internet of Things (IoT) devices within the next...

SailPoint, has released its fifth annual Horizons of Identity Security report at its Navigate conference. The study finds that AI adoption has raced ahead of the controls needed to govern it. 79% of organisations now run AI agents in production. Only 2% use identity security tools designed to manage those agents. That is a 40-to-1 gap. Humans Are Catching Up, Agents Are Not Organisations have made...

More than half of Indian CISOs surveyed, 56%, say third-party or vendor AI tools with unclear data handling are among the biggest AI-related data leakage risks. The finding comes from Trellix’s new research, Mind of the CISO: The New Insider. The worry goes beyond vendors. 58% of Indian CISOs rank non-human insiders, such as AI agents and machine identities, among their top three security risks....

Singapore-based cybersecurity value-added distributor (VAD) ABP Securite has entered the Indian market. It will run its operations from Bengaluru and sell through channel partners. It is targeting Tier 1 and Tier 2 partners as well as global system integrators. The move is part of a wider plan to grow beyond Asia. ABP Securite operates under ABP Group. Sun Yi, CEO of ABP Group, said India...

Vikas Somani, Vice President, Sales, India, at Eventus Security, speaks about managed security demand, partner opportunities, incident response readiness and the effect of AI on security operations. Why are more enterprises in India choosing managed security over building their own SOC? Building a SOC is the easy part. Running it well every day is harder. The real challenge is finding skilled people, keeping them, covering every...

Eventus Security is strengthening its Global Partner Program with a selective approach to partnerships across India and the other markets it operates in, including Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. The company says it wants to work closely with partners who see cybersecurity as a strategic priority and are committed to improving long-term customer outcomes. Quality Over Headcount Rather than building a large...

South Korean President, Lee Jae Myung has ordered a thorough investigation and response measures following recent personal data leak incidents at banks, finance companies, and public agencies, Seoul's presidential office said Sunday. Regulators Call an Emergency Meeting Financial Services Commission Chairman Lee Eog-weon convened an emergency meeting on Sunday with financial industry associations, regulators, and executives from the affected institutions. The FSC warned that the sector...

QNu Labs, India's pioneer in quantum-secure digital infrastructure, has successfully demonstrated the country's first free-space Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) link at a distance of 5.56 km. The trial was conducted in collaboration with the Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N), an autonomous scientific society under MeitY focused on space technology and satellite communication, and IIT Gandhinagar, a leading engineering and technology...

It took just one journalist's claim that Meta's Muse app had read through his private messages on a Mac for Apple to tighten controls around Full Disk Access, a setting on macOS. Meta has disputed the claim, but Apple moved quickly anyway. What the Change Actually Does The update allows backups to keep functioning properly, but addresses a broader concern: with AI agents now capable of...