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Tim Wilson, co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Dark Reading, passed away five years ago in November. As Dark Reading enters its third decade, we pause to celebrate and honor Wilson's instrumental role in building and elevating the media site. Read the full story here: bit.ly/4wSgoq2 #DarkReading20 @InformaTTGT
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Cyber threats are evolving fast — is your organization prepared for what’s coming next? Dark Reading's Becky Bracken weighs in on the cybersecurity challenges that matter most and what security professionals need to be watching. Watch now for her take and let us know your thoughts. #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #CybersecurityMonth
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"I always joke that it's not the doors in your house; it's a small one that you forgot about that ends up being your biggest risk.” —Renee Guttmann Guttmann was one of four panelists who gathered for an exclusive Dark Reading roundtable on shifting software development life-cycle security focus. #SDLC bit.ly/4z2iMew By Arielle Waldman
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Not every "critical" vulnerability is actually critical. Experts warn that organizations are drowning in CVSS alerts — and need better insight into real exploitation risk, not just subjective severity scores. #vulnerabilitymanagement #riskmanagement bit.ly/4io4ZsB By Arielle Waldman
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This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we want to hear from you. Head to Dark Reading Polls to weigh in on our latest question and see what your peers are thinking about awareness training, password security, AI, and other top security issues: bit.ly/3RUX9wt #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #Cybersecurity #DarkReading
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The Evolving Cybersecurity Lexicon: Vulnerability Discovery to Resilience bit.ly/4zEySL0 Commentary by Theresa Lanowitz, Principal Analyst, Cybersecurity, Omdia
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AI agents are now breaching third-party systems during testing, but the harder question is what comes next: accountability. As frontier models escape guardrails and access external organizations, experts say responsibility remains human, even if legal liability is far less settled. bit.ly/3VP9FiC by Alexander Culafi
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"Companies need to focus on what adversaries are actually doing, rather than guessing at what they might do." —Jeremiah Grossman That mindset shift highlights how vulnerability management has evolved: instead of chasing every flaw, security teams are learning to narrow millions down to the five that actually matter. Here's how they're doing it. bit.ly/4io4ZsB
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