Cyber Security Protection

When AI burst upon the scene a few years ago, it became a boon to the cybersecurity industry. The AI sector pushed a narrative that AI was not just a tool, but a way to replace human workers. Cyber threats exploded and there was greater demand for tools and services. The security industry glommed onto that narrative with AI-driven services. That had the expected result of destroying any goodwill available to AI technology. However, recent revelations about the effectiveness of AI replacements are making proponents change their tune. What changed? Let’s start with human fertility. The post Baby bust is forcing a rethink of AI hype appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Most businesses and the MSPs who support them have built a reasonably solid security stack. Email filters catch most phishing attempts before they land. Endpoint tools monitor devices around the clock. Security awareness training teaches employees what to watch for. For most organizations, that covers the obvious bases. The post The security gap everyone should be talking about appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Browser security companion built by MirrorTab, Inc. invites growing businesses and managed service providers to help shape the next phasemore The post Haven Opens Design Partner Program for Businesses and MSPs After Debut at Flow 2026 appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Not all scams take money from you. One of the biggest security scams is the belief that once you have joined a Meta platform, it is impossible to leave. The news the Meta is working with a government contractor to make facial recognition tech for ICE agents has accelerated interest in how to escape Meta Hell. The question is, how? Migration from Meta platforms is no longer a niche trend. Through 2025 and 2026 there is a sustained structural shift in the social media. Just consider the explosive growth of Bluesky, which closed 2025 with over 41.4 million registered users, a 60% year-over-year increase, with daily active users climbing past 4.5 million. That represents real growth from status into mainstream viability. The post Scam Bucket: You can escape Meta Hell appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

For decades, cybersecurity strategy has revolved around a shared assumption: zero-day vulnerabilities are rare, expensive to find, and difficult to exploit at scale. That assumption is now breaking down. The emergence of Mythos, the advanced AI system developed by Anthropic, marks a turning point in how vulnerabilities are discovered, weaponized, and defended against—and it forces security leaders to rethink long-held priorities. The post Will Mythos & Glasswing End the Zero-Day Era as We Knew It? appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

The Trump regime’s latest executive order (EO) last week is a shot in the arm to the moribund Post-Quantum Cryptographymore The post Analysis: Trump’s EO revives lethargic PQC sector appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Collaboration tools have fueled configuration drift facilitating phishing attacks since they became widespread during the COVID pandemic. The core of the problem is, as usual, human failure, or more accurately, human procrastination. Configuration drift happens when vendors and customers join corporate networks with supposedly temporary credentials. When those credentials are not revoked quickly after the collaboration, system settings gradually, almost imperceptibly, diverge from a secure baseline state. Collaboration tools, beginning with email in the 1970s, were largely clunky, on premises and limited to technically sophisticated organizations. Through the 20 years following the turn of the century they became more sophisticated and allowed inclusion of users outside the networks, like vendors, consultants, and customers. Approximately 400 to 600 million people in professional contexts today use Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, and dozens of others collaboration tools. Gartner said 90% of Fortune 500 companies standardize on Teams. Moreover, every team that uses collaboration tools configures every collaboration tool differently with no central enforcement. “Configuration drift is one of the most under-recognized risks in modern cybersecurity,” said Garrett Hamilton, CEO and founder of Reach Security. “Security tools are constantly changing due to updates, new features, and operational adjustments. Over time, those changes create drift that quietly weakens defenses. Organizations need a continuous way to validate that the controls they depend on are still working as intended.” The post Collaboration fueling configuration drift appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Cybersecurity Upside Down is a self-published book about the benefits of content disarm and reconstruction (CDR) security services and tools. Written by Benny Czarny, the CEO of OPSWAT, a respected provider of CDR, it is an attractive coffee table book to place in office reception rooms. It provides a good argument for adoption of CDR in large enterprises and government networks. It is also about 150 pages too long, repeats the same argument several times, and has copious sections written by AI. There are also a lot of graphics (about 50 pages worth) that are also AI generated and not always illustrating the text. All of that tends to obfuscate the good argument Czarny makes. The post We read Czarny’s book so you wouldn’t have to appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

Brian Silverstein, May 29th 2026 ​Modern phishing has evolved rapidly with AI.… The post That email from your bank looked real. That was the point appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.

New AI-powered protection analyzes the context behind emails and browser activity to help users spot threats that traditional filters miss. The post Haven free AI Security Companion protects from phishing appeared first on Cyber Protection Magazine.