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SailPoint Rolls Out New Capabilities to Address Agentic AI Identity Security Challenge

AI agents are quickly moving from experiments into everyday enterprise environments, but the security controls around them are not keeping pace, according to enterprise identity security company SailPoint.

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Flashpoint Patents Ransomware Risk Model, Tying Vulnerabilites to Likelihood of Attack

Cybersecurity company Flashpoint recently announced it has received U.S. Patent No. 12,705,360 for its Ransomware Risk model, a methodology designed to help security teams determine which newly disclosed vulnerabilities more closely resemble those historically used in ransomware attacks.

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Report: Convergence of AI, Quantum Risks Impacting Cybersecurity

New research from Thales highlights how AI adoption and emerging quantum computing threats are putting pressure on existing security measures.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 Offers Model-Switching Cybersecurity Safeguards

Anthropic's latest Claude release, Sonnet 5.5, brings cybersecurity safeguards that can change which model handles a request during a Claude conversation. Higher-risk tasks can fall back to Sonnet 5.

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Survey Reveals Data Governance Enforcement Gap for Agentic AI Tools

According to a new report, 99.7% of IT and security leaders surveyed by identity security company Delinea said their organization has a formal policy governing what data AI tools and agents are permitted to access. Yet only about 51% said AI access is checked against those policies in real time.

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OpenAI Introduces Dots, AI Agents that Continue Working Between User Conversations

OpenAI has announced Dots, GPT-6 Astra-powered agents that run on their own cloud computers, using connected applications to carry on with assignments between conversations and incorporating users' feedback as they go.

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Survey: Lack of Specialized Infrastructure Is a Top AI Adoption Challenge

Enterprise AI projects are running into infrastructure questions as organizations move from planning toward deployment, according to a recent Digital Realty survey.

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Report: AI Ambitions Are Running Into a Network Infrastructure Trust Problem

Network-provider trust concerns are impacting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption.

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OpenAI Discontinuing Custom GPTs and Moving to Plugin Architecture

OpenAI has announced it is preparing to retire Custom GPTs and move the specialized workflows built around them to a new plugin architecture spanning ChatGPT and its Codex coding agent.

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AI Leads 2027 Educause Top 10

While artificial intelligence has long factored into the trends and issues within Educause's annual Top 10, the technology has officially risen to the No. 1 spot for 2027.