Security & Privacy


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Veeam to Acquire Securiti AI to Combine Data Resilience and AI Security

Veeam Software has announced plans to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion to unite data resilience, privacy, and AI trust in a platform aimed at helping organizations securely manage and unlock the value of their data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Community-Driven IAM Learning with Internet2's InCommon Academy

Internet2's InCommon Academy Director Jean Chorazyczewski examines how the academy's community-driven identity and access management learning opportunities support CIOs, IT leaders, and their IAM teams in R&E.

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The Shadow AI Threat: Why Higher Ed Must Wake Up to Risks Before the Headlines Hit

The most concerning issue with artificial intelligence may not be in the tools themselves, but in how quietly they're being used without oversight.

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Rubrik Intros Immutable Backup for Okta Environments

Rubrik has announced Okta Recovery, extending its identity resilience platform to Okta with immutable backups and in-place recovery, while separately detailing its integration with Okta Identity Threat Protection for automated remediation.

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Why Universities Are Ransomware's Easy Target: Lessons from the 23% Surge

Academic environments face heightened risk because their collaboration-driven environments are inherently open, making them more susceptible to attack, while the high-value research data they hold makes them an especially attractive target. The question is not if this data will be targeted, but whether universities can defend it swiftly enough against increasingly AI-powered threats.

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Druva Intros MetaGraph to Advance Agentic Data Security

Druva has introduced Dru MetaGraph, a secure, tenant-specific, graph-powered metadata layer to power real-time data intelligence.

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Hacktivism Is a Growing Threat to Higher Education

In recent years, colleges and universities have faced an evolving array of cybersecurity challenges. But one threat is showing signs of becoming both more frequent and more politically charged: hacktivism.

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NIST Proposes New Cybersecurity Guidelines for AI Systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has unveiled plans to issue a new set of cybersecurity guidelines aimed at safeguarding artificial intelligence systems, citing rising concerns over risks tied to generative models, predictive analytics, and autonomous agents.

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Report: Attackers Increasingly Targeting Cloud, AI Systems

CrowdStrike’s 2025 Threat Hunting Report found that AI tools are being weaponized and directly targeted, while cloud intrusions surge 136% in early 2025.

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Research: LLMs Need a Translation Layer to Launch Complex Cyber Attacks

While large language models have been touted for their potential in cybersecurity, they are still far from executing real-world cyber attacks — unless given help from a new kind of abstraction layer, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Anthropic.