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- Shilpi Bhattacharjee
🚨$260M CrowdStrike + CheckPoint bet on AI Security | Blueprint for Post-Breach Modern Workspace Protection
AI-enhanced workspaces have fused SaaS, agents, and cloud infra into one blast radius. This week’s Chaos Mesh CVEs, AI-security M&A, and IDE supply-chain risk show why post-breach workspace controls now matter as much as pre-breach filters.
🚨 $1.5B Cybersecurity M&A Wave + The AI Remediation Breakthrough Security Leaders Can’t Ignore
Bold consolidation and AI-powered remediation are reshaping the industry.This week, $1.5+ billion in acquisitions hit cybersecurity spanning AI security, email protection, and industrial cybersecurity. At the same time, Zest Security’s CEO shows how AI agents are solving the vulnerability management crisis by moving from detection to true remediation.
🚨 Salesloft Supply Chain Attack Hits 700+ Enterprises, 3 Acquisitions & Lessons from Orca Security's CEO on Modern Cloud Defense
Bold enterprises are abandoning fear-driven security strategies for AI-powered workflows that reduce vulnerabilities by 1000x while enabling engineering teams. This week's massive OAuth breach affecting Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler validates the urgent need for context-driven cloud security approaches.
🚨 Citrix Zero-Day + $100M Identity Deal: Proof That Identity Is at a Breaking Point
Citrix’s latest zero-day, Apple and Docker exploits, and a $100M identity acquisition all point to the same reality: identity is at a breaking point. Traditional MFA and passwords can’t stand up to AI-powered adversaries. This week’s expert insights reveal why only deterministic, hardware-bound identity delivers true enterprise resilience while eliminating credential theft and session hijacking.
$10B SMS Fraud Bypasses Cloud Security - Why Finance Finds Out Too Late
Enterprises are losing $10 billion annually to SMS fraud — and security teams don’t even see it. By the time finance discovers millions in unexplained charges, it’s already too late. Worse, AI-powered ‘smart bots’ are scaling these attacks 500% faster than last year. This week's analysis reveals why traditional cloud security controls miss these threats and how enterprises can build comprehensive fraud detection programs.
🚨SentinelOne's $300M AI Security Bet: How Modern SOCs Are Pivoting from SIEMs to Data Lakes
Major AI security acquisition signals market shift, while security leaders at companies like Perplexity reveal why traditional SIEMs can't handle modern threat detection. Plus critical Windows vulnerabilities from DEF CON 2025 and expanding cloud compliance frameworks.
🚨 Palo Alto's $25B CyberArk Deal Exposes Identity Crisis | Lessons from Dropzone AI's SOC Automation Strategy
Palo Alto Networks' massive $25 billion CyberArk acquisition signals the end of standalone identity security while Dropzone AI's Edward Wu reveals how enterprises are using AI agents to cut SOC alert fatigue by 80% and reduce MTTR to under 10 minutes.
🚨 SharePoint Zero-Day Exploits Surge & Lessons from BT's 180-Year Journey to Zero-Trust Secret Management
This week's newsletter examines critical SharePoint vulnerabilities actively exploited by nation-state actors, alongside proven strategies for eliminating passwords at enterprise scale. Learn how British Telecom transformed 180 years of legacy infrastructure using threat modeling and intrinsic security motivation.
🚨 AI Dev Environments Under Siege: RCE in Oracle Cloud, Escalation in Azure ML, and Skynet Malware
The era of AI-native security threats is here. This week’s cloud security incidents expose how development workflows powered by AI are breaking traditional assumptions and why security programs need to evolve rapidly. From Skynet’s prompt injection malware to privilege escalations “by design,” we unpack the real risks and the blueprint to navigate them. Featured insights from Amit Chita of Mend.io reveal how organizations must adapt their security programs for AI-native software development lifecycles, including new licensing challenges, prompt injection threats, and the evolution from reactive security to AI-powered remediation at enterprise scale.
🚨 Azure Wormable Bug Exposes Cloud Infrastructure, Lessons from Booking.com's 2M+ Secrets at Scale
A wormable RCE hits Azure Monitor Agent. The Verizon DBIR shows known vulnerability exploits are catching up to credential theft. And Booking.com reveals the tipping point where cloud-native secrets management breaks.