Fine, Let's Talk About AI. August 2026 CINS Brief
Our Take
AI Threats Are Pushing Security Back to Prevention
This month's focus is on, well, pretty much what everyone is talking about. The growing sophistication of AI-powered threat actors, and how that affects the trajectory of modern cyber solutions. What's interesting is how this seems to be pushing the industry away from "detection and response" back toward what you might consider "traditional" prevention ... More on that later.
Featured Article
Plugging the Leaks: Locking Down Community Water Systems
It’s been an eye-opening summer for US critical infrastructure. In the space of just two months, cybercriminals launched attacks on at least 12 states. Attacks on critical infrastructure aren’t much of a surprise these days. What is surprising is that we saw similar attacks, launched by the same groups on the same programmable logic controllers (PLCs) two years ago. So, why hasn’t the water industry closed the gap in that time?
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In Other News
- OpenAI, Google and dozens of other companies publish open letter calling for collective action on cyber defense (Engadget)
- The Vulnerability Gap: Why Discovery Is Outrunning Repair (Dark Reading)
- AI threats are everywhere. A risk-first CISO decides what to prioritize (CSO Online)
- AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis (SecurityWeek)
- The Vulnpocalypse Is Repricing the Bug Bounty Economy (Dark Reading)
- CISOs are struggling to threat-model AI. Can 15-minute sessions help? (CSO Online)
