The Race to the Bottom? July 2026 CINS Brief
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Rogue AI: Transparency or PR Stunt?
It's been fun watching the big AI companies race to be the first to admit their big bad models went rogue and starting hacking everyone. I'm not the first to say their marketing departments are taking advantage of this to show off how good their AI is getting, but before we roll our eyes too much: If there was a choice between Big Evil Company hiding everything or Big (possibily evil) Company incentivized through competition to be more transparent and honest, which would you choose?
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An Invisible Layer of Defense: Why On-Prem Inline Security Belongs in Front of Your Firewall
Pretty much every organization these days has a next-gen firewall (NGFW). Many of them with multiple locations will architect some form of SD-WAN solution to maximize efficiency and security. On paper, those organizations have their edge security locked down. And yet.
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In Other News
- Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies? (NPR)
- How MFA gets hacked — and strategies to prevent it (CSO Online)
- Governments Weigh Ransomware Payment Bans as Hackers Grow Bolder (PYMNTS)
- Flaw surge fuels need for CISOs to rethink vulnerability management (CSO Online)
- 7 skills and traits of elite security engineers (CSO Online)
- Detection engineering: A programmatic approach to identifying cyber threats (CSO Online)
