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AI is increasingly becoming a dual-use capability in cybersecurity. While it is driving more sophisticated threats, it is also giving defenders new tools for detection, response, and pattern recognition.

The organizations that succeed will be the ones that treat AI as an operational layer of defense rather than an experimental add-on.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/feature/ais-cybersecurity-paradox-how-CIOs-can-keep-up-with-change

AI's cybersecurity paradox: How CIOs can keep up with change | TechTarget Learn about the role of AI in cybersecurity and how tools like Claude Mythos Preview can benefit and challenge enterprises.

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Ransomware is increasingly designed with delayed activation in mind, effectively functioning like a time bomb inside an organization’s systems. That reality shifts the focus from recovery planning alone to proactive containment and early detection.

Businesses that rely only on post-incident response are assuming they’ll always have time to act, which is no longer guaranteed.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91555766/3-ways-to-respond-to-time-bomb-ransomware

AI is evolving quickly, and agentic AI is the next major step forward.

Unlike traditional AI tools, agentic AI can perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with business systems with minimal human intervention. That opens the door to greater efficiency, but it also creates new security and governance challenges.

Before deploying AI agents, organizations need to understand what data they can access, what actions they can take, and how those activities will be monitored and controlled.

The ITeam helps businesses adopt agentic AI safely so they can benefit from innovation without increasing risk.

Learn more: https://theiteam.ca/artificial-intelligence/how-the-iteam-helps-you-use-agentic-ai-safely/

Many ransomware attacks never become public knowledge, creating a hidden layer of cyber risk that organizations and industries often underestimate. Visibility and transparency remain important parts of improving resilience.

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ransomware-undisclosed-attacks-blackfog/819595/

Businesses hide vast majority of ransomware attacks, report finds The security firm BlackFog said the number of disclosed incidents it tracked in Q1 was roughly one-tenth of the number of undisclosed incidents.