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What do we really know about "AI Network Protocols"? Network security is about to get popular all over again.

Generative AI caused a disruptive explosion across all of tech and every company’s roadmap. The move from chatbots to AI agents doubled down on that disruption. Now agents need to talk to each other?

Boom: we have MCP. A2A. Universal Commerce Protocol. General purpose and specialized protocols for agent communication. What does this look like from the network perspective, though? O’Shea Bowen joins us to answer this question, and he thinks the results are interesting enough to spark a resurgence of interest in network security tooling.

Segment Resources:

1. https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/75/documents/Cybersecurity/CSIMCPSECURITY.pdf?ver=bmgiSbNQLP6Z_GiWtRt6bg%3D%3D
2. https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-mcp-security-crisis-20260504-csa-styled/
3. https://cyberone.security/blog/building-an-ai-security-strategy-without-stalling-business-growth

Jeremiah Grossman on why we've been measuring cyber risk wrong for 20 years

After decades helping shape modern web security, and building companies that were ultimately acquired by Synopsys and Tenable, Jeremiah Grossman believes cybersecurity has arrived at an inflection point. His argument is a provocative one: for years, the industry has optimized around the wrong metrics. His latest venture, Root Evidence, aims to help security teams identify which risks are most likely to cause meaningful business loss, and he has the evidence - real-world breach data, cyber insurance claims, digital forensics intelligence, attack surface intelligence, and observed attacker behavior - to back it up.

Find all of CyberRisk TV's Black Hat 2026 coverage at: https://www.securityweekly.com/blackhat

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

1. We vibe check the AI model situation
2. hidden devices in California cars causes concerns
3. OpenAI’s models escape sandboxes and breaches another AI company, totally by accident, they promise!
4. Grok Build uploads all your files, totally by accident, they promise!
5. Eclipsium debuts a firmware version of patch tuesday!
6. HTTP gets a new method
7. common problems with incident response
8. Which one of the security weekly hosts would consider switching to a “dumb phone”?

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-469

Rogue AI Vehicle Porn, OpenAI, Nudes, Clop, Patches, Oracle, Palo Alto, Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-601

In the news this week:

• InfraTrust and knowing what to patch
• Adversary in the middle triggered command injection
• Exploitarium again
• FreeRDP comes with free vulnerabilities
• AI breaking out of sandboxes on its own
• Wordpress RCE
• DMA dangers
• Nightmware eclypse is at it again
• Fortisandbox
• Turning AI to the dark side
• more prompt injection
• Secure boot is broken, still and again...

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-936

America has lived through technological and economic upheaval before. Farm workers moved to factories. Factory workers moved into services. New industries replaced old ones. Productivity rose. Living standards improved. But are we ready for the greatest disruption in American history?

Ben Gilliland, author of the upcoming book Breaking the Compact, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss why business leaders need to be prepared for the upcoming AI disruption. The impact of AI, which has not fully materialized, goes far beyond security and job displacement. It will impact our economy, our privacy, and our way of life. The closest recent warning is the "China shock," the period of rapidly increasing import competition that followed China's integration into the global trading system. AI will dwarf that. Ben will discuss the human advantage and how we can prepare now.

In the leadership and communications segment, Cybersecurity’s Economics Are Broken. Automation Alone Won’t Fix It, The business case for burning down security debt: A practical approach for CISOs, The last human relationship in cybersecurity, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-457

Nudification, Yeats, LegacyHive, ACR Stealer, Hugging Face, Route 53, 764, Wordpress, Kieran Human from Threatlocker, and More.

Segment Resources:

Malicious Edge extension abuses Native Messaging as bridge to malware: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-edge-extension-abuses-native-messaging-as-bridge-to-malware/

This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-600

Appsec often frames usability and security as at odds with each other. Apple's software has famously emphasized the importance of usability while also creating a solid security foundation. Patrick Wardle talks about how he's seen malware shift from Windows to macOS, how Apple's aggressive stance on deprecation benefits security, and the areas of the OS where he still sees plenty of opportunity for more security research. We discuss how developers make defensible design choices, why privacy needs security, and some security principles that any app developer should keep in mind regardless of their programming language or operating system.

Resources:

• https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x86.html
• https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html
• https://objectivebythesea.org/v9/index.html

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-392

Why AI Security Is Becoming an Execution Problem, Not Just a Governance Problem

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to adoption at scale, security leaders are under pressure to enable innovation without introducing unmanaged risk. The challenge is no longer whether organizations should pursue AI, but how they can govern it, secure it, and operationalize it in ways that stand up to real-world business and threat conditions.

In this conversation, Keith Hollender discusses what Arcova is seeing across enterprise environments as organizations work to connect cybersecurity, AI governance, resilience, and broader transformation priorities. He explores where companies are getting stuck, why traditional siloed approaches are falling short, and what it takes to move from strategy decks to secure execution.

Keith also shares how Arcova’s practitioner-led, relationship-driven model helps organizations turn complexity into clarity by embedding with client teams, solving urgent problems hands-on, and building capabilities designed to last. The conversation also covers Arcova’s continued growth, including expansion into the Middle East, and what global demand signals reveal about the next phase of cybersecurity and AI consulting.

Segment Resources:

• https://arcova.com/sectors/
• https://arcova.com/category/blog/

For more information about Arcova and how they can help your enterprise shape what's next, please visit:

https://securityweekly.com/arcova

This one sent some shockwaves through the CMMC community, particularly the hundreds or thousands of folks gearing up to assist with the validation that phase 2 aimed to provide. The TL;DR - defense contractors have been required to comply with CMMC controls for years, but self-attestation means that many probably haven't been meeting the requirements. Perhaps, rather than have tons of defense contractors fail the test, they just suspended the requirement for the test itself.

I think Howard Holton nails it here when he says:

"100,000 defense contractors needed third-party assessments. Roughly 100 authorized assessors exist. That's 1,000 assessments each, with the deadline in November."

PCI already created a model that works for a scenario like this. If you're small, you self-assess. If you're big enough, an independent auditor comes to check you out once a year. I'm sure they were probably aware of this and chose not to go down that path for some reasons. I'm not aware of those reasons.

What this means:

• Phase II is paused
• Phase I self-assessments still in place (note, however, that phase II existed, because self-attestation didn't work)
• NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 and DFARS 252.204-7012 compliance still required
• 60-day review aims to reform CMMC
• DoW opened an RFI for industry perspectives on what they should do
• CMMC characterized as a "compliance burden" and "red tape"
• False Claims Act and DOJ's cyber-fraud enforcement are still on the table

More resources:

• CIO Davies' post on Twitter
• Administrator of the Small Business Administration, Kelly Loeffler's post
• A useful LinkedIn post that breaks down a lot of what this really means (and doesn't)

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

1. will AI eliminate more cybersecurity jobs than it creates?
2. Linus’s law, amended
3. the biggest patch Tuesday ever
4. AI context bombs
5. AI workflows are a security disaster
6. people using AI in areas they don’t understand
7. ransomware crews are hitting legal firms hard
8. lessons learned from CISA’s recent github leak
9. demystify your USB cables!

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-468

M. Thénardier, LastPass, GitHub, EBS, Spirals, Pegasus, Shaft, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-599

This week, our technical segment covers a new open-source tool written by Paul (and Claude) that helps you keep your Linux systems up to date and assess supply chain risks. It's called "fettle" and is a pure Python implementation that gives you even more features than previously discussed! Then in the security news:

• The GodDamn Ransomware
• CMMC suspended
• Holy Microsoft Tuesday!
• Lessons learned
• Without the Internet, do we still get water?
• The forgotten shims
• More than two BIOS passwords
• Cracking firmware encryption with Claude
• 1999 called, and it wants its "Exploits" back
• Prompt injection for defenders
• Grok has your repo
• You're not going to outpatch AI

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-935

More than 48,000 vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2025, yet only about 1% are actively exploited. However, you’re expected to mitigate all vulnerabilities, or at least critical and high. But what if there is no patch to fix the vulnerability or the software is unsupported?

Ben Lipcynski, Director Security and Regulatory Services at Optima, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how organizations can take back control of your enterprise software. OPTAS — Origina Proactive Threat Assurance Service — predicts, validates, prioritizes, and mitigates threats specific to your environment. Unlike AI vulnerability tools that flag everything without context or mitigation guidance, OPTAS cuts through the noise. OPTAS helps security teams focus on the risks that matter instead of chasing the 99% that do not.

Segment Resources: - https://www.origina.com/optas#optas-overview

This segment is sponsored by Origina. Visit https://securityweekly.com/origina to request a consultation.

In the leadership and communications segment, US enterprises incorporate cyber risk into larger strategic focus, 75% of CISOs Fear Executives Don’t Understand Cybersecurity Risks, AI agents are not your “coworkers”, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-456