Kevin Townsend
Senior Contributor at SecurityWeek
Freelance author and journalist. Senior Contributor @SecurityWeek. LinkedIn: https://t.co/vsn56eF7sp
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1 week ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
Cisco will use quantum entanglement to harness the combined power of multiple small, distributed quantum computers to operate as a single massive quantum computer. Einstein called it ‘spooky action at a distance’: the property of a pair of entangled particles, such as photons, to correlate across time and distance. Einstein worried that it defied classical laws of physics and questioned his theory of relativity.
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1 week ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
Kindervag is a hacker – sort of. But he is not the sort of hacker we have come to expect. John Kindervag is best known for developing the Zero Trust Model in 2009 while he was a principal analyst at Forrester Research. In essence, zero trust is based on the principle of ‘never trust, always verify’.
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2 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
SentinelOne this week unveiled Purple AI Athena at the RSAC Conference in San Francisco. This latest evolution advances Purple AI from its origin primarily as an advanced LLM-based chatbot assisting SOC analysts in finding and understanding threats, into a full agentic AI solution. Very loosely, agentic AI autonomously responds to situations rather than to human natural language queries about situations, often through orchestration with multiple separate but related solutions.
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2 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
How far will China’s President Xi Jinping go to achieve his stated desires for the year 2049? 2049 is an important year for China – it is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China; and Xi Jinping has announced his intention for the ‘great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation’ by that date. It includes improving modern socialism within China, and ensuring China and the Chinese culture has its rightful place in the world.
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2 weeks ago |
securityweek.com | Kevin Townsend
More than anything, Mandiant’s M-Trends 2025 report demonstrates how attackers rapidly evolve their methods to counter improved defenses. There’s no let up. The annual M-Trends report from Mandiant is a key source of threat intelligence for industry, packed with statistics from Mandiant’s own incident investigations and enriched with Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) research. But it is important to understand how the report is compiled to maximize its value.
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Satellites + quantum + blockchain: the synergy of new technologies will lead us toward more secure communications and more secure computing. https://t.co/l0fkHekTjE
AI-powered spear phishing now outperforms elite human-generated spear phishing, with the real inflection point occurring in early 2025. If we add AI’s ability to operate at vastly improved speed and scale, the outlook is daunting. https://t.co/88jxJIjrT3
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