Selling Cyber: PAM Market Shifts as AI Drives New Demands

Michael Novinson • March 5, 2026

The PAM market has been upended, with high-profile M&As including Palo Alto Networks' purchase of CyberArk. What do these moves mean for buyers of PAM tools - and vendors in this space? In this episode of "Selling Cyber," the panel breaks down market drivers and the shifting competitive landscape.

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Cryptocurrency Fraud

Hackers Gain Speed, Not Major New Tradecraft, Using AI Tools

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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Tech Giants, Washington Rally for Anthropic in Pentagon Feud

Chris Riotta • March 5, 2026

Major tech firms, defense leaders and lawmakers are rallying behind Anthropic as the Pentagon threatens to label the AI developer a supply-chain risk after a dispute over surveillance safeguards, raising fears the move could chill AI investment and reshape government tech contracting.

Healthcare

Trizetto Notifying 3.4M of 2024 Hack Detected in 2025

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • March 5, 2026

Billing services vendor Trizetto Provider Solutions is notifying 3.4 million individuals of a hacking incident discovered in October 2025 that investigators have now determined started nearly a year earlier, when threat actors accessed the company's healthcare clients' insurance related data.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

New OneTrust CEO on Why AI Governance Market Is Set to Surge

Michael Novinson • March 5, 2026

New OneTrust CEO John Heyman said enterprises rapidly deploying generative AI will soon manage hundreds or thousands of AI agents across their organizations. They must monitor AI agents' data flows and third-party technologies as privacy risk and security oversight increasingly converge.

Cybercrime

Breach Roundup: Patches and Hacks on Cisco Equipment

Pooja Tikekar • March 5, 2026

This week, Cisco patches and hacks. Trojanized app targeted Israelis. Bye-bye, Tycoon 2FA. Also bye-bye LeakBase. A LexisNexis breach. Woman sentenced for trafficking Microsoft licenses. Silver Dragon targeted governments. Broadcom patch. A Mississippi medical clinic resumed operations.

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Cryptohack Roundup: Ariomex Leak Flags Iran Sanction Risks

Rashmi Ramesh • March 5, 2026

Iran exchange leak raises sanctions risks, $580M frozen in scam crackdown, $61M romance scam funds seized, feds seek $327K in dating scam case, Russia exploit broker sanctioned, South Korean wallet recovery phrase exposure and arrest in custody bitcoin theft, Axiom data misuse and Uniswap lawsuit ends.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Nation-State Hackers Play the Vibes

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 5, 2026

All the nation-state hackers are vibe coding. Vibeware won't win any coding awards. It's not pretty. It doesn't target any zero-day vulnerabilities or known flaws in innovative new ways - but it does allow polyglot malware to be generated at scale.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Agentic AI Emerges as the Next Frontier for State Government IT

Jennifer Lawinski • March 4, 2026

Reputation aside, most pen pushers in state governments don't actually like pushing paper. They also don't care to force citizens to fill out forms in triplicate. Two decades of promises to minimize those chores may be on the cusp of gloriously coming true with the advent of agentic AI.

Security Operations

Fig Security Raises $30M to Modernize SOC Infrastructure

Michael Novinson • March 4, 2026

Fig Security has raised $30 million in Series A funding to help organizations modernize their SOC infrastructure. The startup said CISOs lack visibility into complex SecOps pipelines spanning SIEMs, data lakes and automation tools, which can lead to silent failures that undermine threat detection.

Healthcare

Cancer Center Research Study Hack Affects 1.2M

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • March 4, 2026

An August 2025 ransomware attack on the University of Hawaii Cancer Center's epidemiology division has affected 1.2 million individuals, including personal information such as Social Security numbers of certain research study participants dating back more than 30 years.

Critical Infrastructure Security

An OT Incident Scoring System Inspired by Natural Disasters

Shaun Waterman • March 4, 2026

Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes - and now operational technology cyber incidents - all can receive a numerical score based on their severity, although a new effort promoting an "OT Incident Impact Score" faces an uphill climb to get the traction it needs to succeed.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks

US Says Cyber Operations Underpinned Assault on Iran

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 4, 2026

U.S. military cyber operations underpinned the first part of the country's joint strike with Israel against Iran on Saturday. Since then, experts see signs of at least low-level cyber operations to support intelligence-gathering for kinetic attack targeting.

Data Privacy

Global Push for Age Verification Raises Security Concerns

David Meyer • March 4, 2026

A push by governments across the globe for tech companies verify users' age is gathering steam, following Australia's implementation in December of a ban on under-16s using social media. Countries across the European Union are set to impose similar rules.