This Week's Top Five Stories in Cyber Securing AI: Behind Palo Alto Networks' Portkey Acquisition Standing at the dawn of the autonomous agentic enterprise era, the insider threat risk now has highly-privileged machine form. To mitigate the threat, cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks has revealed plans to acquire AI gateway specialist Portkey. The deal is reflective of the growing urgency among organisations as they scramble to keep autonomous AI agent risks at bay, amid rapid deployment in day to day operations. “AI agents have become privileged insiders, reasoning and executing on behalf of users and companies,” notes Nikesh Arora, Chairman and CEO at Palo Alto Networks. World Password Day: Have Passwords Become Obsolete? In a world mired by cyber incidents, another World Password Day has come by as a reminder to secure our digital lives. First launched by Intel Security in 2013, World Password Day aims to encourage stronger password habits and raise awareness around online security. Held annually on the first Thursday of May, the event has evolved from a static reminder to update weak passwords into a wider conversation on the future of authentication – particularly relevant today as governments, businesses and technology providers increasingly push towards passwordless security. "World Password Day is in desperate need of a rebrand," argues Ev Kontsevoy, CEO at Teleport. "Passwords are broken. The industry knows this. Every static credential – every password, API key, private key or any secret of any kind – is a persistent risk." Trend AI: Agentic AI Adoption in Finance Overlooks Security Agentic AI systems are creating new attack surfaces across the financial sector. Autonomous decision-making tools now operate beyond human oversight in many organisations. TrendAI – a business unit of Trend Micro specialising in AI cybersecurity – has published research exposing the security gaps that emerge when