LANSING, Mich. (News 10) - Local business owners met in Lansing to learn how to use artificial intelligence to protect themselves from growing cyber threats.
Grassroots Giving Lansing and LAFCU teamed up for a Black Business Mixer on Marketplace Boulevard.
The event focused on ways to use cybersecurity to protect small businesses and strategies to help grow businesses smarter and safer.
Organizers said the event helps businesses connect face to face, which they say remains essential amid a growing reliance on technology.
The event also covered key defenses against phishing, scams and data breaches to keep local businesses resilient in a digital marketplace.
Sep 13, 2026 · via wilx.com
Sessions ranged from “AI Impact on the Future of Cyber Defense” for state and local governments to the future of the CISO role and managing risk in governments.
Here are some of the highlights — without attributing specific statements to any state or local CISO.
AI ROUNDUP FOR CYBER As this blog has discussed before, frontier AI is a hot topic for CISOs, and OpenAI and Anthropic have programs to help state and local governments provide improved cyber defenses as we head into late 2026.
Still, there was plenty of sharing of best practices and tips among the security leaders.
From securing refunds for mortgage fraud victims to cracking down on deceptive practices by businesses, California is both protecting consumers from fraud and addressing fraud against the government.
Sep 13, 2026 · via govtech.com
Cybercriminal group ShinyHunters has claimed another data breach, this time hitting the many drivers on the roads along the east coast.
On 7 September 2026, ShinyHunters added FLHSMV to its data leak site saying: “Contact us, you know how.
Cyera Completes Its US$1bn Acquisition of Oasis Security Cyera, the AI-native data security enterprise, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Oasis Security, a non-human access management platform.
The acquisition, which has been valued at US$1bn, combines Cyera’s AI and Data Security Platform with Oasis’s non-human identity management capabilities.
Danny Brickman, Co-Founder and CEO of Oasis, says: “Joining Cyera marks a new chapter for Oasis and for the customers we've built for.
Sep 12, 2026 · via cybermagazine.com
However, the harder, less visible gap is operational: most maritime OT is not being continuously monitored.
The IACS unified requirements E26 and E27 bring cyber resilience into the design of vessels contracted for construction from July 2024.
The common thread is a shift from “do you have a policy” to “can you demonstrate resilience”, continuously and on demand.
Maritime OT is diverse, distributed and unforgiving.
—- About Remie Kalloe: Remie Kalloe is Founder and CEO of Cyber.Dockside.ai BV, a maritime cyber resilience company, where his chief remit is assisting, designing and implementing bespoke solutions on behalf of clientele.
Sep 12, 2026 · via cybersecurity-insiders.com
An earlier Microsoft study documented the effects AI had on productivity, with software developers who used AI completing 26% more tasks than developers who didn’t use AI.
Most experts agree that AI agents can easily do the job that fully staffed SOCs do today, and do it faster and better.
But there appears to be disagreement regarding how much authority SOC-replacing AI agents should be granted.
“The things AI isn’t going to be able to replace are experience and judgment,” he says.
If you take the SOC example, how do you evaluate how well your AI agent is doing at triaging your vulnerabilities?”
Sep 12, 2026 · via csoonline.com
Following its August cyber disruption, medical equipment manufacturer Boston Scientific revealed this week that manufacturing, order fulfillment and shipping operations have been fully restored following a cybersecurity incident identified Aug. 25, with products now moving through its distribution network at or above normal levels.
“As order processing continues, we are working to fulfill customer orders as quickly as possible, including those pending prior to the August 25 cybersecurity incident and those received during the disruption,” the company said in its latest security update.
Assessments covered product development and software systems, manufacturing and medical device maintenance systems, software and business applications, cloud-based systems, email and external collaboration platforms.
“We recognize the impact this incident has had on our customers and the patients they serve.
We are grateful for the patience and partnership our customers, healthcare providers, patients, suppliers and other stakeholders have shown throughout this incident.”
Sep 11, 2026 · via industrialcyber.co
A new generation of intelligence We’re introducing GPT‑6 Astra, the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.
The world’s best computer use model GPT‑6 Astra marks a new frontier in the speed, accuracy, and safety of computer use.
GPT‑6 Astra also brings stronger visual judgment to the websites, games, applications, and renderings it builds.
When instructions leave room for interpretation, GPT‑6 Astra is better than previous models at making the right call.
13 On ExploitGym, we tested Astra and Sol without the 6-hour time limit, to better assess their full cyber capabilities.
Sep 11, 2026 · via openai.com
Although CMMC Phase 2 is currently on hold, cybersecurity compliance obligations—and the enforcement risks associated with them—remain a pressing concern for government contractors.
Contractors must continue to meet existing cybersecurity requirements and track evolving obligations, such as the FAR Council’s proposed rule addressing safeguarding and handling of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
Join Arnold & Porter attorneys Tirzah Lollar and Tom Pettit for a practical discussion of the cybersecurity issues government contractors should be addressing now.
They will examine the current regulatory landscape, emerging compliance requirements, and the government’s growing use of the False Claims Act to enforce cybersecurity obligations.
Topics will include:
Sep 11, 2026 · via arnoldporter.com
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Security Council is expanding its focus to a broader range of national security risks, including information and cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, personal data protection, economic crime and civil protection, under new regulations approved by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Sept. 11.
Tokayev signed a decree approving the regulations on the Security Council and its Apparatus and defining the powers of the deputy chair of the Security Council.
The Security Council and its Apparatus will be responsible for comprehensive analysis of global threats and challenges, as well as current aspects of the domestic situation.
The new framework also strengthens coordination and oversight of measures related to national security, defense capability, legality and public order.
The deputy chair will coordinate the work of government bodies and organizations in these areas, conduct international cooperation and coordinate the activities of the Security Council Apparatus.
Sep 11, 2026 · via astanatimes.com
China’s hack prompted a federal review board to sharply criticize Microsoft’s lax security practices.
“Ship dates, market pressure, and now the race to ship AI capabilities all push against slowing down for security.”
Every performance review conversation now includes a discussion of how the employee contributed to Microsoft’s and its customers’ security.
She added, however, that she is “increasing investment” in Windows security oversight.
Huang believes her security experts can reasonably oversee “three major areas” of Microsoft’s business, and one of their top priorities is the company’s agentic AI technology.
Sep 11, 2026 · via cybersecuritydive.com
Anthropic has disrupted several attempts to use its artificial intelligence models for research that could help develop biological weapons, the United States technology company has reported.
Anthropic said evaluations of its older models last year found they could not meaningfully assist dangerous biological research, but newer models can complete complex scientific work.
Two days before the report, a researcher quit Anthropic, saying the race to develop AI could wipe out humanity.
Speaking to reporters, Trump said he is concerned that the US will be in a “very bad position” if it does not lead the AI race.
Asked if he has concerns that AI could lead to human extinction, he said: “No, I don’t have any.”
Sep 11, 2026 · via aljazeera.com
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, released in February 2024, provides outcomes-based guidance for managing cybersecurity risk.
CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1 The CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1 organizes practical defensive measures into 18 Controls and a more detailed set of Safeguards.
FISMA and the NIST Risk Management Framework The Federal Information Security Modernization Act, or FISMA, requires U.S. federal agencies to maintain agency-wide information security programs.
NIST SP 800-53 provides the control catalog, while the NIST Risk Management Framework sets out a seven-step process: Prepare Categorize Select Implement Assess Authorize Monitor.
The real goal is defensible, continuous risk management Frameworks, certifications, and reports provide valuable structure and evidence.
Sep 11, 2026 · via bitsight.com
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) plans to release a broad statewide procurement for cybersecurity products and services Wednesday, with resulting contracts to be made available to eligible public-sector customers through the agency’s Cooperative Contracts Program.
The procurement also reflects a broader change in how DIR plans to structure future solicitations.
The agency said it intends to transition away from branded contracts and does not plan to publish future branded solicitations.
This story originally appeared in Industry Insider — Texas, which is part of e.Republic, Government Technology’s parent company.
He has a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s degree in literature and a master’s degree in technical communication, all from Texas State University.
Sep 11, 2026 · via govtech.com
Why It Matters A key cybersecurity law that enables federal agencies and private companies to share threat information is set to expire on December 11, forcing Congress to decide whether to renew, modify, or let the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA) lapse entirely.
The expiration would strip away explicit protections that shield private entities from antitrust liability, shield them from legal liability for monitoring and sharing cyber threat information, and exempt shared data from public disclosure requirements.
The Big Picture The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 was originally authorized for ten years and passed as Title I of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, creating a legal framework for federal agencies and private companies to voluntarily exchange cyber threat indicators and defensive measures.
The law requires federal agencies to establish procedures for sharing classified and unclassified cyber threat information with federal and nonfederal entities, while mandating that personally identifiable information be stripped from all shared data and that the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice issue guidance on protecting civil liberties.
Lawmakers could also consider whether to require certain entities, such as critical infrastructure operators or cyber threat information aggregators, to participate in sharing rather than keeping it voluntary, fundamentally reshaping how the government receives warning of threats.
Sep 10, 2026 · via legis1.com
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration predicts its water cybersecurity partnership with Texas will yield insights that can protect the entire nation.
The White House announced in late August that it was working with Texas to explore how private companies could help bolster water utilities’ resilience against hackers.
Now, Cairncross said, the White House and Texas Cyber Command are working with “top-of-the-line industry partners” to “help bring costs down” and deploy new defensive technologies.
Water utilities have repeatedly suffered breaches, including many linked to Iranian government operatives, although so far no hack is known to have caused health or safety issues.
ONCD is also poised to use the Texas water project as a blueprint for broader action.
Sep 10, 2026 · via cybersecuritydive.com
Bynario, an Italian startup building tools to help organisations identify and prioritise cybersecurity vulnerabilities in software, has raised a €2.1m pre-seed round.
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Sep 10, 2026 · via sifted.eu
ET Business Operations Restored Manufacturing, order fulfillment and shipping operations are now fully restored following the cybersecurity incident identified on August 25, 2026.
As order processing continues, we are working to fulfill customer orders as quickly as possible, including those pending prior to the August 25 cybersecurity incident and those received during the disruption.
The network disruption impact to remote monitoring activations has been resolved and activation capability has been restored.
Remote monitoring activations for cardiac device implant communicators and ICM remote monitoring have resumed.
Archived: 9/8/26 update 9/5/26 update 9/3/26 update 8/30/26 update 8/29/26 update 8/28/26 update 8/27/26 update
Sep 10, 2026 · via news.bostonscientific.com
Introduction We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.
Claude Mythos 5 uploads a malicious PyPI package Claude Mythos 5 was given a CTF task to hack a fictional company and was told it had no internet access.
Claude Mythos 5 was significantly more likely than Claude Opus 5 and Claude Mythos 5.1 to engage in these kinds of behaviors.
Across all replications, Claude Mythos 5 performed worse than all of our other production models, including Claude Opus 5 and Claude Mythos 5.1.
We found that in individual environments in the production RL runs of recent models, models occasionally reasoned that they were in a simulation while calling reckless, dishonest, or destructive behavior acceptable when interacting with fake websites or applications.
Sep 10, 2026 · via anthropic.com
So too is ServiceNow, including how it expects IT leaders to finance that future.
Instead, growth is increasingly generated by “consumed” services such as infrastructure, integrations and connectors, AI token consumption, and cybersecurity.
AI convergence AI is causing previously distinct sectors such as ITSM and cybersecurity to converge, with AI itself turning into a unifying AIOps front end to diverse, specialized technologies sitting below it.
In 2025, this evolution crystalized as the ServiceNow AI Platform, a rebranded Now platform augmented by unifying features such as the AI Control Tower.
According to LaPorte, ServiceNow customers should be alert to the ways this changes their relationship.
Sep 10, 2026 · via cio.com
Amazon elected Kevin Mandia to its Board of Directors on September 8.
Mandia founded Mandiant and served as its CEO before Google acquired the firm in September 2022, and he has worked against cyber threats in the public and private sectors for more than 30 years.
Amazon called cybersecurity “one of the most consequential risks and responsibilities organizations face today,” and pointed to advances in AI as the reason the threat landscape keeps moving.
That is the company’s stated reason for putting the expertise at board level, where directors decide which questions management has to answer.
Ballistic Ventures keeps Mandia close to the companies being built now, and Armadin keeps him running one.
Sep 10, 2026 · via helpnetsecurity.com