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Progress Software has instructed ShareFile customers running on-premises Storage Zone Controllers to immediately shut down their servers after identifying a credible external security threat. In this Briefing, IANS Faculty Jake Williams will examine what this extraordinary vendor response may reveal about the threat, the potential risks to exposed environments, actions CISOs should take and what to communicate to executives while details remain scarce.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard defining how AI systems and agents connect to external data sources and tools. As organizations rapidly adopt these capabilities, MCP is becoming the connective tissue for agentic AI, creating both opportunities and risks. Opportunity includes the ability for security teams to wire AI straight into their stack and go from a plain-English question to a real answer, or even remediation, in seconds. However, every MCP connection is a new non-human identity (NHI) and a new data path, so the real exposure is less about the model and more about what an agent can reach, tool poisoning and standing access no one is watching. How do we benefit from MCP while managing the risk? Adopt fast, but govern first. In this symposium, IANS Faculty George Gerchow shares his practical experience and expertise to help you navigate this rapidly changing space.

This Ask-an-Expert (AAE) Call Summary provides practical guidance to help CISOs assess and reduce risks tied to third-party LLM integrations and enable AI adoption at scale.

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Hosted by IANS Faculty Jodi Daniels, this Regulatory and Enforcement Roundup will provide a focused, time-sensitive update on the most critical privacy-related regulation and enforcement developments from the past 60 days. This webinar gives security leaders and privacy officers a fast, practical rundown of the privacy landscape shift from May to July 2026 — including the wave of state privacy laws now in force (Arkansas just joined in July), accelerating GDPR enforcement that's pushed cumulative EU fines past €7 billion with regulators now prioritizing transparency and consent practices, new COPPA compliance deadlines and youth-protection laws affecting platforms with minors, and early signals on how the EU AI Act's incoming transparency rules will intersect with existing data protection obligations

CISOs and SecOps leaders are constantly assessing the balance as they experiment with and deploy AI across their teams and processes. Too little AI? From a staffing and organizational perspective, you risk your reputation by appearing stagnant or failing to capitalize on the touted promises of speed and scale. Too much AI? You risk being asked to downsize your team or lose the foundational skills typically built in lower-level analyst roles. In this webinar, IANS Faculty Wolfgang Goerlich helps security leaders determine where to lean in on AI capabilities, shows how to use tools like MCP connectors to integrate intel into your processes, and provides examples using Mythos/Fable as a backdrop to help you modernize your SecOps capabilities.

This Ask-an-Expert Writeup provides actionable guidance for building a scalable macro-segmentation strategy, with recommendations for OT isolation, cloud environments, data centers, and critical workloads.

This article provides actionable guidance to help manufacturing security leaders govern AI agents, strengthen identity controls, and build the data governance foundation required for safe AI adoption.

This article provides practical guidance to help manufacturing CISOs strengthen board engagement, secure OT security funding, and build a more resilient security culture across the organization.

This article provides a practical playbook for CISOs looking to streamline compliance, strengthen third-party oversight, and build a more scalable GRC program across IT, OT, and supply chain environments.