Cybersecurity News & Analysis by Cyber Sidekicks - Your Weekly Update’

Big M&A news of the week as we discuss the announcement that LevelBlue will be acquiring Cybereason! 
We also have a great discussion about security, website blocking and threat protection services with this week's guest TK Keanini, CTO at DNSFilter.
 
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Our guest this week is Chaitanya Challa, Product Leader, IBM Data Security & Quantum Safe.
Having just released the IBM Guardium Cryptography Manager, Chaitanya gives us some great insights into what it's like to create and develop a new software product - involving 100 people over 6 months - including the many time zones involved and the lack of sleep that entailed!
NEWS
Google DeepMind’s New AI Agent Finds and Fixes Vulnerabilities
Despite More CVEs, Cyber Insurers Aren't Altering Policies
 
 
 
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Lots to discuss this week!
We find out about what's happening in the world of AI, Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) with Danny Howett, Technical Director at CyXcel.
NEWS
M&A: CyberBit Acquires RangeForce to Create Combined Cyber Range Platform
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Prioritizing Identity to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure
New AI term of the week – Workslop: In an article for the Harvard Business Review, a team of researchers coined the new term for “AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task… The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver.”
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In this episode we have an in-depth chat with Kyle Wickert, Field CTO at AlgoSec about Cloud 2.0 / Network 2.0 and what his customers are saying to him about the use of AI/AI Agents, policy management, application recertification and much more!
No News this week but Christina talks to us about her impressions of Lumen Technologies, following her attendance at last week's Analyst Summit.
 
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This week's episode sees us in discussion with the globetrotting CISO of Cequence Security, Randolph Barr about everything to do with AI, preventing API vulnerabilities, security hygiene and the dream of a fully agentic AI vulnerability management lifecycle... 
Cybersecurity Society of the Philippines
IN THE NEWS
Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows
SentinelOne to Acquire Observo AI in $225 Million Deal
 
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Rock Lambros, CEO & Founder of Rock Cyber joins us again this week to delve deeper into the emerging opportunities, risks and challenges of using agentic AI in your SecOps - and what you can do to minimize potential exposure and risk.
OWASP GenAI / Agentic AI resources
In the news:
Personal Liability, Security Become Bigger Issues for CISOs
Varonis Acquires Email Security Provider SlashNext to Enhance BEC Defenses
 
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This week we chat with Chris Newton-Smith, CEO of ISMS Online about AI compliance, governance and the regulatory requirements relating to ISO 42001, the EU AI Act and more!
In the news:
US, Allies Push for SBOMs to Bolster Cybersecurity
US Offers $10 Million for Three Russian Energy Firm Hackers 
Rewards for Justice (RFJ)
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This week we delve into OWASP's recently-released OWASP Agentic AI SecOps Framework and Market Landscape report:
https://genai.owasp.org/resource/ai-security-solutions-landscape-for-agentic-ai-q3-2025/
This week's guest is Paul Farrington, Chief Product Officer at Glasswall. Paul, Christina & I talk about the evolution of Zero Trust and where the industry is headed....
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This week's guest is Simon Hodgkinson, Strategic Advisor to security firm Semperis. We chat about the importance of business fundamentals, the data and infrastructure hygiene required for effective cybersecurity, and what keeps him up at night!
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In this week's special 30th Episode (woot!) we have a great discussion with IBM's Global Managing Partner of Cybersecurity Services, Mark Hughes around the adoption of AI, AI Agents and how to prepare for and manage the cybersecurity challenges and risks to the enterprise.
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