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The practice and industry of defending computers, networks, identities and data against attack.
KPMG's survey of 400 US CEOs finds 85% expect cybercrime to affect their prosperity, more than say so of inflation or geopolitics. The firm that ran it sells cyber defense work, and its chair calls the risk in decades-old systems a multi-billion dollar opportunity.
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Nasdaq is down 2.5% this week through Wednesday while the Dow is flat, as worries over debt-funded AI spending lead the selling. By CNBC Investing Club's figures it is still up 2.3% since Sept. 10 against a Dow down nearly 1%, so the week cut its lead from about 6 points to about 3.
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Kanishka Narayan, the UK's AI minister, will say technology companies cannot be left entirely to police their own models, the Guardian reported. He will announce stronger cyber defences in the same speech, the first on AI since Andy Burnham took the brief into cabinet.
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Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report says intrusions spanning identity, cloud and supply chains become clearer when defenders join separate signals. Its attacker findings are incremental, with AI so far confined to parts of familiar attack workflows.
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Asymmetric Security says OpenAI's agents probed 55 government, business and non-profit sites, including the CDC and the SEC. California Attorney General Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI the same day and warned developers can be held accountable when their models enable cyberattacks.
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Palo Alto Networks crossed $400 a share for the first time this week, lifting its market value to a record of about $325 billion. The climb has turned CEO Nikesh Arora's $10 million share purchase in March into a stake worth about $27 million.
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Cybersecurity holds first place at 80% in the Internal Audit Foundation's survey of more than 3,000 practitioners, and the two risks that rose fastest, digital disruption at 58% and geopolitics at 48%, are drawing very different audit attention.
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