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 | Preparing Your Networks for the "AI Storm" Release Date: 07/01/2026 AI is changing the economics of cyber defense. AI models are improving their abilities to discover novel vulnerabilities, create new exploits, and engage ... Request to download |
 | Operationalizing the Agentic Control Plane: Integrating the AARM Specification Release Date: 06/22/2026 The CSA Agentic Control Plane (ACP) defines the governance framework through which AI agents are orchestrated, monitored, and controlled across a ten-laye... Request to download |
| Agent Shared Security and Safety Responsibility Model (Agent 3SRM) Release Date: 06/22/2026 As AI agents transition from experimental prototypes to production enterprise systems, the question of who is responsible for what becomes critical. The C... Request to download |
| Operationalizing the Agentic Control Plane: Integrating the Agentic Trust Framework Release Date: 06/22/2026 The CSA Agentic Control Plane (ACP) defines the governance framework through which Agent Owners orchestrate and govern AI agents, and this paper shows how... Request to download |
| Release Date: 06/22/2026 Agentic AI systems mark a fundamental shift from passive intelligence to active agency—autonomously perceiving, reasoning, planning, and executing actions... Request to download |
| Securing the Agentic Control Plane Release Date: 06/22/2026 As AI agents transition from experimental prototypes to production enterprise systems, securing their lifecycle—from creation through runtime operation to... Request to download |
| AI Agents: Architecture and Control Plane Release Date: 06/22/2026 AI agents introduce architectural and security challenges that extend beyond traditional application engineering. Their autonomous operation, tool access,... Request to download |
| AI Agents: Definition, Capabilities, Taxonomy Release Date: 06/22/2026 The term AI agent has become one of the most widely used and least precisely defined concepts in artificial intelligence. As organizations deploy agentic ... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 06/22/2026 The AI Controls Matrix (AICM) is a first-of-its-kind vendor-agnostic framework for cloud-based AI systems. Organizations can use the AICM to develop, impl... Request to download |
 | Quantum Computing & Artificial Intelligence Release Date: 06/17/2026 Quantum computing and AI are two of the most transformative technologies shaping the future. While each is powerful on its own, their convergence has the ... Request to download |
 | Core Collapse: The Mathematics of AI Security Asymmetry Release Date: 06/16/2026 This publication explores why attackers hold a structural advantage in cybersecurity and how defenders can shift the balance. Using a conceptual scaling m... Request to download |
 | Evaluating PyRIT for Agentic AI Red Teaming Release Date: 06/15/2026 As organizations adopt autonomous AI systems, traditional AI security testing methods are no longer enough. This research evaluates Microsoft’s Python Ris... Request to download |
| Integrating DNS and SDP: Enhanced Zero Trust Policy Enforcement 2.0 Release Date: 06/09/2026 The Domain Name System (DNS) is a foundational internet service and a persistent security blind spot in enterprise environments. Traditional DNS concepts rel... Request to download |
 | The State of Cloud and AI for Financial Services 2026 Release Date: 06/08/2026 This survey report examines how financial institutions are rapidly moving beyond cloud adoption and AI experimentation. Commissioned by Anjuna, the report... Request to download |
| Project Glasswing: AI Discovery Outpaces Open Source Patching Capacity Release Date: 06/07/2026 1,596 Vulnerabilities Disclosed to Maintainers — Only 97 Fixed. Key Takeaways Project Glasswing, Anthropic's coordinated AI vulnerability research initiative... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 06/04/2026 The Agentic AI Security Innovator Market Map provides a curated view of the emerging vendor landscape focused on securing agentic AI systems. This ma... Request to download |
| NIST AI Consortium: New TEVV Standards for Enterprise Compliance Release Date: 06/02/2026 How the Expanded Consortium's AI TEVV Zero Draft Process Reshapes AI Governance Obligations. NIST AI Consortium: New TEVV Standards for Enterprise Compliance... Request to download |
| Release Date: 06/02/2026 How Agentic AI Support Systems Enable Account Takeover. Helpdesk Hijack Key Takeaways Over the weekend of May 31–June 1, 2026, threat actors exploited Meta's... Request to download |
| The Presidential AI Executive Order and Industry Alignment Release Date: 06/02/2026 An analysis of the June 2, 2026 executive order Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security, reading its vulnerability-clearinghouse, ... Request to download |
 | 2026 State of Modern Application & AI Security Release Date: 06/01/2026 Production environments remain the decisive layer where exposure turns into operational risk. Built on survey data from more than 900 cybersecurity leader... Request to download |