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    Expel research finds “strategy gap” in enterprise cyber hiring—not a talent shortage
    Expel
    July 15, 2025
    Companies are severely misaligned on AI priorities, market conditions, and candidate expectations.

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    Compensating controls are alternative safeguards. You can’t patch a vulnerability, so you deploy something else to reduce the risk.
    Scott Kuffer
    July 2, 2025
    Crutch or cure? The dangerous myth of compensating controls.
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    Steve Lasky
    July 2, 2025
    Chuck Randolph and Trinity Davis explain the dangers faced by organizational leadership, from the top brass to the small business owner.
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    This year’s AcceleRISE will take place Aug. 4-6 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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    Deep Sentinel
    June 30, 2025
    Deep Sentinel's SentinelNow is an on-demand live guard service.
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    Advanced digital tools and AI systems support faster, smarter decision-making in evolving security operations.
    For over six decades, Defense in Depth has been a cornerstone of security strategy. Now, AI is going far beyond that — delivering intelligent, layered responses that evolve in...
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    Iranian cyber operations often target vulnerable infrastructure sectors like energy, water and healthcare — areas where outdated systems and limited defenses increase the risk of real-world disruption.
    Rodney Bosch
    June 26, 2025
    Despite a halt in military conflict, cybersecurity experts warn that Iran continues to pose a serious and evolving threat to U.S. infrastructure.
    Sensormatic Solutions adds Machine Learning to Shrink Analyzer
    Johnson Controls
    June 25, 2025
    The application’s recent development efforts enhance internal theft analysis, using machine learning (ML) to continuously improve.
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    In this new era, where private companies must navigate a constant churn of global threats, traditional corporate approaches to security are falling short.
    Mark Freedman
    June 24, 2025
    With global conflict, political violence, and cyber sabotage crossing into U.S. territory, American businesses must adopt a national security mindset to stay resilient and safeguard...
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    Looking back a decade, the scene is one of loss prevention personnel thoroughly investigating and preparing organized retail crime (ORC) cases for prosecution, only to have to knock on doors and find a tolerant detective or patient prosecutor willing to take the case
    Liz Martinez
    June 24, 2025
    Retailers, law enforcement, and prosecutors form a united front against organized retail crime, signaling a national shift toward proactive enforcement.
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    Technology is rapidly changing, and the development and performance of large language AI models are set to continue disrupting the retail industry.
    James Stark
    June 24, 2025
    Managing risk within the U.S.-based retail sector is a continual process that requires a solid framework and the ability to evolve as needs change.
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    A recent Gartner report projects the Digital Twin market to grow from $35 billion in 2024 to $379 billion in 2034, representing a 900% increase over the coming decade.
    Steven Brown
    June 24, 2025
    Zero Trust unlocks the data integrity and confidence that delivers the promise of AI to electronic and physical security systems.
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    At its core, predictive analytics uses historical data, behavioral trends, and machine learning to forecast likely security incidents or operational disruptions.
    Chuck Randolph
    June 24, 2025
    Predictive analytics is transforming security operations—giving leaders time to act, context to decide, and the foresight to anticipate what’s next in an unpredictable risk environment...
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    Phishing is one of the most common and easily executed cyberattacks. Almost everyone with an email address or a mobile device has encountered a phishing scam before.
    David Richardson
    June 24, 2025
    Social engineering remains one of the easiest ways for cybercriminals to penetrate enterprise defenses; however, trained employees can disrupt the modern kill chain before it ...
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    Steve Lasky
    June 24, 2025
    I remember conversations with loss prevention directors in the 1980s and throughout the 90s where stories were shared of bizarre methods for stealing merchandise, gaming POS systems...
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    Physical security professionals need not be Zero Trust experts but should advocate for it, defining their systems’ overall network design and usage.
    Intelligent physical security system devices—especially AI-enabled video cameras—have become high-value targets for hackers, who now deploy malware explicitly designed...