Zero Trust isn't magic. It's a specific set of architectural components working together—policy engine, identity fabric, device trust, microsegmentation, and continuous monitoring. Here's exactly how they fit.
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Session 14A: Software Security: Applications & Policies
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Shangzhi Xu (The University of New South Wales), Jialiang Dong (The University of New South Wales), Weiting Cai (Delft University of Technology), Juanru Li (Feiyu Tech), Arash Shaghaghi (The University of New South Wales), Nan Sun (The University of New South Wales), Siqi Ma (The University of New South Wales)
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Enhancing Security in Third-Party Library Reuse - Comprehensive Detection of 1-day Vulnerability through Code Patch Analysis
Nowadays, software development progresses rapidly to incorporate new features. To facilitate such growth and provide convenience for developers when creating and updating software, reusing open-source software (i.e., thirdparty library reuses) has become one of the most effective and efficient methods. Unfortunately, the practice of reusing third-party libraries (TPLs) can also introduce vulnerabilities (known as 1-day vulnerabilities) because of the low maintenance of TPLs, resulting in many vulnerable versions remaining in use. If the software incorporating these TPLs fails to detect the introduced vulnerabilities and leads to delayed updates, it will exacerbate the security risks. However, the complicated code dependencies and flexibility of TPL reuses make the detection of 1-day vulnerability a challenging task. To support developers in securely reusing TPLs during software development, we design and implement VULTURE, an effective and efficient detection tool, aiming at identifying 1-day vulnerabilities that arise from the reuse of vulnerable TPLs. It first executes a database creation method, TPLFILTER, which leverages the Large Language Model (LLM) to automatically build a unique database for the targeted platform. Instead of relying on code-level similarity comparison, VULTURE employs hashing-based comparison to explore the dependencies among the collected TPLs and identify the similarities between the TPLs and the target projects. Recognizing that developers have the flexibility to reuse TPLs exactly or in a custom manner, VULTURE separately conducts version-based comparison and chunk-based analysis to capture fine-grained semantic features at the function levels. We applied VULTURE to 10 real-world projects to assess its effectiveness and efficiency in detecting 1-day vulnerabilities. VULTURE successfully identified 175 vulnerabilities from 178 reused TPLs.
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Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.
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Feb 27, 2026 - Alan Fagan - RSA Conference is fast approaching, and the FireTail team is packing our bags for San Francisco! We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be exhibiting at the Early Stage Expo (Booth ESE-52) this year.Whether you’re looking to secure your enterprise AI initiatives, grab some great swag, or talk shop on the Modern Cyber podcast, we’ve got a packed schedule and we want to see you there. Here’s everything you need to know about where to find us and what we’re up to at the event.🤝 Meet the TeamThe best part of RSAC is the people. Here is who will be holding down the fort at Booth ESE-52—come say hi!🗓️ Secure Your SpotRSAC gets incredibly busy, and calendars fill up fast. If you want to guarantee some dedicated 1:1 time with Jeremy, Timo, or Riley, we highly recommend booking a slot in advance.Select a time on the calendar below to reserve your spot at Booth ESE-52.
📍 Find Us on the Show FloorWe’ll be set up at the Early Stage Expo, Booth ESE-52.Make sure to check out the official RSAC floor plan on the event app to navigate your way over. You'll find here in Moscone South, Level 2 at the Early Stage Expo. Stop by to see live demos of how FireTail is securing the future of AI, grab a coffee, or just chat with our team about your current security challenges.🎤 Don't Miss Jeremy Snyder's TalkIf you are currently wrestling with how to secure AI in your organization, you’ll want to bookmark this session.The 5 Layers of AI Security: What Security Teams Are Missing (ESE-4535)When: Thursday, Mar 26 | 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM PDTSpeaker: Jeremy SnyderSession Overview: Jeremy Snyder introduces a layered model for enterprise AI risk. This session covers the critical layers, from lack of visibility and shadow usage to model risk, insecure integrations, data exposure, and more. By examining how these risks compound, Jeremy shows why most AI security programs struggle with defense-in-depth, and what security teams need to build effective, scalable AI governance. Save it here.🎙️ Be a Guest on Modern Cyber!We’re taking the studio on the road! The FireTail team will be recording on-location episodes of the Modern Cyber podcast while we’re in San Francisco.Are you an industry expert, a security practitioner with a great story, or just highly opinionated about the current state of cybersecurity? We want you on the mic. Reach out to us at [Insert Contact Email] to express your interest and we’ll get you scheduled.
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Scientists from the University of California Riverside uncovered fundamental weaknesses in the client isolation security feature in WiFi networks that can be exploited to bypass the protections and allow threat actors to run machine-in-the-middle attacks, manipulate traffic, and steal data from others who are on the same network.
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Learn how to protect your browser from AI-driven threats, prompt injection, and HEAT attacks using predictive defense from Menlo Security.
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Closing enterprise deals now requires SSO! This 2026 guide ranks the top SSO & SCIM providers for B2B SaaS, considering developer experience, scalability, and enterprise compatibility. Find the perfect fit for your startup!
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Learn how WS-Federation compares to SAML, OAuth, and OIDC. Understand its role in legacy enterprise systems and when to migrate to modern identity protocols.
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We talk about ‘Vulnerability Management’ collectively as important! But, when security is not confined to only “finding every CVE” and more about shrinking exploitable paths faster than the business ships change, we need to go inclusive and focus on everything. Today, we focus on ‘managing cloud vulnerability’. Security leaders can’t buy their way out of […]
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Researchers found that Google API keys long treated as harmless can now unlock access to Gemini.
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Modern organizations operate in environments where cyber risks evolve daily, cloud infrastructure changes continuously, and compliance expectations intensify across jurisdictions. In this environment, traditional risk management that relies on staticrisk assessments and manual effort is no longer sufficient.
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Discover the potential vulnerabilities posed by advanced AI-driven attack strategies and the importance of cybersecurity for athletes, organizers, and supporting businesses.
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Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government crackdown against citizen protests nationwide, the regime implemented an internet shutdown that transcends the standard definition of internet censorship. This was not merely blocking social media or foreign websites; it was a total communications shutdown.
Unlike previous Iranian internet shutdowns where Iran’s domestic intranet—the National Information Network (NIN)—remained functional to keep the banking and administrative sectors running, the 2026 blackout ...
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The Notepad++ supply chain compromise is the latest proof that sophisticated adversaries are deliberately targeting the gap between two disciplines: Vulnerability management and detection and response.
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Anthropic's Claude Code Security launch sent shockwaves through cybersecurity markets. As GitGuardian's CEO, here's why I believe the real battle has shifted from code vulnerabilities to identity and secrets management in the AI era.
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Feb 27, 2026 - Alan Fagan - The "OpenClaw" crisis has board members asking, "Could this happen to us?" The answer isn't to ban AI agents. It's to govern them.
By now, the dust is settling on the OpenClaw (aka MoltBot) incident. The technical post-mortems (including our own) have been written, the exposed ports have been closed, and the 1.5 million leaked API keys are being rotated.
But for the Enterprise CISO, the real work is just beginning.
This incident has shifted the conversation about "Agentic AI" from a future roadmap item to an immediate risk management priority. Your Board and Executive Team are likely asking two questions:
Are we vulnerable to an OpenClaw-style breach?
Should we just ban these agents entirely?
The answer to the first is "likely yes." The answer to the second is "absolutely not."
In this strategic guide, we outline why the "Ban" approach will fail, and how to implement a governance framework that allows your organization to harness the power of autonomous agents without inviting the chaos of the "Wild West."
The "Ban" Fallacy: Why You Can’t Block Your Way to Safety
In the wake of a security crisis, the reflex is often to lock everything down. Network teams might block traffic to pypi.org or github.com. Endpoint teams might block processes named clawdbot.
But "Shadow Agents" are resilient.
They are open source: If you block the OpenClaw repo, employees will fork it, rename it, and deploy it under a benign name like my-jira-helper.
They are productive: High-performers use these tools because they work. An agent that can autonomously debug code or reconcile financial spreadsheets saves hours of human time. If you ban them without providing a secure alternative, you aren't removing the risk - you are just driving it underground.
When employees hide their tools, you lose visibility. And in the world of autonomous agents, lack of visibility is worse than having no controls at all.
The "Wild West" vs. The Managed Environment
The OpenClaw disaster wasn't caused by AI itself; it was caused by a total lack of governance.
The software was designed with a "Wild West" philosophy: the agent had full root access, trusted every instruction, and broadcasted its interface to the world.
To secure the enterprise, we don't need to stop the agent; we need to change the environment it operates in.
Comparison: OpenClaw vs. A FireTail-Governed Agent
Feature
The "Wild West" (OpenClaw)
The FireTail Managed Environment
Visibility
Deployed at all. Developers install and run it wherever, without your team’s knowledge.
Governed and seen. FireTail tells you what devices and users have OpenClaw and OpenClaw-initiated connections.
Data Privacy
Raw Exfiltration: Sends full confidential documents to public LLM APIs.
Real-Time Redaction: PII and secrets are detected and can be blocked before the prompt leaves the network.
Audit Trail
Ephemeral: Logs are stored in local text files or not at all.
Immutable: Every prompt, and external response is logged centrally for compliance and detection and response defenses.. The FireTail Strategy: Total AI Governance
The path forward is to wrap your organization in a layer of Policy Enforcement. This is the core of the FireTail platform.
1. Define the "Safe Lane"
Establish policies that define what is allowed.
Policy Example: "Agents may not communicate with LLMs on our deny list”
Policy Example: "Agents may browse the web for research, but are blocked from using or uploading PII."
2. Enforce PII & Secret Redaction
One of the biggest risks with OpenClaw was that it could read .env files and send keys to an external server. FireTail acts as a firewall for LLM prompts. If an agent attempts to send an AWS Secret Key or a Customer SSN to an LLM, FireTail can detect the pattern and block the request instantly.
3. Centralized Observability
You cannot govern what you cannot see. FireTail provides a "Control Tower" view of every agentic interaction in your enterprise. If a developer's agent suddenly starts making 5,000 API calls per minute (a sign of a loop or an attack), you can know about this and respond immediately.
The CISO's Script
When your Board asks about your strategy for Agentic AI, here is your answer:
"We are not banning AI agents, because that would only create a hidden shadow agent ecosystem of unmonitored tools. Instead, we are implementing an AI Security Platform (FireTail) that forces these agents to operate within strict guardrails. We will allow the productivity, but we will technically enforce the security."
OpenClaw was a warning. It showed us the fragility of unmanaged agents. But it also showed us the future of work. More and more agents are coming. It’s only a question of time. The organizations that win won't be the ones that hide from this technology - they will be the ones that build the safest roads for it to run on.
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Detect pharmaceutical IP theft, ransomware campaigns, and supply chain breaches in real time with Morpheus AI SOC.
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Learn how to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments with granular policy enforcement and post-quantum cryptography for prompt engineering.
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Most breaches don’t start with malware or zero-day exploits. They start with a login. An attacker gets hold of a password, maybe through phishing, reuse, or a leaked credential dump. They test it against a remote system. An SSH prompt appears. The credentials work. From there, everything unfolds quietly – privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence. By the time anyone notices, the damage is already done. […]
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AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors of LokiLocker ransomware, a .NET based strain active since at least mid-August 2021. The malware combines defense evasion and impact techniques, including disabling Task Manager and Windows Firewall, as well as deleting Volume Shadow Copies to hinder detection and prevent restoration.
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In our opinion, Gartner’s 2026 research reflects this broader evolution. Identity has expanded beyond perimeter controls and point-in-time authentication to encompass verification of the human, contextual risk assessment, and automated trust decisions.
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