Startup JetStream Secures $34M Seed Round for AI Governance

Michael Novinson • March 3, 2026

JetStream has raised $34 million in seed funding to tackle enterprise AI governance challenges. The startup introduced blueprint-based controls to manage shadow AI, MCP servers and token-level spending while helping CISOs gain visibility and enforce guardrails across cloud and SaaS environments.

Government

Marquis Sues SonicWall Over 2025 Firewall Data Breach

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Network Firewalls, Network Access Control

Juniper PTX Routers at Risk, Critical Takeover Flaw Disclosed

Greg Sirico • March 3, 2026

A critical vulnerability in Juniper Networks' primary operating system could give threat actors root level privileges to execute code on Juniper’s PTX Series routers. Successful exploitation would give attackers full command and control over devices without the need for authentication.

Healthcare

Groups Push Back on HHS' Proposed Health IT Rollbacks

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • March 3, 2026

Proposals to eliminate certain longstanding health IT certification criteria - including privacy and security related controls - will shift regulatory burden from health IT developers to healthcare providers, some industry groups contend in their public response to proposed federal rulemaking.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Anthropic Fight Lays Bare How Fundamental AI Is to the DOD

Chris Riotta • March 3, 2026

A White House push to sideline Anthropic after it reported disagreements over AI use in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons has reshaped Pentagon AI contracts, with OpenAI stepping in under broader lawful-use terms as frontier models enter live military and intelligence operations.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks

Amazon Says Drone Strikes Disrupted Middle East Data Centers

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 3, 2026

Physical effects rather than cyber strikes are triggering Middle Eastern connectivity problems during day four of a sustained U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. Iran is responding with drone and missile attacks targeting U.S. military as well as British bases in Bahrain, Cyprus.

Cyber Insurance

Zurich to Acquire Beazley in $11B European Insurance Deal

Michael Novinson • March 2, 2026

Zurich Insurance Group has agreed to acquire U.K.-based Beazley in an $11 billion deal that would create a $15 billion global insurance powerhouse. The transaction strengthens Zurich's cyber insurance portfolio as demand surges for coverage tied to cyber and technology risks.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

AI Can Unmask Anonymous Users at Scale

Rashmi Ramesh • March 2, 2026

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Anthropic have shown that LLMs can link pseudonymous online accounts to real identities automatically and cheaply, correctly identifying 67% of Hacker News users from a pool of 89,000, in findings that upend a core assumption of online privacy.

Encryption & Key Management

Quantum’s Uncertain Arrival Leaves CIOs With a Strategic Choice

Jennifer Lawinski • March 2, 2026

Quantum computing has been hovering just out of reach of the enterprise technology world for years and "it's still right around the corner now," said Nick Kathmann, CISO at LogicGate.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks

Iran Conflict Elevates Cyber Risk for Healthcare

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • March 2, 2026

The escalating conflict emerging from the U.S. and Israel military strikes this weekend on Iran, which killed the country's top leadership and crippled its internet connectivity, could erupt into cyberattacks against the healthcare sector by Iranian sympathizers and proxies, experts warn.

Data Security

Ex-Nuance IT Worker Pleads Guilty in Geisinger Health Case

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • March 2, 2026

A former Nuance Communications IT worker has pleaded guilty in a criminal case that alleged he downloaded and stored on a personal hard drive containing 1.2 million patient records of a client, Geisinger Health, two days after he was terminated from his job in 2023.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks

Iranian Cyber Proxies Active But Not Nation-State Hackers

David Perera , Mathew J. Schwartz • March 2, 2026

Iranian cyber proxies are girding for revenge while nation-state hackers in Tehran have gone quiet, whether to shelter from an onslaught of missile attacks or because the Middle Eastern country remains disconnected from the global internet on the third day of a U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks

Western Cybersecurity Experts Brace for Iranian Reprisal

David Meyer • March 1, 2026

Organizations across the West and allied nations should prepare for Iranian cyberattacks in the wake of Israeli and U.S. ongoing strikes, threat intelligence firms warned as the first signs of the Iranian cyber counteroffensive became clear on Sunday

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

OpenAI Will Deploy AI in US Military Classified Networks

David Perera • February 27, 2026

OpenAI said late Friday night it reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy its large language models onto military classified networks. The announcement came hours after President Donald Trump instructed federal agencies to cease using AI developed by OpenAI rival Anthropic.