Tech Revolt

Cequence Security has concluded that the safest way to deploy an AI agent is not to watch everything it might reach, but to define, automatically and in advance, everything it is allowed to be.

For years, the digital asset industry has treated user trust, price volatility, and regulatory uncertainty as the obstacles standing between ordinary people and crypto trading. mb.io, the regulated digital asset platform of MultiBank Group, is betting the more mundane obstacle is the one nobody talks about: the moment a user has to leave the app to fund their account, then come back and hope the payment cleared.

Nine out of ten operating companies in the United Arab Emirates are small or medium-sized enterprises, and together they generate more than 60 percent of the country's non-oil GDP. Yet those same businesses receive only about 10 percent of total bank funding, a mismatch that has quietly dictated how UAE entrepreneurs manage cash flow for years.

Emirates has begun accepting Crypto.com Pay at checkout on emirates.com and inside its mobile app, letting eligible UAE residents book flights priced and settled in dirhams directly from a crypto wallet. That fact alone is a decent headline. [For more news, click here] The more interesting one is how quickly it happened.

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded across enterprise operations, a new challenge is emerging for cybersecurity leaders: protecting identities that are no longer human. Saviynt's latest platform launch reflects a broader industry shift toward securing AI agents, machine identities, and autonomous systems before they become tomorrow's biggest security blind spot. [For more news, click here] For years, identity security revolved around employees, contractors, and customers.

The industrial AI conversation has changed dramatically over the past two years. What was once dominated by proof-of-concept projects and executive experimentation is increasingly becoming a story about operational execution, measurable returns, and enterprise-wide deployment. [For more news, click here] Across manufacturing facilities, warehouses, field service operations, and global supply chains, artificial intelligence is no longer being evaluated simply for its potential.

Acronis wants managed service providers to believe that the next competitive edge is not a faster tool but a single operating environment, and it recruited the man who spent four years running the company many of those same providers are now trying to leave in order to make that case.

When cyberattacks against the United Arab Emirates roughly tripled during a recent stretch of regional conflict, climbing from 200,000 incidents to 600,000 according to the UAE Cyber Security Council, the pressure did not fall evenly. [For more news, click here] It concentrated in the unglamorous machinery that most people never think about until it fails: hospital networks, power substations, water treatment plants, the industrial control systems that keep a modern country running.

SANS Institute's new Gulf-edition maturity model gives regional enterprises a stage-by-stage benchmark for AI security readiness, replacing improvisation with a shared standard. [For more news, click here] For years, chief information security officers across the Gulf have approached artificial intelligence the way pilots approach turbulence: braced, reactive, and hoping the instruments hold. That posture is starting to shift.

A new Sophos report shows attackers running AI agents to build and test malware in days instead of weeks, and the company using the same visibility to intercept the operation before it reached a single victim.