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The UK’s AI Safety Institute has been recast as the UK AI Security Institute, bolstering protections against AI risks facing national security and crime, and delivering a key pillar of the government’s Plan for Change. The pivot reflects a focus on serious AI risks with security implications, including malicious cyber-attacks, crimes against fraud and the development of weaponry. Assess the risks by frontier AI AI Security Institute will partner with national units, including the Defence Science and Technology Lab The AI Security Institute will partner with several government departments, including the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the Ministry of Defence’s science and technology organisation, in order to assess the risks posed by frontier AI on UK security infrastructure. Setting out his vision for the revamped AI Security Institute in Munich, Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said: “The changes I’m announcing today represent the logical next step in how we approach responsible AI development – helping us to unleash AI and grow the economy as part of our Plan for Change.” Crime and security issues Kyle added: “The main job of any government is ensuring its citizens are safe and protected, and I’m confident the expertise our institute will be able to bring to bear will ensure the UK is in a stronger position than ever to tackle the threat of those who would look to use this technology against us.” As part of the update, the Institute is launching a new criminal misuse team, conducting research alongside the Home Office on crime and security issues that threaten society. Importance of the national security community The government accepted the extent of the national security society in supporting the edited focus The government acknowledged the importance of the national security community in supporting the revamped focus, building on the expertise of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).  Joint departments will work to understand the most serious risks posed by AI and build research to inform policymakers and keep the UK safe as AI develops. Security against AI-driven threats Achi Lewis, Area VP EMEA for Absolute Security, said: "The establishment of the UK AI Security Institute is a crucial step in safeguarding national security against AI-driven threats. With AI increasingly being weaponised in cyber-attacks, the urgency for robust defences has never been greater." "Our research highlights how 54% of CISOs feel unprepared for AI-driven attacks. This proves the need for stronger cyber resilience frameworks, enhanced network visibility, and proactive security measures." Ensure AI development Lewis added: "Security pioneers must act now to mitigate risks before they escalate." It comes following the AI Actions Summit in Paris, with the UK and US refusing to sign an international agreement which set out to ensure AI development is “transparent”, “safe”, and “secure and trustworthy,” citing concerns about national security and global governance.

Absolute Security, the pioneer in enterprise resilience, announced that the Absolute Resilience Platform has expanded to provide customers with integrated, resilient, and automated patch management, vulnerability scanning and remediation, workflow automation and remote “one-click” endpoint rehydration. Unified with existing Absolute capabilities, this single-platform approach delivers needed security and risk capabilities, reduces the cost of endpoint management, and improves resilience across endpoints and critical security and IT controls to ensure your enterprise remains always on, fully operational, and protected against threats and disruptions. Absolute’s expanded platform "Organisations struggle to respond to costly outages and security failures caused by complex and fragile tools. Resilience data we analysed from millions of PCs shows that almost a third of the time, top security controls and management tools fail to maintain levels of efficacy and compliance needed to defend against attacks and recover from disruptions,” said John Herrema, Chief Product Officer at Absolute Security. “Absolute’s expanded platform offers a simplified, cost-effective, and improved approach to endpoint security and management. Telemetry we look at demonstrates that when underpinned with Absolute resilience, customers’ mission-critical IT and security applications meet compliance and performance standards close to 100 percent of the time.” Gartner's two recent reports Absolute’s expanded forum now leads on both these trends by integrating living and new endpoint security Gartner has pointed out in two recent reports that Security Consolidation and Embedded Resilience are gaining ground as enterprise imperatives: Simplify Cybersecurity With a Platform Consolidation Framework, March 26, 2024; and Leadership Vision for 2025: Security and Risk Management, Jan. 13, 2025.  Absolute’s expanded platform now leads on both these trends by integrating existing and new endpoint security, risk, and management solutions on a single, hardware-embedded resilience platform. In addition to existing visibility, control, application resilience, and self-healing, new modules include: Patch: Sophisticated patching and scanning automatically detects devices with OS or software vulnerabilities, eliminating manual IT operations and ensuring end users stay protected and productive. This module supports OS and security patching for Windows, Mac, Linux, and hundreds of leading third-party applications.  Remediate: Comprehensive, automated scanning and monitoring for OS and security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and authorisation issues finds and remediates exposures before they are exploited. This module includes a library of thousands of prebuilt remediation workflows that can be customised or extended using a simple no-code workflow builder to meet unique enterprise requirements without the need for highly technical and error-prone scripting. Automate: Intuitive, no-code workflow builder defines and automates endpoint and server management and security, identifies behavioural and device status changes in real-time, and executes self-healing workflows to eliminate configuration drift to ensure endpoints and servers stay secure, compliant, and performant. Rehydrate: Within minutes, this remote, one-click innovation can restore remote and hybrid PC fleets to full operational capacity following a ransomware attack or IT incident, even when the device OS and other security and management tools are crashing, compromised, or corrupted. IT and security teams “Managing and securing PC fleets has become increasingly challenging. Juggling disparate, manual technologies places strain on IT and security teams, creates security and compliance blind spots, and introduces complexity that can bring business to a halt,” said Nima Jouyandeh, MIS – Infrastructure and Network, Kingston Technology. “As long-time Syxsense customers, we are excited by the prospect of having access to a more robust consolidated platform. The opportunity to simplify management, gain a full view of our endpoint infrastructure, automate processes, and ensure that we remain secure, compliant, and resilient against attacks, threats, and incidents is definitely compelling.” The new modules are available now in the Resilience, Resilience for Security, and Resilience for Automation editions.

Absolute Security, the pioneer in enterprise resilience, has been recognised by renowned industry analyst organisation - Forrester among Notable Vendors in its recent report: The Zero Trust Edge Solutions Landscape, Q4 2024. This recent report helps organisations understand the main trends, challenges, and benefits driving ZTE adoption, along with providers that deliver on a range of use cases. Zero Trust edge (ZTE) solutions Authored by Forrester Principal Analyst - Andre Kindness, the report states, "You can use Zero Trust edge (ZTE) solutions to increase the productivity and security of your remote workforce; improve business reliability and enable digital initiatives; and optimise operations and match business speed." "System failures, shutdowns, and periods of lost productivity are all increasing due to the growing challenges of hybrid work, rising complexity, cyber threats, and subpar user experiences," said John Herrema, Chief Product Officer, of Absolute Security. Optimised user experience John Herrema adds, "We are honoured to be included in this report. For us, it validates our ability to help enterprises remain defended and resilient against ransomware and other threats, stay protected against risk, and ensure uninterrupted connectivity along with an optimised user experience." In addition to defining ZTE and highlighting the benefits it provides, the report also outlines "core" and "extended" ZTE use cases; mapping identified vendors to those they address. Absolute self-reported the extended use cases of "end-to-end control," "providing Zero Trust access to applications," and "detecting and preventing unauthorised access to data" as the top three use cases for which clients select them.