AI browser bans and the top software flaws of 2025

AI browsers are neat—but are they more trouble than they’re worth? 

In this episode of Security Intelligence, Austin Zeizel, Evelyn Anderson and Ryan Anschutz discuss Gartner’s recent advisory warning organizations to ban AI browsers from the workplace for the time being. Is there anything we can do to make them safe enough to use?

And that leads to a broader conversation about the relationship between AI model providers and the cybersecurity community. In the wake of some high-profile attacks using AI models—like the spy ring Anthropic busted—cybersecurity pros are split on whether AI vendors are pulling their weight in threat intel circles. This one has it all: spam bombing, social engineering and malicious virtual machines.

All that and more on Security Intelligence.  

• 00:00 – Introduction
• 01:14 -- Gartner: No AI browsers at work
• 13:38 -- Should AI vendors share threat intel?
• 23:11 -- MITRE’s top 25 most dangerous software flaws
  
• 33:15 -- Are social logins safe?
• 41:54 -- Bring-your-own-VM attacks

All that and more on Security Intelligence.

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