Login

Promote Your Company       |     Contact

Independent Cyber News.

From Our Contributors

No results found.
No results found.
More From our Contributors

In The News

No results found.
No results found.
More News

Podcasts

Newest Episode

Episode 373 Deep Dive: Pete Harteveld | The Digital Insider – Why Your AI Agents Are the Threat You Didn’t Hire
byKBI.Media

Pete Harteveld was appointed CEO of Exabeam in October 2025 and most recently served as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.  He has more than two decades of leadership experience having built a reputation for scaling revenue and building high-performing global teams across the cybersecurity and technology sectors.

Pete played a pivotal role in uniting Exabeam and LogRhythm in 2024, leveraging his deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions to drive a seamless integration and maximise stakeholder value. His earlier career included leadership roles at Aryaka, Veracode, Compuware, and Deloitte, where he guided complex integrations, redefined go-to-market strategies, and delivered measurable impact for customers and partners alike.

At Exabeam, Harteveld is focused on advancing the mission to secure the world from cyberthreats. His leadership centers on empowering customers with cutting-edge solutions, fostering innovation that drives business outcomes, and cultivating a culture of excellence that inspires teams to achieve their best.

Search Results placeholder
No results found.

KBKast - Recent Episodes

No results found.
No results found.
KBKast Archives

Destination Cyber

No results found.
DC Archives

KBI.FM

No results found.
KBI.FM Network

Atmos SPHERE 2026

Watch Recaps

Start-Up Spotlight

No results found.

Recent Interviews

No results found.

Top Stories

AI in Defence – a Partner, Not a Quick Fix

AI in Defence – a Partner, Not a Quick Fix

By Pamela Hornilla | Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Security Operations
​AI has been making waves for years now. It has moved from the pages of science fiction into the control rooms of our defence and security agencies and critical infrastructures, watching over networks and inspecting traffic. Why wouldn’t it be when it promises to work faster than humans and spot the tiniest anomaly possible? For defence and cybersecurity, where every second counts, this is a tempting offer. The Transition to AI The push toward AI stems from the needs and demands of the cybersecurity space. Threats are now multiplying at a rate ...
Read More
No results found.

Business News ↓

News & Insights - Business

Work & Careers

Harnessing OSINT for Competitive and Cyber Advantage

Every organisation sits atop a vast field of open information: public records, digital footprints, market signals and the endless churn of online discourse. The challenge isn’t access anymore, but discernment. Those who can turn open data into strategic foresight hold an undeniable advantage. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a capability that redefines how organisations perceive risk and opportunity. When...
Read More

Rehumanizing Work With AI: Introducing the Human Capital Financial Statement

Introduction While most investors would agree that AI presents the opportunity of a lifetime, the journey will vary greatly from one organization to the next despite having access to the same technology. Too many of these organizations view AI as simply a replacement strategy versus an opportunity to redesign work around uniquely human capabilities. The most valuable companies of the next decade will not be those...
Read More

The Expanding Digital Attack Surface: Visibility Is Your New Superpower

Digital transformation is delivering extraordinary opportunities but is also creating a security paradox. Every new cloud workload, remote device and third-party tool adds power to the business while quietly enlarging the organisation’s attack surface. The more digital assets you operate, the more potential entry points you hand to attackers. Visibility has become the defining advantage because without a clear view...
Read More

Lessons From the Frontlines of AI Transformation

Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from isolated proofs and concepts to a defining pillar of enterprise strategy. Across Australia, leaders are moving beyond experimentation and into operational deployment, but achieving mixed success. According to the 2025 AI Deployment & Governance Survey, “Australians have embraced AI enthusiastically, yet 88% struggle to integrate generative AI into legacy systems,...
Read More

Data Sovereignty in a Borderless World: Rethinking Compliance & Cloud Strategy

Global enterprises are under mounting pressure to rethink how and where they manage data. Cross-border transfers, cloud adoption and shifting regulatory regimes elevates data sovereignty from a niche legal concern into a boardroom priority. Australia’s cloud-native shift is now embedded across banking, health and the public sector, and it’s unfolding under sharper scrutiny. Breach reporting under the Notifiable...
Read More

Quantum Security in the Router: QKD Without Additional Hardware

No quantum computer exists today that can break modern encryption. Yet the pressure on enterprises and government agencies to future-proof their cryptography for a potential post-quantum era is mounting. The reason: no one knows exactly when "Q-Day" will arrive, i.e. the point at which a sufficiently powerful quantum computer can crack classical public-key schemes such as RSA or elliptic curve cryptography. Current...
Read More

Australia’s Cyber Posture Needs More Than an Update

Introduction Australia’s cybersecurity industry has long operated on the assumption that better tools mean less vulnerability. Better threat detection, better endpoint protection, better monitoring. Yet, every year, the threat landscape widens faster than our defences can account for. Recent issues emerging from the rapid adoption of AI tools have offered an uncomfortable reminder of just how exposed organisations...
Read More

How Mythos Reshapes the Cyber Threat Landscape

The emergence of ‘Mythos’ is rapidly becoming one of the most discussed developments in cyber security circles, and for good reason. Positioned as a powerful new AI-driven capability, Mythos is less a conventional tool and more an accelerator of cyber offence, dramatically increasing the speed at which vulnerabilities can be discovered, chained together, and exploited. Mythos does not fundamentally invent new forms...
Read More

Cybersecurity Leaders Struggle to Turn Data Into Boardroom Decisions

Cybersecurity leaders are sitting on more data than ever, yet many organisations remain unable to translate it into decisions that resonate at board level. The core issue is not data scarcity, but the difficulty of converting technical signals into meaningful assessments of business risk. Security teams can track alerts, incidents, throughput, and response times in detail, yet still struggle to explain what those...
Read More

Defend the Next Cyberattack at Unprecedented Speed. Be IT a Human or an AI

The next cyberattack could be human, or a human engineering an AI from the outside, or an AI engineered from the inside. It could be a zero-day attack or a known weakness that was never mitigated. It could be a cyberattack, a collective, a lone warrior, or a disgruntled employee. It does not matter. What really matters is whether you were ready to face this onslaught. Or did you assume you would not be attacked, or...
Read More

Fragile or Future-ready? The Decisions Shaping Australia’s AI Ambitions

Introduction Senior data leaders are being asked to navigate a level of complexity that feels new, even by recent standards. Across Australia, organisations are under pressure to turn AI ambition into real outcomes, often while working with fragile data foundations that were never designed for this level of demand. Other factors compound that pressure. Economic conditions remain uncertain, budgets are under...
Read More

Why the Illusion of Control Is Failing Australian Identity Security Programmes

Most Australian enterprises believe they have identity security under control. Frameworks are in place, policies are documented, and zero trust strategies feature prominently in boardroom presentations and annual reports. On paper, it looks robust. In practice, many organisations are running identity controls that were designed for a world that no longer exists. Over the past few years, the industry has rightly...
Read More

Beyond ‘Vibe Coding’: Securing AI-Generated Software Requires a Risk-First Strategy

Introduction The era of "vibe coding" is officially here, and Asia Pacific is central to this trend, already hosting a rising number of vibe coding start-ups. AI coding has accelerated software delivery to a breakneck pace, but this velocity has come with a steep security tax. While the industry is enamoured with the speed of delivery, those of us in the trenches of Application Security (AppSec) are seeing a...
Read More

Why Businesses Must Rethink Security in a Fragmented Digital Era

Introduction During the past decade, one lesson has become unmistakably clear for enterprise leaders: security begins and ends with identity. As organisations continue to digitise operations, shift workloads to the cloud, and experiment with AI-driven automation, identity has emerged as both the gateway to productivity and the weakest link in cyber defence. What was once a relatively contained environment of...
Read More

Don’t Get Caught out by the Illusion of Control. Why Static Security Is Failing Australian Enterprises

Why the Illusion of Control Is Failing Australian Identity Security Programmes Most Australian enterprises believe they have identity security under control. Frameworks are in place, policies are documented, and zero trust strategies feature prominently in boardroom presentations and annual reports. On paper, it looks robust. In practice, many organisations are running identity controls that were designed for a...
Read More

How CTEM Is Reshaping Cyber Defence in a Volatile World

As geopolitical tensions continue to ripple across global markets, cyber activity is following a predictable and increasingly dangerous pattern. Spikes in scanning, probing, and exploitation attempts often occur within hours of international instability, placing organisations far beyond the immediate region at heightened risk. Yet, despite this, many businesses remain slow to adapt their security posture in real...
Read More
No results found.
Explore Work & Careers

Secure Communications

No results found.

Continuous Business

No results found.

Compliance & Legal

Streamlining Cyber Operations

Streamlining Cyber Operations

Introduction As businesses scale and digital ecosystems grow more and more complex, security teams face increasing ...
No results found.

Mergers & Acquisitions

No results found.
Explore M&A

Markets & Trading

Markets by TradingView
See More

YOUR SECURITY NEWSFEED

The KBI Dossier

The Cybersecurity news feed delivered straight to your Inbox.

Join Free

Technology News ↓

News & Insights - Technology

Harnessing OSINT for Competitive and Cyber Advantage

Every organisation sits atop a vast field of open information: public records, digital footprints, market signals and the endless churn of online discourse. The challenge isn’t access anymore, but discernment. Those who can turn open data into strategic foresight hold an undeniable advantage. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a capability that redefines how organisations perceive risk and opportunity. When...
Read More

AI Agents Are Becoming Enterprise Attack Surfaces, and Most Organisations Aren’t Ready

Introduction Recent developments in agent-based AI frameworks such as OpenClaw have accelerated the shift from AI as a tool to AI as an autonomous operator inside enterprise environments, capable of executing workflows, interacting with enterprise systems and making decisions with minimal human intervention. At the same time, the recent emergence of platforms such as NVIDIA’s NemoClaw, designed to introduce...
Read More

Rehumanizing Work With AI: Introducing the Human Capital Financial Statement

Introduction While most investors would agree that AI presents the opportunity of a lifetime, the journey will vary greatly from one organization to the next despite having access to the same technology. Too many of these organizations view AI as simply a replacement strategy versus an opportunity to redesign work around uniquely human capabilities. The most valuable companies of the next decade will not be those...
Read More

The Expanding Digital Attack Surface: Visibility Is Your New Superpower

Digital transformation is delivering extraordinary opportunities but is also creating a security paradox. Every new cloud workload, remote device and third-party tool adds power to the business while quietly enlarging the organisation’s attack surface. The more digital assets you operate, the more potential entry points you hand to attackers. Visibility has become the defining advantage because without a clear view...
Read More
No results found.
More in Technology

Artificial Intelligence

No results found.

Identity & Access Management

No results found.

Application Security

World Cloud Security Day

World Cloud Security Day

This World Cloud Security Day, the message is clear for Australian organisations: security and resilience must be embedded ...
No results found.

Data Security

No results found.

Microsegmentation

No results found.

Physical Security

No results found.

Security Operations

No results found.

OT Security

No results found.

Exposure Management

No results found.