Non-human identities are changing the nature of cybersecurity; Keeper Security CEO Darren Guccione talks about the mindset necessary to manage them while JPMorgan Chase Bank  in Germany puts the world’s largest bank into direct competition with neobanks and rate-led digital savings providers. And a new study,  IoT Device Management Market (2022-2032), from Allied Market Research says the global IoT device management market is expected to grow from $2.2 billion in 2022 to $29.5 billion by 2032.

Q&A: Keeper CEO Darren Guccione Discusses AI, Non-Human Identities, and the Future of Enterprise Security

AI agents and non-human identities are proliferating at a head-spinning pace. To say they’re reshaping the cybersecurity landscape is nothing short of an understatement. And traditional security models just can’t keep up—because they don't know how to. They were built around human users, but organizations are now facing an explosion of machine identities, AI agents, workloads, and automated processes that require the same level of governance, monitoring, and control. At the same time, AI has wrought changes to how organizations operate, forcing leaders to rethink productivity, workforce enablement, process design, and security architecture. Tech-Channels sat down with Darren Guccione, CEO and cofounder at Keeper Security, at InfoSec Europe, where he presented a keynote address, to explore the rise of non-human identities (NHIs), the challenges organizations face in managing them, the accelerating impact of AI on enterprise operations, and the strategic mindset required to navigate a rapidly changing technology landscape.

JPMorgan Chase Bank Goes Live in Germany with Rate-led Play for Deposits

JPMorgan Chase Bank went live in Germany last month, putting the world’s largest bank into direct competition with neobanks and rate-led digital savings providers. The mobile app and website became available on the same day, making Germany Chase’s second European market after the UK. JPMorgan’s move is strategically revealing as well as daring. Ultimately, it’s a test of whether scale, funding power, and brand trust can outperform the faster, leaner operating model that has long defined digital banking challengers. It’s also notable that Germany isn’t just Europe’s largest economy, but also one of the most crowded banking markets in the region. Chase’s own launch announcement introduced the opening offer of a fee-free digital savings account paying 4% a year for the first four months, after which a variable base of 2% applies. The company is also pitching its app-led experience with personal customer support and positioning the account as a simple, mobile-first entry point rather than a full-service current account on day one.

From $2.2 Billion To $29.5 Billion: Why IoT Device Management Is Becoming Enterprise Infrastructure

The global IoT device management market is expected to grow from $2.2 billion in 2022 to $29.5 billion by 2032, representing a compound annual growth rate of 30.2%, according to a new study, IoT Device Management Market (2022-2032), from Allied Market Research. Across industries, organizations are deploying thousands, and increasingly millions, of connected assets that generate data, automate processes, support operational decisions, and form part of critical business infrastructure. Device management platforms handle the operational layer by helping teams provision devices remotely, monitor health, diagnose faults, deploy firmware updates, manage access, and enforce security policies across distributed fleets. Without that structure, IoT estates become difficult to govern and expensive to maintain.

30,515 Exposed Databases Reveal Ransomware’s Underground Economy

Ransomware usually gets attention when a major company is hit, systems freeze, data appears on a leak site, and executives face a public crisis. But the reality is that one of the largest ransomware economies operates with far less theatre, living in exposed databases, automated scans, recycled ransom notes, and small bitcoin demands dropped into live systems at industrial speed. A five-year study by the Ransomnews Research Team (2026) demonstrates the scale of this market. Between May 2021 and 13 May 2026, researchers tracked 65,907 exposed systems across MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and HTTP-based admin panels. They found ransom or wipe notes inside 30,515 of them, equal to 46.3% of the exposed databases reviewed. Based on pre-attack row counts, the compromised databases contained more than 215 billion records. Some were copied. Some were deleted. Some were used as leverage.

Google’s AI Push: Gemini Gets Faster, Agents Get Personal, and Omni Moves into the Physical World

Google’s latest announcements show it is trying to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic while embedding AI more deeply into Search, YouTube, the Gemini app, and the wider Google product suite. The company announced the next version of Gemini, a new personal AI agent called Gemini Spark, and unveiled Omni, a world model designed to simulate physical environments and predict what happens next based on user actions. The centerpiece of the announcement was Gemini 3.5 Flash, a lighter-weight model that Google says offers cutting-edge capabilities at a much lower cost than comparable frontier models. CEO Sundar Pichai described it as “remarkably fast,” and the company said it will become the default model for the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search globally.