New high school course builds foundational skills for college, careers, and service as states connect cybersecurity education to national security needs

NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cyber threats reach into everyday life, from scams that steal families’ savings to attacks on utilities and other essential services. Helping students understand and respond to those threats can open doors to further education, employment, and national defense service. College Board’s new AP Cybersecurity course, which was launched in high schools this fall, gives students a place to begin.

In 2025, U.S. employers posted more than half a million job listings requiring cybersecurity skills. Yet many students have little opportunity to learn about cybersecurity in high school or see where those skills could take them.

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AP Cybersecurity introduces students to the work behind that demand: protecting the systems people depend on. Through practical scenarios, students assess security weaknesses, weigh risks, and investigate evidence of attacks. An assignment might ask them to evaluate threats to internet-connected farm equipment or recommend protections for computer networks aboard a naval submarine.

These assignments help students see how cybersecurity skills apply across industries and in national defense. Indiana offers an example of how those connections can take shape. The statewide Cybersecurity Partnership brings together high schools, colleges, employers, and the Indiana National Guard to help students explore routes into further education, employment, and military service.

The course and partnerships like Indiana’s address two connected needs: giving students an introduction to cybersecurity and helping them understand where continued learning could lead. For students, that connection gives classroom assignments a larger purpose. Investigating a security weakness today can be a first step toward learning how to protect a hospital, secure a business, or defend the country.

Interested in learning more? Talk to your school district or high school to see if they are offering AP Cybersecurity or visit collegeboard.org

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Leaders from Alkami and Thomaston Savings Bank will discuss how financial institutions can use predictive AI and behavioral signals to drive strategic growth and strengthen account holder relationships

PLANO, Texas, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT) (“Alkami”), a digital sales and service platform provider for financial institutions in the U.S., today announced an upcoming webinar hosted with Thomaston Savings Bank, “Guess Less and Grow More with Predictive AI.” The webinar will take place Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 2 p.m. ET.

As account holders increasingly expect more personalized and proactive experiences, financial institutions have an opportunity to leverage data to deliver tailored guidance during every interaction. According to Alkami research, 44% of Americans who use digital banking wish their primary financial provider did a better job anticipating their financial needs and goals.1

The upcoming webinar will explore how financial institutions can respond to these expectations by using predictive artificial intelligence (AI) to drive growth across deposits and lending while strengthening primary relationships. Speakers will discuss how Alkami’s Data & Marketing Solution uses behavioral insights and predictive AI to help institutions identify growth opportunities and deliver more personalized outreach.

Featured speakers include:

Kent Blacksher, strategic account executive, AlkamiEthan O’Day, business intelligence analyst, Thomaston Savings Bank

“Data helps us understand how customers engage, but the real value comes from understanding what those behaviors may tell us about their needs,” said Ethan O’Day, business intelligence analyst, Thomaston Savings Bank. “Predictive AI can help us focus our outreach sooner and make it more relevant, while our team’s expertise keeps the work grounded in the relationships we have with our customers.”

During the session, attendees will learn how to:

Identify deposit and lending opportunities using behavioral signalsCreate more relevant outreach for customers and membersRecognize engagement and attrition signals earlierSimplify campaign execution and move from insight to actionBuild marketing strategies that support growth and retention

The presentation will explore real examples of how data-activated campaigns drive faster product adoption, along with insights into how predictive AI can help guide your team’s strategy.

“Financial institutions have more data than ever, but data creates value when teams can turn insight into action,” said Kent Blacksher, strategic account executive at Alkami. “Combining predictive AI with human expertise allows marketing teams to skip the guesswork while building stronger account holder relationships.”

To register for the webinar, visit here.

To learn more about Anticipatory Banking and the Alkami Digital Sales & Service Platform, visit here.

About Alkami
Alkami provides a digital sales and service platform for U.S. banks and credit unions. Our unified Platform integrates onboarding, digital banking, and data and marketing—each solution can stand alone, but together they deliver more—to help institutions onboard, engage, and grow relationships. As the future shifts toward Anticipatory Banking, we help data-informed bankers meet the moment with technology that drives action.

1 Alkami Proprietary Research. 2026 Digital Banking Americans Research Study. Online survey of 1,500 U.S. digital banking Americans conducted March 26–April 22, 2026.

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Neo Triage reproduces every scanner, bug bounty and AI-generated finding against the real asset, then sets severity from proven impact

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ProjectDiscovery, a leader in vulnerability detection and autonomous security testing, today announced the general availability of Neo Triage: a new capability in its Neo platform that validates every incoming security finding by safely reproducing it against the live asset. Every verdict comes with the exact requests and responses that prove it, so teams can go straight to fixing what’s real.

Neo Triage gives every team one place to triage findings from every source, including:

Dynamic triage: Runs safe, non-destructive tests from an isolated sandbox to reproduce each finding against the live assetVerdicts with evidence: Marks every finding valid, duplicate, needs more information, informative, not applicable or spam, and attaches the exact requests and responses as proofSeverity from proven impact: Sets severity from the impact Neo proved and from the asset’s context, including the data behind it, how exposed it is and what else it reachesOne queue for every source: Pulls findings from HackerOne, GitHub security advisories, security mailboxes, Wiz, Qualys, Orca and any other tool with an API onto one boardFix and retest: Suggests a fix, drafts a reply to the researcher and retests automatically once the fix shipsInsights: Tracks open backlog, SLA status, time to zero, weekly remediation and the quality of each source

“Today, AI has made finding vulnerabilities cheap, and security teams spend hours reproducing each finding by hand,” said Rishi Sharma, CEO and Co-founder of ProjectDiscovery. “In the next 6-12 months, triage and the bottleneck it causes will be the biggest problem security teams will face. Scanners, AI code review and AI-assisted bug hunting now generate findings faster than teams can review them, leaving most organizations with thousands – or even millions, of open findings. The hard part now is deciding which findings matter, and a score can’t make that decision. Proof can. Neo Triage tests every finding against the real asset and hands the team a verdict with the evidence attached, so teams spend their time on decisions instead of on reproducing reports.”

Manual triage takes anywhere from 15 minutes to four hours per finding. ProjectDiscovery estimates that for a 100,000-finding backlog, Neo Triage turns roughly 50,000 hours of manual work, the equivalent of 25 people for a year, into about 8,300 hours of verdict review. Every Neo tier – including its free, community tier – includes the full Triage product.

Neo itself is free to get started, with monthly usage included and no time limit. Anyone can sign up and run useful workflows immediately, whether that means triaging findings from their own scanners or running a prompt that checks whether they’re exposed to a newly disclosed vulnerability. As their usage grows, teams can move to Pro or Enterprise tiers under zero data retention.

For more information on Neo Triage, visit: https://projectdiscovery.io/blog/introducing-neo-triage 

About ProjectDiscovery

ProjectDiscovery is an open source cybersecurity company that built the security toolchain trusted by more than 100,000 practitioners worldwide. The company created Nuclei, the most widely used open source vulnerability scanner with over 10 billion scans run, along with a suite of modular tools including Subfinder, httpx, and Naabu that security teams use to map attack surfaces and identify exploitable vulnerabilities. Building on that foundation, ProjectDiscovery offers Neo, an AI-powered security testing platform that unifies SAST, DAST, and automated penetration testing to help teams move from finding vulnerabilities to verifying and fixing them. ProjectDiscovery is a winner of the RSAC Innovation Sandbox 2025 and a Black Hat Asia 2025 award recipient. Learn more at projectdiscovery.io.

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