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TheStreet aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.Why we love this dealThe arrival of warmer weather also marks the return of outdoor gatherings, from neighborhood barbecues and picnics in the park to backyard movie nights and refreshing dips in the pool. The sunshine and good company already create a pleasant atmosphere, but to really get the party going, you’ll need some killer tunes. The perfect playlist and background music can instantly elevate any occasion. All you need to make this happen is a portable speaker, and more importantly, one that’s built to withstand the outdoor elements and deliver premium sound. Designed for massive sound output, the JBL Boombox 3 is a popular pick for its durable and waterproof design, next-level acoustics, and its ability to fill an entire room with rich audio. This premium build and top-notch engineering are reflected in the original price tag of $500, but as part of Amazon’s annual Big Spring Sale, the top-rated audio device is 40% off, bringing the total price down to just $300. This $200 savings is only available until tonight, Tuesday, March 31, at 11:59 p.m. PDT, when the savings event ends.JBL Boombox 3, $300 (was $500) at Amazon

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Shop at AmazonSolid black is a classic, but this wireless Bluetooth speaker also comes in a unique camouflage print, which is also on sale during this seasonal event. This nature-inspired design is ideal for those who want an audio device that stands out — or blends in, depending on how you look at it.JBL Boombox 3, $300 (was $500) at Amazon

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Shop at AmazonWhy do shoppers love it?Large enough to carry on your shoulder, this highly rated portable speaker has a nostalgic vibe that’s reminiscent of the boomboxes first made popular in the 1990s. The sound and quality, however, have been advanced for the modern day. Equipped with a three-way speaker design, the acoustic output is sharp, clear, and rich, delivering monstrous bass with lowered distortion, even if you crank the volume up to max. “The sound quality is crystal clear with deep, powerful bass that easily fills any room or outdoor space,” raved one shopper. They continued to praise the speaker, adding, “It delivers the kind of sound you would expect from a much larger system, all in a portable design.”It’s not just the incredible sound that’s made this bestselling wireless Bluetooth speaker so highly rated. It boasts an IP67 dustproof and waterproof rating, which means it’s airtight against dust and can even be submerged in a few feet of water for up to 30 minutes without sustaining damage. This waterproof design makes the portable speaker a trusted companion at pool parties, lake trips, and beach days, or when it rains. It also comes built with a large-capacity battery, which can keep the tunes going up to 24 hours on a single charge. Related: Walmart is selling $180 noise-canceling headphones with 100 hours of playback time for $29″The sound quality for this speaker was absolutely superb,” one shopper said in praise of the device. They also noted that the speaker has a “long battery life too, it’s easy to clean (I left it outside in the grass), and it connects very quickly.”Details to know Size: The large portable speaker measures 7.9 inches deep, 19 inches wide, and 10.1 inches high.Color options: Black or Camouflage.Is it waterproof?: Yes.Allowing you to pair multiple speakers, this device comes with JBL’s PartyBoost technology. That means you can create stereo sound and link other JBL PartyBoost-compatible speakers together for even more audio immersion.Shop more dealsSoundcore Boom 2 By Anker Outdoor Speaker, $90 (was $140) at AmazonJBL Boombox 4, $450 (was $550) at AmazonMarshall Stanmore III Bluetooth Home Speaker, $300 (was $400) at AmazonDon’t miss your chance to score the JBL Boombox 3 for just $300 at Amazon. The retailer’s Big Spring Sale ends tonight, and this incredible deal on the top-rated portable speaker will end with it.

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz highlighted in his RSA Conference 2026 keynote that the fastest recorded adversary breakout time has dropped to 27 seconds. The average is now 29 minutes, down from 48 minutes in 2024. That is how much time defenders have before a threat spreads. Now CrowdStrike sensors detect more than 1,800 distinct AI applications running on enterprise endpoints, representing nearly 160 million unique application instances. Every one generates detection events, identity events, and data access logs flowing into SIEM systems architected for human-speed workflows.Cisco found that 85% of surveyed enterprise customers have AI agent pilots underway. Only 5% moved agents into production, according to Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel in his RSAC blog post. That 80-point gap exists because security teams cannot answer the basic questions agents force. Which agents are running, what are they authorized to do, and who is accountable when one goes wrong.“The number one threat is security complexity. But we’re running towards that direction in AI as well,” Etay Maor, VP of Threat Intelligence at Cato Networks, told VentureBeat at RSAC 2026. Maor has attended the conference for 16 consecutive years. “We’re going with multiple point solutions for AI. And now you’re creating the next wave of security complexity.”Agents look identical to humans in your logs In most default logging configurations, agent-initiated activity looks identical to human-initiated activity in security logs. “It looks indistinguishable if an agent runs Louis’s web browser versus if Louis runs his browser,” Elia Zaitsev, CTO of CrowdStrike, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview at RSAC 2026. Distinguishing the two requires walking the process tree. “I can actually walk up that process tree and say, this Chrome process was launched by Louis from the desktop. This Chrome process was launched from Louis’s cloud Cowork or ChatGPT application. Thus, it’s agentically controlled.”Without that depth of endpoint visibility, a compromised agent executing a sanctioned API call with valid credentials fires zero alerts. The exploit surface is already being tested. During his keynote, Kurtz described ClawHavoc, the first major supply chain attack on an AI agent ecosystem, targeting ClawHub, OpenClaw’s public skills registry. Koi Security’s February audit found 341 malicious skills out of 2,857; a follow-up analysis by Antiy CERT identified 1,184 compromised packages historically across the platform. Kurtz noted ClawHub now hosts 13,000 skills in its registry. The infected skills contained backdoors, reverse shells, and credential harvesters; Kurtz said in his keynote that some erased their own memory after installation and could remain latent before activating. “The frontier AI creators will not secure itself,” Kurtz said. “The frontier labs are following the same playbook. They’re building it. They’re not securing it.”Two agentic SOC architectures, one shared blind spotApproach A: AI agents inside the SIEM. Cisco and Splunk announced six specialized AI agents for Splunk Enterprise Security: Detection Builder, Triage, Guided Response, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Malware Threat Reversing, and Automation Builder. Malware Threat Reversing is currently available in Splunk Attack Analyzer and Detection Studio is generally available as a unified workspace; the remaining five agents are in alpha or prerelease through June 2026. Exposure Analytics and Federated Search follow the same timeline. Upstream of the SOC, Cisco’s DefenseClaw framework scans OpenClaw skills and MCP servers before deployment, while new Duo IAM capabilities extend zero trust to agents with verified identities and time-bound permissions.“The biggest impediment to scaled adoption in enterprises for business-critical tasks is establishing a sufficient amount of trust,” Patel told VentureBeat. “Delegating and trusted delegating, the difference between those two, one leads to bankruptcy. The other leads to market dominance.”Approach B: Upstream pipeline detection. CrowdStrike pushed analytics into the data ingestion pipeline itself, integrating its Onum acquisition natively into Falcon’s ingestion system for real-time analytics, detection, and enrichment before events reach the analyst’s queue. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM now ingests Microsoft Defender for Endpoint telemetry natively, so Defender shops do not need additional sensors. CrowdStrike also introduced federated search across third-party data stores and a Query Translation Agent that converts legacy Splunk queries to accelerate SIEM migration.Falcon Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise applies cross-domain data loss prevention to data agents’ access at runtime. CrowdStrike’s adversary-informed cloud risk prioritization connects agent activity in cloud workloads to the same detection pipeline. Agentic MDR through Falcon Complete adds machine-speed managed detection for teams that cannot build the capability internally.“The agentic SOC is all about, how do we keep up?” Zaitsev said. “There’s almost no conceivable way they can do it if they don’t have their own agentic assistance.”CrowdStrike opened its platform to external AI providers through Charlotte AI AgentWorks, announced at RSAC 2026, letting customers build custom security agents on Falcon using frontier AI models. Launch partners include Accenture, Anthropic, AWS, Deloitte, Kroll, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Salesforce, and Telefónica Tech. IBM validated buyer demand through a collaboration integrating Charlotte AI with its Autonomous Threat Operations Machine for coordinated, machine-speed investigation and containment.The ecosystem contenders. Palo Alto Networks, in an exclusive pre-RSAC briefing with VentureBeat, outlined Prisma AIRS 3.0, extending its AI security platform to agents with artifact scanning, agent red teaming, and a runtime that catches memory poisoning and excessive permissions. The company introduced an agentic identity provider for agent discovery and credential validation. Once Palo Alto Networks closes its proposed acquisition of Koi, the company adds agentic endpoint security. Cortex delivers agentic security orchestration across its customer base.Intel announced that CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform is being optimized for Intel-powered AI PCs, leveraging neural processing units and silicon-level telemetry to detect agent behavior on the device. Kurtz framed AIDR, AI Detection and Response, as the next category beyond EDR, tracking agent-speed activity across endpoints, SaaS, cloud, and AI pipelines. He said that “humans are going to have 90 agents that work for them on average” as adoption scales but did not specify a timeline.The gap no vendor closedWhat security leaders needApproach A: agents inside the SIEM (Cisco/Splunk)Approach B: upstream pipeline detection (CrowdStrike)Gap neither closesTriage at agent volumeSix AI agents handle triage, detection, and response inside Splunk ESOnum-powered pipeline detects and enriches threats before the analyst sees themNeither baselines normal agent behavior before flagging anomaliesAgent vs. human differentiationDuo IAM tracks agent identities but does not differentiate agent from human activity in SOC telemetryProcess tree lineage distinguishes at runtime. AIDR extends to agent-specific detectionNo vendor’s announced capabilities include an out-of-the-box agent behavioral baseline27-second response windowGuided Response Agent executes containment at machine speedIn-pipeline detection reduces queue volume. Agentic MDR adds managed responseHuman-in-the-loop governance has not been reconciled with machine-speed response in either approachLegacy SIEM portabilityNative Splunk integration preserves existing workflowsQuery Translation Agent converts Splunk queries. Native Defender ingestion lets Microsoft shops migrateNeither addresses teams running multiple SIEMs during migrationAgent supply chainDefenseClaw scans skills and MCP servers pre-deployment. Explorer Edition red-teams agentsEDR AI Runtime Protection catches compromised skills post-deployment. Charlotte AI AgentWorks enables custom agentsNeither covers the full lifecycle. Pre-deployment scanning misses runtime exploits and vice versaThe matrix makes one thing visible that the keynotes did not. No vendor shipped an agent behavioral baseline. Both approaches automate triage and accelerate detection. Based on VentureBeat’s review of announced capabilities, neither defines what normal agent behavior looks like in a given enterprise environment.Teams running Microsoft Sentinel and Copilot for Security represent a third architecture not formally announced as a competing approach at RSAC this week, but CISOs in Microsoft-heavy environments need to test whether Sentinel’s native agent telemetry ingestion and Copilot’s automated triage close the same gaps identified above.Maor cautioned that the vendor response recycles a pattern he has tracked for 16 years. “I hope we don’t have to go through this whole cycle,” he told VentureBeat. “I hope we learned from the past. It doesn’t really look like it.”Zaitsev’s advice was blunt. “You already know what to do. You’ve known what to do for five, ten, fifteen years. It’s time to finally go do it.”Five things to do Monday morning These steps apply regardless of your SOC platform. None requires ripping and replacing current tools. Start with visibility, then layer in controls as agent volume grows. Inventory every agent on your endpoints. CrowdStrike detects 1,800 AI applications across enterprise devices. Cisco’s Duo Identity Intelligence discovers agentic identities. Palo Alto Networks’ agentic IDP catalogs agents and maps them to human owners. If you run a different platform, start with an EDR query for known agent directories and binaries. You cannot set policy for agents you do not know exist.Determine whether your SOC stack can differentiate agent from human activity. CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor and AIDR do this through process tree lineage. Palo Alto Networks’ agent runtime catches memory poisoning at execution. If your tools cannot make this distinction, your triage rules are applying the wrong behavioral models.Match the architectural approach to your current SIEM. Splunk shops gain agent capabilities through Approach A. Teams evaluating migration get pipeline detection with Splunk query translation and native Defender ingestion through Approach B. Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex delivers a third option. Teams on Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle, Elastic, or other platforms should evaluate whether their SIEM can ingest agent-specific telemetry at this volume.Build an agent behavioral baseline before your next board meeting. No vendor ships one. Define what your agents are authorized to do: which APIs, which data stores, which actions, at which times. Create detection rules for anything outside that scope.Pressure-test your agent supply chain. Cisco’s DefenseClaw and Explorer Edition scan and red-team agents before deployment. CrowdStrike’s runtime detection catches compromised agents post-deployment. Both layers are necessary. Kurtz said in his keynote that ClawHavoc compromised over a thousand ClawHub skills with malware that erased its own memory after installation. If your playbook does not account for an authorized agent executing unauthorized actions at machine speed, rewrite it.The SOC was built to protect humans using machines. It now protects machines using machines. The response window shrank from 48 minutes to 27 seconds. Any agent generating an alert is now a suspect, not just a sensor. The decisions security leaders make in the next 90 days will determine whether their SOC operates in this new reality or gets buried under it.

TheStreet aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.This site is part of an affiliate sales network and receives compensation for sending traffic to partner sites, such as Bankrate.com. This may impact how and where links appear on this site. This site does not include all financial companies orall available financial offers. Business owners know better than most that running a company involves spending a lot of money — sometimes unexpectedly. Between things like stocking up on supplies, entertaining clients at restaurants, and traveling for conferences, spending can quickly exceed what’s been budgeted for. That’s why choosing a business credit card that offers cash or points back on the things you buy the most is so crucial to minimizing the impact of expenses on your business’s bottom line. Here, we highlight three cards that offer competitive rewards to the businesses that use them for expenses like travel, dining, and supplies. Using cards like these, you can make your business expenses work for you all year round — not just during tax season. Capital One Venture X BusinessFor $395 — a relatively low annual fee in the business credit card space — the Capital One Venture X Business card offers a lot of value, especially to companies that consider travel one of their primary expense categories. The rewardsUnsurprisingly, the Venture X Business card is set up to keep users in the Capital One Business Travel ecosystem, offering 10x miles on hotel and rental car purchases and 5x miles on flights, if booked through Capital One Business Travel using the card. Other purchases earn 2x miles with no annual cap. So long as your account remains open, these miles do not expire.The welcome offerThe Venture X Business card’s welcome bonus is pretty generous, but it requires what could be considered a somewhat hefty up-front spend, depending on how large your business is. New cardholders must spend $30K in the first 3 months in order to earn a 150,000-mile welcome bonus. Miles are worth about 1 cent each when redeemed for travel booked through Capital One Business Travel or as statement credits to cover eligible travel expenses. In other words, this bonus amounts to $1,500 in travel money (well over three times the card’s annual fee). Miles are also transferable to over 15 other travel loyalty programs.Additional perks & considerationsThis card covers the cost of a TSA PreCheck or Global Entry application (up to $120 in the form of a statement credit once every 4 years) if you pay for the application with this card. This card grants its holder access to Capital One’s network of over 1,300 airport lounges worldwide. Cardholders receive a $300 credit annually toward travel booked through Capital One Business Travel. This card’s balance must be paid in full each month, so it doesn’t have a stated APR. The takeawayAs mentioned above, this card’s rewards system is designed to keep its users booking through Capital One’s travel portal, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. For busy business owners who travel frequently, using one portal to book travel rather than comparing prices across vendors has its perks.  For travel-forward businesses, the savings and rewards that come with this card vastly outweigh the $395 annual fee, especially if you plan to take advantage of the Pre Check and use your $300 travel credit. Before applying for this card, it’s important to be sure that your business’s cash flow is sufficient for you to pay off your full balance each month—something this card requires. American Express® Business Gold CardThe American Express® Business Gold Card is another travel-oriented option with a similar annual fee ($375) and a hefty welcome offer that jetsetting business owners would do well to consider. The rewardsThe Business Gold Card’s rewards system is pretty robust. Cardholders earn 4x Membership Rewards Points (equivalent to about one cent a piece) on their top two eligible categories (category options include advertising, restaurants, certain physical and digital tech purchases, non-air transit, and cell phone service). Top categories can change month to month, making the rewards flexible, but the 4x points do max out at $150,000 per year (after that, purchases earn 1x points). For airfare and hotels, the card offers 3x points for prepaid bookings through AmexTravel.com. All other eligible purchases earn 1x points. So, for businesses that book a lot of travel (and have high expenses in one or more of the 4x categories), rewards can stack up fast. Points can be redeemed at AmexTravel.com or via partner airline or hotel loyalty plans (popular options include Delta, Hilton, and Marriott Bonvoy) or redeemed as a statement credit, usually at a lower rate (i.e., less than one cent per point). The welcome offerThe Business Gold Card’s welcome offer, in some cases, is a little better than that of the Capital One Venture X Business card discussed above. After approval, new cardholders can receive as high as 200,000 Membership Rewards Points (valued at about $2,000) after spending $15,000 in the first three months (half of the spend required to earn the Venture X Business card’s 150,000 miles). But there is some fine print here — not all applicants are offered the maximum welcome amount, so you do have to submit to a credit check before you find out the size of your actual welcome offer, and some applicants may be approved without being eligible for a points offer at all. Additional perks & considerationsCardholders are also eligible to earn a Flexible Business Credit of up to $240 annually (up to $20 per month) in statement credits for eligible purchases at FedEx, GrubHub, and office supply stores. Enrollment is required, so don’t forget to select this offer after approval. Businesses that use their Business Gold card to pay for a Walmart+ membership are reimbursed for their $12.95 membership fee (plus tax where applicable) each month in statement credits.This card does not require its balance to be paid in full each month, so any remaining balance is subject to a variable APR.  The takeawayThe Gusiness Gold card, like the Venture X Business card, encourages businesses to book their travel through the company’s travel portal, but again, this isn’t the end of the world. What really sets this card apart is the flexible 4x points on your top two spending categories each month. The fact that these categories can change monthly based on what your company happens to be spending the most on is also a great feature — you don’t have to lock in your two favorite categories ahead of time. Like the Venture X Business card, the value that comes from the Business Gold card far outweighs the annual fee, especially if you make use of the Flexible Business Credit and the free Walmart+ membership credit.Again, however, it’s important to note that if the welcome offer is what draws you to this card, it is not guaranteed to all approved applicants, and it may not be as high as the 200,000-point maximum.American Express Business Platinum® CardThis next card, The Business Platinum Card® from American Express, is designed for larger companies — bigger spenders who want to earn more points on larger purchases. As such, it comes with a higher price tag than the previous two options, at $895 per year. The rewardsThis card doesn’t offer the 4x points on flexible categories like its Gold sibling does, but its travel rewards are higher. Cardholders earn 5x points on prepaid hotels and flights booked through AmexTravel with no cap on points earned in this category. Cardholders also earn 2x points back on up to $2,000,000 per year spent in “key business categories,” which include construction materials and hardware from U.S. sellers, electronic goods, software, cloud systems, shipping providers, and any eligible purchases of $5,000 or more. Max out the $2 million spend in these categories over the year, and you’re earning 4 million points worth around $40,000. Rewards can be redeemed at AmexTravel or any of its travel partners, or as a statement credit (usually at a lower rate).The welcome offer The Platinum Business card ups the ante of the Gold, offering applicants as high as 300,000 Membership Rewards Points (worth around $3,000) after a $20,000 minimum spend over the first three months. Like with the Gold card, however, this maximum is not guaranteed and varies in size depending on applicant details. Additional perks & considerationsCardholders receive up to a $600 per year hotel credit (in the form of an up to $300 statement credit twice a year) on prepaid bookings of two or more nights at eligible hotels booked through Amex Travel. Cardholders get access to Centurion Lounges, up to 10 complimentary visits annually to Delta lounges when flying Delta, and a free Priority Pass Select membership (enrollment required), which offers access to a network of more than 1,550 travel lounges worldwide. Cardholders can receive up to $200 annually in statement credits to reimburse incidental fees charged by one airline of the cardholder’s choice. Cardholders can be reimbursed via statement credits for an auto-renewing CLEAR® Plus membership ($209 per year). Terms apply to American Express benefits and offers. Enrollment may be required for select American Express benefits and offers. Visit americanexpress.com to learn more.

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