CYBR.SEC.CON 2026 is days away, Chinese intelligence is targeting U.S. security clearance holders, rogue OpenAI agents are finding new places to hide — and cybersecurity burnout still can’t be fixed with pizza.
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Chinese intelligence operatives are using fake consulting firms, job offers and recruiter profiles to target U.S. security clearance holders and other government and defense professionals.
Detection engineering has always been expensive, slow, and dependent on scarce senior talent. AI is changing that resource equation — and giving security teams a way to measure and close coverage gaps that most programs have never been able to quantify.
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Your Security Architecture May Be a Sideways Driveway
Security architecture accumulates “adaptation debt” when local fixes, exceptions and compensating controls force users, systems and now AI agents to work around designs that no longer match how identity, authority and data actually flow.
What Radio Jamming Taught Me About DDoS
From Army signal intelligence and radio jamming to modern DDoS defense, the same lessons in reconnaissance, timing, disruption and adaptation reveal how attackers overwhelm networks — and how defenders can stay ahead.
The Agent Died. The Delegation Didn't.
Once the work can move from agent to agent, killing the agent is no longer the same thing as stopping the work.
Returning Continuity: What AI Is Teaching Us About Cybersecurity
Yesterday's me made a move. Today's me inherits the consequences. Tomorrow's me will inherit a different world again.
The Human Factor in IAM: Why Identity Programs Succeed or Fail
Most IAM failures don't start with a broken platform. They start with a person making a reasonable decision under bad conditions.
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Cybersecurity Burnout Is a Risk Signal. Pizza Parties Won't Fix It.
Veteran CISO Kayla Williams tells CYBR.Minded that overloaded security teams create measurable cyber risk through slower escalation, weaker judgment and missed signals — and CISOs should start tracking the warning signs.
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OpenAI Rogue Agents Exploited the Public Web to Communicate
SentinelLabs found OpenAI AI agents using public wikis, package registries, university services and government sites as unauthorized communication and data-retrieval channels.
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Your Toothbrush Is a Computer. Are You Securing It Like One?
Stephen Cravey’s CYBR.SEC.CON 2026 talk explores the security blind spots inside smart locks, appliances and everyday IoT devices — and why organizations may have little idea what is actually running on them.
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Star Wars, 2600 and a Call to the NSA: Stephen Cravey’s Cybersecurity Origin Story
Before cybersecurity was much of an industry, Stephen Cravey followed his curiosity from Star Wars and BBSs to the NSA’s Rainbow Books — and eventually into a major FBI cybercrime investigation.
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Agentic AI in the SOC: The Gap Between the Haves and the Have-Nots Is Already Widening
Agentic AI is delivering sharper triage, faster investigations, and reduced analyst burnout at the organizations that have committed to production deployment. For everyone else, the gap is compounding, and the security implications are already visible.
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The Four Horsemen of Cybersecurity Failure: Wil Klusovsky Previews CYBR.SEC.CON 2026 Talk
viLogics CRO Wil Klusovsky will bring nearly three decades of cybersecurity experience to CYBR.SEC.CON 2026, examining the recurring mistakes that derail security programs and how leaders can keep them focused on what matters.
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CYBR.SEC.Community, LaunchPoint Collective Partner to Bring Cybersecurity Startups to Houston
LaunchPoint Collective and CYBR.SEC.Community are teaming up to bring 20-plus cybersecurity startups to CYBR.SEC.CON. 2026, connecting emerging security technology with CISOs, practitioners and early adopters.
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Not Another Pizza Party with Kayla Williams
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Dumb IoT Devices with Stephen Cravey
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Shall We Play a Game? Unlocking Mastery in Hacking, Coding, and AI
Marcus Carey demystifies complex disciplines through play, curiosity, and iterative challenge.
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Preparing for the New Identity War: A CCN Podcast Session
Chris Glanden discusses emerging societal, technological, and geopolitical tensions centered on identity and what it means for digital sovereignty, biometric data control, cultural narratives and AI-driven identity manipulation.
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Offensive Forensics: A Useful Addition For Your Offsec Toolbox To Pwn More Things
Cory Mathews introduces “Offensive Forensics,” a mindset and methodology that combines digital forensics techniques with offensive security practices to uncover hidden artifacts, persistence mechanisms, and overlooked attack surfaces during red team engagements and penetration testing.
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Hackers vs. WarGames with Wil Klusovsky
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Ghosts in the Machine - The Therac-25 Affair
Sean Satterlee examines the case of Therac-25, a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine that delivered massive, lethal overdoses to at least six patients in the mid-1980s due to software flaws, poor safety design, and inadequate testing.
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