The Coming Security Vendor Identity Crisis
As AI accelerates product development and cybersecurity categories blur together, security leaders face a growing challenge: figuring out who actually does what anymore. (Sponsored by Crush Security.)
Bill Brenner
The VAR Model Is Broken. Can AI Finally Fix Cybersecurity Procurement?
Security leaders have spent years optimizing detection and response while relying on spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, and reseller relationships to make million-dollar technology decisions. A new generation of AI-powered platforms aims to change that. (Sponsored by Crush Security.)
CYBR.SEC.CAST Episode 69: Crush Security
We are joined by Crush Security co-founders Joshua Jones and Josh Johnson, plus CISO John Barrow. They discuss navigating an increasingly complex vendor ecosystem where tool sprawl, contract complexity, reseller incentives, and budget pressure make buying harder. (Sponsored by Crush Security)
Four YouTube Influencers Decode Microsoft's 'Nightmare Eclipse' Dumpster Fire
This week, we recognize four cybersecurity influencers on YouTube who skillfully unpacked the war between Microsoft and "Nightmare Eclipse."
Agentic AI Is Pushing Zero Trust Into Its Next Phase
Zero Trust was designed to control people and machines. The rise of autonomous AI agents is forcing security teams to extend those same principles to software capable of making decisions and taking action on its own. (Includes infographic)
Building Hackbots: Jason Haddix on Why AI Won't Replace Pentesters, But It Will Change How They Work
At CYBR.HAK.CON, Jason Haddix showed how AI-powered "hackbots" are helping offensive security teams scale reconnaissance, analyze complex applications, and uncover real vulnerabilities, while proving that human expertise remains the deciding factor.
In Appreciation: Dr. Eric Cole
Dr. Eric Cole's cybersecurity accomplishments are legendary, but his willingness to speak openly about burnout is something that particularly resonated with me, as it is something many of us struggle to avoid.
Trust in the Age of AI: Why Community May Be Our Last Line of Defense
AI may be making deception easier, but Dustin "Wirefall" Dykes argues that human connection -- not technology -- is the most effective defense against a future where reality itself becomes increasingly difficult to verify.
He Wasn't a Hacker. But He Was One of Us.
Thirty years after Sean Marley died, I realize that my focus on mental health in cybersecurity started with him. This is a belated thank you to him for helping me strive for something better. He wasn't a hacker. But he sure as hell was one of us.
CYBR.HAK.CON. 2026: The Ghosts Still Haunt the Machine - Lessons From The Therac-25 Affair
Sean Satterlee’s CYBR.HAK.CON. presentation used the deadly Therac-25 radiation overdoses to expose how modern connected medical devices still repeat many of the same dangerous cybersecurity and safety failures.
CYBR.HAK.CON. 2026: A Brief Introduction to Cognitive Warfare
Stephen Cravey’s “A Brief Introduction to Cognitive Warfare” explores how modern influence operations exploit human psychology, identity, emotion, and social dynamics much like attackers exploit vulnerabilities in technical systems.
Shall We Play a Game? WOPR a Special Guest at CYBR.HAK.CON.
A replica of WOPR, built for HouSecCon 2015's WarGames theme, has become a fan favorite at CYBR.SEC.Community events -- a fixture that taps into the hacker nostalgia and cautionary spirit of the 1983 film.
Inside CYBR.HAK.CON.: A New Grassroots Cybersecurity Conference for Ethical Hackers
Built by the team behind HOU.SEC.CON. (now CYBR.SEC.CON.) and partnered with renowned penetration tester Phil Wylie, CYBR.HAK.CON. aims to reconnect cybersecurity conferences with their grassroots hacker culture through hands-on training, community collaboration, and practitioner-first experiences.
CYBR.SEC.Media 2.0: How CYBR.SEC.Community Is Building a More Human Cybersecurity Media Platform
The new version of CYBR.SEC.Media puts community voices, practitioner insight, podcasts, videos, and visual storytelling front and center.
Cognitive Warfare Has Entered the SOC. What it is, How to Respond
Information overload, cognitive warfare, and nonstop digital noise are turning human attention into a vulnerable attack surface.
5 Foundational Cybersecurity Mental Health Articles Every Security Leader Should Read
From SOC burnout and alert fatigue to resilience and psychological sustainability, these five cybersecurity mental health articles helped shape one of the industry’s most important conversations.