Iranian cyberattacks are hitting U.S. critical infrastructure as water, energy and telecom systems face growing threats. Plus: AI SOCs, vulnerability overload, CYBR.SEC.CON 2026 — and more.
Iranian cyber threats against U.S. water, energy and telecom infrastructure are escalating. Here’s what’s happening, what’s at risk and how defenders should respond.
CYBR.SEC.CON LaunchPad finalist Singulr AI is tackling the enterprise AI control gap with runtime governance, security and controls designed to let companies adopt AI and agents without losing visibility or control.
CYBR.SEC.CON LaunchPad finalist Astelia uses attack-path reachability to determine which vulnerabilities can actually lead to a breach, helping enterprises cut through millions of findings and focus remediation where it matters.
Root Evidence analyzed 253,912 CVEs and found AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, but not exploitation — exposing a vulnerability management model increasingly overwhelmed by noise.
CYBR.SEC.CON LaunchPad finalist MokN “phishes the phishers” to uncover stolen credentials while attackers are actively using them, closing a blind spot left by traditional dark-web monitoring.
AI-driven SOC platforms promise faster investigations, lower costs and fewer repetitive tasks for security analysts. But before CISOs buy in, they need to understand the baselines, business context, pricing and access controls. (Sponsored by Command Zero)
As attackers automate cyberattacks at machine speed, SOC teams may soon have to let AI agents act without human approval — making RBAC, business context and autonomous-response guardrails critical security controls. (Sponsored by Command Zero)
CYBR.SEC.CON LaunchPad finalist VisionHeight is building a pre-attack intelligence layer designed to give AI-driven SOCs the external threat data they need to move from reactive detection to proactive defense.
Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee has repeatedly warned that under-resourced water utilities cannot defend themselves against growing cyber threats alone. A new federal-state-industry initiative in Texas aims to start closing that gap.
CYBR.SEC.CON. LaunchPad finalist Above Security is using AI-driven behavioral analysis and real-time employee coaching to prevent insider risk before it becomes a security incident.
AI is flooding the cybersecurity market with new startups and products, making it harder to separate real innovation from noise — while CISOs risk compounding the problem when practitioners are left out of security tool decisions.
CISA’s “Tale of Two SOCs” red team research shows why SOC automation, AI guardrails and human authority to contain attacks must evolve together.
Cybersecurity leaders can have the right technical answer and still fail to influence business decisions when they cannot translate cyber risk into language executives understand, trust and act on.
Cybersecurity tool selection works better when CISOs give security practitioners a voice in buying decisions, improving adoption, security outcomes and team retention.
Security leaders need emerging cybersecurity technology faster than ever, but finding the startups actually worth their time is getting harder as AI accelerates both innovation and cyber threats. Starting with CYBR.SEC.CON, we plan to do something about it.
