Email Security Has Become an AI Arms Race
Attackers and defenders are both using AI. Learn why email security now depends on speed, context, and adaptive detection. (Sponsored by Abnormal AI)
Bill Brenner
Follow Friday: 5 Must-Read Cybersecurity Picks This Week
Discover five must-read cybersecurity articles, videos, and creators every security professional should follow this week.
FortiBleed Is Bigger Than A Fortinet Password Leak
Fresh analysis suggests FortiBleed is not merely a Fortinet credential exposure event but a large-scale identity compromise campaign that turns perimeter devices into launchpads for deeper attacks against Active Directory, LDAP, and internal enterprise infrastructure.
Securing Enterprise AI Usage Goes Far Beyond Chatbots
Chatbots created data leakage concerns. Agentic AI introduces autonomous action, persistent context, and delegated decision-making, creating a new category of security and governance challenges that most organizations are only beginning to understand. (Sponsored by Harmonic Security)
You Don't Control AI Because You Barely See It: Why Usage Intelligence Is Becoming the Next Enterprise Security Battleground
Security teams can't govern AI they can't see. As employees adopt hundreds of AI tools, agents, and assistants, a new challenge is emerging: understanding how AI is being used inside the enterprise. (Sponsored by Harmonic Security)
AI Is Transforming Security. Burnout Is Transforming the Workforce. What It All Means
A new ISSA/Omdia study finds widespread AI adoption in cybersecurity, but security professionals say growing complexity, burnout, skills shortages, and business pressures are making the profession more challenging than ever.
Accenture's Dragos Deal Signals a New Phase in the Race to Secure Critical Infrastructure
Accenture's acquisition of a majority stake in Dragos and full ownership of runZero and NetRise reflects growing urgency across the cybersecurity industry to defend critical infrastructure against nation-state threats, particularly those attributed to China.
Your Biggest Security Risk: Mentally Exhausted Humans
From our first episode of CYBR.Minded: Security teams are drowning in alerts, responsibility and impossible expectations. Until recently, the industry treated it as a personal problem instead of a systemic one.
Why Zero Trust Framework's Creator Wants Cybersecurity to Ditch Risk
Cybersecurity has been built around a simple equation: risk equals probability multiplied by impact. John Kindervag, creator of the Zero Trust Framework and chief evangelist at Illumio, says the equation assumes something defenders rarely possess: a reliable way to calculate probability.
Zero Trust Was Made for the AI Era, Says Its Creator
Artificial intelligence has become cybersecurity's latest source of anxiety. John Kindervag, creator of the Zero Trust Framework and chief evangelist at Illumio, sees things differently.
AI Governance Is Becoming Cybersecurity's Next Compliance Theater
A new report from Cye finds that AI adoption is racing ahead of AI security, leaving organizations stuck between governance policies on paper and operational controls that can actually reduce risk. The report analyzed more than 2,400 assessments across 21 countries and 16 industries.
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.)
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)