The world moved swiftly to adopt enterprise AI. Here come the regulations. In this story, we cover what security and risk teams need to know to weather the new regulatory waters.
For security teams, the message is sobering: initial access brokers such as Gootloader operate at sophisticated technical levels, leverage specialized knowledge of file-format quirks, and maintain operational resilience through rapid innovation.
For enterprises eager to consolidate their tools, success will take the form of "platformization" of enterprise security stacks.
We picked the top three news events of 2025. It wasn't easy: and neither will be 2026.
Here are the predictions we believe will have significant impacts on security professionals in the year ahead: the bad and the good.
This isn't marginal spending on a future-state concern—it's an immediate, substantial commitment that many CISOs now see as a priority.
Traditional security tools were designed when code changes were measured in hundreds of lines per sprint and development cycles lasted weeks. Today, AI accelerates code production to thousands of lines daily with fundamentally different patterns than human-written code.
The agentic AI governance gap is a fundamental enterprise weakness. Sixty-three percent of organizations lack AI governance policies, according to IBM's research. This creates a complete lack of any meaningful organizational control over these deployments.
New research highlights the gap between how technology is designed to work and how it's actually safely operated.
Anthropic's disclosure lacked important elements, which explains the professional criticism that erupted despite the potmortem's potential significance. And while the post is marketing for Anthropic, it also provides strategic threat context for security executives.
AI-driven attacks are real, and they’re occurring. But to paraphrase cyberpunk writing pioneer William Gibson, “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
2026 will bring CISOs and security professionals potential AI breaches, tight infrastructure regulation, a new European Union vulnerability database, quantum security growth, and merger and acquisition shifts.
The breach has triggered a reckoning with security blind spots that extend far beyond one company's network.
The field desperately needs people, but neither employers nor job seekers seem yet to fully align on what skills those people should possess in an AI-dominated future.
We've examined the available cybersecurity job demand data and projected job growth based on our synthesis of authoritative sources.
In a potential hot conflict over Taiwan sovereignty, cyber operations would be at the forefront, and aimed at slowing the U.S. military response, targeting military logistics systems, cloud-based sustainment platforms, naval communications, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.
