CruiseCon AI/Privacy 2026: Full Coverage
Full CruiseCon 2026 coverage from aboard Mariner of the Seas, including AI security, privacy, insider threats, cyber risk and leadership.
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Static Security Policies Can't Keep Up With Agentic AI
Agentic AI is exposing the limits of static security policies, excessive permissions and decades of technical debt. Enterprises need dynamic, runtime security controls that evaluate what AI agents are doing in real time. (Sponsored by Eve Security)
AI Agents Will Make Mistakes. Enterprise Security Must Be Ready When They Do
As enterprises deploy autonomous AI agents across critical systems, security teams must assume those agents will make mistakes. Agentic AI security requires continuous monitoring of behavior, intent and context — not blind trust in permissions. (Sponsored by Eve Security)
AI-Powered Bank Attacks Exposed 67,000 People. Here Are 5 Things Security Teams Should Do Now
Suspected AI-assisted cyberattacks breached seven South Korean financial firms and exposed data on more than 67,000 people. The attacks reinforce warnings heard at CruiseCon AI and Privacy 2026 and point to five security actions organizations should take now.
Data Has No Passport: Why Global Privacy Governance Must Catch Up With AI
Speaking during CruiseCon Privacy & AI 2026, global privacy leader Adriana Antunes Winkler warned that organizations need a common privacy governance core with deliberate local controls as data crosses borders, AI agents take action and computing begins moving into orbit.
AI Could Become the Next Insider Threat as Adversaries Target What Models Trust
Speaking during CruiseCon AI and Privacy, former CIA case officer Erin Whitmore warned that attackers may not need to hack enterprise AI. Manipulating the data and sources AI trusts could turn models into unwitting insider threats that steer organizations toward attacker-controlled decisions.
CruiseCon AI & Privacy 2026: Ship's Log (A.K.A. Racing Isaias)
Bill Brenner posts regular updates from abourd the Mariner of the Seas cruise ship, where he is covering the proceedings during CruiseCon 2026
Dead in the Water: What 30 Years of Fighting Terrorism Taught Dexter Ingram About the Threats We Face
At CruiseCon, former U.S. counterterrorism agent Dexter Ingram explained how terrorism and cybercrime increasingly follow the same playbook: exploit human weaknesses, adapt after disruption, hide behind new identities and move faster than defenders.
When the Platform Can Say No Without Saying Why
No externally governed inference or action provider should constitute an unmitigated single point of failure. Where provider behavior cannot be sufficiently characterized, treat the provider as an untrusted-availability dependency.
AI Is Moving Faster Than Enterprise Security. Organizations Are Spending to Catch Up
AI adoption is accelerating faster than enterprise security controls can keep pace, with 94% of organizations increasing AI risk management spending as agentic AI, shadow AI, policy violations and security blind spots expand the attack surface.
Nonprofit Cybersecurity Won’t Be Fixed With Another Checklist
Nonprofit cybersecurity doesn't improve with more checklists and portals. Real change starts with conversations that expose hidden risks, build trust and turn advice into action.
Agentic AI Is Outrunning Enterprise Identity Governance
AI agents can co-opt human credentials and operate at machine speed, but most enterprises lack the identity frameworks to detect, contain, or audit what they're actually doing.
Water Utilities Are Running on Email Alerts and Phone Calls to Defend Critical Infrastructure
WaterISAC's partnership with Cyware is designed to change that: but automated intelligence alone won't protect utilities that lack the staff to act on it.
Cruising the Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline of the Future
This week: Cybersecurity needs more talent, but closing the talent gap takes more than talk. Meanwhile, one CISO has a solution to the cybersecurity awareness marketing problem and AI's growth sparks more anxiety.
Cybersecurity Awareness Has a Marketing Problem. This CISO Has a Fix
In Energized Cybersecurity Culture, CISO Bryan Perkola shows how marketing principles can turn stale security awareness training into a cybersecurity culture employees actually engage with.