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From IT Help Desk to Cyber Storyteller: How Chris Glanden Built a Creative Career in Cybersecurity
How a career that began in IT support evolved into cybersecurity consulting, podcasting, and documentary filmmaking focused on telling the human stories behind technology.
America's Medical Hardware Is a Battlefield
Many medical devices have expected lifespans measured in decades, and the majority of connected medical devices currently in use wouldn't meet the FDA's latest cybersecurity standards if submitted for approval. Adversaries have noticed.
Iranian Attack on Stryker Brings BYOD Dangers Back to Center Stage
The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) dimension carries implications well beyond Stryker.
The War With Iran Is Now Being (Partially) Fought in Data Centers, Defense Networks, and Telegram Chats
While Iranian drones were taking out Amazon's data centers in the Gulf, Tehran's hackers were already inside U.S. banks, airports, and defense networks — and they got there weeks before the first missile flew.
Health-ISAC Data Shows Healthcare Under Sustained, Escalating Siege in 2025
Ransomware events surged 55% in 2025, supply chain attacks widened the blast radius, and nation-state actors showed up. New data from Health-ISAC shows why the health sector's security problem continues to grow.
Iran Conflict: America's Cyber Defenses Face Their Biggest Test — At a Weak Moment
As Iran's cyber forces regroup after the most devastating military strikes in the Islamic Republic's history, the U.S. agency built to defend the nation's critical infrastructure is operating with a skeleton crew, gutted leadership, and a funding crisis — at precisely the moment it is needed most.
The SaaS-pocalypse Paradox: What it Means for CISOs and Enterprise Security
The SaaS market has shed $1 trillion in value. Salesforce, Workday, Adobe, and Snowflake are all down at least 40% from 2025 peaks. For CISOs managing risk across a consolidating software stack, the implications for vendor stability, integration continuity, and contract leverage are significant.
Graphalgo: North Korean Rock Salt in the Wound of Today's Cybersecurity Job Market
Lazarus-linked threat actors exploit fake recruiter campaigns in an operation ReversingLabs calls “graphalgo,” turning technical job interviews into remote access trojan (RAT) delivery mechanisms that target developers.
White House Readies Five-Page Cybersecurity Strategy Built on Offense, Deterrence, and Deregulation
The forthcoming plan marks a sharp pivot from the Biden era—and some experts warn it may leave the nation more exposed, not less.
Six Months of Silence: How a Hijacked Text Editor Exploited Structural Flaws in Enterprise Security
The Notepad++ incident isn't just another nation-state compromise. This attack highlights how developer tools are a governance blind spot, ongoing weaknesses in the integrity of update mechanisms, and the continued evolution of supply chain attacks.
Epoch Theory and the Future of Vulnerability Management
Epoch Theory is Jeremiah Grossman’s framework for understanding how cybersecurity evolves in distinct phases driven by attacker behavior, not defensive intention.
The Five Most Important Enacted AI Regulations Affecting US and European Organizations
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.
How Gootloader Weaponizes Format Flaws to Evade Detection
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.
Too Many Cybersecurity Tools: How To Declutter Through Platformization
For enterprises eager to consolidate their tools, success will take the form of "platformization" of enterprise security stacks.
2025: The Year the World Learned Cybersecurity is Increasingly Unmanageable
We picked the top three news events of 2025. It wasn't easy: and neither will be 2026.