AI Gets the Billions. Cybersecurity Defenders Get the Burnout.
As AI's creators cash in on FUD, cybersecurity teams face growing threats and mounting exhaustion. Plus: overlooked startups and practical guardrails that deserve attention.
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AI in Cybersecurity: Blizzard AppSec Chief Shares What Works and What Fails
After two years of AI adoption, Blizzard Entertainment's Kurt Kaufmann explains where AI improves cybersecurity, why agents fail, and how to build effective guardrails. (Includes infographics)
AI Is The Hurricane Washing Away Cybersecurity's Trust Model
Also this week: HIPAA gets a cybersecurity shakeup, water utilities ditch email-and-phone-call defense, AI agents blow past identity controls, ransomware gets an AI upgrade, and Zero Trust is put to the test.
5 Intelligence-Gathering Skills You Can Use in Everyday Life
Former CIA, FBI, NSA and counterterrorism professionals at CruiseCon explain how intelligence tradecraft can make cyber defenders safer and more effective on and off the job.
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.
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.
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.
CruiseCon: AI, Privacy and Leadership Take Center Stage
CruiseCon 2026 brings CISOs, privacy leaders and security experts together Oct. 3–8 to tackle AI risk, identity, privacy, cyber threats and leadership at sea.
CruiseCon 2026 Takes Cybersecurity Out To Sea. CYBR.SEC.Careers is Coming Aboard
CYBR.SEC.Careers sponsors CruiseCon 2026, an Oct. 3–8 cybersecurity conference at sea focused on AI, privacy, identity and leadership.