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.
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Security Experts Share Their 2026 Cybersecurity Predictions
Here are the predictions we believe will have significant impacts on security professionals in the year ahead: the bad and the good.
Quantum Security Spending Hits a Tipping Point: Why 5% of Security Budgets Now Belong to Post-Quantum Migration
This isn't marginal spending on a future-state concern—it's an immediate, substantial commitment that many CISOs now see as a priority.
AI-Generated Code Is Already Running Critical Infrastructure: Can AppSec Keep Up?
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.
Why Forrester Says Your Agentic AI Deployment Will Cause a Breach in 2026
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.
Forrester's 2026 Cybersecurity Predictions
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.
Less to Protect, More to Gain: Rethinking Compliance Through Scope Reduction
Doing less can deliver more. Scope reduction reduces risk, simplifies compliance, and makes regulated opportunities attainable for any organization willing to focus on what really matters.
Penguins & Securing Agentic AI Before It’s Too Late
The problem is that most security models weren’t designed with agent autonomy in mind.
HOU.SEC.CON.: Cyberwarfare Likely a Decisive Element in Potential Taiwan Conflict
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.
The Tier Trap: How the Most Popular Cybersecurity Framework Gets Misused
Treating CSF Tiers as maturity scores creates a dangerous illusion… boards believe Tier 4 means secure, when in reality it does not.
Analysis: How to Bulletproof a Security Program Against Vendor Consolidation
Most, eventually all, CISOs will be forced to endure the loss of a cherished vendor and promising roadmap due to an acquisition.
Bolster Defense-in-Depth Strategies as Collaboration Platforms Face Escalating Threats
It’s their necessity for such accessibility that makes secure configuration especially challenging—and when a zero-day vulnerability emerges, the damage can be swift.
Fortune 500 Cyber Spending Pays Off: Large Enterprise Risk Falls 33% Despite Rising Threats
Here's what will surprise you: despite massive digital expansion, breach risk isn't uniformly climbing for all organizations. In fact, there are dramatic variations that challenge everything we thought we knew about cyber risk.