Those Security Threats Are All in Your Head
This week's newsletter tackles the cognitive threats to cybersecurity and old thinking about identity being the "new" perimeter. Also: The disconnect between CISOs and security vendors continues.
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CruiseCon AI & Privacy 2026: Ship's Log
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.