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Cybersecurity professionals are burning out on extra hours every week

Cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. are working an average of 10.8 extra hours per week beyond their contracted schedules, according to survey data collected from 300 …

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Cybersecurity is now the price of admission for industrial AI

Industrial organizations are accelerating AI deployment across manufacturing, utilities, and transportation and running straight into a security problem. Cisco’s 2026 …

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AI went from assistant to autonomous actor and security never caught up

Enterprise AI deployments have shifted from pilot programs to production systems handling customer data, executing business transactions, and integrating with core …

DevSecOps
Your dependencies are 278 days out of date and your pipelines aren’t protected

Applications continue to ship with known weaknesses even as development workflows speed up. A new Datadog State of DevSecOps 2026 report examines how dependency management and …

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Security debt is becoming a governance issue for CISOs

Application security backlogs keep expanding across large development portfolios. Veracode’s 2026 State of Software Security Report puts numbers behind a familiar operational …

BlacksmithAI
BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework

BlacksmithAI is an open-source penetration testing framework that uses multiple AI agents to execute different stages of a security assessment lifecycle. A multi-agent …

Fred Kwong
DeVry University’s CISO on higher education cybersecurity risk

In this Help Net Security interview, Fred Kwong, VP, CISO at DeVry University, outlines how the university balances academic openness with cyber risk. He describes how systems …

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Industrial networks continue to leak onto the internet

Industrial operators continue to run remote access portals, building automation servers, and other operational technology services on public IP address ranges. Palo Alto …

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The $19.5 million insider risk problem

Routine employee activity across corporate systems carries an average annual cost of $19.5 million per organization. That figure comes from the 2026 Cost of Insider Risks …

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Open-source security debt grows across commercial software

Open source code sits inside nearly every commercial application, and development teams continue to add new dependencies. Black Duck’s 2026 Open Source Security and Risk …

Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response
Review: Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response, 5th Edition

Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response, 5th Edition presents a structured survey of the digital forensics discipline. The book spans foundational principles, platform …

Joni Klippert
AI-driven DAST reduces manual setup and surfaces exploitable vulnerabilities

In this Help Net Security interview, Joni Klippert, CEO at StackHawk, discusses what defines DAST coverage in 2026 and why scan completion does not equal security. She …

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