Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor
In this Help Net Security interview, Drew McCombs, CTO and CISO at Cylerity, explains how he balances both roles. Security work is scheduled into every sprint, and issues …
Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list
Companies are putting more money into AI while naming attacks on AI systems as the threat they are least ready to face. PwC surveyed 3,934 business and technology leaders in …
Most organizations need six months or longer to roll out new security controls
Cisco surveyed 8,000 security professionals in 30 markets about how well their organizations defend against AI-era threats, and only 8% landed in the top group. Cisco gave the …
Cybersecurity hiring practices leave little room for junior talent
Twenty-minute training sessions that fit into the workweek could help new hires become productive sooner, keep employees’ skills current and build problem-solving skills they …
If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory
In this interview with Help Net Security, Chris Latimer, CEO of Vectorize, talks about the security risks hiding in AI agent memory. He found coding agents storing API keys, …
Threat detection dashboards are masking security coverage gaps
A detection rule can show up as deployed on a coverage dashboard and still never fire when an attacker uses the technique it was built to catch. Conifers assessed 14,652 …
Stop watching what AI agents say and start watching what they do
In this interview with Help Net Security, Ariel Assaraf, CEO of Coralogix, explains why a system prompt can describe a boundary for an AI agent but cannot enforce one. Assaraf …
The latest deepfake numbers give CISOs plenty to worry about
AI is letting cybercriminals reach deeper into organizations than a phishing email ever could. 41% of CISOs reported at least one social engineering incident involving a …
The AI security question leaders should be asking instead
In this Help Net Security interview, Frederic Bull, Security Officer at Gremlin, talks about what AI means for security teams. The conversation covers why asking what data a …
A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage
Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, works as a vCISO and vGRC leader. In this Help Net Security video, she talks about holding coverage steady when the CFO asks …
MSPs say nearly half their customers rely on them for CISO services
MSPs estimate that 46% of their customers, on average, look to them to act as CISOs, according to Sophos. Most of those providers do that job without the full set of …
ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform for actively exploited vulnerabilities
The EU Agency for Cybersecurity switched on the Cyber Resilience Act‘s Single Reporting Platform on 11 September 2026, the same day the law’s reporting obligations …
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