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 …
Cloudflare tracked 230 billion daily threats and here is what it found
Cloudflare’s network blocks over 230 billion threats per day. The volume indicates how routine and automated the attack cycle has become, and the patterns behind that …
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 …
Healthcare organizations are accepting cyber risk to cut costs
Healthcare organizations are cutting cybersecurity budgets under financial pressure even as the threats targeting their systems intensify. A PwC survey of 381 global …
Your dependencies are 278 days out of date and your pipelines aren’t protected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 …
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 …
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 …
The CISO role keeps getting heavier
Personal liability is becoming a routine part of the CISO job. In Splunk’s 2026 CISO Report, titled From Risk to Resilience in the AI Era, 78% of CISOs said they are concerned …
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 …
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 …
The hidden security cost of treating labs like data centers
In this Help Net Security interview, Rich Kellen, VP, CISO at IFF, explains why security teams should not treat OT labs like IT environments. He discusses how compromise can …
Enterprises are racing to secure agentic AI deployments
AI assistants are tied into ticketing systems, source code repositories, chat platforms, and cloud dashboards across many enterprises. In some environments, these systems can …