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Malcolm Portelli
Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure

Crypto payment firms sit near the top of the target list for advanced persistent threat groups, and the workload on their security leaders keeps growing. Malcolm Portelli, …

money
Boards want cyber risk in dollars, not CVE counts

In this Help Net Security video, Ziv Levi, SVP of Technology at CYE, explains why translating cyber risk into dollars is one of the most pressing tasks for security leaders. …

Nick Nieuwenhuis
Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand

In this Help Net Security interview, Nick Nieuwenhuis, Cybersecurity Architect at Nedscaper, explains why cybersecurity has not delivered the resilience that decades of …

Simplex
Product showcase: SimpleX Chat removes user identifiers from messaging

SimpleX Chat is a free, private, open-source messenger that uses encryption and does not require user identifiers. It is available on mobile and desktop platforms, including …

Session
Product showcase: Session, a messenger without phone numbers or metadata

Instant messaging has been around for decades, but it became widely adopted with the emergence of smartphones. Earlier, communication was limited to basic text messages. …

Cisco
RCE flaw in Cisco enterprise communications products probed by attackers (CVE-2026-20045)

Cisco has fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-20045) in some of its unified communications solutions that’s being targeted by attackers in the …

cyber resilience
Downtime pushes resilience planning into security operations

CISOs describe a shift in how they define success. New research from Absolute Security shows broad agreement that resilience outweighs security goals centered on prevention …

attack
Security chaos engineering matters when nothing is broken

In this Help Net Security video, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital, explains why security chaos engineering matters beyond theory. He shares lessons from real …

emergency communication
New system aims to keep people connected when networks fail

When disaster strikes, communication often fails. Cell towers can go offline, internet connections can disappear, and people are left without a way to share information or ask …

Cisco
Cisco fixes maximum-severity flaw in enterprise unified comms platform (CVE-2025-20309)

Cisco has found a backdoor account in yet another of its software solutions: CVE-2025-20309, stemming from default credentials for the root account, could allow …

Stacy Wallace
Why work-life balance in cybersecurity must start with executive support

In this Help Net Security interview, Stacy Wallace, CISO at Arizona Department of Revenue, talks about the realities of work-life balance in cybersecurity leadership. She …

compliance
SEC and FCA fines: Issues jump

The financial sector faces communication compliance challenges as organizations struggle to maintain oversight across communication channels. Adding to the complexity is the …

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