cyber risk
Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model
In this Help Net Security interview, Akshay Joshi, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, talks about how AI, geopolitics and industrialized fraud …
Pricing your bad days and how to build an economic model for security decisions
Ivan Milenkovic, VP Risk Technology EMEA at Qualys, explains how security leaders can build an economic model that puts money behind their decisions. He suggests starting with …
U.S. Bank CISO says the security role keeps growing and no one can own all of it
In this interview with Help Net Security, Ann Barron-DiCamillo, EVP, CISO at U.S. Bank, talks about how the CISO role has grown to cover fraud, resilience, third-party risk, …
Most open critical and high flaws are over 90 days old
Detectify analyzed exposure data from 1,293 of its customers in the US, the UK and the Nordics and found that most serious flaws still open on their internet-facing systems …
Abandoned IoT apps keep sending sensitive data to broken servers
Millions of people still run smart home and IoT companion apps, the apps used to control devices like smart plugs, cameras, and thermostats, that stopped receiving updates …
Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent
Spain’s data protection authority (AEPD) has reported its first data breach blamed on an AI agent acting on its own, after the system reportedly logged into a …
When AI quietly breaks things, who pays?
David Halbreich, an insurance recovery partner at Reed Smith, breaks down how AI companies should handle coverage gaps that come up as the industry grows. He covers straddle …
National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years
In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer, VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers …
AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks
Risk managers, auditors and senior executives at 316 companies spent April and May ranking 20 threats they have not yet felt. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities came back …
Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs
In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of …
Aviation cyber risk sits on the ground, the blindness sits in the air
In this interview with Help Net Security, Eliran Almog, CEO of Cyviation, explains why airline cyber losses happen on the ground while the aircraft stays unmonitored. He walks …
Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher
More than one in four organizations hit by a malicious attack over the past year say AI drove it. Those breaches averaged about $1 million above the malicious attacks that ran …
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