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CISO Conversations: James Robinson – Many Jobs, One Journey to Netskope CISO

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CISO Conversations: James Robinson – Many Jobs, One Journey to Netskope CISO 2026-10-15 at 11:26 By Kevin Townsend James Robinson never planned a cybersecurity career — seven companies and one deputy CISO role later, he leads security at Netskope. The post CISO Conversations: James Robinson – Many Jobs, One Journey to Netskope CISO appeared first […]

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Immuta CISO predicts critical AI incidents at major enterprises within 18 months

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Immuta CISO predicts critical AI incidents at major enterprises within 18 months 2026-10-15 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Michael Scott, CISO at Immuta, talks about how organizations should handle permissions for AI agents. He argues agents should be treated as lower-trust identities that don’t inherit everything their user can […]

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Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn?

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Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn? 2026-10-14 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Kunal Modasiya, Senior VP & GM at Qualys, talks about why patching is still hard to get right. He explains how business pressure, revenue-critical systems, and patches that break things keep fixes […]

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Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability

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Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability 2026-10-14 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Software that works on an employee’s behalf is now turning up in incident reports. At 95% of the companies in a Trellix survey of 600 CISOs, an AI agent or other autonomous system was linked […]

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Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model

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Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model 2026-10-12 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz 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 are changing cyber risk. He discusses findings from the Global Cybersecurity […]

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Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe

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Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe 2026-10-09 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU that should not be reachable from the internet. The […]

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Pricing your bad days and how to build an economic model for security decisions

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Pricing your bad days and how to build an economic model for security decisions 2026-10-08 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz 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 a few loss scenarios, then working down to […]

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U.S. Bank CISO says the security role keeps growing and no one can own all of it

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U.S. Bank CISO says the security role keeps growing and no one can own all of it 2026-10-06 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz 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, and AI governance. She […]

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Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor

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Three questions a hospital CISO should ask a healthcare fintech vendor 2026-10-05 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security video, Drew McCombs, CTO and CISO at Cylerity, explains how he balances both roles. Security work is scheduled into every sprint, and issues touching patient data or funds disbursement come first. He covers […]

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Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list

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Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list 2026-10-02 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic 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 71 countries between May and July 2026. Half […]

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Cybersecurity hiring practices leave little room for junior talent

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Cybersecurity hiring practices leave little room for junior talent 2026-09-29 at 14:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec 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 can use across different tools, according to SkillBit’s The Shift to Continuous Cybersecurity Micro-Training report. Reasons […]

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Call for Presentations Open for 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit

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Call for Presentations Open for 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit 2026-09-28 at 18:15 By Mike Lennon SecurityWeek seeks original, vendor-neutral presentations that help cybersecurity leaders navigate emerging threats, strengthen resilience, and address the strategic challenges facing today’s enterprise security programs. The post Call for Presentations Open for 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit appeared first on […]

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If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory

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If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory 2026-09-28 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz 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, credentials, and sensitive documents in plain text on […]

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Threat detection dashboards are masking security coverage gaps

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Threat detection dashboards are masking security coverage gaps 2026-09-25 at 15:04 By Sinisa Markovic 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 detections in its customer base, including rules written by customers and […]

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Stop watching what AI agents say and start watching what they do

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Stop watching what AI agents say and start watching what they do 2026-09-25 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz 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 covers how his team builds AI agent […]

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The latest deepfake numbers give CISOs plenty to worry about

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The latest deepfake numbers give CISOs plenty to worry about 2026-09-22 at 15:05 By Sinisa Markovic 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 deepfake during an employee audio call in the past 12 months, according to […]

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CISO Conversations: Noopur Davis – The Accidental Global CISO at Comcast

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CISO Conversations: Noopur Davis – The Accidental Global CISO at Comcast 2026-09-21 at 17:30 By Kevin Townsend Noopur Davis never planned a career in cybersecurity. She was a developer at Intergraph, and for many years that was all she wanted to be. The post CISO Conversations: Noopur Davis – The Accidental Global CISO at Comcast […]

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The AI security question leaders should be asking instead

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The AI security question leaders should be asking instead 2026-09-17 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz 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 model was trained on is only part of the picture, and why […]

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A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage

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A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage 2026-09-17 at 08:00 By Help Net Security 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 for a flat budget or a 12% cut. […]

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MSPs say nearly half their customers rely on them for CISO services

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MSPs say nearly half their customers rely on them for CISO services 2026-09-16 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec 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 compliance services, and many spread the […]

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