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Spotless compliance evidence can still hide a broken control

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Spotless compliance evidence can still hide a broken control 2026-06-04 at 09:26 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Marc Rubbinaccio, Head of Cybersecurity and Compliance at Secureframe, explains where security teams go wrong when preparing for CMMC and FedRAMP 20x. The conversation covers how organizations check the 110 requirements but miss […]

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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge

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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge 2026-06-02 at 09:09 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Chuck Davis, VP, Global Information Security at Hikvision, explains how zero trust applies to physical security systems like cameras and door controllers. He breaks down how to make trust decisions at the […]

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EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure

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EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure 2026-06-01 at 08:19 By Sinisa Markovic Cybersecurity governance in the EU is shifting under expanding frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA, while AI raises new questions for security teams. What the future brings is hard to predict, and organizations must find a way to cope. Antonija Vojnović, Governance, […]

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145 AI laws passed in 2025 and privacy teams aren’t catching a break

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145 AI laws passed in 2025 and privacy teams aren’t catching a break 2026-06-01 at 08:19 By Anamarija Pogorelec 145 AI-related laws were enacted by state legislatures in 2025, and more than 1,000 additional bills were introduced or revised, according to DataGrail’s Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026. Average cost of manual data subject request […]

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Building a risk-based vulnerability management program that scales

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Building a risk-based vulnerability management program that scales 2026-05-29 at 08:01 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Shankar Somasundaram, CEO at Asimily, explains how to build a risk-based vulnerability program. He notes that vulnerabilities are exploding by an order of magnitude in the age of AI-driven attacks, with one customer finding […]

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The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines

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The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines 2026-05-28 at 10:16 By Mirko Zorz Engineering teams across enterprise IT are writing their own software with AI coding assistants, spinning up agents that act on their behalf, and assigning those agents the same access privileges their human creators hold. The shift has pulled […]

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Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure

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Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure 2026-05-27 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz 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, CISO at Coinflow, runs the company’s security program from Malta. Coinflow is headquartered […]

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Downtime has become a $600 billion business problem

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Downtime has become a $600 billion business problem 2026-05-22 at 11:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec The average cost of downtime has reached $600 billion for the Global 2000, a 50% increase in two years. According to Splunk’s The Hidden Costs of Downtime report, unplanned outages and service degradation cost each company an average of $300 million. […]

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Why AI changed the threat model for travel technology

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Why AI changed the threat model for travel technology 2026-05-21 at 09:16 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Devon Bryan, SVP, Global CSO at Booking Holdings, reflects on his path from Air Force network security engineer to global CSO across financial services, hospitality, and travel technology. He discusses why the travel industry’s […]

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Cyber Resilience is the New Business Continuity Plan

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Cyber Resilience is the New Business Continuity Plan 2026-05-19 at 15:35 By Steve Durbin The organizations best prepared to face disruption are those that align security, continuity and risk management around what the business cannot afford to lose. The post Cyber Resilience is the New Business Continuity Plan appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is […]

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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do

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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures before attackers exploit them. He argues that businesses should move beyond a data-loss mindset toward one […]

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Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage

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Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage 2026-04-30 at 16:02 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises pulling models from Hugging Face and other open repositories rarely keep records of how those models are altered after download, leaving organizations with little ability to confirm what they are running in production. The State of AI Security 2026 […]

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The exploit gap is closing, and your patch cycle wasn’t built for this

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The exploit gap is closing, and your patch cycle wasn’t built for this 2026-04-15 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz The Cloud Security Alliance has published a briefing on what it calls a turning point in the threat landscape: the time between a vulnerability being discovered and a working exploit is shrinking fast. The briefing centers […]

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AI adoption is outpacing the safeguards around it

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AI adoption is outpacing the safeguards around it 2026-04-14 at 12:59 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is becoming part of professional and private life, reaching mainstream adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet. These systems are tested in reasoning, safety, and real-world tasks, but the reliability of those measurements remains uncertain. The 2026 AI […]

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Review: The Psychology of Information Security

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Review: The Psychology of Information Security 2026-04-14 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz Security controls fail when they are designed without regard for the people who must use them. That is the central argument of Leron Zinatullin’s second edition, and it is an argument he builds methodically across 17 chapters that draw from organizational psychology, change […]

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In Other News: Cyberattack Stings Stryker, Windows Zero-Day, China Supercomputer Hack

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In Other News: Cyberattack Stings Stryker, Windows Zero-Day, China Supercomputer Hack 2026-04-10 at 17:46 By SecurityWeek News Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Jones Day hacked, Internet Bug Bounty program paused due to AI, new Mac stealer malware. The post In Other News: Cyberattack Stings Stryker, Windows Zero-Day, China Supercomputer Hack […]

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The Hidden ROI of Visibility: Better Decisions, Better Behavior, Better Security

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The Hidden ROI of Visibility: Better Decisions, Better Behavior, Better Security 2026-04-09 at 14:23 By Joshua Goldfarb Beyond monitoring and compliance, visibility acts as a powerful deterrent, shaping user behavior, improving collaboration, and enabling more accurate, data-driven security decisions. The post The Hidden ROI of Visibility: Better Decisions, Better Behavior, Better Security appeared first on […]

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What managing partners should ask AI vendors before signing any contract

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What managing partners should ask AI vendors before signing any contract 2026-04-08 at 09:28 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Kumar Ravi is the Chief Security & Resilience Officer at TMF Group, argues that over-privileged access and weak workflow controls pose more danger than ransomware attacks, precisely because they accumulate quietly and […]

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Trust, friction, and ROI: A CISO’s take on making security work for the business

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Trust, friction, and ROI: A CISO’s take on making security work for the business 2026-04-02 at 08:42 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, John O’Rourke, CISO at PPG, talks about what it means for security to drive business value. He explains how mature security programs reduce friction in sales cycles and M&A […]

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Why risk alone doesn’t get you to yes

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Why risk alone doesn’t get you to yes 2026-03-30 at 09:29 By Help Net Security I have been in security rooms for years, from military operations centers to corporate boardrooms. In all those years I can tell you that the hardest mission that most security leaders will face is not identifying a threat, but getting […]

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