The uptime questions every engineering leader should ask this week 2026-06-25 at 09:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Mattias Geniar, CTO at Oh Dear, explains why most outages start quietly, as creeping latency or a slow rise in errors. He argues teams alert on the wrong things: absolute numbers instead […]
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LLM security advice looks solid until you check the hard cases 2026-06-25 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Plenty of people now type their security worries straight into a chatbot. A hacked account, a suspicious email, a stalker who might be tracking a phone, all of it lands in the same window someone would use to
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Best practices for AI in open-source work 2026-06-25 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Free and open source software developers us AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Antigravity, and OpenCode in their daily work. The Software Freedom Conservancy responded to that trend with a set of recommendations for contributors who use these tools,
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What your next cyber insurance renewal will demand 2026-06-25 at 07:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Michael Loewy, co-founder, Tide Foundation, explains how cyber insurance is rewriting security programs at renewal time. Insurers want more questionnaires, more evidence, and more attestations, because the market is moving from trusting your answers
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Navigating SEC, NIS2, and DORA incident disclosure timelines under pressure 2026-06-17 at 07:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Rick Goud, Global Field CTO at Kiteworks, discusses how to handle SEC, NIS2, and DORA disclosure timelines during a security incident. He opens with a 3.47 a.m. call: the team cannot confirm
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Reachability makes AI threat modeling worth the trust 2026-06-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Oscar Andersson, CTO at Oplane, explains why most scanning tools fail. They cry wolf, flagging threats that cannot run in real code. The argument centers on reachability. A finding counts only when someone walks
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EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad 2026-06-16 at 08:30 By Help Net Security Over recent years we’ve witnessed the EU becoming increasingly serious about cybersecurity. After years of watching high profile breaches, many resulting from supply chain attacks targeting our critical infrastructure, that seriousness is welcome. But good intentions and good policy
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Cyber resilience metrics that drive action 2026-06-10 at 09:55 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Pete Bowers, COO at NormCyber, explains how organizations can build a cyber resilience metrics program that supports better decisions. He questions common ways of measuring resilience, such as risk registers, tool scores, and annual tests, and
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When attacks spread too far: Lessons from real cyber attack case studies 2026-06-08 at 13:09 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Michael Adjei, Director, Systems Engineering at Illumio, explains three real world cyber attacks and what went wrong during detection. Adjei walks through a collaboration tool scam that copied Microsoft Teams,
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AI agent governance gets harder when agents outnumber your people 2026-06-05 at 09:24 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Amit Gautam, CTO at Abluva, explains the security risks that autonomous AI agents bring into enterprise environments. He opens with a real case: a reconciliation agent at a financial services firm had
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What CISOs need to do about post-quantum migration in the next 24 months 2026-06-03 at 07:40 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Garfield Jones, SVP Global Strategy and Research, QuSecure, lays out what CISOs should do over the next 24 months. A recent Google paper moved the expected arrival of a
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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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Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard 2026-06-01 at 11:46 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, talks about the gap between what organizations think they know about their data and what discovery scans turn up. She shares stories of shadow data in abandoned cloud storage,
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Governing shadow AI without killing innovation 2026-06-01 at 08:19 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Alan Snyder, CEO at NowSecure, talks about governing shadow AI without stopping innovation. He frames the problem as two opposing forces. Companies need to adopt AI fast because attackers and competitors will outpace them otherwise, but
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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 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 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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The alert economy is driving security analyst burnout 2026-05-27 at 09:24 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Ido Livneh, CEO of Jazz, explains why security analysts burn out and what leaders can do about it. The cause, he argues, is not long hours but meaningless work. Analysts spend their days closing
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Boards want cyber risk in dollars, not CVE counts 2026-05-25 at 08:11 By Help Net Security 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. Boards and executives want cyber exposure described in business
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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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