CISOs acknowledge that no organization is completely safe, but many also admit their security measures aren’t where they’d like them to be. One-third of CISOs surveyed for Proofpoint’s 2025 Voice of the CISO Report said the data within their organization is not adequately protected, and 58% said their organizations were unprepared to respond to a…
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Nordic CISOs Handle Rising Cyber Threats Remarkably Well
Artificial intelligence notwithstanding, the vast majority of CISOs in northern Europe say they’re facing no more serious cyberattacks than they did two years ago.
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AI models more vulnerable than claimed when faced with iterative attacks
CISOs relying on LLM runtime guardrails and official safety scores when making security decisions about their organizations’ AI usage and model selection are due for a wakeup call. According to a new study from Cisco, frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and Amazon have significantly worse risk profiles when pressured in multi-turn attacks compared…
Global Security News, Risk Management
20 Leaders Who Built the CISO Era: 2 Decades of Change
As part of Dark Reading’s 20th anniversary special coverage, we profile the CISOs, founders, researchers, criminals, and policymakers who rewrote the enterprise risk playbook.
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Why patching SLAs should be the floor, not the strategy
I’ve been a CISO for two separate companies, know several CISOs personally, and interact with many others through various cybersecurity forums. We all have one thing in common. We can tell you our patching SLA numbers off the top of our heads. Ninety-five percent of criticals closed in 14 days. Eighty-something on highs. The board…
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Phishing-to-RMM Attacks: The Remote Access Blind Spot CISOs Can’t Ignore
CISOs are under pressure to prove that their security programs can detect threats early, reduce business risk, and support fast, confident response. But that becomes harder when attackers stop relying on obviously malicious tools. In recent phishing-to-RMM campaigns observed by ANY.RUN analysts, threat actors are using fake Microsoft, Adobe, and OneDrive pages to deliver legitimate…
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CISOs reshape their roles as business risk strategists
Nitin Raina’s career history resembles that of many CISOs: He worked in IT infrastructure, operations, and services before moving into security and advancing through the ranks. He’s now global chief information security officer at technology consultancy Thoughtworks. But in a less common professional move Raina also picked up the role of global head of enterprise…
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Mallory brings contextual threat intelligence to security operations
Mallory is launching an AI-native threat intelligence platform, purpose-built to answer the questions CISOs and their teams are asking every day: What are the real threat vectors for our organization? What’s actually exploitable in our environment right now? What should we proactively fix? The platform monitors thousands of threat sources, contextualizes them against your actual…
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Building Phishing Detection That Works: 3 Steps for CISOs
90% of attacks start with phishing. For CISOs, the real pain begins when the SOC cannot quickly tell whether a suspicious alert is just noise or the start of credential theft, account compromise, malware delivery, or wider business disruption. Modern phishing campaigns are designed to create exactly that uncertainty. QR codes, redirect chains, CAPTCHAs, phishing kits, and AI-generated lures can all hide the real objective until late…
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Building Phishing Detection That Works: 3 Steps for CISOs
90% of attacks start with phishing. For CISOs, the real pain begins when the SOC cannot quickly tell whether a suspicious alert is just noise or the start of credential theft, account compromise, malware delivery, or wider business disruption. Modern phishing campaigns are designed to create exactly that uncertainty. QR codes, redirect chains, CAPTCHAs, phishing kits, and AI-generated lures can all hide the real objective until late…
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Human vs AI: Debates Shape RSAC 2026 Cybersecurity Trends
As AI dominated RSAC 2026, CISOs and industry leaders debated its role in security, from agentic applications to the challenges of scaling human involvement in decision-making.
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Block the Prompt, Not the Work: The End of “Doctor No”
There is a character that keeps appearing in enterprise security departments, and most CISOs know exactly who that is. It doesn’t build. It doesn’t enable. Its entire function is to say “No.” No to ChatGPT. No to DeepSeek. No to the file-sharing tool the product team swears by. For years, this looked like security. But…
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Palo Alto updates security platform to discover AI agents
As CISOs worry about AI agent sprawl, Palo Alto Networks has announced an update to its Prisma AIRS security platform and enterprise browser to include the ability to discover AI agents, models, and connections across the entire IT environment, to scan agents for vulnerabilities, and to allow admins to simulate red team tests for agents.…
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CISOs rethink their data protection strategies
Scott Kopcha witnessed what CISOs everywhere are seeing: employees eager to use artificial intelligence, whether through public models or custom AI tools, accessing company data at a breathtaking rate and volume. Kopcha already had a mature data protection strategy in place; as a law firm, his organization had a long history of safeguarding sensitive data.…
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Wie CISOs schlechte Angebote enttarnen
Drum prüfe… Ground Picture | shutterstock.com Security-Anbietern stehen viele Wege offen, um CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider mit Lobpreisungen und Angeboten zu ihren jeweils aktuellen Produkten und Lösungen zu penetrieren. Und die nutzen sie auch: Manche Sicherheitsverantwortliche erhalten mehr als 30 solcher Anfragen pro Woche – per Telefon, E-Mail oder auch über LinkedIn. Um erkennen zu können,…
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Cybersicherheit braucht Reife und keine Checklisten
Wenn CISOs stärkere Programme, bessere Widerstandsfähigkeit und eine sicherere Zukunft wollen, müssen sie ihren Ansatz weiterentwickeln. Overearth – shutterstock.com Cybersicherheit wird oft wie ein Spiel behandelt. Unternehmen jagen schnellen Erfolgen hinterher, haken Compliance-Listen ab oder klopfen sich nach einem einzigen erfolgreichen Audit selbst auf die Schulter. Auf dem Papier mag das produktiv aussehen, aber in…
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The new paradigm for raising up secure software engineers
CISOs were already struggling to help developers keep up with secure code principles at the speed of DevOps. Now, with AI-assisted development reshaping how code gets written and shipped, the challenge is rapidly intensifying. Whereas only about 14% of enterprise software engineers regularly used AI coding assistants two years ago, that number is on its…
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69% of CISOs open to career move — including leaving role entirely
Enterprise CISOs are increasingly willing — and eager — to jump ship, with some frustrated enough to want to leave cybersecurity entirely. A recent survey of security leaders from IANS Research and Artico Search found that 69% of security executives “are open to making a career move within the next year, often targeting CISO roles at…