Kevin Townsend

AI will assist companies in finding their external attack surface, but it will also assist bad actors in locating and attacking the weak points.

Here we examine the CISO Outlook for 2026, with the purpose of evaluating what is happening now and preparing leaders for what lies ahead...

The UK government’s cyber action plan is by the government for the government, and has no advice for the private sector nor CNI.

From dismantling online games as a child to uncovering real-world vulnerabilities, Katie Paxton-Fear explains how autism, curiosity, and a rejection of ambiguity shaped her...

A first-person journey from undetected fraud to defending trust—how life events, neurodiversity, and hard-won insight shaped a former fraudster into a fraud fighter.

Closed CISO communities act as an information exchange, advice center, pressure valve, and safe haven from critical oversight.

From a basement computer lab to the C-Suite: How Keith McCammon built his career and Red Canary with zero formal training.

Two technologies — one for public safety, one for controlled entry — show why trust in facial recognition must be earned, not assumed.

NTT’s chief cybersecurity strategist Mihoko Matsubara on the new geopolitics of hacking, the "chicken and egg" problem of 5G, and the AGI threat to...

Malanta collects and analyzes digital breadcrumbs that attackers leave behind and then forecasts how and when they will be weaponized.

For Agarwal, being a hacker is not what you do, but who you are; that is, someone who always questions the status quo and...

CISO burnout is increasing. Are we simply more aware of the condition? Or have demands on the CISO grown and burnout is now the...

Researchers have discovered that a prompt can be disguised as an url, and accepted by Atlas as an url in the omnibox.

As AI coding tools flood enterprises with functional but flawed software, researchers urge embedding security checks directly into the AI workflow.

NetRise appointed the former CISA Senior Advisor and Strategist as a Strategic Advisor.

AISLE aims to automate the vulnerability remediation process by detecting, exploiting, and patching software vulnerabilities in real time.

Investors are placing bets on a hardware-based approach to data security in a market dominated by software solutions for ransomware resilience.

SecurityWeek talks to Microsoft Deputy CISOs Ann Johnson and Mark Russinovich.

Emerging from stealth, Born Defense is betting that a new kind of investment model can reshape how the U.S. fights its endless cyber battles.

From defending AI agents to teaching robots to move safely, finalists at this year’s DataTribe Challenge are charting the next frontier in cybersecurity innovation.