66% of Cybersecurity Professionals Are Looking to Leave. Here's What the Data Actually Shows.
The 2026 IANS and Artico Search Cybersecurity Talent Report found only 34% of security professionals plan to stay with their current employer — and th...
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369 articles on cybersecurity careers, certifications, and professional development.
Behavioral Security Science: The Underrated Career Path Gaining Ground at RSAC 2026
Organizations deploying human-centered security design are reducing phishing click rates by 60–80% versus traditional awareness training — and behavio...
Cloud Exposure Management: The 2026 Skill Gap Hiding in Plain Sight
Misconfigurations — not sophisticated attacks — remain the number one cause of cloud breaches, and cloud exposure management was one of the three domi...
Agentic AI Security: The Career Discipline That Didn't Exist 18 Months Ago
With Gartner projecting 40% of enterprise apps will embed AI agents by end of 2026 and only 29% of organizations prepared to secure them, agentic AI s...
The CISO Role Is Splitting in Two — What the Unbundling Means for Your Security Career
Analysis of 640 cybersecurity job postings from Q1 2026 found the CISO role is actively unbundling into specialized sub-functions — and LLM security s...
Vibe Coding Is Creating a Security Debt That AppSec Careers Are Built to Collect
AI-assisted developers commit code 3–4x faster and introduce security findings at 10x the rate — and the CVE count from AI-generated code is accelerat...
The Cybersecurity Talent Shortage Narrative Is Wrong. The Real Crisis Is What Your Team Doesn't Know.
With 4.8 million unfilled cybersecurity roles globally, the shortage narrative dominates — but SANS 2026 and industry analysts are pointing at a more ...
Security Clearances Are Worth More Than Ever in 2026 — Here's Why and What to Do About It
DOGE-driven cuts pushed roughly 1,000 cleared cybersecurity professionals out of federal service and into a private sector that was already competing ...
CISA Lost 1,000 People. What That Means for Federal Cybersecurity Careers — and Where to Go Next.
DOGE-driven cuts shrunk CISA's workforce by nearly 30% — the first time in the digital era that the government's cyber defense capacity has contracted...
OT Security Careers: The Critical Infrastructure Skills Gap That SANS Is Calling a Breach Risk
The SANS 2026 report named OT and critical infrastructure as facing measurable breach risk due to skills gaps — and most IT security professionals sti...
Iran's IRGC Names 18 U.S. Tech Giants as Targets: 'For Every Assassination, One American Company Will Be Destroyed'
Update March 31, 2026: Major outlets including Times of Israel, India Today, and NewsX have now confirmed the threat is active with the April 1 deadli...
LAPSUS$ Claims Massive 4TB Data Breach of Mercor AI — Source Code, Video Interviews, and Identity Docs Allegedly Stolen
A threat actor claims to be selling data allegedly linked to Mercor.com, described as an AI recruiting platform....