The Analyst's Laptop: Why Your Daily Driver Is a Career Statement
Nobody hires a chef who eats fast food at every meal. Part 2 of our Hardware-Backed Careers series: what running Linux on open firmware says about you...
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408 articles on cybersecurity careers, certifications, and professional development.
Own Your Professional Identity: Why Every Security Career Starts With a Hardware Key
Your GitHub, your LinkedIn, your email, your cloud consoles — your security career literally lives in accounts, and 'security professional gets accoun...
TAO Is Back: Why the NSA Reviving Its Most Famous Hacking Unit Matters for Security Leaders
The NSA has renamed its Office of Computer Network Operations back to Tailored Access Operations — the storied unit behind Stuxnet-era tradecraft and ...
A CVSS 10 ColdFusion Flaw, an Iran-Linked Actor, and a Friday Deadline: This Week's KEV Additions Are a Governance Test
CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch a maximum-severity Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282) by Friday, July 10, as an Iran-linked ac...
Your Developers' AI Agents Look Exactly Like Attackers — Sophos Just Proved It With Telemetry
Sophos analyzed a week of its own endpoint telemetry and found AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex — routinely tripping detection rul...
Accenture Confirms a Breach, a Hacker Claims 35GB of Source Code and Keys — and Every CISO Just Inherited the Problem
A threat actor known as '888' claims to have stolen 35GB from Accenture — source code, RSA and SSH keys, Azure personal access tokens, storage keys, a...
Russian Intelligence Is Stealing Signal Backup Recovery Keys — And Your Executives Are Exactly the Target Profile
The FBI and CISA are warning that Russian intelligence-linked phishing campaigns (UNC5792 and UNC4221) have evolved past device-linking tricks to stea...
NSPM-12: The White House Just Rewired How America Defends Its Most Sensitive Systems
On June 12, 2026, President Trump signed NSPM-12, replacing two decades of inherited governance — NSD-42 (1990) and NSM-8 (2022) — and restructuring h...
The Army's Cyber Force Is Being Rebuilt From the Ground Up — Here's What That Means
Days before the Army's 251st birthday, the Department of War's top civilian cyber officials visited Fort Gordon to check on CYBERCOM 2.0 — what's been...
Building a Shadow-AI Discovery Program: A CISO Playbook for 2026
The 2026 Verizon DBIR found AI use on corporate devices jumped from 15% to 45% in a year, with 67% of users on non-corporate accounts. Shadow AI is no...
Negotiating Your CISO Liability Package in 2026: D&O, Indemnification, and the Liability Stipend
Since the SEC named the SolarWinds CISO personally and NIS2, DORA, and CMMC 2.0 attached individual liability to security leaders, an offer letter wit...
Breaking Into AI Security: The New Specialist Career Path Nobody Has 10 Years of Experience In
AI security is the rare field where nobody holds 10 years of experience, because the attack surface barely existed five years ago. ISC2 now ranks AI/M...