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Meta Names Assaf Keren as Its New Chief Information Security Officer
The social media company has appointed a PayPal and Qualtrics veteran to lead its security operations, replacing the man who built the function from scratch.
Why the fastest way to get AI into your company is through the security team
Three-quarters of employees are already using AI at work. Security chiefs who build safe on-ramps are winning influence; those who say 'no' are being routed around.
AI Is Compressing the Cybersecurity Timeline. Security Teams Are Racing to Keep Up.
Artificial intelligence is speeding up both attack and defence at the same time. The organisations that survive the shift may not be the best-defended. They may simply be the fastest to act.
The CISO Who Started With Economics, Not Code
Andreas Gaetje runs cybersecurity for a 13,000-person German manufacturing giant. He has never been, in his own words, 'a deep bit-crawler'. That turns out to be beside the point.
A Quarter of Security Chiefs Thought About Quitting Last Year. AI is Why.
New survey data from Splunk shows the people responsible for keeping companies safe are burning out under the weight of AI risk, personal legal exposure, and executives who do not understand the problem.
Your AI Is Moving Faster Than Your Security Team Can Follow
Boards want CISOs to greenlight AI projects at speed. The problem is that the tools to track what those AI systems actually touch, and whether they are behaving safely, have not kept up.
Your Boss Is the Biggest Shadow AI Risk in the Building
New survey data shows senior executives are far more likely than ordinary staff to use unapproved AI tools, and that gap is quietly undermining every security policy their IT teams try to enforce.
Your Incident Response Playbook Almost Certainly Does Not Cover AI Failures. That Is a Problem.
Seven in ten organisations have AI plugged into their core systems, yet most security teams are trying to handle AI breakdowns with tools built for a completely different kind of threat.
Security Debt Is Growing Faster Than Companies Can Fix It. Here Is What That Means.
Eight in ten organisations are sitting on a backlog of unresolved security flaws that stretch back more than a year. A practical framework, first outlined in CSO Online, explains how to turn that problem into a board-level conversation.
From Unusual Path to the Top: What Tarah Wheeler's Career Tells Us About Who Gets to Lead in Cybersecurity
Tarah Wheeler is now a chief security officer at a firm that advises some of the highest-stakes organisations in the world. Her route there looked nothing like the standard playbook.
Seven Cyber Risk Assessment Mistakes That Give Security Leaders False Confidence
Experts say many organisations tick boxes, skip awkward corners of their networks, and confuse passing an audit with being secure. Here is what actually goes wrong.
A Year of Testing Has Cooled Security Teams' Enthusiasm for AI-Run Hacking Drills
Companies that hoped AI could fully replace human security testers have pulled back sharply. New data shows only 9% still trust fully automated systems — down from nearly a third just twelve months ago.
CISOs Are Betting Big on AI—But Is the Hype Outrunning the Evidence?
Reddit's CISO and an Omdia analyst weigh in on where AI security tooling actually delivers, and where the gap between pitch deck and production remains embarrassingly wide.
Chris Inglis on the Snowden Era: What NSA Got Wrong, and What CISOs Should Still Be Asking
The former NSA Deputy Director reflects on institutional failures, insider threat detection, and why 'enculturation' may matter more than access controls.
Identity Security as a Career On-Ramp: What One CISO Actually Thinks
Silverfort's John Paul Cunningham argues AI is opening doors in cybersecurity rather than closing them — and identity is where new practitioners should focus first.