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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.
What separates a good security engineer from a great one in 2025
New research and industry voices spell out exactly what companies should demand when hiring the people who keep their systems safe, and why the old checklist of certifications no longer cuts it.
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.
The Cybersecurity Skills Gap Is Real. But We're Measuring the Wrong Thing.
Companies keep buying courses and certifications. Breaches keep happening anyway. The problem is not a shortage of trained people. It is a shortage of people who have actually practised under fire.
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.
The AI-SOC Is Maturing Fast. Here Are the Human Roles It Actually Creates.
Autonomous triage agents are already displacing Tier 1 analyst work. But the agentic SOC depends on a new class of human specialists — and those roles are filling now.