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CISOs Have Plenty Of Work To Do In An AI-Driven Future
As AI becomes more embedded in fundamental business processes, organizations can no longer settle for “secure enough.” Learn how AI is redefining the CISO role — and actions that they can take today.
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Project Glasswing Shows That AI Will Break The Vulnerability Management Playbook
Anthropic, along with 11 other companies, recently announced Project Glasswing — an initiative that aims to secure software in the wake of advances in AI capabilities, most notably Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview frontier model. Project Glasswing is made up of a who’s who of tech companies, cybersecurity vendors, and others: Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, […]
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RSAC Innovation Sandbox 2026: Two Sides Of AI On Display
AI already runs inside most enterprises. Forrester’s Q4 2025 AI Pulse Survey shows that 50% of organizations are piloting agentic AI, while 24% have it in production. Security teams are catching up after the fact. The RSAC Innovation Sandbox (ISB) finalists — Charm Security, Clearly AI, Crash Override, Fig Security, Geordie AI, Glide Identity, Humanix, […]
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RSAC 2026: An AI Coming-Of-Age Story Without The Romance
RSAC Conference 2026 has come and gone. Gone, too, are the petting zoos of yesteryear, replaced this year by — of all things — pop-up tattoo parlors. Or as one attendee observed, “We’ve traded livestock for live needles.” This year’s attendance of over 43,500 was flat compared to 2025, but the sessions and exhibit floor […]
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Geopolitical Volatility Has Become A Technology Leadership Test
Geopolitical volatility is testing and redefining technology leadership, demanding sharper trade-offs, stronger resilience, and faster decisions from CIOs and CISOs. Read guidance from our new research to help navigate these challenges.
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Prevent MDR-To-IR Handoff Chaos Before A Breach
Security leaders often assume that once they’ve invested in managed detection and response (MDR) services, the hardest parts of breach detection and response are behind them. Alerts are monitored. Playbooks exist. Someone is watching the environment 24/7. Then, they have a security incident. It escalates quickly. And the response feels less coordinated than expected. We […]
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White House Announces The 2026 Cyber Strategy For America
On Friday, March 6, the Trump administration released the latest US national cybersecurity strategy, President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America, alongside an executive order on combating cybercrime and fraud. The document, focused on six core pillars, is the briefest cybersecurity strategy released by the US in the last decade. The biggest challenge with the document […]
Now On Demand: 2026 Tech And Security Predictions
Missed it live? Watch our on-demand webinar to explore our 2026 predictions. Learn what tech and security leaders must do to lead with trust and value.
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Unified Financial Crime Management Is Not Just For Small And Regional Banks
Fraud management and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions share common traits and requirements: Both are about risk scoring of entities (names, phone numbers, email addresses, accounts) and routing and investigating alerts and cases to AI agents and human investigators. While smaller, regional financial institutions (FIs) and insurers have always been motivated to consolidate tools and resources […]
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Skills And Training Platforms, Q1 2026
The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Skills And Training Platforms, Q1 2026 is now live, and it lands at a moment when security leaders are under real pressure to prove readiness and resilience. Automation and AI have compressed attacker timelines, blurred role boundaries across security teams, and exposed the limits of certification-first training models. What matters now […]
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2026 Really Is This Risky: Our Top Recommendations For CISOs
Security leaders entered 2026 with little expectation that uncertainty will ease … ever. Economic pressure, geopolitical instability, accelerating artificial intelligence adoption, and renewed technology consolidation have turned volatility into a structural condition rather than a temporary disruption. This is life now, and CISOs are being asked to move faster, support aggressive AI initiatives, and protect […]
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What We’re Looking Forward To At The RSAC 2026 Conference
The annual RSAC Conference in San Francisco is the cybersecurity industry’s biggest event of the year. For the analysts attending, RSAC Conference week provides an opportunity to learn about cybersecurity trends and topics, meet with vendors and clients, and share our insights and observations. It’s also an excellent opportunity to meet our daily step goals […]
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Think Hardware Security Modules Aren’t Exciting? Think Post-Quantum Migration!
Hardware security modules (HSMs) are a key foundational security component of public key infrastructure. HSMs hold the crown-jewel keys for encryption and digital signatures and perform encryption and decryption operations on protected data and payment information. While HSMs have been in use for decades, they now play an oversized role in migrating to post-quantum security […]
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Weaponized Insiders Can Result In Big Consequences
The US Department of the Treasury recently announced that it is canceling all of its contracts, reportedly valued at $21 million, with technology provider Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) due to an insider incident that occurred between 2018 and 2020. The incident resulted in the theft of tax return data for more than 400,000 US taxpayers and the release of tax information about high-net-worth […]
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Ready For OpenClaw To Pry Into Your Environment And Grip Your Data
A formidable challenge awaits security leaders as personal tools like Moltbot spread. AI butlers are the next shadow super-user.
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Mastering An Effective Executive Tabletop Exercise: Deriving Maximum Value And Impact
So you’ve decided to run an executive tabletop exercise (TTX) and pulled off the Herculean feat of getting it scheduled. Will this be a career-limiting move or career highlight? Let’s go for the latter. Done right, a good TTX will drive tremendous value for the company and garner you accolades. I have yet to do […]
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The Success Of Your Proactive Security Strategy Depends On Your Answer To Six Questions
Proactive security has always been based on three principles: visibility, prioritization, and remediation. But in the age of AI, each principle will continue to experience challenges. In our latest research, The Future Of Proactive Security, we found that the future of proactive security hinges on how well teams answer six foundational questions across each principle: what, when, where, why, how, and who. Since AI accelerates […]
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ServiceNow Buys Armis To Improve Its Proactive Security Platform
ServiceNow has announced its intent to acquire proactive security platform vendor Armis in a cash deal valued at $7.75 billion.
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Women In Security, Holiday Shopping Trends, AI Agents In Content
Happy New Year! We kick off 2026 by unpacking lessons from 2025 and what they signal for the year ahead. This episode brings together security, marketing, and content leaders’ perspectives so you can act with confidence.
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MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations Return: More Coverage, More Nuance
There were many big changes in this latest round. Read our breakdown and what we learned.
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Updating Our Security Champions Research To Expand And Strengthen Security
A strong security culture is the foundation of an effective security program. That’s why we’re revisiting essential research that explores how to build a security champions network, examining how security champion networks can help scale influence, embed security into everyday decisions, and foster trust across the business.
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