Risk Assessments/Management

Respondents report third party risk assessments take several months and only cover a fraction of vendors.

The 2025 CBEST report, analyzing 13 assessments and regulator-backed penetration tests, identified common weaknesses such as poor access controls, weak passwords, misconfigured systems, and inadequate intrusion detection mechanisms among financial businesses and financial market infrastructures (FMIs).

The World Economic Forum's Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 survey reveals that 94% of respondents believe AI will be the primary driver of cybersecurity change in 2026, and 87% acknowledge an increase in AI-related vulnerabilities.

Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Intel Officer Wendi Whitmore said that AI agents are emerging as a major internal security risk for companies in 2026, as organizations rapidly adopt autonomous tools, according to The Register.

At RSAC 2026, Absolute Security and CyberRisk Alliance will honor five winners with the brand-new Resilient CISO Award. Here's how to submit your nominations.

In an era dominated by AI-powered security tools and cloud-native architectures, are traditional Web Application Firewalls still relevant? Join us as we speak with Felipe Zipitria, co-leader of the OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS) project. Felipe has been at the forefront of open-source security, leading the development of one of the world's most widely d...

CyberScoop reports that Opexus, a software provider contracted by the federal government, has acknowledged its failure to properly vet twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, who have been charged and arrested over hacking its systems earlier this year, or a decade after they had been imprisoned for conspiring to infiltrate the State Department as government contractors.

This episode was about agentic IAM—what it is and the risks that come with letting non-human agents act for customers. We defined external IAM, then traced how the industry moved from basic login and MFA to consent, delegation, and now agent-to-agent interactions. Along the way we unpacked key risks for CISOs and practitioners to consider. Segment...