Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tech CEO Covering Cybersecurity, AI, Compliance & National Security. Every year I conduct a year end review to understand the ...

Cybersecurity has historically been viewed by companies as a loss center rather than a strategic capability. But in 2025, the growing influence of AI made that approach far riskier. The spread of AI ...

Over the past few years, I have learned quite a bit about the cyber workforce from the annual ISC2 workforce development report. For example, last year I analyzed the ISC2 report in this blog, but ...

2025 was a big year for cybersecurity, with major cyberattacks, data breaches, threat groups reaching new notoriety levels, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in incidents. Some ...

For cybersecurity startups in 2025, the emergence of AI and agentic have rapidly come to dominate—though there are plenty of signs that it’s not just marketing hype. Beyond the massive funding rounds ...

As I talk to many CISOs and other security leaders around the country during the second half of 2025, the budget outlook appears to be mixed in both the public and private sectors. But at a time when ...

The 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study finds that skills shortages now pose a greater risk to security effectiveness than staffing levels, even as budget pressures show signs of stabilizing.