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Agentic AI

Boards, Security Teams and the Cyber Fluency Gap

Anna Delaney  •  June 10, 2026

Cybersecurity's biggest gaps aren't technical - they're strategic. Purvi Kay, cybersecurity leader, TEDx speaker and diversity advocate, discusses why closing them demands stronger leadership, smarter boardrooms and a workforce built on cognitive diversity.

3rd Party Risk Management

Resilience Must Be Built Before Crisis Strikes

Anna Delaney  •  June 10, 2026

Security leaders can't afford to treat resilience as a response to crisis. Security expert Ragna Sveinsdottir stresses that organizations must build resilience into services from the outset, while balancing AI adoption, supply chain risk and the growing need for collaboration across teams and industries.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Are Small Models Closing the Gap on Frontier AI Cyber Tools?

Rashmi Ramesh  •  June 10, 2026

Anthropic's release of Fable 5 is fueling the debate over whether frontier AI is an essential tool for security. Experts say smaller models increasingly match frontier systems on routine security tasks, but frontier models retain an edge in discovering complex, previously unknown vulnerabilities.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

White House Calls for More AI Adoption in National Security

Greg Sirico  •  June 9, 2026

The Trump administration's directed the military and intelligence agencies Friday to accelerate advanced artificial intelligence adoption while reducing barriers to deployment. It blames "undue bureaucracy" for a slower-than-desired pace of uptake.

Identity Scams Evolve Into Multi-Stage Attacks

Tiffany Wang  •  June 9, 2026

Identity theft scams are increasingly unfolding as coordinated, AI-assisted attack chains that begin with phishing or impersonation escalate into account takeovers, device compromise and broader fraud, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Anthropic Unveils Claude Fable 5, Keeps Mythos Restricted

Michael Novinson  •  June 9, 2026

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 as its most capable publicly available AI model while restricting Mythos 5 to vetted organizations, pairing major advances in software engineering and autonomous reasoning with new safeguards designed to limit cybersecurity misuse.

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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Why AI Ethics Is Becoming a Core CIO Responsibility

Jennifer Lawinski  •  June 9, 2026

As AI adoption accelerates, CIOs are being pushed into a new role: defining how ethics shape enterprise technology decisions. Robert Levitan explains why compliance alone isn't enough. Governance, trust and mission alignment now matter more than speed.

Endpoint Security

UK Vows Device-Level Controls for Smartphone Underage Nudes

David Meyer  •  June 9, 2026

The British government is demanding that smartphone giants Apple and Google ensure underage users of iOS and Android devices can no longer take, send or view nude photographs.

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Cybercrime

Ransomware Thrives by Adapting Faster Than Defenders

Mathew J. Schwartz  •  June 9, 2026

Ransomware groups are simplifying operations, embracing service-based business models and increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities instead of relying on phishing. Thom Langford of Rapid7 explains why organizations must improve vulnerability prioritization before AI-driven flood of new flaws arrives.

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Advanced SOC Operations / CSOC

When Burnout Becomes a Cybersecurity Control Failure

Mathew J. Schwartz  •  June 9, 2026

Cybersecurity burnout is no longer just a wellness concern. It's an operational risk that quietly degrades the capability of cyber defenders, says Peter Coroneos, founder and chairman of Cybermindz. Cyber burnout levels now exceed those of frontline healthcare workers.

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Agentic AI

Security Leaders Must Stop Living by the Framework

Anna Delaney  •  June 9, 2026

Cybersecurity leaders who still operate through the lens of frameworks and risk registers could be irrelevant in a world where business moves without them, said Paul Watts, CISO at Keywords Studios. He recommends investing in both AI and people to sustain operations over the long haul, he said.

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Agentic AI

Cyber Risk Contracts Have Become the Weakest Link

Anna Delaney  •  June 9, 2026

As organizations outsource more crown jewels to third-party vendors and silently roll out AI, the old playbook of contracts and one-time due diligence is dangerously out of date, says Jonathan Armstrong, partner at Punter Southall Law.