“If you are solving problems at human speed, you are at a huge disadvantage, because your attackers are operating at machine speed.” As cyber risk – in both the financial services sector and more broadly – accelerates at the pace of automation and AI, securing our future requires practitioners to be more strategic than the threat actors after our assets.

The New Year is upon us and with a new year comes new changes. Cyber Santa is back with his predictions for the coming year and how cyber will evolve in the next 365 days. SecurityScorecard CISO Steve Cobb returns in his jolly red hat and white beard to shake his snow globe and see what's ahead for the cybersecurity industry in 2026 and what you need to know going into the new year. CISO responsibility, data sprawl, and AI governance are the top 3 on the list of emerging priorities.

Security researcher and analyst Jon Oltsik talks about the importance of shifting lift and employing threat informed defense in this short clip.