“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.

In this end-of-year episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Omer Yoachimik, Senior Product Manager for DDoS Protection at Cloudflare, to break down the realities of the 2025 DDoS threat landscape — and what’s coming next.

The Razorwire Christmas Party 2025 episode compares most cyber incidents to shoplifting rather than aviation disasters, with losses treated as part of the cost of doing business. Burnout in 2025 often grows from false positives, alert fatigue and badly shaped workflows, so security economics and ergonomics matter more than dramatic nation state stories.