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Regularly reviewing cybersecurity plans and procedures helps organizations prepare for cyberattacks. This checklist outlines key steps for assessing cyber resilience.

Effective cybersecurity awareness programs manage human risk through role-based interventions, behavior change, continuous measurement and evolving threat scenarios.

The Revolut data breach showed what can happen when organizations over-trust and under-verify. Experts warn that countless companies are currently at risk.

OpenAI pledged $1B to cyber defenders the same day it released Astra — its most powerful offensive model yet. Some experts warn that defense is getting left behind.

A cybersecurity technology proof of concept can validate a good purchasing decision — or waste months of your team’s time. Look out for these five common PoC missteps.

This is your guide to the breaking news, trending topics and more at Black Hat USA 2026, from Dark Reading, Cybersecurity Dive and TechTarget Cybersecurity.

Security experts say the lesson isn’t to abandon sandboxing, but to strengthen the security controls around surrounding systems as AI tests their limits.

AI accelerates exploit timelines from months to hours. Organizations must shift from patch-all to risk-based prioritization using exploitability metrics.

Deepfake phishing simulation software uses AI to probe organizational resistance to state-of-the-art social engineering attacks. Learn why they should be on CISOs’ radar.

With so many services requiring access to sensitive data, encryption alone is not enough. Data obfuscation has evolved into a core element of modern cybersecurity architecture.

A security data lake gives organizations a centralized repository of security information, but it can pose governance and operational risks.

IAM is more crucial than ever in the AI era. To better control who — and what — is accessing systems and data, security teams need to move beyond standing access privileges.

In an unprecedented — and unintended — cyberattack, frontier AI models autonomously escaped their contained testing environment and breached another company’s systems.

OpenClaw introduces huge risks to enterprises, but employee adoption might be inevitable — whether CISOs sanction it or not. Here’s how to enable safer deployments.

How do security teams distinguish between people and AI? It’s getting harder, but behavioral biometrics might help discern human users from machine impersonators.

Employee behavior has always presented one of the biggest enterprise cybersecurity challenges. Add AI into the equation, and education and governance become even more critical.

As AI-discovered software vulnerabilities accumulate at an unprecedented pace, security pros say they hope Gold Eagle creates some order from the chaos.

AI tools can drive continuous, accurate SBOM management that turns compliance documentation into real-time supply chain security. Here’s what CISOs should know.

Being able to map cybersecurity controls to applicable standards and regulations can make compliance work less complicated – especially when automation and AI come into play.

IoT devices have significant business benefits but also open enterprises to escalating security risks. Discover why zero trust is the most practical way to secure IoT.