Stop fixing OT security with IT thinking

In this Help Net Security interview, Ejona Preçi, Group CISO at Lindal Group, discusses the specific cybersecurity challenges in manufacturing environments. The conversation covers why standard IT security practices break down on shop floors, where PLC… Continue reading Stop fixing OT security with IT thinking

Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets

Cybercriminals spent much of 2025 automating their operations, shifting from one-off attacks to systems that can run entire intrusion cycles with minimal human input. Data collected from criminal forums, illicit marketplaces, and underground chat servi… Continue reading Agentic attack chains advance as infostealers flood criminal markets

Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner

Running AWS security audits without a dedicated security team typically means choosing between enterprise platforms with per-check billing and generic open-source scanners that produce findings with no remediation guidance. Cloud-audit, a Python CLI to… Continue reading Cloud-audit: Fast, open-source AWS security scanner

Airbus CSO on supply chain blind spots, space threats, and the limits of AI red-teaming

Pascal Andrei, CSO at Airbus, knows that the aerospace and defense sector is facing a threat environment that is evolving faster than most organizations can track. From sub-tier suppliers quietly becoming entry points for state-backed attackers, to sat… Continue reading Airbus CSO on supply chain blind spots, space threats, and the limits of AI red-teaming

Decoding silence: How deaf and hard-of-hearing pros are breaking into cybersecurity

Stu Hirst was already a CISO when he started to go deaf. It was 2023, and the hearing loss crept in over months, enough for him to adapt, to lean on hearing aids and captions, to quietly reorganize his calendar around the cognitive load of processing s… Continue reading Decoding silence: How deaf and hard-of-hearing pros are breaking into cybersecurity

Cybersecurity professionals are burning out on extra hours every week

Cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. are working an average of 10.8 extra hours per week beyond their contracted schedules, according to survey data collected from 300 cybersecurity and IT leaders by Sapio Research. That figure effectively adds a si… Continue reading Cybersecurity professionals are burning out on extra hours every week

Cybersecurity is now the price of admission for industrial AI

Industrial organizations are accelerating AI deployment across manufacturing, utilities, and transportation and running straight into a security problem. Cisco’s 2026 State of Industrial AI Report, based on responses from more than 1,000 decision… Continue reading Cybersecurity is now the price of admission for industrial AI

AI went from assistant to autonomous actor and security never caught up

Enterprise AI deployments have shifted from pilot programs to production systems handling customer data, executing business transactions, and integrating with core infrastructure. That has exposed a significant gap between what AI agents can do and wha… Continue reading AI went from assistant to autonomous actor and security never caught up

Your dependencies are 278 days out of date and your pipelines aren’t protected

Applications continue to ship with known weaknesses even as development workflows speed up. A new Datadog State of DevSecOps 2026 report examines how dependency management and pipeline practices are influencing exposure across cloud native environments… Continue reading Your dependencies are 278 days out of date and your pipelines aren’t protected