Tag: skills

Crooks are hijacking and reselling AI infrastructure: Report

Jan 29, 2026 5:21 AM

Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, business, cloud, communications, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, firewall, group, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, LLM, malicious, marketplace, risk, service, skills, technology, theft, threat, training, vulnerability

exposed endpoints on default ports of common LLM inference services;unauthenticated API access without proper access controls;development/staging environments with public IP addresses;MCP servers connecting LLMs to file systems, databases and internal APIs.Common misconfigurations leveraged by these threat actors include:Ollama running on port 11434 without authentication;OpenAI-compatible APIs on port 8000 exposed to the internet;MCP servers accessible without…
Skills CISOs need to master in 2026

Jan 28, 2026 9:21 AM

Tags: access, ai, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, finance, firewall, group, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, resilience, risk, risk-management, skills, strategy, threat, tool, training

Top technical skills: In addition to strong knowledge of AI systems, today’s CISOs need a solid foundation in the technologies that define modern enterprise environments. The (ISC)² CISSP is still widely regarded as the gold standard for broad expertise in security architecture, risk management, and governance. “Regulators will expect this, and it still appears in…
4 Probleme, die CISOs behindern

Jan 27, 2026 5:23 PM

Tags: ai, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, data, framework, governance, risk, risk-management, skills, strategy, tool, vulnerability-management

Lesen Sie, welche strategischen Probleme CISOs bei ihren Aufgaben behindern.Viele Sicherheitsverantwortliche glauben, dass ein Cybervorfall unvermeidlich ist unklsar ist lediglich der Zeitpunkt. Diese Überzeugung spiegelt sich in der gängigen Redewendung wider, dass es nicht darum geht, ‘ob”, sondern ‘wann” ein Angriff erfolgt.Eine wachsende Zahl von CISOs rechnet jedoch eher früher als später mit einem Vorfall:…
4 issues holding back CISOs’ security agendas

Jan 27, 2026 9:21 AM

Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, framework, governance, intelligence, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, sans, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

2. Inability to keep pace with AI innovation and adoption: Executives and employees alike have been rushing to adopt artificial intelligence, enticed by expectations that AI will transform workflows and save time, money, and effort.But CISOs for the most part have not kept pace with their business colleagues’ rate of AI adoption.According to a survey…
Latin American Orgs Lack Confidence in Cyber Defenses, Skills

Jan 22, 2026 6:46 PM

Tags: cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, defense, infrastructure, skills, usa

Cybersecurity professionals in Latin America are least likely to have faith in their countries’ preparedness for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, the World Economic Forum says. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/latin-american-confidence-cyber-defenses-skills
From arts degree to cybersecurity: Rona Michele Spiegel brings fresh perspective to cyber leadership

Jan 19, 2026 10:13 AM

Tags: ai, awareness, business, cisco, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, group, hacking, Hardware, intelligence, jobs, network, office, penetration-testing, privacy, psychology, risk, risk-management, skills, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, vulnerability

Rona Michele Spiegel’s journey to cybersecurity might seem unconventional to some: She studied the arts. But as someone who grew up when computers first appeared and everyone wanted to experiment with them, she did a lot of multimedia work. She was always interested in technology and discussed with art colleagues about where the world was…
Iran’s partial internet shutdown may be a windfall for cybersecurity intel

Jan 14, 2026 10:12 PM

Tags: attack, backup, business, ceo, china, ciso, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, dns, finance, gartner, government, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, jobs, malicious, malware, service, siem, skills, soc, threat, zero-trust

only available launchpads. A connection from the Ministry of Agriculture might not be a farmer. It’s likely a tunnel for a state actor who needs an exit node.”Ranjbar said the removal of the traffic from millions of routine Iranian business and residential users allows a powerful visibility into Iranian government traffic patterns, thereby allowing SOCs…
Cybersecurity risk will accelerate this year, fueled in part by AI, says World Economic Forum

Jan 13, 2026 11:02 PM

Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, ciso, control, country, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, exploit, finance, framework, fraud, governance, healthcare, incident, infrastructure, international, middle-east, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability

AI is anticipated to be the most significant driver of change in cybersecurity in 2026, according to 94% of survey respondents;87% of respondents said AI-related vulnerabilities had increased in the past year. Other cyber risks that had increased were (in order) cyber-enabled fraud and phishing, supply chain disruption, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities;confidence in national cyber…
We’re Hiring: Hacking Groups Recruit Teens While Feds Want to Ground Them

Jan 12, 2026 11:01 AM

Tags: group, hacking, skills

Explore the troubling trend of teenagers being recruited into hacking groups, the challenges in countering this rise, and the efforts to redirect their skills towards ethical hacking. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/were-hiring-hacking-groups-recruit-teens-while-feds-want-to-ground-them/
Like it or not, AI will transform cyber strategy in 2026

Jan 9, 2026 7:01 AM

Tags: ai, compliance, cyber, governance, intelligence, risk, skills, strategy

Bubble or no bubble, from cyber skills to defensive strategies to governance, risk and compliance, artificial intelligence will remake the cyber world in 2026 First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366637095/Like-it-or-not-AI-will-transform-cyber-strategy-in-2026
BBC Bitesize Launches Media Literacy Series To Help Teens Separate Fact From Fiction Online

Jan 8, 2026 6:03 PM

Tags: skills

Critical thinking and media literacy are now seen as essential skills for young people, yet many schools lack the resources to teach them, according to new research with teachers, commissioned for BBC Bitesize. Over half of teachers say they need more support to help pupils identify misinformation, as teens increasingly struggle to separate fact from…
Top cyber threats to your AI systems and infrastructure

Jan 8, 2026 9:01 AM

Tags: ai, api, attack, best-practice, business, chatgpt, ciso, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, framework, governance, hacker, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, LLM, malicious, mitre, monitoring, open-source, RedTeam, risk, sans, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, theft, threat, tool, training, unauthorized, usa, vulnerability

Data poisoning Data poisoning is a type of attack in which bad actorsmanipulate, tamper with, and pollute the data used to develop or train AI systems, including machine learning models. By corrupting the data or introducing faulty data, attackers can alter, bias, or otherwise render inaccurate a model’s performance.Imagine an attack that tells a model…
‘Cybersecurity Skills Gap 2025″-Report – KI allein kann das Skill Gap in der Cybersecurity nicht füllen

Jan 7, 2026 5:01 PM

Tags: ai, cybersecurity, skills

First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/ki-cybersicherheit-fachkraeftemangel-risiken-a-2e37ef77e250ea51362de81ca1073264/
AI, Quantum, and the New Threat Frontier: What Will Define Cybersecurity in 2026?

Jan 6, 2026 10:52 AM

Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, computing, container, control, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, encryption, exploit, finance, flaw, framework, governance, government, healthcare, iam, identity, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, metric, monitoring, network, nist, open-source, oracle, regulation, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, waf, zero-day, zero-trust

AI, Quantum, and the New Threat Frontier: What Will Define Cybersecurity in 2026? madhav Tue, 01/06/2026 – 04:44 If we think 2025 has been fast-paced, it’s going to feel like a warm-up for the changes on the horizon in 2026. Every time this year, Thales experts become cybersecurity oracles and predict where the industry is…
6 strategies for building a high-performance cybersecurity team

Jan 6, 2026 8:52 AM

Tags: advisory, ai, apple, attack, business, ciso, communications, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, intelligence, resilience, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

2. Be clear on the mission: Sharon Chand, US cyber defense and resilience leader at professional services firm Deloitte, says a characteristic of a high-performing team is alignment on the team’s mission.To do that, though, team members need to know what the mission is and buy into it.”It has to be a very clear mission…
6 strategies for building a high-performance cybersecurity team

Jan 6, 2026 8:52 AM

Tags: advisory, ai, apple, attack, business, ciso, communications, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, intelligence, resilience, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

2. Be clear on the mission: Sharon Chand, US cyber defense and resilience leader at professional services firm Deloitte, says a characteristic of a high-performing team is alignment on the team’s mission.To do that, though, team members need to know what the mission is and buy into it.”It has to be a very clear mission…
Cybersecurity leaders’ resolutions for 2026

Jan 5, 2026 8:52 AM

Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, communications, compliance, computing, control, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, encryption, exploit, fedramp, finance, governance, group, identity, incident response, intelligence, jobs, mitigation, office, resilience, risk, saas, service, skills, soc, social-engineering, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

2. AI will dominate the agenda: Standard Chartered group CISO Cezary Piekarski expects his agenda to be dominated by AI in two ways: defining both the threat landscape and defensive architecture.”Speed is essential when mitigating attacks so leveraging AI and orchestration tools allows us to quickly automate detection and streamline incident response,” Piekarski says. “This…
Cybersecurity skills matter more than headcount in the AI era

Jan 2, 2026 8:52 AM

Tags: ai, cloud, cybersecurity, data, finance, jobs, risk, skills, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability

AI adoption accelerates: The research found that AI adoption is accelerating quickly, with 28% of respondents reporting that they have already integrated AI tools into their operations and 69% involved in some level of adoption, through integration, active testing, or early evaluation.”What stands out is how fast AI has moved from experimentation into day-to-day operations.…
Top 10 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026

Jan 1, 2026 10:52 AM

Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, backdoor, backup, best-practice, blockchain, breach, business, ceo, china, ciso, cloud, communications, compliance, computer, computing, conference, control, corporate, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, defense, detection, disinformation, email, encryption, espionage, exploit, extortion, finance, fraud, governance, government, group, hacker, hacking, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, korea, law, linkedin, LLM, malicious, malware, mfa, military, monitoring, msp, mssp, network, nist, north-korea, organized, phishing, privacy, programming, ransom, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-management, russia, scam, service, skills, soc, social-engineering, software, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, ukraine, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, warfare, windows, zero-day

Top 10 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 The year AI changes cybersecurity forever Cybersecurity predictions are an opportunity to look forward instead of back, to be proactive instead of reactive, and to consider how changes in attackers, technology, and the security industry will impact the sustainability of managing cyber risks. Gaining future insights to the threats, targets,…
OpenAI is reportedly testing Claude-like Skills for ChatGPT

Dec 25, 2025 12:19 AM

Tags: chatgpt, openai, skills

OpenAI is testing a new ChatGPT feature called “Skills,” which will be similar to Claude’s feature, also called Skills. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-is-reportedly-testing-claude-like-skills-for-chatgpt/
Cybersecurity Interviews Are Risk Assessments in Disguise

Dec 24, 2025 5:19 PM

Tags: cybersecurity, jobs, risk, risk-assessment, skills

Job Seekers Need to Demonstrate Good Judgement and Trust – Not Just Skills Cybersecurity job interviews function much more like risk assessments. Hiring managers are not searching for perfection. They are working to reduce uncertainty about how someone will think, decide and behave when systems fail, pressure mounts and information is incomplete. First seen on…
Why Networking Is Your Secret Weapon in Cybersecurity Job Hunting

Dec 22, 2025 11:18 AM

Tags: conference, cybersecurity, jobs, open-source, skills

In this episode, Tom Eston discusses the unique challenges in the current cybersecurity job market, emphasizing the importance of networking. Tom provides practical tips on how to enhance networking skills, such as attending conferences, volunteering for open source projects, creating a blog, and seeking mentors. He also addresses misconceptions about the job shortage in cybersecurity……
Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Emerge as Bold AI Adopters, While AI Changes Data Security Game, CSA Reports Say

Dec 19, 2025 7:19 PM

Tags: advisory, ai, api, attack, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credit-card, crime, crimes, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, finance, framework, google, governance, guide, healthcare, injection, intelligence, law, LLM, lockbit, malicious, metric, mitigation, monitoring, network, office, openai, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, skills, sql, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Formerly “AI shy” cyber pros have done a 180 and become AI power users, as AI forces data security changes, the CSA says. Plus, PwC predicts orgs will get serious about responsible AI usage in 2026, while the NCSC states that, no, prompt injection isn’t the new SQL injection. And much more! Key takeaways Cyber…
Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Emerge as Bold AI Adopters, While AI Changes Data Security Game, CSA Reports Say

Dec 19, 2025 7:19 PM

Tags: advisory, ai, api, attack, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credit-card, crime, crimes, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, finance, framework, google, governance, guide, healthcare, injection, intelligence, law, LLM, lockbit, malicious, metric, mitigation, monitoring, network, office, openai, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, skills, sql, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Formerly “AI shy” cyber pros have done a 180 and become AI power users, as AI forces data security changes, the CSA says. Plus, PwC predicts orgs will get serious about responsible AI usage in 2026, while the NCSC states that, no, prompt injection isn’t the new SQL injection. And much more! Key takeaways Cyber…
Arctic Wolf CEO On How AI Will ‘Revolutionize’ The SOC, MSP Opportunities In 2026

Dec 18, 2025 8:19 PM

Tags: ai, ceo, cybersecurity, msp, skills, soc

In an interview with CRN, Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider said that the cybersecurity skills shortage will to a large degree be solvable as AI and agentic capabilities become more available in the Security Operations Center (SOC). First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/arctic-wolf-ceo-on-how-ai-will-revolutionize-the-soc-msp-opportunities-in-2026
Arctic Wolf CEO On How AI Will ‘Revolutionize’ The SOC, MSP Opportunities In 2026

Dec 18, 2025 8:19 PM

Tags: ai, ceo, cybersecurity, msp, skills, soc

In an interview with CRN, Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider said that the cybersecurity skills shortage will to a large degree be solvable as AI and agentic capabilities become more available in the Security Operations Center (SOC). First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/arctic-wolf-ceo-on-how-ai-will-revolutionize-the-soc-msp-opportunities-in-2026
How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
The Burnout Nobody Talks About: When “Always-On” Leadership Becomes a Liability

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: business, cybersecurity, data, incident response, international, resilience, risk, risk-management, skills, threat

In cybersecurity, being “always on” is often treated like a badge of honor. We celebrate the leaders who respond at all hours, who jump into every incident, who never seem to unplug. Availability gets confused with commitment. Urgency gets mistaken for effectiveness. And somewhere along the way, exhaustion becomes normalized”, if not quietly admired. But…