TechSpective’s Cybersecurity section covers cybersecurity the way security professionals actually think about it — not as a compliance checkbox or a vendor marketing opportunity, but as a real and evolving discipline with genuine stakes. The coverage spans threat intelligence, incident response, zero trust architecture, identity security, ransomware, AI risk, and the business decisions that sit underneath all of it.
The average enterprise now runs more than 45 separate security products, according to a Gartner estimate Sophos cited when it introduced Sophos Fusion in July. That sprawl means more dashboards and manual correlation work for security teams already outnumbered by […]
Sophos Fusion Aims To Replace Security Tool Sprawl With One AI System Read More »
ReliaQuest’s 2026 Annual Threat Report found that attackers moved from initial access to lateral movement in as little as four minutes last year, the fastest breakout time the company has recorded and 85% quicker than the previous year’s mark. The
ReliaQuest Wants to Beat Attackers at Their Own AI Speed Game Read More »
When an autonomous AI escapes its sandbox to hack a major tech company, science fiction becomes science fact. It is time for executives to take rogue foundation models incredibly seriously. I have spent decades analyzing the technology industry, observing the
Runaway Foundation Models Prove We Must Prepare For A Sci-Fi Cyber Disaster Read More »
Most AI-driven security tools lean on retrieval-augmented generation: pull relevant precedent, drop it into the context window, let the model reason over it. It works, but it has a cost problem and a consistency problem. The more data you feed
Building an AI That Learns Like an Analyst Read More »
Microsoft Patch Tuesdays are getting bigger. In a blog post published July 9, Windows and Devices EVP Pavan Davuluri explained that AI is now helping Windows engineers find security flaws that used to sit undiscovered in the code for years,
Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday Is A Sign It’s Time To Rethink The Process Read More »
The rise of remote work has changed the way security teams think about where sensitive data lives and how it moves. Today, these sensitive assets are no longer confined to office networks, on-prem servers, and managed devices. Instead, it’s spread
What Makes a DLP Solution Effective for Remote Teams? Read More »
The data coming out of 2025 shows a clear shift in how ransomware operates, and in how organizations need to think about resilience. Disclosed ransomware attacks rose by nearly 50% year over year — a record high — while an
Recovery Confidence and the New Reality of Ransomware Read More »
As new cyber attack patterns emerge, researchers often update their latest threat intelligence reports. For teams that know how to use them, these reports are among the most powerful inputs available for making smarter security decisions. A threat intelligence report
How to Use Threat Intelligence Reports to Make Better Security Decisions Read More »
Most cloud security tools have a detection problem. They find misconfigurations well enough. The issue is what happens after — a ticket gets opened, someone works the queue, the fix goes in, and three weeks later the same misconfiguration is
The Remediation Cycle No Security Team Wants to Be Running Read More »
Last year, a “lead AI architect” applied for a job at Nisos, a company that investigates online fraud for a living. The resume mirrored Nisos’ own job posting almost word for word, including a specific phrase about evaluating emerging agentic
Who’s Really on the Other End of That Job Interview? Read More »
