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2025 was a wild ride for cyber security. The landscape is shifting faster than ever, and several themes stand out when I think about the most important cyber security lessons from the year.

Zero trust means no automatic trust; access is verified continuously. Key domains include identity, devices, applications, data, and telemetry. Experts emphasize scalable, incremental adoption for ...

The past 12 months have been a trying time for cyber security professionals globally. Most notably, they’ve had to contend with a rise in cyber attacks linked to the war in Ukraine. At the same time, ...

When I wrote about the state of data protection laws in the US in 2023, I spoke to Wade Barisoff, a cybersecurity expert, who told me that capitalism is holding back data security in the United States ...

In late February, UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit faced a significant ransomware attack, sending shockwaves through the healthcare sector with far-reaching financial consequences. It has ...

Over the past decade I have been blessed to cross paths with a few unique cybersecurity experts, leaders and luminaries who have demonstrated an amazing, even extraordinary, career in technology and ...

The highlight of October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month activities at Boston College was a presentation by former Federal Bureau of Investigation senior executive Joseph R. Bonavolonta, now ...

From the growing sophistication of zero-day exploits to the entrenchment of nation-state and cybercriminal alliances, 2024 delivered more evidence of how quickly the threat landscape continues to ...

Hacking group CL0P’s attacks on MOVEit point to ways that cyber extortion may be evolving, illuminating possible trends in who perpetrators target, when they time their attacks and how they put ...

On July 18, a New York federal judge threw out most of the SEC’s claims brought against both SolarWinds Corp. and the company’s chief information security officer (CISO), Timothy Brown. The judge will ...