Treasury to help financial firms transition to quantum-resistant encryption

The government is concerned that hackers could someday decrypt financial information and other secrets using code-breaking quantum computers.

By Eric Geller • Aug. 26, 2026

House Democrats ask GAO to study CISA workforce cuts

Five lawmakers serving on the Homeland Security Committee said Congress didn’t know enough about the Trump administration’s changes to the cybersecurity agency.

By Eric Geller • Aug. 24, 2026

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Fitch explains how water, healthcare organizations can keep strong credit ratings despite cyberattacks

Resilience, not prevention, is key, analysts at the credit-rating agency said in a pair of new reports.

By Eric Geller • Aug. 20, 2026

AI-powered vulnerability clearinghouse faces deep skepticism, major challenges

The U.S. government’s promises about the Gold Eagle coordination program are overblown, experts said, but the initiative could help organizations prioritize patching and mitigation.

By Eric Geller • Aug. 18, 2026

US government will let private companies hack criminal gangs

The new program, meant to aggressively disrupt costly cybercrime schemes, carries numerous legal and security risks.

By Eric Geller • Updated Aug. 13, 2026

CVE Program eyes automation and globalization to weather AI ‘vulnpocalypse’

The vulnerability coordination project has had a rocky few years, but a key leader says it will “flourish and improve.”

By Eric Geller • Aug. 11, 2026

AI firms know policymakers won’t ‘let you make a Terminator factory,’ DHS official says

The Trump administration believes leading AI companies have learned important lessons from recent incidents and regulation isn’t necessary to preserve those lessons.

By Eric Geller • Aug. 7, 2026

Western government leaders call for a focus on infrastructure resilience, not AI hype

U.S. and allied officials said companies should start preparing now for a cyberattack that changes how they provide essential services.

By Eric Geller • Aug. 5, 2026

CISA is prioritizing work with critical infrastructure as it begins to recover from cuts

The agency has been focused on helping secure systems at drinking and wastewater utilities in recent weeks.

By David Jones • Aug. 5, 2026

Tech industry alliance proposes AI agent safety reporting program

The information-sharing exchange is designed to widely share lessons learned from agentic AI security incidents.

By Eric Geller • Aug. 4, 2026

Shadow AI, leadership resistance make AI governance tough for worried CISOs

Fewer than half of CISOs think their bosses see AI security as a business enabler, according to an Okta survey.

By Eric Geller • July 30, 2026

As data breaches grow costlier, ungoverned AI creates new risks

Meanwhile, many companies still aren’t doing the basics to protect on-premises data, IBM found.

By Eric Geller • July 29, 2026

Companies fear AI risks more than common cybersecurity threats

That misprioritization could blind companies to the threats they should be focusing on, Arctic Wolf said in a new report.

By Eric Geller • July 28, 2026

Tech industry giants say US must embrace openness, transparency in AI

Open-source and open-weight AI models are essential cybersecurity tools, two groups of major AI and security firms said.

By Eric Geller • July 27, 2026

GAO report details scope of cybersecurity regulation overlap

A morass of rules is forcing companies to report the same information multiple times — and sometimes, those rules conflict.

By Eric Geller • July 23, 2026

US launches vulnerability clearinghouse amid AI-fueled surge in flaws

The Trump administration hopes the program will accelerate the discovery and fixing of serious technical problems before hackers exploit them.

By Eric Geller • July 15, 2026

Businesses modernizing networks for AI fear expanding attack surface, limited visibility

IT leaders are worried that security controls aren’t keeping pace with threats to AI systems.

By Eric Geller • July 7, 2026

Most cybersecurity workers have been told to conceal a breach, report finds

Security firm Bitdefender also found that U.S. companies were simultaneously more confident and more strained on cyber defense than foreign peers.

By Eric Geller • July 2, 2026

DHS proposes new system for public-private infrastructure security collaboration

The Trump administration eliminated the previous framework in 2025, sparking backlash from experts and infrastructure operators.

By Eric Geller • June 30, 2026

Software, AI companies form alliance to tackle open-source security flaws

The emergence of frontier AI models has increased the speed and capabilities of malicious hackers.

By David Jones • June 26, 2026

White House’s state infrastructure cybersecurity initiative stalled

The Trump administration says it wants to help states implement innovative defenses. Most states are still waiting for the call to participate.

By Eric Geller • June 24, 2026

Looming AI-fueled threats require urgent cybersecurity improvements, Five Eyes members say

The intelligence-sharing alliance said advanced AI models will surpass expectations in a matter of months.

By Eric Geller • June 23, 2026

Nation-state rivals linked to majority of consequential attacks targeting critical UK sites

The nation’s top cybersecurity official warned that business leaders, authorities need to rethink how they protect critical infrastructure from state-sponsored adversaries.

By David Jones • June 18, 2026

Major critical infrastructure disruptions are inevitable, acting CISA chief says

In recent years, the U.S. government has reoriented its cybersecurity strategy away from prevention and toward resilience.

By Eric Geller • June 17, 2026

AI isn’t solving cybersecurity workforce woes

More than half of cybersecurity professionals say they’re thinking about leaving the industry, according to a new report.

By Eric Geller • June 17, 2026