Headline-generating hacks are helping to push the global cybersecurity spend, and it is forecasted to reach more than $188.3 billion in 2023. The ISACA 2022 State of Cybersecurity Survey also confirmed this trend, with 42% of security professionals saying their cybersecurity programs are appropriately funded—a five-percentage-point jump. But through my company’s work training cyber

Each new multi-million-dollar breach or devious, sophisticated hack triggers countless organizations to gravitate toward new cybersecurity tools they think are even more sophisticated. Simply throwing money at the problem doesn’t address the bigger issue. To get at the core of that issue, the key is threat modeling. This is not some new subscription-based software that keeps you safe; it’s the

Cyberattacks are very costly. The world’s leading cybersecurity economy researcher Cybersecurity Ventures expects global cybercrime costs to grow by 15% per year, reaching 10.5 trillion dollars annually by 2025. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime would be the world’s third-largest economy after the United States and China if it was measured as a

Even companies in more insulated fields, such as cyber vendors Sophos, Okta and Secureworks, are bound to feel the pain as enterprises cut spending. At least three cybersecurity firms — Sophos, Okta and now Secureworks — announced staff cuts so far this year, creating fresh uncertainty in a sector largely

The advent of GDPR heralded a new era of protection for individual rights and freedoms. Initially not taken seriously, organizations now find themselves rethinking their approach, with accumulated penalties nearing the € 3 billion mark. Are organizations on a similar path with quantum computing? Cybersecurity researchers and technologists are rightly concerned