What AI alignment means for cybersecurity

Three cybersecurity stories to know this week

Jailbreaks, sandboxes, and the limits of AI safeguards

ClickFix and the social engineering of routine

Defending in the middle of the vulnpocalypse

Controlling rogue AI agents: F5’s Nirav Shah on enterprise AI security

The Vulnpocalypse arrived early

Rethinking how federal cyber hiring actually works

The world still treats bug hunters like criminals

The SOC wasn’t built for this

Why Cybersecurity is at the heart of the US-China AI race

A builder’s view of the AI arms race

What the Section 702 lapse means for cybersecurity

What the post-quantum executive order means for CISOs

How security investigators can get the right info out of AI security tools

Inside Operation Disruption Week: Taking Down Southeast Asia's Scam Machine

Zero days, zero order: The chaos reshaping vulnerability disclosure

Why the autonomous SOC is the wrong goal

The last layer standing

From Two Weeks to Three Days: The KEV Deadline Debate

Can specialized security survive Daybreak and Mythos?

Why access brokers have stubbornly remained successful

Can you prove which agent did what?

How government and Industry can raise the cost of cybercrime

Proving Identity in the age of agents

The federal government’s most underrated cybersecurity tool

What does industry think of the White House's cybersecurity strategy?

U.S. robotics companies want federal help to keep Chinese robots out of America’s networks

When iPhone exploits turn into commodities

Behind the scenes of the Socksescort takedown

What comes next for Trump’s cybersecurity plan?

A plea to improve quantum security in the federal government

Datadog’s Emilio Escobar on real-time threat defense

Is the ‘Shields Up’ era of CISA over?

T-Mobile’s Eric Jensen on building resilient defenses through constant evolution

Cohesity’s Marlin McFate on strengthening cyber recovery in the cloud era

ThreatLocker’s Rob Allen on strengthening defenses through proactive control

Red Hat’s Adam Clater on using AI to support informed security decisions

Rubrik’s Travis Rosiek stresses preparedness as AI amplifies cyber risk

Splunk’s Paul Kurtz on AI’s growing impact on enterprise cyber defense

Wiz’s Ryan Kazanciyan on strengthening cyber defenses in the age of AI

Elastic’s Chris Townsend on securing data across cloud and on-prem environments

DOD Cyber Crime Center’s Jeff Hunt on securing cloud services across the defense industrial base

HHS ASPR’s Charlee Hess on ransomware threats facing the healthcare sector

DOD Cyber Crime Center’s Les Bernys highlights the growing role of AI in cyber defense

Air Force’s Dr. Wanda Jones Heath on securing an expanding cyber attack surface

Navy’s Anne Marie Schumann on unifying zero trust from ship to shore

Army’s Brandon Pugh on hardening defense infrastructure against emerging cyber risks

CyberTalks 2026 Recap | February 19, 2026 | International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.

Should you still trust your password manager?

No exceptions: How Amazon killed the password and unified security

What leaders can learn from the WEF’s Cybersecurity Outlook

Opportunistic by Default: How OT gets pulled into the blast radius

How do you win a conflict most Americans can’t see?

What’s powering the ‘Steroid Era’ of cybercrime? with CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers and Elia Zaitsev

How AI has complicated enterprise mobile security

Breaking down the latest era of Chinese cyberespionage with Booz Allen’s Nate Beach-Westmoreland

How Visa’s CISO turns a ‘paranoid and pessimisitic mindset’ into positive security outcomes

What security teams should do to prepare for the quantum computing future

How MSP's are dealing CISA changes