Latest editorial and guest blogs on government information security

CyberEd Pro with Brandy Harris

Insights and Education for Careers in Cybersecurity

Experience Really Matters - But Now You're Fighting AI Hacks

Brandy Harris • December 10, 2025

AI-based attacks will come faster and the sequence of activities will be less predictable. Cyber defenders are skilled in network analysis, incident response and cloud or identity management, but in the face of AI-based attacks, they need new skills, tools and defensive tactics.

When ERP Systems Become the Attack Surface

My Mathy Friends, Cybersecurity Needs You

Euro Security Watch with Mathew J. Schwartz

Tracking security and privacy trends across UK, Europe and beyond

Data Leaks: Why Are We So Stupid About Free Online Services?

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 25, 2025

At what price beauty? Apparently, some developers will paste anything into "JSON beautify" sites, from researchers report recovering authentication keys, database credentials, personally identifiable information for banking customers and much more.

Madman Theory Spurs Crazy Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Playbook

Voluntarily Retirement Keeps Eluding Ransomware Attackers

Safe & Sound with Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

Insights on the security and privacy of healthcare information.

UnitedHealth Group's Latest Health Data Breach Woes

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • August 7, 2025

When you've been the victim of the largest health data breach in U.S. history, and you've been under intense public and regulatory scrutiny for months, the last thing you want to do is to report another major breach less than a year after the last one. But that just happened to UnitedHealth Group.

Why Did Change Health Lowball Its 1st Breach Report to Feds?

The Next Big Bombs to Drop in the Change Healthcare Fiasco

The Expert's View with Rahul Neel Mani

Insights from industry experts

AWS: Shifting From Cloud-Based Apps to an Agentic AI Cloud

Rahul Neel Mani • December 3, 2025

For two decades, AWS has been the undisputed leader in cloud computing, but listening to AWS CEO Matt Garman at the re:Invent 2025 conference, the future isn't in the infrastructure layer. Garman envisions a fundamental shift from applications in the cloud to a cloud of autonomous AI agents.

Australia Abandons Proposed Mandatory AI Rules in New Plan

Why We Can't Expect Meta to Stop Online Scams on Its Own

Industry Insights with Chaim Mazal

Insights and opinions from thought leaders representing the industry's services and solutions providers

2026 Cloud Security Predictions and Priorities for CISOs

Chaim Mazal • December 5, 2025

As 2026 approaches, one thing is certain: Artificial intelligence adoption will continue to accelerate at an extraordinary pace. CISOs will be tasked with maintaining security and control as hybrid cloud environments grow more distributed, automated and interconnected.