CISO Archives - Security Insights

Datalakes: a vital resource or security threat?

October 15, 2026 Stephen Pritchard

Enterprises depend on data. And businesses are capturing, and storing, ever larger volumes of information. These data sources are vital for decision making, and of course for AI. Increasingly, they are centralising their data storage […]

Cyber threats, budgets and frameworks

October 1, 2026 Stephen Pritchard

How do cybersecurity teams identify the risks they face, and how to counter them? The sector has been fortunate to see its budgets grow, even as wider spending on technology has come under pressure. But […]

Cyber resilience: do boards fall short?

September 17, 2026 Stephen Pritchard

How resilient are organisations in the face of cyber attacks, and can they recover effectively? The answer could be less so than we think. A recent survey suggests that, in the UK at least, boards […]

AI: Cybersecurity’s friend, or foe?

September 3, 2026 Stephen Pritchard

Artificial intelligence creates new threats. But it also gives security teams powerful new defensive tools. But is the potential for AI in cybersecurity exaggerated? And are the risks from the technology overhyped? Recent incidents show […]

Shadow IT, shadow AI: a new security frontier?

August 6, 2026 admin

Each new wave in technology brings its own security and privacy risks. This was the case with personal devices, the cloud, software as a service and now, AI. And new agentic technologies will, no doubt, […]

AI vs CNI: The next battleground

July 28, 2026 admin

Cyber attacks against critical national infrastructure are a real, and growing threats. According to the NCSC, there were more than 200 attacks against UK critical national infrastructure last year. The organisation believes many as three […]

Disrupting a phishing group: an inside story

July 9, 2026 admin

How do security researchers, and law enforcement officers, disrupt a cybercrime group? How do they identify the targets, and the people and assets involved? And what are the objectives for disrupting a group? Not all […]

Cyber resilience, Resilient You: the Cyber Agony Aunts return

June 25, 2026 admin

Resilience is now firmly on the cybersecurity agenda. Organisations are looking beyond cyber defence, to how to respond to attacks and how to recover. And governments are backing moves towards greater cyber resilience too; the […]

Founder interview: Benny Czarny, OPSWAT

June 11, 2026 admin

Cybersecurity has never been short of innovation or new ideas. But what does it take to turn an idea into a successful business? And how do start ups find a niche in what can be […]

Abstract image of ball with computer code

In plain sight: hunting secrets in code

May 28, 2026 admin

Last year, security researchers found close to 29 million “secrets” in publicly available code. These include credentials, API keys, AI tokens and even MCP configuration files. These hard-coded secrets are stored in plain text, across […]