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2025 was a wild ride for cyber security. The landscape is shifting faster than ever, and several themes stand out when I think about the most important cyber security lessons from the year.

Zero trust means no automatic trust; access is verified continuously. Key domains include identity, devices, applications, data, and telemetry. Experts emphasize scalable, incremental adoption for ...

When I wrote about the state of data protection laws in the US in 2023, I spoke to Wade Barisoff, a cybersecurity expert, who told me that capitalism is holding back data security in the United States ...

The highlight of October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month activities at Boston College was a presentation by former Federal Bureau of Investigation senior executive Joseph R. Bonavolonta, now ...

The past 12 months have been a trying time for cyber security professionals globally. Most notably, they’ve had to contend with a rise in cyber attacks linked to the war in Ukraine. At the same time, ...

In late February, UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit faced a significant ransomware attack, sending shockwaves through the healthcare sector with far-reaching financial consequences. It has ...

When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, the conflict unfolded across land, air, and sea—but also across networks, data centers, and personal devices. Ukraine became one of the ...

This article is the last in a two-part series on what Y2K can teach the world about cybersecurity. Read the first part here. The Y2K event went out with a whimper and not a bang, but not because the ...

Hacking group CL0P’s attacks on MOVEit point to ways that cyber extortion may be evolving, illuminating possible trends in who perpetrators target, when they time their attacks and how they put ...

Over the past few years cyberspace has changed the way we live, work and communicate. It has become critical to our future prosperity, security and accelerating digital transformation. Cyber threats ...