Key Takeaways The single most repeated piece of advice in security leadership is also the one doing the most damage to the profession. Earn your seat at the table. Become a business translator. Integrate into the operator class. The CISOs who follow that advice end up burned out, legally exposed, and stuck in five-jobs-in-one roles […]

Everyone is catastrophizing about AI-powered attacks. Here’s the contrarian case, and why the window is narrower than it looks. TL;DR: The prevailing narrative at Black Hat 2025 was that AI has made attackers unstoppable. The most credentialed voice in the room said the opposite, and the data backs him up. The Mythos release through Project […]

The AI security industry is calling 2025 the new 1990s. The uncomfortable truth is that we predicted every mistake we’re making right now — and made them anyway. TL;DR: AI security in 2025 is repeating the same structural mistakes that made the early internet a golden age for hackers — not because the industry forgot […]