Hello, October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and CISA’s theme this year is “Securing the Next 250.” That’s less a slogan for posters in a break room and more an assignment. Our
Greetings, Welcome to the Fall 2026 issue of United States Cybersecurity Magazine! As always, we extend our sincere thanks to our sponsors, contributors, and readers. Your support sustains not just a publication,
Zero Trust changed how we think about securing systems. But can human beings live without trust? The request was for $22,000. It came after weeks of small things that did not quite
Cybersecurity has never been more technologically sophisticated. Artificial intelligence can analyze enormous volumes of data in seconds. Automation can detect suspicious activity, correlate signals across environments, and respond to threats at machine
Introduction Every significant cybersecurity incident eventually arrives at the same point: someone must make a decision with incomplete information. Whether confronting ransomware, approving the migration of critical systems to the cloud, responding
Technology Changed. Can the EU AI Act Handle it? On August 2, 2026, much of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act became active, more than five years after the legislation was first
THE PROBLEM: WHEN AI GUARDRAILS MEET INCIDENT RESPONSE On July 16, 2026, Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion into part of its production infrastructure. OpenAI later determined that the activity originated during an
No cybersecurity strategy can prevent every attack. The real test of resilience is what happens after an attacker gets through. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that organizations using
Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes once a year. Attackers do not work on an annual calendar. October gives organizations an opportunity to pause, train, and recommit to good security habits, but awareness can
Unchecked legacy permissions, unclassified content, and delayed access controls expose sensitive corporate data during Microsoft 365 migrations. The implementable remedy is a Zero-Trust Cloud Adoption Framework that sequences three controls: a pre-migration audit
