Greetings, Welcome to the Summer 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, but a community … Read more
Hello, For years, the cybersecurity community has comforted itself with the belief that Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers (CRQC) and the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) were distant, highly specialized concerns, matters for researchers and/or a … Read more
At some point in the last year, most security leaders have sat in a room where AI surfaced a recommendation that felt off. Not wrong, exactly, just incomplete. The data behind it was real, the … Read more
The United States is facing a cybersecurity workforce shortage measured not in thousands but in hundreds of thousands. According to CyberSeek, there are more than 500,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions across the country. The U.S. Bureau … Read more
In spring 2026, a self-replicating worm called Mini Shai-Hulud tore through the npm (Node Package Manager) and PyPI (Python Package Index) ecosystems, compromising roughly 170 packages across hundreds of malicious versions, with a historical download … Read more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved well past being a technology buzzword into becoming an expected component in day-to-day technology solutions. While AI is still continuing to grow in its scope and capabilities, it has found … Read more
Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity faster than almost any technology before it. As organizations digitize operations, migrate to the cloud, and depend on increasingly interconnected systems, cyber threats have grown more sophisticated, frequent, and costly. … Read more
Introduction: When Ownership No Longer Means Control Federal system ownership is undergoing a quiet but consequential transformation (National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST], 2018; Office of Management and Budget [OMB], 2016). For decades, system … Read more
A few years ago, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) was a research pattern. Now it’s the default architecture for enterprise AI: legal teams running it over privileged matter files, engineering teams wiring it into internal code search, … Read more
The United States’ healthcare system rests on a secure critical infrastructure. However, there are valid concerns that as doctors increasingly rely on these advances in healthcare devices, the risk to the patient correspondingly increases. Vulnerabilities … Read more
