100% Compliant, Breached Anyway: Spektrum Labs CISO Joshua Brown on Why GRC Failed

Companies pass their audits. Then they get breached. Joshua Brown thinks the industry should stop pretending those two facts live in different universes. Brown is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Spektrum Labs, the Indiana-based cyber resilience startup. He joined the Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast to explain why compliance keeps failing as a … Read more

World Cup Phishing Surges 500% As Attackers Time Their Runs For Kickoff

In football, or is it soccer, mistakes get a second look with VAR, and referees can issue a card right away. With phishing, there is no review. Once someone clicks a link, the damage is often done before anyone notices. According to new Hoxhunt research, criminals have been watching the World Cup schedule closely. Phishing … Read more

UK Cloud Outage Risk: Three Data Regions Carry 40% Of The Economy’s Revenue Exposure

The UK economy has a concentration problem, and it hums away in server halls in Dublin, Amsterdam, and Northern Virginia. New analysis from the Cyber Monitoring Centre and Parametrix maps where UK cloud dependency actually pools. Three aggregation points support 40% of the UK’s revenue exposure while serving just 3.5% of its companies. The headline … Read more

Human Cyber Risk: 77% Of European CISOs Say The C-Suite Doesn’t Get It

The CISO sees the threat. The boardroom sees a line item. New MetaCompliance research puts numbers on that old story at an awkward moment. AI is making attacks on human judgment cheaper, faster, and far more convincing. The survey covered 200 CISOs across the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden. Censuswide conducted it in February 2026 … Read more

Restaurant Cyber Risk: 94% Confident, 76% Breached Anyway, Says VikingCloud

Fast food runs on speed. So, it turns out, do the people robbing it. New VikingCloud research finds attackers now move through quick-service restaurants at drive-thru pace. In the world of restaurant cyber risk, fraudulent refunds, fake invoices, and deepfaked executives all arrive faster than the fries. The report, “Cyber Risk, Supersized,” surveyed security leaders, … Read more

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