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Ask-An-Expert Writeup Management and Leadership

Understand the Different CISO Roles and Skill Sets

CISOs naturally bring different skill sets and strengths to their roles, and organizations must hire according to business needs. This report provides a holistic view of common CISO skill sets as well as the benefits and disadvantages based on organizational goals and requirements.

Holly Ridgeway

Webinar Replay Management and Leadership

2026 State of the CISO: A Role Divided

In this webinar replay, IANS Faculty Steve Martano and Senior Director of CISO Research Nick Kakolowski provide a deep dive into the 2026 State of the CISO data to discuss how the CISO role is evolving.

Nick Kakolowski & Steven Martano, IANS Faculty

Webinar Replay Management and Leadership

Infosec Trends to Prepare for in 2026

In this webinar replay, IANS Faculty Aaron Turner and Steven John look ahead to 2026, a year shaped by uncertainty and change, where under-resourced defenders must contend with AI-enabled, well-funded adversaries.

Aaron Turner & Steven John, IANS Faculty

Tools & Templates AI Models (LLMs, RAG, GenAI)

NHI - 7 Steps to Securing Multi-AI Deployments

This report provides a seven-step process designed to help cybersecurity teams work with developers to shore up inter-AI technology security

Aaron Turner

Ask-An-Expert Writeup AI-Specific Threats

Prepare for Recursive AI Cryptographic Attacks

Building efficient key and secret management processes and testing the rapid rekeying of your cryptographic estate will become increasingly important as recursive AI is directed at keys and secrets reverse engineering. This report explains how to prepare for recursive AI cryptographic attacks.

Aaron Turner

Tools & Templates AI-Specific Threats

Securing Microsoft 365 Copilot: A Checklist (Updated)

This checklist is designed to help security teams securely pilot and deploy specific Microsoft 365 (M365) Copilot features, such as M365 Copilot for Intelligent Search, Chat, Bing, SharePoint and Teams.

Wolfgang Goerlich

Guide AI Security Use Cases

AI Use-Cases for Security Teams

Just like hackers are using AI to level-up their attacks, security teams can also use AI to bolster their capabilities. Common use-cases for security teams include: threat detection and response, optimizing code, and vulnerability management.

IANS

Ask-An-Expert Writeup AI Safety, Ethics and Governance

Mitigate These Five AI Risks

This report explores five critical risk areas: over-reliance on AI, AI bias, hiring misrepresentation through AI, combinatorial risks from agentic AI systems and AI tool sprawl.