Former cybersecurity ransomware negotiator turns to the dark side and into a ransomware cybercriminal.

Here is another ugly lesson in “be careful who you trust, even in cybersecurity”. We have seen malicious individuals, deceitful vendors, and product

The convergence between anti-money laundering and cybersecurity control is rapidly taking the shape of the future of financial crime prevention. With digital banking, instant payments, and remote onboarding becoming the norm, criminals are both takin

I am honored to be listed among this great group of cybersecurity leaders!

“2025 USA Top 30 Winners didn’t just protect their organizations; they transformed them. These leaders proved that reactive security is dead. What matters now is proactive resi

Join us for a live Panel Discussion on "Top Breaches in Cyber Security in 2025" with Sachin Deodhar (Former CTO, Government Intelligence Establishment), Maril Vernon (Field Offensive Security Officer, FireCompass), Matthew Harris (Director of Securit

Actionable Insights For CISOs
1) Assume Compromise Before a Vulnerability Is Publicly Disclosed

Zero-day exploitation cycles are now measured in weeks, not months, and attackers often maintain silent presence long before vendors acknowledge the risk.

Full list and detailed breakdown available on my Substack: https://matthewrosenquist.substack.com/p/top-10-cybersecurity-predictions 

Actionable Insights for CISOs

1. Treat Workforce Stability as a Core Risk Management Priority

• Don’t view layoffs, freezes, and budget cuts as HR issues, tie them directly to enterprise risk metrics.

• Build executive dashboards that show how staffi

Actionable Insights for CISOs

1. Redefine Cyber Terrorism as an Enterprise Risk

Cyber terrorism is not limited to nation-states or military targets. Any organization that supports public services, financial systems, or digital trust can become a targ

Actionable Insights for CISOs:

1. Treat Prompt Style as an Attack Surface, Not a Cosmetic Detail

Most organizations assess AI risk by focusing on what a user asks, assuming harmful intent will be explicit and easy to detect. For CISOs, this means pro

Security architecture and practices are important to every vendor, but the expectations and consequences are especially high for Cybersecurity products. When a password or credential vendor has multiple breaches, not only do customers abandon them bu

Actionable Insights For CISOs:

• Advocate Privacy-Centric Policies Internally: For organizations operating globally, or even within affected jurisdictions, ensure that security policies preserve lawful VPN and encrypted communications, to protect u

Key Actionable Insights for CISOs:

• Protect the Cyber Budget with Data
• CISOs should quantify the increased risk created by lost headcount by showing changes in MTTR, vulnerability backlogs, identity exceptions, and incident trends.
• Budget requests sh

We had an amazing CISOPlatform Roundtable in Delhi on 4th Dec, hosted as a closed-door session on "AI in Cyber Offense and Defense" with Sachin Deodhar (Former CTO, Government

We had an amazing CISOPlatform Roundtable in Delhi on 4th Dec, hosted as a closed-door session on "Inside the Silent Battlefield: Intelligence Insights on Cyber Threats" with S

Actionable Insights For CISOs:

• Adopt advanced threat-intelligence and behavioural analytics:

  • Deploy or integrate security tools that go beyond signature-based detection — e.g. EDR/XDR, behaviour-based anomaly detection, sandboxing of unknown fi

The unfortunate truth is that poorly designed and improperly secured Artificial Intelligence integrations can be misused or exploited by adversaries, to the detriment of companies and users. Some of the compromises will bypass the traditional cyberse