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ARR Became King: How Cybersecurity’s Economic Engine Created the Budget Crisis CISOs Now Inherit

A Three-Part Deep Dive Told Through the Lived Reality of CISOs, the Incentives of VCs, the Pressure on Vendors, and the Economics Driving All of It.
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📘 PART II — The Subscription Squeeze: How Consumption Models Turned Cybersecurity Into a Budget Minefield
Coffee Cup Cheers, Security Gang — let’s talk about the reality every CISO feels, even if no one wants to say it out loud.
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This Week in Cybersecurity #31
CyberHub Podcast Weekly Roundup: The Third-Party Risk Apocalypse, From French Soccer to Financial Institutions - Vendor Breaches, Nation-State…
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Marquis Breach Exposes 74 US Banks, Freedom Mobile Hit, and Arizona Sues Temu for Alleged Spyware Behavior
Third-Party Vendor Marquis Compromises 400K Customers Across 74 Financial Institutions While 29.7 Tbps DDoS Sets New World Record and India Backtracks…
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UPenn Oracle EBS Breach, North Korea Steals $30M in Crypto, and Shai Hulud 2.0 Exposes 400,000 Developer Secrets
University of Pennsylvania Hit Again by Oracle EBS Attack While North Korean Lazarus Group Targets South Korean Crypto Exchange and Self-Propagating NPM…
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Coupang 33.7 Million Customer Breach, Airbus A320 Software Retrofit, and India Mandates Government Spyware on All Smartphones
South Korea's Retail Giant Exposed: 33.7M Records Stolen While Indian Government Forces Surveillance App on Every Smartphone and Glasswork Returns with…
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AI Platforms Under Siege: Factory and Mixpanel Breached, French Soccer Federation Hacked, and Asahi Reports 1.9 Million Impacted
Welcome to December: Chinese State Actors Hijack AI Development Platforms While Comcast Pays $1.5M for Vendor Breach and Evil Twin Wi-Fi Attacker Gets…
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This Week in Cybersecurity #30
A landmark CISO win, SaaS & ERP ripple effects, and a week where edge, identity, and vendors kept biting back
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16:49
Dartmouth College Data Breach, Georgia Court System Ransomware, and FBI Reports $262M in Bank Fraud Impersonation Schemes
Universities Continue Falling to Klopp Ransomware While OnSolve Emergency Alert System Disrupted and Russian Threat Actors Target US Firms Over Ukraine…
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Harvard Alumni Breach, Mazda Disputes Clop Claims, and SitusAMC Mortgage Leak Threatens Major Banks & WhatsApp in the News
Harvard Alumni Breach, Mazda Disputes Klopp Claims, and Citus AMC Mortgage Leak Threatens Major Banks
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CISO Talk by James Azar
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