CSO US First Look
The day's top cybersecurity news and in-depth coverage
March 24, 2025
CISOs are taking on ever more responsibilities and functional roles - has it gone too far?
Shifting regulatory and compliance landscapes and the widespread adoption of AI have heightened demand for cybersecurity leaders to step outside the technical, but more responsibility can come with a price.
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Trump shifts cyberattack readiness to state and local governments in wake of info-sharing cuts
Shifting the burden of managing cyber emergencies to state and local governments while scaling back federal information-sharing groups could leave local, underfunded CISOs and CIOs less prepared for critical infrastructure attacks.
11 hottest IT security certs for higher pay today
Cybersecurity certifications can pave a path to lucrative career advancement. But timing the job market with the right credentials can be challenging. Here are the certs providing the largest pay boosts right now.
Developers: apply these 10 mitigations first to prevent supply chain attacks
Current cybersecurity development risk frameworks donât cover all of the tactics hackers used to compromise SolarWinds, log4j, or XZ Utils, says report, which offers a 'starter kit' of critical tasks.
Critical remote code execution flaw patched in Veeam backup servers
New flaw stems from previously incomplete patch.
