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The rise of AI is reshaping every aspect of cybersecurity. While AI holds promise for automating defenses, it also empowers threat actors. This is driving an AI arms race with placing the cyber insurance market in the middle.

Ransomware payments peaked in 2023 at $1.1 billion with 1,512 reported incidents and dropped by a third to $734 million on 1,476 incidents in 2024, according to FinCEN.

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross signaled a shift in the Trump Administration’s approach to digital threats – one defined by transparency, accountability, and consequences. 

The Cybersecurity Coalition’s new paper, "Reinvigorating Federal Cybersecurity Initiatives: A Post-Shutdown Call to Action for the Trump Administration and Congress," urges ONCD and Congress to take decisive action around four areas of cyber policy.

While standards are not the most exiting topic in the world, they are critical in many respects, and the development of AI standards in the EU is causing some consternation among many.

The next phase of the Pall Mall Process has begun to establish norms for the use and governance of hacking tools.

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross laid out his and the Trump Administration’s vision for the future of the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) during remarks at the 2025 Meridian Summit in Washington DC.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program is the global standard for identifying and naming software vulnerabilities.

The Better Identity Coalition has released an initial straw man of a “voluntary code of conduct” for the digital identity ecosystem to restrict inappropriate or overly invasive requests for identity information from verifiable digital credentials.

This one-pager outlines what quantum computing is, why it poses both extraordinary opportunities and serious risks, and what steps policymakers and industry leaders must take to prepare.