Tom Spring

1 week ago | scworld.com | Tom Spring

SAN FRANCISCO — For more than a decade, the SANS Institute’s annual “Five Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques” keynote has served as a weather report for where cybersecurity is headed. This year at RSAC 2025, it felt more like a warning flare. “There’s a common thread in every one of these threats,” said Ed Skoudis, president of the SANS Technology Institute, as he opened Wednesday’s standing-room-only session.

1 week ago | scworld.com | Tom Spring

SAN FRANCISCO — They don’t steal your data. They sell access to it. Initial Access Brokers — known as IABs — have become one of cybersecurity’s most dangerous and underestimated players. These dark web middlemen specialize in breaking into networks, then monetizing that access by selling it to the highest bidder: ransomware crews, state-aligned attackers or fraud cartels. Their product? Your identity infrastructure.

2 weeks ago | scworld.com | Tom Spring

SAN FRANCISCO — With RSAC 2025 in full swing, cybersecurity industry leaders, builders, and defenders gathered Tuesday to celebrate excellence, innovation, and the winners of the 28th annual SC Awards. SC Media is proud to honor the 33 winners of this year’s Excellence and Trust Awards, selected by an independent panel of judges from a highly competitive field of more than 160 finalists and hundreds of nominations. View the full list of 2025 SC Awards winners here.

2 weeks ago | scworld.com | Tom Spring

SAN FRANCISCO — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem used a keynote at the RSAC on Tuesday to to call for a realignment of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), sharply criticizing the agency’s past focus on disinformation and warning against federal overreach in cybersecurity policy. Speaking to packed audience, Noem said CISA had strayed beyond its founding purpose.

2 weeks ago | scworld.com | Tom Spring

SAN FRANCISCO — Cisco set the tone at Monday's RSAC 2025 keynote by announcing a major open-source initiative aimed at securing the future of AI, while other speakers laid out how the industry must adapt to a rapidly changing battlefield. Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s executive vice president and chief product officer, unveiled Foundation AI — a purpose-built, security-specific AI model trained on cybersecurity data.