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Featured · Feb 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

CISOs Investigate: Artificial Intelligence — Risk, Resilience & Reinvention

A 15-chapter, 187-page research report authored by CISOs Connect members on how senior security leaders are absorbing artificial intelligence into governance, controls, and the operating model. Spans risk taxonomy, board governance structure, agentic AI risk, data trust, and industry deep dives from healthcare to space systems.

What you will take away. 20+ contributing CISOs across 8 sectors, the governance archetype the report argues boards should adopt, and the specific control updates required before agentic deployment at scale.

Coming Q3 2026 · Identity

Identity at the AI Frontier

How identity programs are being re-engineered for an environment where machine identities, agentic systems, and human users coexist as first-class actors. Survey-driven, 18+ CISO contributors.

Coming Q4 2026 · Governance

The Boardroom Cybersecurity Index

Annual survey of how Fortune-1000 boards are restructuring cyber oversight — committee assignments, reporting cadence, and the disclosure regime under SEC rules.

2025 Archive · Cloud

The Multi-Cloud Control Plane

How three-cloud enterprises are solving (and not solving) the unified-control-plane problem. Twelve named CISO contributors, four cloud vendors evaluated.

2025 Archive · Threat Intelligence

State-Aligned Adversaries: The 2025 Posture

A practitioner-grounded read of state-aligned adversary behavior — what changed, what didn't, and the operational implications for incident response programs at scale.

2025 Archive · Governance

SEC Disclosure One Year In

How CISOs and general counsel are operationalizing 8-K cyber disclosure twelve months after the rule took effect. Materiality framework, escalation triggers, dry-run findings.

2024 Archive · Vendor Reviews

The Identity Threat Detection Landscape

Comparative practitioner review of identity threat detection and response (ITDR) capability across five vendors. Methodology, evaluator panel, and the criteria battery.

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