
The SANS 2026 security culture action plan is barely about content. A CEO and board member on why that means rewriting your awareness strategy and bringing the SOC closer to employees.

The SANS 2026 security culture action plan is barely about content. A CEO and board member on why that means rewriting your awareness strategy and bringing the SOC closer to employees.

The 2026 SANS Security Awareness & Culture Report names five barriers to program success. The fifth, weak relationships at 18%, comes last and quietly drives the other four.

I read the new SANS Security Awareness & Culture Report from a slightly unusual perspective: I manufacture security awareness software. What stayed with me was security awareness team size, not tooling — here are my eight takeaways, including a conclusion I fundamentally disagree with.

IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 puts the global average cost of a breach at a record USD 4.99 million. Two other figures in the same report tell you more: 63% and 247.

For two decades, security awareness programs have transferred theoretical knowledge — and measurable organizational risk stayed high. With Behavioral Defense Engineering and platform version V3.2, CYBERDISE treats human behavior as an operational part of IT security instead of a compliance checkbox.

Cyberdise V3.0 and higher offers two new features, the Email Threat Agent and Automated Incident Feedback. These two features turn every reported email into a measurable security measure, not just a forwarded message.

In 2025, CYBERDISE won 10 new partners and 400,000 new users under license, yet missed its targets by a significant margin. Only conversations with colleagues showed that what the team achieved in 2025 was extraordinary.

The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report has been published every year for two decades. It’s often read for the numbers, but this year’s report says something more fundamental about cybersecurity awareness.

it-sa Expo & Congress in Nuremberg is one of Europe's leading cybersecurity events, and this year it set new records with 25,830 trade visitors from 65 countries and 897 exhibitors. We've sifted through the highlights for practical takeaways, from awareness training to protecting critical infrastructures.