Category: Recurring Series
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2026: The Mid Year Cybersecurity Review
Halfway through 2026, the threat landscape has done the usual thing of mutating faster than the people defending it expected. The first half gave us three patterns worth noticing: supply chain attacks still lead, identity attacks crossed a threshold, and AI became both a weapon and a target.
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June 2026: The Month in Review
June 2026 in cybersecurity amounted to the month the breach fatigue caught up with the industry, with the major incidents slowing, with the regulatory actions intensifying, with the AI security maturing past the hype. The 2026 monthly review covers what happened, what mattered, and what the security leader should carry into Q3.
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The State of Cryptography in Q2 2026
The cryptographic landscape in 2026 sits in a strange place. The algorithms everyone trusts are slowly becoming the algorithms nobody should trust, and the algorithms everyone should trust are still too new to deploy at scale. The migration has started, but the gap has not closed.
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The AI Coding Tools Rankings for Q2 2026
A field guide to the AI coding tools rankings for Q2 2026, with the methodology behind the scores, the places where the public leaderboards are lying to you, and the criteria that actually matter for production work.
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State of the Vulnerability: Q2 2026
Q2 2026 closed with 18,400 new CVEs assigned. The number is up 22 percent year over year. The number that matters is different, and the gap between the two is the story.
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State of the AI Stack: Q2 2026
The AI stack in Q2 2026 amounts to a stack that has settled into its shape, with the foundation models, the orchestration frameworks, the vector databases, the agent frameworks, the evaluation tools, the deployment platforms, the observability tools. The state of the AI stack in Q2 2026 amounts to a state where the buyers know…
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State of Vibe Coding: Q1 2026
Vibe coding is the practice of letting an AI model generate the code, the developer pastes it in, runs it, ships it, and hopes. Andrej Karpathy named it in early 2025. By Q1 2026 it is no longer a curiosity. It is how a meaningful slice of greenfield software is being written, and the consequences…
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The State of AI Music in 2026
AI music in 2026 is not the catastrophe the labels warned about, and it is not the bonanza the startups promised either. It is a working tool that does a working job for a specific kind of user, while the legal questions stack up around it.
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The State of Ransomware in 2026
Ransomware in 2026 is no longer a single category of attack. It is a portfolio of related attacks that share a payment mechanism and diverge on everything else. The state of ransomware in 2026 is the state of an industry that has matured, professionalised, and diversified to the point where the label covers at least…
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The State of Cloud Security in 2026
Cloud security in 2026 is no longer a debate about whether the cloud is safe. The cloud is the default. The interesting question is what the security model looks like when the cloud is the default and the enterprise has been running on it for a decade.