Patrick Spencer

Attackers Operate at Machine Speed — Defenders Still Run on Human Timelines

by Patrick Spencer April 1, 2026April 1, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The Booz Allen Hamilton report released on March 16, 2026, frames a problem that most security leaders sense but few have quantified: The time gap between AI-speed attacks and human-speed...

Custom AI Applications Are Reaching Production Before Security Catches Up

by Patrick Spencer March 31, 2026March 31, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Gartner’s March 2026 forecast puts a number on what security leaders have been sensing for months: by 2028, half of all enterprise cybersecurity incident response work will center on custom-built...

What Is Compliant AI? A Plain-English Guide for Enterprise Leaders

by Patrick Spencer March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 | Regulatory Compliance

Enterprise AI is moving fast. Compliance thinking is not keeping pace. Most organizations deploying AI agents today treat compliance as a model problem: review the AI vendor’s certifications, configure a...

Attackers Aren’t Getting More Creative—They’re Getting Faster

by Patrick Spencer March 26, 2026March 26, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

In September 2025, Anthropic disclosed that it had detected and disrupted a cyber-espionage operation attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group. The operation used AI agents—Claude Code instances running as autonomous...

The Identity Spoofing Attack That Changed Everything in 45 Seconds

by Patrick Spencer March 17, 2026March 17, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

On February 18, 2026, a researcher participating in the Agents of Chaos study changed their Discord display name to match an AI agent’s owner. Nothing sophisticated—no code exploits, no zero-day...

The Bank Security Reality That Customers Are Not Seeing

by Patrick Spencer March 12, 2026March 12, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

There is a version of bank security that exists in incident logs, operations dashboards, and executive briefings. And there is a version that exists in the minds of the customers...

Insider Risk Costs: Uncovering the $19.5M Threat Inside

by Patrick Spencer March 12, 2026March 12, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

Cybersecurity conversations tend to drift toward the dramatic: nation-state actors, zero-day exploits, supply chain infiltration. These threats are real and they deserve attention. But there is a more mundane and...

AI Risk Finds Its Budget Line—Finally

by Patrick Spencer March 12, 2026March 12, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

There is a particular kind of organizational confidence that comes from not knowing what you do not know. In cybersecurity, that confidence is expensive. The 2026 Thales Data Threat Report—drawn...

Federal Cyber Policy Shift: Offense Over Defense Strategy

by Patrick Spencer March 11, 2026March 11, 2026 | Regulatory Compliance

The White House released two significant cyber policy documents on the same day — a pairing that was not accidental. The executive order focuses on operational coordination to disrupt transnational...

The Breach: What Happened at Cal AI

by Patrick Spencer March 11, 2026March 11, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

On March 9, 2026, a threat actor posted a data dump on BreachForums claiming to have compromised Cal AI — the AI-powered calorie-tracking app that recently made headlines for acquiring...

Latin America Is Digitizing Fast. Attackers Are Moving Faster.

by Patrick Spencer March 10, 2026March 10, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

There is a pattern playing out across Latin America that security teams with regional exposure cannot afford to ignore. The region is digitizing at extraordinary speed — governments moving services...

Wealth Management Cybersecurity: Protecting Assets From Cyber Threats

by Patrick Spencer March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

There is a reason cybercriminals have turned their attention to wealth management firms, and it has nothing to do with sophistication. It has everything to do with math. Wealth managers...

DHS AI Strategy Unveiled: Kiteworks Delivers the Solution

by Patrick Spencer March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t do small. Twenty-two component agencies. 260,000 employees. Missions that span border security, cybersecurity, immigration, and disaster response. And now, a formal mandate to adopt...

Meta’s Rogue AI Crisis: Can You Stop OpenClaw’s Chaos?

by Patrick Spencer February 27, 2026February 27, 2026 | Secure Email

The person whose job is to keep AI aligned with human intent just watched an AI agent ignore her instructions and delete her inbox. Key Takeaways Meta’s Own AI Safety...

CrowdStrike Drops Its 2026 Global Threat Report — and It’s a Wake-Up Call for Every Security Team

by Patrick Spencer February 26, 2026February 26, 2026 | Cybersecurity Risk Management

There’s a phrase that gets thrown around in security briefings so often it’s lost all meaning: “attackers are getting faster.” It’s the kind of thing you nod at during a...

Security and Compliance Blog

Learn security strategies, compare vendors, and implement best practices to prevent breaches and compliance violations from risky third party communications.

Posts by Patrick Spencer

Attackers Operate at Machine Speed — Defenders Still Run on Human Timelines

What Is Compliant AI? A Plain-English Guide for Enterprise Leaders

Attackers Aren’t Getting More Creative—They’re Getting Faster

The Identity Spoofing Attack That Changed Everything in 45 Seconds

Insider Risk Costs: Uncovering the $19.5M Threat Inside

AI Risk Finds Its Budget Line—Finally

Federal Cyber Policy Shift: Offense Over Defense Strategy

The Breach: What Happened at Cal AI

DHS AI Strategy Unveiled: Kiteworks Delivers the Solution

Get started.