The shifting cybersecurity landscape

The cybersecurity landscape is changing quickly, but not necessarily in ways that make defenders’ jobs easier. On one hand, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 is approaching its September 30 expiration date, threatening to undercut the collaborative intelligence-sharing that has served as a critical early-warning system for the past decade.

In industries where seconds matter, workers are losing minutes, sometimes hours, trying to log in to the systems they need to do their jobs. Clinicians struggle with repeated timeouts while patients wait. Manufacturing lines stall while frontline workers reset complex passwords. Police officers face constant reauthentication that slows down reporting and response times. What was once viewed as “just an IT issue” has become, in fact, a major drag on productivity, morale, and the bottom line.