October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. CISA’s 2026 theme is “Securing the Next 250,” tying the campaign to the country’s semiquincentennial and framing national cyber resilience as part of the broader infrastructure conversation. Most organizations will run their annual push this month: phishing simulations, an all-hands presentation, maybe a poster campaign. That’s useful, and it should…
An interview is a two-way street. While the company is evaluating your technical skills to see if you can protect their network, you must evaluate their culture to see if you can protect your sanity. Security burnout is real. It is rarely caused by “too much work”; it is almost always caused by poor management,…