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The pandemic’s continuing effects on corporate budgets will result in a net reduction in cybersecurity budgets in 2021.

TechRepublic reports that generative artificial intelligence has been touted by Hyperproof Field Chief Information Security Officer Kayne McGladrey to not hamper employment opportunities in cybersecurity.

Continuous cyberattack innovation and supply chain diversity among threat actors would ensure that humans will not be displaced by generative AI, said McGladrey in an interview at the Black Hat security conference.

“We’re going to need to continuously adapt the tools that we have with the people we have in order to face the threats and risks that businesses and society continue to face,” said McGladrey.

You have a remarkable economic incentive for threat actors to do their job. Unlike a fire, threat actors innovate. There’s not some new way we’re going to have a fire. I guarantee you by the end of the week, we’re going to have a dozen new ways for threat actors to do their jobs.

Kayne McGladrey, field CISO at Hyperproof, hopes that a future version of the plan will get more granular. “Industry-specific guidance is missing, as hospitals, banks, and SaaS startups all have different cybersecurity needs and available resources,” he says.

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The regulatory environment for health-care organizations places a high value on personal health information, writes Kayne McGladrey of Integral Partners. However, the dark web market value of PHI has cratered, according to cybersecurity firm Flashpoint. A PHI record that sold for an average of $75 to $100 in 2015 would net $0.50 to $1 in 2017, he writes.