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As 2025 approaches, emerging regulations and laws will affect how CISOs strategize and protect their organizations. With the increasing complexity of global compliance frameworks, understanding these changes is crucial for maintaining security and operational efficiency. Let’s discuss what I expect regarding regulatory shifts and their implications in 2025 and explore what CISOs and CCOs should prepare for in the coming year.

At issue is whether the incident led to significant risk to the organization and its shareholders. If so, it’s defined as material and must be reported within four days of this determination being made (not its initial discovery). “Materiality extends beyond quantitative losses, such as direct financial impacts, to include qualitative aspects, like reputational damage and operational disruptions,” he says. McGladrey says the SEC’s materiality guidance underscores the importance of investor protection in relation to cybersecurity events and, if in doubt, the safest path is reporting. “If a disclosure is uncertain, erring on the side of transparency safeguards shareholders,” he tells CSO.

Kayne McGladrey, IEEE senior member and field CISO at Hyperproof, said AI ethics skills are important because they ensure that AI systems are developed and used responsibly, aligning with ethical standards and societal values.

“Compliance with regulatory standards and industry-specific guidelines for product security is an indispensable part of cybersecurity. In an age where malicious AI poses a significant threat, how do organizations ensure their product security strategies are not just effective, but also fully compliant? As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kayne McGladrey.”

Presented at the CIO & CISO Atlanta Summit

New Year, New Standards: Preparing for SEC Cybersecurity Disclosures in 2025 and Beyond

The SEC’s new cybersecurity disclosure requirements have set a new benchmark for transparency and accountability, compelling public companies to enhance their cybersecurity practices and reporting.

In this session, you’ll learn how to align your organizations with these evolving requirements and take proactive steps to stay ahead of regulatory expectations.
In this session, we’ll join Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO at Hyperproof, to discuss:

An overview of the 2024 SEC cybersecurity requirements
Best practices for cybersecurity disclosures
How to prepare for the 2025 disclosure season

The security industry can do a better job of promoting emerging technologies in security environments by linking their solutions to measurable outcomes that matter to CISOs. Those outcomes could be to either reduce sales friction or to show measurable progress in key risk indicators that board members care about. For example, while according to the recent “The Impact of Technology in 2025 and Beyond: an IEEE Global Study,” 48% of technologists said that the top application for AI in 2025 will be real-time cybersecurity vulnerability identification and attack prevention, vendors should still be prepared to explain how investments in their solutions can produce progress over time and support agreed-upon business objectives, outside of the technical benefits. Unfortunately, most emerging technologies primarily discuss technical benefits and features, not business outcomes. For example, if a CISO cares about multifactor authentication coverage, vendors should explain how their solution improves coverage and ties that to higher business resiliency. That would also reduce friction in B2B sales where a high degree of MFA coverage could be cited as a key control in a SOC 2 type 2 report, for example.

We chatted with Kayne about education systems security, funding for cyber tools and services, and what the future of education might look like to fill more cyber roles.

Cybersecurity failures were definitely in the news in 2024, but the year’s most serious issue — the outage at security vendor CrowdStrike, which affected millions of Windows systems around the world — wasn’t the result of a intentional attack, notes Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO at Hyperproof and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It was caused by a flaw in an update of the CrowdStrike software. Yet it cost a wide range of companies, including airlines, public transit, healthcare and financial services, an estimated $5.4 billion.

Join us in this episode of the Security Podcast in Silicon Valley, where host Jon McLachlan sits down with Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO at Hyperproof. shares his unique journey from theater to cybersecurity, offering insights into risk management, regulatory compliance, and the evolving landscape of cyber threats. Discover how his background in improv and theater has shaped his approach to cybersecurity, the importance of SEC 10-K disclosures, and practical advice for startups and security professionals. Don’t miss this engaging and informative conversation!

“We can anticipate a significant increase in disinformation and phishing attacks as the United States prepares for early or mail-in voting in the 2024 elections. The majority of these attacks will likely come from cybercriminals spreading disinformation about how and where to vote. This year’s phishing campaigns may be more sophisticated and widespread, as non-native English or Spanish speakers will be able to leverage large language models to produce realistic messaging,” says Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Senior Member.

In this episode, we’re talking with Kayne McGladrey about cybersecurity, cyberterrorism and how to defend against these attacks at the personal, corporate, and national levels. I’ve been working on research for my next book and I knew that I had to talk to him to see what we could do to defend against this new and pernicious form of war.

In this Help Net Security video, Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Senior Member, discusses best practices for using digital wallets safely. With the adoption of digital wallets and the increasing embedding of consumer digital payments into daily life, ensuring security measures is essential. According to a McKinsey report, digital payments are now mainstream and continually evolving, bringing advancements and new data protection and fraud prevention challenges.