Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Consolidating their organization's tech stacks, defending budgets and reducing risk are three of the top challenges facing CISOs going into 2023. Identifying which security technologies deliver the most value and defining spending guardrails is imperative. Forrester's 2023 security and risk planning guide provides CISOs prescriptive guidance on which technologies to increase and defend their investments and which to consider paring back spending and investment.

The purpose of artificial intelligence (AI) is to create intelligent machines. It is used in multiple domains, including finance, manufacturing, logistics, retail, social media, healthcare, and increasingly, cybersecurity. The current discourse about AI and cybersecurity often confuses the different perspectives, as if the intersection of disciplines is monolithic and one-dimensional. Therefore, we need a common language for discussing the various and disparate intersections of AI and cybersecurity that clarifies the differences. I see three parts to the discussion: AI in the hands of defenders, AI in the hands of attackers, and adversarial AI.

Although security information and event management (SIEM) has been around for more than a decade, the solution continues to evolve. But too many enterprises still don't know which security use cases SIEM can take on, how it can capture and leverage data -- structured and unstructured, internal and external -- or how to effectively implement a SIEM solution. Security talent remains in short supply, while point solutions have become all too common. Defenders need a SIEM solution to detect threats in the extended environment, artificial intelligence (AI) to identify connections behind suspicious activity, and automated processes to rapidly shut down attacks. Taking a step back to define the phrase, what is SIEM?

One World of Warcraft player is paying the price for taking a virtual rivalry too far. A US federal court has sentenced Romanian man Calin Mateias to spend a year in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to launching a distributed denial of service attack against WoW's servers in response to being "angered" by one player. The 2010 traffic flood knocked thousands of players offline and cost Blizzard $30,000 (which Mateias repaid in April) in recovery expenses. A defense sentencing memorandum claimed that Mateias had been spurred by a "juvenile desire to win the game." That's not really how the online role-playing title works (there's no definitive victory over fellow players, and they don't lose when they're offline), but you get the idea -- it was reportedly a hotheaded decision.