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Inside the Mind of a CISO: Resilience in an AI-Accelerated World

This report for security leaders, introduced by Bugcrowd's chief information and security officer, Nick McKenzie, sets out how CISOs can stay confident as AI reshapes both attack and defense. It opens with Bugcrowd's vulnerability intelligence from thousands of public and private engagements across 2024. The overall number of vulnerabilities held steady and critical findings in API and website targets fell, while hardware vulnerabilities rose 88%, broken access control became the fastest-growing category with a 40% increase, and average payouts for critical vulnerabilities climbed 32%. From there it turns to the practical side of the job: measuring security outcomes rather than activity, the dos and don'ts of a board deck and how to build one, running red team exercises, and putting attack surface intelligence to work. Hackers weigh in on the vulnerabilities to watch and on whether AI will replace security research, and two CISOs, Tomás Maldonado of the NFL and Dan Maslin of Monash University, share how they secure the league and a leading AI supercomputer.