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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 15, 2026

Help Net Security's weekly roundup lists cybersecurity job openings worldwide, from CISO roles to cloud security engineers at firms like Adobe, JPMorgan Chase, and PwC.

Help Net Security's September 15, 2026 job roundup lists cybersecurity openings across India, USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, UAE, Ireland, and Denmark. Roles include a CISO at Texas Health and Human Services, a GenAI CBRNE Cyber Security Expert at Alice, and security engineering positions at Adobe, JPMorgan Chase, PwC, and the Reserve Bank of Australia. Several openings focus on AI security, including red-teaming AI models and securing AI agent platforms.

Help Net SecuritySep 14, 22:15 UTC · 2d agoIndustry1

AI made software development unrecognizable. Is cybersecurity next?

Opinion piece argues AI-driven shifts that transformed software development—agent-run SOCs, autonomous triage—will soon reshape cybersecurity operations and staffing.

A CSO Online analysis notes Google Cloud research found 90% of developers already use AI, while a March 2026 Federal Reserve paper found coder employment growth fell roughly 3% since ChatGPT's arrival. Gartner predicts 80% of organizations will run smaller, AI-augmented engineering teams by 2030. Security leaders from Contrast Security, Menlo Security and the Cloud Security Alliance expect agent-run SOCs, machine-speed containment and abundant vulnerability discovery, but caution that absorption capacity and autonomous production-environment validation remain bottlenecks.

CSO OnlineSep 16, 08:25 UTC · 1d agoIndustry

MSPs say nearly half their customers rely on them for CISO services

Sophos survey finds MSPs act as CISOs for an average 46% of customers, mostly with partial compliance offerings and fragmented manual reporting.

A Sophos survey found MSPs estimate that 46% of their customers rely on them to act as CISOs, and most providers deliver only four to six of seven measured compliance services. More than half say they manage customers' full compliance programs, while compliance requirements influence roughly half of customers' security purchases. Nearly nine in ten providers use software, but most juggle multiple tools that cannot feed a central reporting platform, forcing staff to combine data manually. Providers estimated a unified platform would cut time spent on posture, compliance and reporting by about half; Sophos sells CISO Advantage via its Sophos Fusion system for this work.

Help Net SecuritySep 16, 04:30 UTC · 1d agoIndustry

Test environment let anyone access live customer data

A security audit found an internet-exposed staging environment connected to live customer data, lacking production-grade authentication and access controls.

The Register's PWNED column recounts how Richard Schut, now of SmartRepl, discovered during a pre-cloud-migration audit that a mid-size company's test environment was externally accessible and wired to a database with live customer information. The staging instance, created for a short-term demo and migration testing, remained running for six months without production authentication. Access was restricted after discovery and the team reviewed all other test environments.

The Register · Security11:28 UTC · 1h agoIndustry

A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage

vCISO Cheri Hotman advises sorting security spend into four buckets to hold coverage steady under flat or cut budgets.

Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, shares advice for security leaders facing flat budgets or 12% cuts in a Help Net Security video. She recommends categorizing each expense as effective protection, unoperationalized value, duplicate tooling, or compliance theater instead of trimming every line equally. She notes waste such as companies running three or four GRC tools, and says framing spending in risk and revenue terms improves finance conversations.

Help Net Security05:00 UTC · 7h agoIndustry

Cyber-Attacks Cost Organizations $52,000 on Average

Hiscox's 2026 survey of 6,800 security leaders found 29% of organizations hit by successful attacks averaging $52,000 in costs and 32.8 hours of downtime.

The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2026, based on a survey of 6,800 security decision-makers across the UK, Europe, and US, found 29% of organizations suffered at least one successful cyber-attack in the past 12 months, averaging four incidents per victim. UK firms were most attacked at 38% while US firms were least at 20%; average incident cost was $52,000 globally, peaking at $134,138 in Italy, with 32.8 hours of average downtime. Impacts included growth delays (32%), financial penalties (28%), and burnout or toxic culture (69%). Businesses invest about $51,000 annually in resilience, and 32% now tie executive compensation to cybersecurity outcomes.

Infosecurity MagazineSep 16, 11:00 UTC · 1d agoIndustry

AI the Top Priority for New Spend as Cyber Budgets Flatline

IANS survey of 500 US CISOs finds AI is the top priority for net-new security budget even as overall cybersecurity budgets stay flat.

IANS's 2026 Security Budget Benchmark Report, based on interviews with 500 US security executives, found AI was the most popular focus for incremental budget, cited by 69% of respondents. Software now accounts for 35% of the security budget in 2026, up from 29% last year, nearly matching staff and compensation. Overall median budget growth remained flat, with 55% keeping budgets flat or making cuts, while 71% of VC-backed companies increased security budgets versus 52% of public companies. Most CISOs (69%) do not expect AI to cut headcount, and 81% anticipate it creating demand for new roles and skills.

Infosecurity MagazineSep 15, 13:00 UTC · 2d agoIndustry