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In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the topics below.
Opening:
- Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin to lead Homeland Security as TSA standoff deepens
- Auto-ISAC 2025 Annual Report — Auto-ISAC
- ISACs confront AI’s promise and peril for threat intelligence-sharing — Cybersecurity Dive Podcast: What healthcare leaders face after a cyberattack — Health-ISAC
- New Jersey Sign-Ups for MS-ISAC Remain Low Amid Attacks
Main Topics:
Cybersecurity Reports, Ransomware & Resilience
- M-Trends 2026 — Google Cloud Mandiant — 24 Mar 2026. The PDF version of M-Trends 2026 shows that high tech was the most targeted industry in 2025 at 17 percent of investigations, followed by financial services at 14.6 percent, business and professional services at 13.3 percent, and healthcare at 11.9 percent. It also shows voice phishing at 11 percent of initial intrusion vectors and says ransomware appeared in 13 percent of incidents that Mandiant investigated in 2025.
- M-Trends 2026 Report — Google Cloud
- M-Trends 2026 reveals threat landscape shaped by faster, coordinated, and industrialized cyberattacks
- High-Tech Sector Overtakes Finance as Top Target of Cyber-Attacks in 2025
- The phone call is the new phishing email
- M-Trends 2026: Initial Access Handoff Shrinks From Hours to 22 Seconds
- Top 50 Cybersecurity Threats — Splunk
- If threat actors gave you a chance to redact the patient data they hacked before they leak it, would you take them up on the offer? Read about the Woundtech incident.
- Iran-Linked Pay2Key Ransomware Group Re-Emerges
- Waterfall Threat Report 2026 finds ransomware slowdown masks deeper shift toward nation-state attacks on critical infrastructure
Atlantic hurricane season forecast 2026: 11-16 named storms predicted by AccuWeather — AccuWeather — 25 Mar 2026. AccuWeather forecasts a near-average Atlantic hurricane season with 11 to 16 named storms and several potential hurricanes. Target is coastal communities, emergency planners, and critical infrastructure operators preparing for seasonal storm impacts. Dig is that even an average season can produce high-impact storms that stress preparedness and response capabilities. The outlook is significant for planning purposes as organizations begin to align resources and contingency plans ahead of peak hurricane activity.
Quick Hits:
Treasury asks whether terrorism risk insurance program should bolster cyber coverage — CyberScoop | 25 Mar 2026. Treasury is seeking public comment for a report to Congress on the effectiveness of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program and specifically asked whether changes should better address cyber related losses arising from acts of terrorism. The notice highlights a persistent gap because even catastrophic cyber incidents may fall outside the program unless Treasury certifies them as terrorism under current law. Target: insurers, critical infrastructure operators, large enterprises, and policymakers evaluating how to manage systemic cyber loss from high consequence attacks. Dig: this is an important resilience and policy signal because it could shape future federal backstop discussions for cyber insurance ahead of the law’s scheduled 2027 expiration. (CyberScoop)
Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for Podcasters, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:
- The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
- Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
- The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series was a 2024 limited series podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosted a series of short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.
- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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