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ISC2 Research Finds AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Roles and Increasing Human Oversight

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Cybersecurity professionals reporting higher work-related stress from AI are significantly more likely to spend time validating outputs and deciding when to trust AI recommendations

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ISC2 – the world’s leading nonprofit member organization for cybersecurity professionals – today released findings from its Rethinking AI’s Impact on Cybersecurity Roles report, revealing that artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cybersecurity roles, workflows and decision-making while increasing the importance of human judgment, validation and governance. Approximately two-thirds of participants spent more time deciding when to trust or act on AI-generated recommendations (65%) and reviewing or validating AI outputs (63%) over the past year.

Based on a survey of 856 cybersecurity professionals who use AI in their roles, the research shows that while AI is improving efficiency and enabling more strategic work, it is also introducing new risks, increasing accountability pressures and accelerating changes to early-career pathways.

While nearly half of cybersecurity professionals (48%) report that AI has reduced workplace stress, almost one-third (32%) say it has increased stress levels. Those experiencing higher stress are significantly more likely than those with decreased stress to spend additional time deciding when to trust AI-generated recommendations (76% versus 57%) and reviewing or validating AI outputs (74% versus 57%). When AI-recommended actions lead to incorrect outcomes, half of the participants (50%) say their organizations hold human decision-makers ultimately accountable. Nearly 9 out of 10 (89%) respondents report having experienced AI recommendations that lead to incorrect outcomes at their organizations.

The research also finds that many cybersecurity professionals believe AI is changing early-career pathways. While 56% of participants say AI has reduced the need for entry-level roles, 53% believe AI is creating new entry-level opportunities and 48% say AI makes them feel more optimistic about their long-term career prospects.

“AI is not replacing cybersecurity professionals; it is changing what the profession requires of them,” said ISC2 CEO Scott Beale, CC. “As AI takes on more repetitive tasks, as well as performing some complex cybersecurity analysis at speed and scale, cybersecurity roles are shifting toward higher-value work, from asking the right questions to validating findings, interpreting outputs and applying human judgment. This evolution is not limited to entry-level roles. It changes how work is distributed across security teams, making continued investment in governance, validation practices, mentoring and skills development essential at every level.”

Additional findings from the report include:

AI’s impact on work-related stress is mixed. 48% report lowered stress due to AI, while 32% say stress has increased. Those reporting increased stress were significantly more likely than those with decreased stress to have spent more time deciding when to trust or act on AI recommendations (76% versus 57%) and reviewing or validating AI outputs (74% versus 57%).AI raises significant concerns. Top concerns include over-reliance on AI (62%), undetected errors scaling across systems (61%) and reduced human judgment at critical decision points (56%).Accountability remains human-led. When AI-recommended actions lead to incorrect outcomes, half of participants (50%) say their organizations hold human decision-makers ultimately accountable. Another 21% say accountability varies depending on the severity of the issue, while others reported ambiguity (10%) or a lack of clear ownership (8%) when AI recommendations are incorrect.AI is changing how cybersecurity professionals spend their time. Over the past year, nearly half (48%) report spending less time on tasks that do not involve AI, signaling a shift toward AI-assisted workflows. Responses on hands-on work are split: 35% report less time, 32% more time and 33% no change.Foundational cybersecurity skills remain essential. Nearly two-thirds (62%) do not believe that AI has reduced the need for foundational cybersecurity skills, compared to just 26% who say it has.Governance and trust frameworks are critical. Around 4 in 5 say it is very important to establish when to trust AI outputs(82%), knowing when to  override decisions (80%) and having clear governance frameworks in place (80%).

For cybersecurity leaders, hiring managers, workforce development teams and HR professionals navigating how AI is reshaping cybersecurity roles, skills and decision-making, read the full Rethinking AI’s Impact on Cybersecurity Roles report here.

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The ISC2 2026 Rethinking AI’s Impact on Cybersecurity Roles report is based on responses from 856 cybersecurity professionals who use AI in their roles. Conducted in May 2026, the research explores how AI is influencing time allocation, skills development, entry-level roles, decision-making, risk and workplace stress across the cybersecurity profession.

About ISC2
ISC2 is the world’s leading member organization for cybersecurity professionals, driven by our vision of a safe and secure cyber world. Our more than 265,000 certified members, and associates, are a force for good, safeguarding the way we live. Our award-winning certifications – including cybersecurity’s premier certification, the CISSP® – enable professionals to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and abilities at every stage of their careers. ISC2 strengthens the influence, diversity and vitality of the cybersecurity profession through advocacy, expertise and workforce empowerment that accelerates cyber safety and security in an interconnected world. Our charitable foundation, the Center for Cyber Safety and Education, helps create more access to cyber careers and educates those most vulnerable. Learn more, get involved or become an ISC2 Candidate to build your cyber career at ISC2.org. Connect with us on X, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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PIZZA HUT INTRODUCES NEW THROWBACK VALUE MENU TO CELEBRATE ITS MOST ICONIC MENU ITEMS

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New Throwback Value Menu Features the Hut Originals You Know and Love along with First-Time Offerings of Triple Cheese Mac and S’mores Sticks Dinner Service NY Streetwear Collaboration and “Back to the Hut” Bring to Life Fan-Favorite Brand Icons in Wearable Collection and Nostalgic Experience

PLANO, Texas, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As part of Pizza Hut’s Hut Originals platform, the brand is giving fans another reason to revisit their favorites with the debut of the new Throwback Value Menu*. Available starting today for a limited time, the menu brings together iconic Pizza Hut classics and new additions, all at a great value. Pizza Hut is also celebrating the fans who made the brand iconic through a Dinner Service NY Streetwear Collection and Back to the Hut Experience.

Throwback Value Menu
The Throwback Value Menu makes it easy for fans to build their own Pizza Hut buffet with items starting at just $3. Offerings** include a $10 Medium 1-Topping Stuffed Crust Pizza, $3 Personal Pan Pizza (1-Topping), $4 Breadsticks, $4 Cinnamon Sticks, $3 Pepsi 2-Liter, and two new menu items making their debut: $6 NEW Triple Cheese Mac and $5 NEW S’mores Sticks.

Dinner Service NY Streetwear Collection
To bring Hut Originals to life beyond the menu, Pizza Hut is teaming up with Dinner Service NY, a brand known for transforming restaurant workwear into coveted streetwear. Rooted in Pizza Hut’s rich restaurant heritage, the collaboration transforms iconic Pizza Hut uniforms, BOOK IT! nostalgia and fan-favorite memories into a limited-edition collection of button-down shirts, camo jackets, T-shirts, sweaters, rugby shirts, hats, totes and socks. The collection gives fans a new way to celebrate and wear their love for the brand. The collection will be live for shopping at 12 p.m. CST on July 16 at www.dinnerserviceny.com. And fans who join Hut Rewards*** can unlock exclusive early access to purchase the collection at 10 a.m. CST.

Back to the Hut Experience
Throughout the summer, Pizza Hut is inviting fans to prove they are true Hut Originals through the new “Back to the Hut” digital experience in the Hut Rewards app. Members can test their Pizza Hut knowledge through in-app trivia and challenges to unlock rewards, collectibles and exclusive experiences.

“Some of Pizza Hut’s most iconic menu items have stood the test of time because fans never stopped loving them,” said Melissa Friebe, Chief Marketing Officer for Pizza Hut. “With the Throwback Value Menu, we’re bringing those favorites together at great value and pairing them with experiences that Feed Good Times and celebrate everything people love about Pizza Hut. From our collaboration with Dinner Service NY to the Back to the Hut experience, we’re continuing to champion what makes Pizza Hut truly iconic.”

The Throwback Value Menu is available for a limited time at participating Pizza Hut locations nationwide this summer. Because while trends come and go, some things never stop being iconic.

*The Throwback Value Menu is available for Carryout, Delivery and Dine-In at participating Pizza Hut locations nationwide. Not available on aggregator platforms. Pricing may vary at participating locations.

** Exclusions apply. Medium Stuffed Crust and Personal Pan Pizza include 1 topping. Additional charge for extra toppings, extra cheese & recipe pizza upgrade (recipes available on stuffed crust only). Product availability, combinability of discounts & specials, prices & participation may vary. Taxes, tip & delivery fees not included.

*** Hut  Rewards is open to US residents 18+ who have registered for the program. For full Hut Rewards Terms & Conditions, with details, restrictions, & limitations, visit pizzahut.com/hutrewards.

About Pizza Hut® 
Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, and is a global leader in the pizza category with nearly 20,000 restaurants in more than 110 markets and territories. The brand has earned a reputation as a trailblazer in innovation with the creation of icons like Original Pan® and Original Stuffed Crust® pizzas. In 1994, Pizza Hut pizza was the very first online food order, and today Pizza Hut continues leading the way in the digital and technology space with over half of transactions worldwide coming from digital orders. In addition, Pizza Hut has Hut Rewards®, the brand’s loyalty program in the U.S. that offers points for every dollar spent on food any way you order. Leveraging its global presence, Pizza Hut also works to positively impact restaurant employees, the communities they serve and the environment through commitments across three priority areas: More Equity, Less Carbon and Better Packaging.

About Dinner Service NY
Dinner Service is a culture-forward apparel brand built on collaboration. They create garments that commemorate moments that matter. A service to memory. Since its founding, the brand has partnered with musicians, restaurants, hotels, artists and other culture shapers to create limited-run pieces built to be lived in. Past collaborators include Figma, C as in Charlie, Pink’s, Las Vegas, Hamilton and L’Ermitage. Every release operates on the same principle: it happens once. Dinner Service is based in New York.  

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LightBox launches LightBox Property, creating a single asset record for commercial real estate

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For the first time, owners, lenders, investors, and brokers can access a single asset-level record, replacing the manual work of piecing property data together deal by deal

NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LightBox, the leading provider of commercial real estate data, analytics, and workflow solutions, today announced the launch of LightBox Property, a new LightBox Data product that creates one record for every commercial real estate asset.

A commercial real estate asset is often more complex than a single parcel. An industrial campus, for example, is bought and financed as one property but lives in the data as several separate parcel records. In other cases, a single parcel record may contain multiple structures, addresses, tenants, or uses. For years, professionals across the industry closed that gap by hand, one deal at a time. That work doesn’t scale. As lenders track risk across whole loan books and investors compare thousands of properties at once, assembling the asset by hand stops working.

LightBox Property gives the entire market one place to start. Corporations, owners, investors, lenders, brokers, appraisers, developers, and environmental professionals all work from the same asset, with parcels, structures, ownership, boundaries, transactions, and history connected beneath it. From that record, customers can reach the full breadth of LightBox data or use the LightBox geocoder to organize their own data into the same property model. The work of defining a property happens once, at the asset level, instead of over and over in every workflow built on top of it.

“Everyone in this industry makes decisions about assets, but the data underneath them was never organized that way,” said Eric Frank, Founder and CEO of LightBox. “A lender underwriting a property can now pull it as one collateral record, whether that asset spans multiple parcels, includes multiple structures, or represents only part of a parcel. That is a change in how the whole market works, and it is only the beginning of what a single asset record makes possible.”

LightBox already sits beneath commercial real estate, connecting the parcel, structure, ownership, transaction, environmental, and location data the industry runs on, resolved through the LightBox ID. Through sustained investment in its unique data assets, LightBox has built one connected system for property intelligence, and the asset record is the natural consequence of that work. It is a record only LightBox can build.

While the industry’s data resolves to the parcel, its decisions resolve to the asset. LightBox Property connects them.

“The real value of LightBox Property is that it gives customers a way to connect the property data they already have to a record they can actually use,” said Caroline Stoll, General Manager, Data & Analytics at LightBox. “Most organizations are working with messy inputs across portfolios, systems, and third-party sources. With the LightBox geocoder and LightBox ID, those inputs can be resolved to a single asset, enriched with LightBox data, and connected back to their own workflows. That is what makes portfolio analytics, automation, and AI practical at scale.”

LightBox Property continues a series of 2026 releases focused on CRE portfolio intelligence, following City Directories and Corporate Owner, each one moving the market toward a single, connected view of property.

The first release covers approximately 8.5 million curated properties nationwide and is available through the LightBox API and in LightBox Live.

To learn more or request access, visit www.lightboxre.com/data.

About LightBox
LightBox is the Decision Foundation for the Built World. For more than 30 years, it has helped commercial real estate professionals work from a clearer, more consistent view of property in a market long slowed by fragmented information. LightBox creates a connected property record that helps organizations move faster, reduce risk, and make better-informed decisions across real estate workflows. It gives organizations clarity they can stand on.

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Iridium Announces Commercial Availability of Iridium PNT ASIC, Bringing Resilient GNSS Protection to Devices Worldwide

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Ultra-compact chip delivers trusted positioning, navigation, and timing resilience amid rising spoofing and jamming threats

MCLEAN, Va., July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM), a leading provider of global voice, data, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite services, today announced the commercial availability of the Iridium PNT ASIC, a first-to-market chip designed to help protect GPS- and GNSS-dependent devices from jamming, spoofing, and other growing threats.

Since the Iridium PNT ASIC’s unveiling in October 2025, Iridium has received unprecedented demand from more than 150 organizations worldwide, spanning maritime, unmanned and autonomous systems (UXV), aviation, telecommunications, and other critical infrastructure sectors.

“The market response to the Iridium PNT ASIC has reinforced what we’re hearing from customers around the world: assured PNT is becoming an essential capability across critical industries,” said Dr. Michael O’Connor, executive vice president, PNT, Iridium. “With commercial availability, we’re enabling manufacturers to integrate trusted timing and location capabilities into smaller, more efficient designs, making assured PNT accessible to more applications than ever before.”

Measuring just 8 by 8 millimeters and weighing less than 0.2 grams, the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) represents a major step forward in expanding access to assured PNT technologies at scale. The chip delivers cryptographically secure timing and location data from the Iridium satellite network through one-way signal bursts that are powerful enough to work where traditional GNSS often cannot, including inside structures and in contested environments.

By continuously validating signal integrity and delivering trusted PNT data anywhere on Earth, the Iridium PNT ASIC provides a powerful new foundation not only for resilient navigation, but also timing. Financial markets, telecommunications networks, power grids, and governments all depend on precise time synchronization to coordinate operations and maintain reliable service.

As global reliance on GNSS continues to grow, so does the frequency and sophistication of signal interference such as jamming and spoofing. Recent incidents including the May 2026 in-flight jamming of United Kingdom Defence Secretary John Healey highlight increasing operational and safety risks associated with GNSS spoofing and jamming across commercial transportation, aviation, and critical infrastructure environments. According to a 2019 study sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a GPS outage was estimated to cost the U.S. economy approximately $1 billion per day. Adjusted for inflation, that figure would exceed $1.3 billion per day in 2026, underscoring the growing importance of reliable backup solutions.

Compact Assured PNT Integration Underway

Solace Communications, a provider of mission-critical communications solutions for demanding and remote environments, is one of several Iridium partners integrating the Iridium PNT ASIC. Its Vector family of assured PNT products combines Iridium PNT with multi-band GNSS and inertial sensing to deliver resilient positioning, navigation, and timing with continuous confidence scoring, while LTE and Iridium Short Burst Data® (SBD®) provide secure telemetry and messaging.

“The Iridium PNT ASIC supports our wider strategy of building one of the first edge-native, confidence-scored assured PNT platforms around multiple sources of positioning, timing, and motion data,” said Adam Elcock, co-founder, Solace Communications. “Future navigation systems must do more than report a position. They must continuously determine whether that position and its timing can be trusted. That is the role Vector has been designed to fulfill and is now being deployed.”

Skyband Systems, a developer of aviation-grade, PNT-resilient navigation hardware, will integrate the Iridium PNT ASIC into its M100 LRU for business and commercial aviation. The M100 combines Iridium PNT with onboard inertial sensing to alert crews to GNSS jamming and spoofing while providing aircraft location for enhanced situational awareness.

“Iridium’s secure and powerful global service is the perfect platform for Skyband’s resilient navigation product,” said Robert Wiggenhorn, co-founder, Skyband Systems. “We are excited to partner with Iridium as they launch the Iridium PNT ASIC and look forward to further strengthening their legacy of aircraft innovation and safety.”

Iridium continues to engage with developers, original equipment manufacturers, integrators, and technology providers to incorporate assured PNT capabilities into next-generation solutions. Those interested in ordering the Iridium PNT ASIC are encouraged to visit www.iridium.com/pnt/asic.

About Iridium Communications Inc.
Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) operates the world’s only truly global mobile satellite network. It serves as a platform for innovation, enabling voice, data, and messaging, positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), and aircraft surveillance services anywhere on Earth. Through its satellite constellation and integrated capabilities like Aireon, the world’s only space-based air traffic surveillance system, Iridium delivers services that support safety-focused operations across aviation, maritime, government, industrial, and consumer markets. The company is a leader in satellite Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and is advancing direct-to-device (D2D) communications based on open standards to expand access to satellite services.

Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Iridium innovates through an ecosystem of more than 500 technology and distribution partners, serving millions of customers worldwide. For more information visit www.iridium.com.

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