A new report published has exposed significant challenges in retaining cybersecurity talent. Produced jointly by IANS and Artico Search and based on responses from more than 500 security...
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From Skill Gap to Credit Risk: The Next Fault Line in Corporate Assessment
This article concludes a short Intrepid Explorers three part series examining how structural skill gaps are migrating from labor markets into operational risk—and now into credit assessment and...
Cybersecurity: When the Defenders Fall Behind the Criminal Economy
This is the second in a short Intrepid Explorers series of articles examining a growing structural issue that is beginning to move beyond labor markets and into the core of economic and financial...
The Skill Gap Is Not a Shortage – It Is a Misalignment: Credentials over Applicability
Series Introduction: The Emerging Skill - Risk Nexus This article is the first in a short Intrepid Explorers series examining a growing structural issue that is beginning to move beyond labor...
Fraud 2026: Five Threats — or One Systemic Shift?
The latest warnings directed at credit unions identify five emerging fraud threats for 2026 These five threats are: AI-powered deepfakes, synthetic identity fraud, authorized push payment scams,...
Cyber Security Workforce Shortage: Elevated from “Important” to Central Strategic Risk
For years, cybersecurity workforce shortages have been described as a constraint, a bottleneck, or an unfortunate but manageable side issue. That framing is now dangerously outdated. We have written...
Cyber Security Trends: Converging Threats are Creating a Perfect Storm
Cyber Security Trends Analysis 2025: When AI, Fraud, and Skill Shortages Converge into a Systemic Threat By Joachim C. Bartels, Intrepid Explorers, LLC. Executive Summary Cybersecurity and online...
Dun & Bradstreet India Hires Almas Khan as Head of Marketing & CRS
Dun & Bradstreet’s First Visible Talent Signal Under CEO Tulenko: Why the India Hire Matters Dun & Bradstreet’s appointment of Almas Khan as Head of Marketing & CSR for India may appear,...
The Cyber Security Crisis: The Skills Gap We Appear Not to Be Able to Automate Away
While many fear losing their jobs to AI, the opposite crisis is unfolding in cybersecurity. There simply aren’t enough qualified people to defend the systems we’ve automated. At Intrepid Explorers,...








