In 2011, when Wendy Nather was at 451 Research, she coined the term Security Poverty Line, the line below which an organization cannot be effectively secured.
The arrival of agentic AI is the most consequential shift in cybersecurity since the cloud, and it has put the poverty line under more pressure than at any point in history.
At Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas earlier this month, Cybercrime Magazine met with Nather, presently Senior Initiatives Director at 1Password, and Joe Levy, CEO at Sophos, for a fireside chat on the formation of the Security Poverty Line idea, and how that has evolved over the past 15 years.
The Security Poverty Line remains critically important in 2026. Nather and Levy explain why in this video, a must-watch for all CISOs and cybersecurity professionals globally.
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