What's Your New Year's Cybersecurity Resolution?

A significant new year's fitness resolution for many people is, "I'm going to lift weights!" This poses a problem for gyms because a lot of new paying customers flood the weight floor looking to, you know, get buff by lifting weights. Which annoys the living heck out of previous paying customer gym rats who have been lifting all along.

Because while the weightlifting community is good, it has a hierarchy. And nobody likes noobs who don't know what they're doing, take up time using the equipment while figuring it out, do it wrong, need help, etc.

Sounds a lot like cybersecurity.

The three key words for cybersecurity in 2026 (we've written about them here and here) are secure, thwart, and defend. Think about these as you consider how you will deal with the noobs. While it is not your new year's resolution to be cybersecure -- it's your job and your passion -- you can turn your new three-word mindset to dealing with people who are new to your system or who are making new demands on your system.

While reasonable people can differ, everyone in the organization is responsible for securing the system. That new AI agent you developed? Let's do a security review. better yet let me show you how to do a security review.

How about thwarting attacks? OK, this is a specialist role but maybe that new person has a red-team mindset that can help you see your system with a fresh perspective.

Defending the system is a cybersecurity core expertise. But everyone with an employee badge is responsible for using the system responsibly. That noob may not be a programmer or an engineer or a systems person -- but they need to think of their core expertise as growing within a secure framework. How can you talk them through that?

There you go: your new year's cybersecurity resolution is help others reach their goals by helping engage them in our cybersecurity process.

Ask us how you can prepare to make the best of your cybersecurity new year's resolution in 2026.