Trusted, Unbiased Guidance From 170+ Cybersecurity Practitioners
IANS gives security leaders and their teams the clarity to act decisively.
Powered by the insights and guidance of our faculty practitioners, IANS delivers trusted, timely and vendor agnostic intelligence—exactly when and where it’s needed.
From the beginning, our sole focus has been information security. Our mission is to support security leaders in making more informed, confident security decisions. High-level guidance is useful, but deep expertise is invaluable.
IANS helps you separate signals from distraction and surface what’s most relevant to your organization. We help you focus on the most relevant insights with daily curated news, emerging-threat briefings, incident support centers, and more. We enable you to act decisively and communicate effectively to reduce risk, earn executive trust, and turn security from a bottleneck into a strategic advantage. You get trusted, vendor-agnostic insights exactly when and how you need them.
IANS offerings are powered by a faculty of more than 170 experienced information security practitioners who are actively creating and implementing security best practices in the field. These subject-matter experts are proven security leaders who have faced the same challenges you navigate every day. Instead of starting with scratch, build on proven approaches from our field-tested Faculty practitioners, and best practices from our network of cybersecurity leaders.
Based on your priorities, organizational structure, and industry, we connect you with the right expert to deliver trusted, tailored guidance when it matters most—so you can accelerate decision-making and attack problems with confidence.
When you have tactical, immediate needs, you can tap into our faculty 24/7 through our on-demand platform, delivering our library of faculty insights when and where you need it.
Our products are designed to support your daily workflow, wherever and whenever you need support, IANS is your trusted team in your corner.
Daily Dive
Kick off your morning with a quick pulse check on the security landscape, delivered in under three minutes.
- Daily Briefings: Receive concise rundowns of the biggest cybersecurity stories, pulled from leading industry sources and paired with practical guidance on what to do next.
- Executive Summaries: Get straightforward, jargon-free explanations of major cyber events and what they mean for your organization, ideal for updating senior leaders and internal teams.
- Practitioner Insights: Insights hand‑selected by IANS researchers and written by seasoned practitioners, including former NSA hackers, CISOs, NIST contributors, and members of the IANS Faculty.
2026 State of the CISO Snapshot Report
Gain unbiased insights, industry‑wide benchmarks, and emerging trends drawn from feedback from more than 600 CISOs on how their responsibilities and priorities are shifting in 2026. Download this report to:
- Benchmark how the CISO role is structured today including scope, reporting models, and executive visibility.
- Understand how CISOs are managing expanding responsibilities and where resourcing gaps are creating risk.
- Explore career outlook, job satisfaction, and what CISOs say they need to be successful in the role.
AI Heading Into 2026: CISOs See Change, Growth and Opportunity
Gain clear, evidence‑based insights drawn from IANS community polls and real‑world experiences shared by CISOs who are actively deploying AI across their environments.
Download this report to learn:
- The evolving standards shaping AI policy and governance, and how CISOs are tightening access while building business-aligned oversight.
- How leaders are redefining AI vendor strategy, moving to multi-vendor models with stronger guardrails for data and operational risk.
- The top AI-driven priorities commanding executive focus in 2026, from workforces augmentation to identity assurance and AI-enabled threats.
