Daphne Hewson Hooper

Daphne Hooper is the Head of Legal at CYGNVS , where she leads the company’s in-house legal function and supports its continued growth as a global SaaS business. She advises the organization on commercial agreements, corporate matters, privacy, compliance, risk management, and strategic business initiatives, helping CYGNVS scale responsibly while protecting the company, its customers, and its partners.

What the industry now calls “Black October” has put security leaders everywhere on notice. Two critical issues in shared internet infrastructure, PHP2Shell and the eMudhra certificate keys, reached thousands of organizations at once. Security teams spent days hunting for exposure across vendors and services. Leaders had to weigh security against the business: stay online and […]

The CYGNVS Resilience Benchmark Report, built with Marsh on more than 9,500 surveys, finds that AI has become a source of security incidents inside the organization. AI incidents now hit 16% of organizations every week, yet only 1 in 3 have a dedicated out-of-band environment to manage the response. This summer, OpenAI confirmed a rogue […]

More than 6 in 10 organizations say incident volume is rising, yet 84% review their incident response plans once a year or less, according to an analysis of more than 9,500 survey responses. San Mateo, Calif. – October 13, 2026 – CYGNVS, the out-of-band command center for cyber and AI incidents, today released the CYGNVS […]

Insights on Cyber & AI Incident Readiness from 9,500+ Surveys Critical incidents used to be rare events. Today the average CISO handles 20 a year, and more than 6 in 10 organizations say incident volume has risen over the past 12 months. AI is accelerating that pace from both directions, giving attackers speed and scale […]