Ransomware payouts, supply‑chain breaches, and state‑backed attacks have pushed cybersecurity spending into the category of must‑have corporate expenses rather than optional upgrades. For investors who want exposure to the security budgets that…
FINX is down nearly 17% this year while CIBR has lost about 9%. Both funds target the digital economy, but they behave very differently when rates rise and markets get choppy. Global…
Every major data breach that makes headlines is also a sales call for the companies inside First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF (NYSEARCA:CIBR). The question for retirement investors isn’t whether cybersecurity spending will…
Michael Williams Cybersecurity spending is structurally non-discretionary. Enterprises don’t cut security budgets the way they cut travel or marketing, which is precisely why thematic ETFs targeting the sector attract long-term growth investors. Global X…
The First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF (NASDAQ:CIBR) gained ~13% in 2025, trailing the Nasdaq-100 by nearly 7 percentage points. This underperformance comes as AI-enabled threats are expected to drive unprecedented demand for…
The Global X Cybersecurity ETF (NASDAQ:BUG) has had a rough year. For a thematic ETF built around an exploding threat, that’s disappointing. But here’s the thing: cybersecurity stocks aren’t struggling because the…
Cybersecurity firm FireEye revealed Tuesday that an attacker had managed to steal software tools that the company uses to test its customers' security.
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