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In this week’s Weekly Brief: The Cyber Risk and Policy Edition, SecurityScorecard’s Director, Public Sector Channel Amanda Smith breaks down why the U.S. war with Iran is more than just what takes place on the physical battlefront. In 2026, as conflict unfolds in the Middle East, the digital battlefield has a direct impact on the homeland and U.S. critical infrastructure, too. “It's a global digital confrontation that hits a lot closer to home than a lot of people realize.”

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This is SecurityScorecard's Weekly Brief: The Adversary Insights Edition with SecurityScorecard's CISO Steve Cobb. Critical infrastructure security in the U.S. remains an important element of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Iran with Iranian-linked threat actors targeting US-based assets. Iranian threat actors have focused their efforts on the fastest methods of attack by searching for what Cobb calls “low hanging fruit” in critical infrastructure environments where many organizations have exposed systems.

This is SecurityScorecard's Weekly Brief: The CISO Edition with SecurityScorecard's CISO Steve Cobb. Is it time to retire the vendor questionnaire and annual assessment routines? Not quite, but following face-to-face customer interactions and many forward-thinking speaking sessions at RSAC 2026, CISO Steve Cobb emphasizes the importance of reducing risk for TPRM programs, which is not achieved by completing a third-party risk assessment checklist alone.