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Organizations are struggling to detect, investigate, and contain cloud threats before adversaries achieve their goals. The new CrowdStrike State of Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) Survey highlights the primary challenges they face: Together, these challenges are creating opportunities for threat actors to successfully breach cloud environments.

Your team probably already has a SIEM, endpoint telemetry, firewall logs, and a growing backlog of alerts no one wants to tune right before a board update. Then an incident review exposes the same problem security leaders keep finding: the attacker didn't need to defeat every control. They only needed to move through a part of the environment no one was watching closely enough.

Which industries are attracting the most attention from cybercriminals today? According to the DevOps Threats Unwrapped Report 2026, Technology and Software organizations remained the most targeted sector. This finding is consistent with our previous research in the 2024 CISO’s Guide to DevOps Threats, showing that attackers continue to focus heavily on organizations that build, manage, and distribute software. What changed, however, was the composition of the industries that followed close behind.

We believe trust is earned through demonstration and transparency, not promises. That’s why we worked with Trail of Bits, an independent security firm that has spent years reviewing the code behind widely-used software from cryptography libraries to critical open-source infrastructure. Persona regularly undergoes independent third-party audits across our security, privacy, and product programs.

Anthropic released a pre-built KYC Screener agent last month. It runs a four-step workflow on onboarding records to extract structured data from KYC documents, evaluate that data against a firm's KYC rules, screen named parties, and escalate exceptions to a compliance file for human review. The Anthropic template is purpose-built for meeting basic KYC compliance requirements during onboarding, and it lowers the cost of getting it right.

Most CISOs can’t answer a simple question with confidence: are the controls protecting our most critical applications actually working right now? Not last quarter, or the last time someone ran an assessment, but right now. That’s not a failure of effort. Enterprise security teams run on thousands of applications. Each one carries contracts, regulatory obligations, and customer trust.

When 48 teams, 104 matches, 16 host cities, and a broadcast audience approaching half the planet converge across six weeks, something else converges at the same time: opportunity for the people trying to exploit it. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the most complex digital event in history, and the security challenge it creates is not limited to the tournament organizers.

For years, cybersecurity conversations have focused on endpoints, networks, and email. Meanwhile, attackers have quietly shifted their attention elsewhere. Today, many breaches begin in the cloud. Compromised Microsoft 365 accounts. Misconfigured SaaS applications. Third-party integrations with excessive permissions. Employees are adopting AI tools without IT approval. These aren't edge cases anymore; they're becoming everyday realities for managed service providers (MSPs).

When a system goes down, every minute offline costs you revenue, customer trust, and operational stability. The recovery time objective (RTO) defines exactly how long your organization can tolerate that downtime. It should be determined before anything breaks because it drives every infrastructure, staffing, and tooling decision in your disaster recovery plan.

CISOs and security analysts understand that the narrative surrounding artificial intelligence risk has changed. The old assumption that AI risk begins and ends with an employee copying and pasting a sensitive paragraph into a public ChatGPT prompt has dissipated, and we now see that AI has rapidly transitioned from an occasional consumer novelty into a deeply embedded, departmental infrastructure.