Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Most security leaders remember the first time they discovered shadow IT inside their own organization. A business team had adopted a SaaS application, connected it to company data, and built a workflow around it before anyone in security knew it existed. The tool was useful, and the team was productive. The governance conversation simply started months late. The agentic enterprise is creating a more consequential version of that problem.

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If the CCPA covers your business, you must treat an opt-out preference signal as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. "Sharing" includes disclosures for cross-context behavioral advertising, which is what most advertising pixels do.

If people in California use your website or app, assume CIPA applies. CIPA was written for telephone wiretapping, and courts have applied its "technology-neutral" terms to online communications for years. The business's location does not matter; the visitor's does.

An access review can look complete on paper. The campaign closed, reviewers made their decisions, and the records were saved. Then an auditor asks: Who reviewed this access, what did they decide, and what happened afterward? That question can reveal problems that a completed review does not show. A rejected permission may still be active. An exception may have no clear reason. The team may also struggle to show when the review happened.

Access certification can take more time than the actual review. A manager may need to review access for 50 employees. Before that happens, someone has to gather the access data, identify the right reviewer, send the requests, and track the responses. If the reviewer revokes access, someone may also need to remove it from the application. Now repeat that across hundreds of users and several applications. The workload adds up quickly.

APRA's information security standard already covers the APIs your agents run on. Most institutions cannot yet evidence it. All APRA-regulated institutions in Australia are bound to meet CPS 234. This is the Prudential Standard for Information Security. Whether that's a bank, insurance provider, or super fund, they all fall under CPS 234, as do their third-party providers. Together, these institutions hold trillions of dollars in assets.

This briefing examines material developments across the most recent seven-day period and the preceding thirty days. It is written for executive and board consumption and focuses on residual risk, control effectiveness, material exposure, and the practical implications for application security programs, software supply chain integrity, edge and identity systems, and the accelerating role of AI in both attack and defense.

In the cloud, attackers don’t need to break in. They just need a working set of keys.