Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Platform engineering is the practice of building and maintaining a centralized internal developer platform (IDP), a curated set of tools, workflows, and self-service capabilities that application teams consume rather than configure on their own. It's a structural response to how DevOps practices evolve at scale, particularly when "you build it, you run it" introduces more cognitive load than individual development teams can sustainably manage.

A practitioner's guide to the capability shifts, framework changes, and regulatory developments reshaping how enterprise IT and cybersecurity teams govern, deploy, and defend against autonomous agents.

A critical, unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Netlogon (CVE-2026-41089, CVSS 9.8) lets a remote attacker run code as SYSTEM on a domain controller. Patch all domain controllers in the same maintenance window with the May 2026 security updates.

Automated vulnerability remediation uses policy-driven workflows to execute approved remediation actions, including patch deployment, software updates, and configuration changes, consistently across managed assets. Within a broader vulnerability management program, it helps teams close the gap between identifying an exposure and safely resolving it at scale.

Vulnerability remediation is the process of fixing and validating security flaws in systems, applications, or infrastructure using patches, configuration changes, or compensating controls after they are identified and prioritized.

Leaders from across the federal government gathered to better understand IT and cybersecurity challenges in the AI age.

Continuous threat exposure management, or CTEM, is a five-stage program framework for continuously reducing real-world security exposure. It builds on vulnerability scanning by adding risk-informed prioritization, validation of exposure conditions and control effectiveness, and cross-team mobilization to drive remediation.

Endpoint security management is the centralized IT and security discipline of discovering, monitoring, and controlling all devices on an enterprise network, including laptops, servers, mobile devices, and IoT hardware, to reduce unauthorized access and limit how far threats can travel once inside.

The Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack compromised more than 170 packages across npm and PyPI, including packages from TanStack, Mistral AI, and Guardrails AI, by hijacking legitimate CI/CD publishing workflows to distribute malicious versions that still carried apparently valid provenance signals.

Because IT security no longer moves at human speed, endpoint management can no longer be seen as a background IT function. It’s now the front line and critical as ever. Attackers move fast, and AI makes them faster. Organizations can’t keep validating exposure and fixing issues the old way. Endpoint management has to run at machine speed because every manual handoff and every delayed exception adds more risk.