Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came second to application security or hardening infrastructure. In 2025, the picture changed. Wallarm’s 2026 API ThreatStats Report revealed that APIs are now the primary attack surface for digital business, and not because bad actors discovered new zero-days, but because of compounding failures in identity, exposure, and abuse.

There is an old saying: Trust, but verify. For Third-Party Risk Management auditors in regulated financial institutions, that principle has never been more relevant. Vendor questionnaires, SOC 2 reports, and annual reassessments are no longer enough. Regulators are moving beyond paper-based oversight and toward operational proof. The new expectation is clear: Show where customer data is actually flowing. Prove that you control it.

by Darron Antill, CEO Device Authority Across the automotive and wider manufacturing industry, conversations around PKI and key management have moved from technical design discussions to board-level priorities. Regulatory frameworks such as UNECE WP.29, ISO 21434, and the emerging EU Cyber Resilience Act are fundamentally reshaping how OEMs and supply chain partners must think about cryptographic control.

Many operational technology (OT) environments depend on Windows 10 systems. In October 2025, Microsoft ended support for Windows 10. That doesn’t mean manufacturers have to immediately replace their systems, but it does change the risk profile related to unsupported operating systems. In OT environments, operating systems commonly reach end of support long before the industrial assets they control.

DNS is foundational to almost every application, yet it is often treated as background configuration rather than a critical dependency. During network changes, DNS settings are easy to overlook. A single device pointing to the wrong resolver, missing a required DNS entry, or retaining a legacy configuration can cause application failures that appear unrelated to the original change.

As AI systems are used in our day-to-day operations, a central reality becomes unavoidable: AI doesn’t configure itself and must be set up with human approval and oversight. It requires engineers and developers to configure it. Developers need privileges to access and implement components, agents, tools, and features of the platforms. But developers don’t just have these privileges unconstrained… right? Where trust and privileges exist, someone will try to abuse them.

In today’s corporate environments, browsers have become one of the most active entry points for endpoints. They are at the center of daily workflows, a gateway to SaaS applications, cloud services, and critical business resources, which places them high on attacker radars.

With Keeper’s Slack workflow integration, users can request and approve secure access to credentials, records and elevated privileges directly in Slack, without switching tools or sacrificing visibility. By bringing secure access requests and approvals into Slack, Keeper delivers a simple and secure way to enforce least-privilege access through policy-driven workflows without slowing down operations.

Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT concern; it is now a strategic priority in the boardroom. As enterprises operate without a fixed perimeter, depend on cloud providers for infrastructure and build partnerships across digital ecosystems, controlling access to critical systems and data has become essential to doing business. Privileged Access Management (PAM) plays a key role in securing this new environment.

From customer data to proprietary applications and even employees, businesses have migrated massive amounts of critical information to cloud platforms led by AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. But with over 100 billion terabytes of data on the cloud at the end of 2025, you can go from cloud9 to under the clouds in a matter of seconds.