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Compliance and Regulation Heat Up in 2026: A New Phase of Scrutiny for Financial Services Organisations

Compliance and Regulation Heat Up in 2026: A New Phase of Scrutiny for Financial Services Organisations

May 29, 2026 By Sean Tilley, Senior Director of Sales EMEA In 11:11 Systems
The regulatory landscape facing financial services in 2026 is more complex, more demanding, and faster moving than at any point in the past decade. Across the UK, regulators are attempting to strike a delicate balance of stimulating economic growth while maintaining strong consumer protection and financial stability. This balancing act is unfolding against a backdrop of sluggish economic performance, geopolitical uncertainty, and political pressure for "pro-growth" regulation. The result is a regulatory environment where the pace, scope, and intensity of change is accelerating sharply.
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Malware Risks and Mitigation: Strengthen Your Cybersecurity Posture

May 29, 2026 By SafeAeon Inc. In SafeAeon
Malware attacks are a major cybersecurity concern for individuals and businesses. These attacks can lead to data theft and financial losses. A report from AV-Test suggests that more than 450,000 new malware and PUA samples are detected each day, bringing the total to 1.56 billion known samples. Malware can take many forms, such as viruses, ransomware, spyware, and trojans. These can threaten data integrity, privacy, and business continuity.
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SecurityScorecard Weekly Brief: The Driftnet Edition - Brandon Torio

May 29, 2026 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
In this week’s Weekly Brief: The Driftnet Edition, Brandon Torio explains why SecurityScorecard’s acquisition of Driftnet is transforming internet exposure visibility, and how new research uncovered hidden pathways between internet-connected security cameras and critical infrastructure systems in a small U.S. municipality. “That's the kind of security that really matters, the link between cybersecurity and our physical lives.”
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25 Security Vulnerabilities That Have Defined the 2020s (Thus Far)

May 28, 2026 By Nicholas Sollitto In UpGuard
Welcome to vulnerability management's big bang. If it feels like your security team is running a marathon on a treadmill set to a permanent incline of 12.0 with 50lb sandbags tied around each ankle, you're in good company. We have officially entered the era of the Great Vulnerability Acceleration. To put this recent synthetic bloom into perspective, consider this: in the last five years, the cybersecurity community has identified and recorded over 150,000 new vulnerabilities.
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Surviving a LockBit Ransomware Attack: The ROI of Visibility

May 28, 2026 By Nicholas Sollitto In UpGuard
In August 2023, while thousands of students at William Jewell College were hauling mini-fridges and textbooks into dorms, the invisible, digital heart of the campus was flatlining. There was no internet. No email. Even the HVAC system, tied to a compromised network, had shut down in the sweltering Missouri heat. The culprit? LockBit, a prolific ransomware syndicate that just hit Boeing days prior.
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An HR Leader's Guide to Insider Risk Management

May 28, 2026 By Cyberhaven In Cyberhaven
HR teams manage every stage of the employee lifecycle, from hiring and onboarding to performance management and offboarding. Security teams manage data access, behavioral monitoring, and incident response. Insider risk lives at the intersection of both. When HR and security operate independently, the gaps between them are exactly where data loss happens, and the moments of highest exposure are almost always HR events, such as a resignation submitted, a role change processed, a termination decision made.
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Is GRC Cool Again? How Mythos and Frontier AI Models Are Bringing a New Focus to Governance and Risk Management

May 27, 2026 By Vanessa Jankowski In BitSight
For the record, I always thought the GRC was cool. NIST Framework? Yes please. Vendor risk register? Tell me more! Not everyone shared my enthusiasm for effective and efficient cyber risk reduction. Until now. Suddenly, seemingly overnight, managing the digital supply chain became really, really important. AI governance (a phrase that didn’t even exist a year ago) is now the topic of boardroom discussions. Yes, it will look different and operate in a new way.
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Practical MCP Security: A Playbook for Mid-Market Teams

May 27, 2026 By Shane Moosa In UpGuard
Most guidance published on AI agent security is written for enterprise organizations. It assumes dedicated AI security functions, red teams, platform engineering groups, and the budget to commission purpose-built tooling. If your security team is three people covering five hundred employees and a cloud environment that grows faster than you can document it, that guidance was not written for you. The five posts in this series have established the threat landscape.
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