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Twelve years ago, during Birthday Week 2014, we turned on Universal SSL and nearly doubled the number of encrypted sites on the web overnight, giving free TLS to every site behind Cloudflare, including the ones that never paid us a cent. Encryption stopped being an expensive, time-intensive undertaking and instead became the default. For Birthday Week this year, we are taking the next step on that path.

An interruption model measures the time from failure to restoration. Systems down, systems back, multiply by revenue per hour. ‍ In an airline the outage ends well before the recovery does, and the ratio between the two is large enough to make a model keyed to restoration wrong rather than imprecise. One carrier restored connectivity in under an hour and the resulting displacement ran into the following morning. ‍

The word agent appears nowhere in the AI Act. Some read that absence as a scope question still to be settled, and treat agentic deployments as sitting outside a regime written before they existed. ‍ On its own FAQ the Commission has answered it directly. Agents are not a separate category and the existing definitions already reach them, so nothing needs amending for the rules to apply.

AI agents can now propose network changes at machine speed, yet your team still has no staging environment to prove those changes before the 2 AM change window.

A vendor can pass every questionnaire you send it and still be the reason you end up in a breach report. That's the gap most third-party risk programs live in today. According to the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 48% of breaches now involve a third party, up from 30% the year before and 15% the year before that. But most organizations still manage that risk with periodic assessments and separate threat feeds. Those methods can tell you whether a supplier passed a review last quarter.

Managed Detection and Response has long helped organizations extend their security operations capabilities, but buyer expectations are changing. Detecting suspicious activity and notifying internal teams is no longer enough. Organizations increasingly expect MDR providers to help investigate incidents, contain threats, identify exposures, and deliver measurable improvements to their security posture.

London, UK, September 29th, 2026 – We are thrilled to announce that The Cyber Helpline has been named Not-for-Profit Cyber Award winner at this year's National Cyber Awards. This marks our fifth win in the category, following wins in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Our team and volunteers were also recognised as finalists in three further categories: the Alan Turing Cyber Leadership Award, the Cyber Diversity Award and the Cyber Student of the Year Award.

As AI adoption accelerates inside enterprises, security and IT teams are increasingly asking a foundational question: what exactly is connected to our AI, and what can it access? For organizations running Claude Enterprise, Salt now has a direct answer. Salt Claude Connect links Salt to Claude’s Compliance API and provides continuous, read-only visibility into the MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers connected to your Claude Enterprise organization.

The Detectify Cyber Hygiene Index Report H2 2026 measures something most reports ignore: not what happened after an attack, but what’s exposed right now, before one occurs. We analyzed anonymized data from a sample of +1290 organizations across the US, UK, and Nordics to understand how effectively they’re finding, monitoring, and closing vulnerabilities across their external attack surfaces.