Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For over a decade, the security industry has focused on one thing: training people not to click. Phishing simulations, awareness campaigns, behavioral nudges. The human is the attack surface. Harden the human, harden the org. And that's still true. But it's no longer the whole picture.

A public body running a high-risk AI system owes a fundamental rights impact assessment under Article 27 before first use, with the results notified to a market surveillance authority. The obligation is real and it is not yet in force. ‍ Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force since July 2026, deferred the section of the Act containing Article 27 to December 2027 for standalone high-risk systems and August 2028 for those embedded in regulated products.

If your vulnerability management program runs on a fixed scan-and-patch cadence, whether monthly, quarterly, or tied to a compliance deadline, you are measuring your response time against an attacker timeline that continues to accelerate. Vulnerability management remains a foundational security discipline. It identifies real, exploitable flaws and gives teams a structured way to prioritize and remediate them.

The week’s material risk is not a single CVE. It is the identity and policy control plane. In seven days, CISA confirmed active exploitation against Cisco Identity Services Engine, Check Point VPN and management servers, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager when used as an OAuth authorization server, and Arista’s on-prem VeloCloud Orchestrator. These products issue tokens, enforce network policy, or orchestrate SD-WAN.

Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.

AI TRiSM solutions address distinct risks across the AI lifecycle, from governance and evaluation to runtime security, agent authorization, and guardrails. In this comparison, the top 15 solutions fall into five complementary categories: These categories are complementary, not interchangeable. The right stack depends on where an organization needs to govern AI, monitor behavior, block threats, control agent privileges, or constrain AI interactions.

For decades, we believed that if could hear someone’s voice on a phone call or see them on a video call, they were who they said they were. What if that’s no longer true? This article is part of an ongoing series from Sophos frontline security operations specialists, sharing the expertise they use to strengthen our industry-leading Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service and defend customers against evolving AI Era threats.