Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! At what point did they think the changes were good before moving to production? While I’m not blown away by AI, blaming it for process failure muddies the issue.

Implementing cloud security policies and technologies has seen sustained growth in recent years. However, despite the widespread adoption of cloud security services, many companies have yet to fully recognize the critical importance of cloud security or still find themselves wondering: what is cloud security and why should it matter to their business? Migrating to the cloud provides organizations with the ability to move faster and more efficiently.

CVE-2026-21262 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft SQL Server. The issue is caused by improper access control within SQL Server components, allowing an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

GDPR compliance cost in 2026 ranges from $25,000 for a lean startup to over $2,000,000 a year for a global enterprise. That is a wide range — and the wrong guess in either direction is expensive. Under-budget and you face enforcement gaps. Over-budget and you bleed cash on controls you never needed. This guide cuts through the noise.

Over the past year, AI-generated code has moved from novelty to normal. Developers are shipping faster, prototyping faster, refactoring faster… sometimes without fully understanding what they just merged. From the outside, it looks like a productivity renaissance. From the inside, it feels like something else: a new kind of operational risk that doesn’t behave like the old kind.

Enterprise data environments have fundamentally outpaced the security architectures designed to protect them. Sensitive data now exists across endpoints, cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, and AI workflows simultaneously, often replicated in fragments that carry no labels and trigger no file-based controls.

AI agents are rapidly becoming embedded in enterprise workflows, influencing revenue operations, customer engagement, development, and internal decision-making. As these systems gain autonomy and inherit access across SaaS, cloud, and endpoint environments, they introduce a new layer of operational and security risk that traditional controls cannot fully manage.

SharePoint backup and Office 365 backup, in general, are an essential part of an organization’s data protection and security strategy. Microsoft 365 backups can be stored on-premises, but the recommended practice is to follow the 3-2-1 backup rule and store backup copies in the cloud too. With the NAKIVO solution, you can implement this effective backup strategy to protect Microsoft 365 data in SharePoint Online as well as in Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive for Business.

Amazon S3 is a popular cloud storage that is widely used around the world. You can manage Amazon S3 cloud storage in the web interface by using a web browser. We have explained the alternative methods to manage files stored in S3 buckets in the blog post about mounting Amazon S3 as a drive for cloud file sharing, but in that blog post the emphasis was on the command line interface of operating systems such as Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Sending an unsecured email can be likened to writing sensitive information on a sticky note and leaving it on someone else's desk: anybody can intercept and share that information. Fortunately, there are ways to ensure your emails are safe from the prying eyes of hackers through encryption, meaning your message — no matter how sensitive — is seen only by the intended recipient.