Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

AppSec teams know application risk is growing, but budget conversations are often won and lost outside the security team, in rooms full of executives who speak the language of revenue and delivery velocity, not CVSS scores. The core argument: application security software is easier to fund when it is tied to growth, resilience, compliance, and delivery outcomes… not just technical findings.

A vendor can bypass MFA and sign in with an individual account while still being able to reach industrial systems unrelated to the job. Before replacing your current setup, follow one real service request from approval through completion. The exercise can reveal outdated permissions, unnecessary network connectivity, shared credentials, or records that are difficult to retrieve when you need them.

Managing user accounts, permissions and security access across a university environment involves significant administrative work. For institutions that rely on Microsoft Active Directory, keeping that infrastructure organized, secure and current can quickly become resource-intensive as student and staff populations shift each semester. This type of challenge grows when IT teams must handle onboarding, access changes and offboarding manually for each individual.

On September 15, 2026, NIST published Internal Report 8587, “Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse.” It’s built to extend NIST Special Publication 800-53 Release 5.1.1, and on paper it reads like an SSO hardening document for government agencies and their cloud vendors.

Entrust, a global leader in identity-centric security solutions, today announced its partnership with The Cyber Helpline. Entrust will support our mission to help people understand, contain, and recover from cyber incidents by funding more than 3,200 hours of specialist support, which will provide assistance for approximately 1,000 individuals across the US and UK.

The problem is not a lack of controls. It is connecting them into one attack story. The more time I spend with enterprise AI deployments, the clearer one thing becomes: AI security is incredibly fragmented. There are LLM guardrails, AI gateways, MCP security tools, API security, endpoint controls, SASE, code scanning, and runtime detection. Each solves a real problem, but agentic systems do not experience them as separate layers, and neither do attackers.

It’s not a secret that phishing, stolen credentials, and human error remain some of the easiest ways for attackers to get into an environment. Identity has become one of the biggest attack surfaces for organizations today because sometimes, all an attacker needs to do is log in. That access can come from valid credentials, stolen sessions, exposed tokens, compromised service accounts, or abused application permissions.

9,255 hours and 26 minutes. That’s the combined downtime and degraded service duration that GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and Jira publicly reported in 2025, across 607 incidents tracked in our DevOps Threats Unwrapped 2026 report. Critical and major incidents rose 69% year over year, with overall incident volume growth at 40%—a trend that cannot be ignored and a related cost that must be properly measured.

Every major cybersecurity request should connect directly to something the business cannot afford to lose: revenue, customer trust, sensitive data, intellectual property, critical operations, or an important business relationship.

Ransomware crews go after backups first. Before any production file gets encrypted, they hunt down your backup catalog, snapshots, and repository credentials. The real question is whether your backups can survive an attacker who is actively trying to destroy them. This guide covers how to protect backups from ransomware with specifics: immutable and WORM storage, the 3-2-1-1-0 rule, air-gapping, network segmentation, encryption, and access controls that hold up under pressure.