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A Complete Guide to Choosing the Best Making Tax Digital Software

A Complete Guide to Choosing the Best Making Tax Digital Software

Apr 21, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Making Tax Digital has changed the way UK businesses manage their taxes, pushing everything towards digital record-keeping and online submissions. While this shift may initially seem daunting, it actually presents an opportunity to streamline financial processes and gain better control over your business. The key to making this transition smooth lies in choosing the right software. In this guide, we will break down what to look for, how to compare options, and how to confidently select the best solution for your needs.
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How Third-Party Development Partners Become Your Biggest Security Liability

How Third-Party Development Partners Become Your Biggest Security Liability

Apr 21, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Third-party development partners offer real advantages: faster delivery, specialised expertise, and lower costs than building an in-house team. They also expand your attack surface in ways most organisations never fully account for. When an external team builds or modifies your systems, they bring with them their own tools, practices, access levels, and vulnerabilities. The question is not whether that creates risk. It is whether your organisation is managing it deliberately or leaving it to chance.
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netwrix

PCI DSS compliance levels: what they mean and how to qualify

Apr 20, 2026 By Istvan Molnar In Netwrix
PCI DSS compliance levels categorize merchants and service providers based on annual card transaction volume, determining their validation requirements. Merchants fall into four levels, with Level 1 requiring the most rigorous assessment through a Qualified Security Assessor, while Levels 2 through 4 typically complete self-assessment questionnaires. Service providers follow a separate two-tier system.
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cyberhaven

DSPM Maturity Model: Assess and Advance Your Data Security Posture

Apr 20, 2026 By Cyberhaven In Cyberhaven
Most organizations believe they have a handle on where their sensitive data lives. A closer look usually reveals a different picture. Classified files on unmanaged endpoints, customer records replicated into SaaS tools no one approved, and AI-generated content containing proprietary context that was never meant to leave a controlled environment. The gap between perceived and actual data security posture is exactly where breaches happen.
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wallarm

Attacking the MCP Trust Boundary

Apr 20, 2026 By Wallarm In Wallarm
Every secure API draws a line between code and data. HTTP separates headers from bodies. SQL has prepared statements. Even email distinguishes the envelope from the message. The Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard for connecting AI agents to external services, inherits that gap from the models it sits on top of.
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tanium

Vercel security incident: What the breach reveals about OAuth trust, supply chain risk, and response speed

Apr 20, 2026 By Tanium In Tanium
Public reporting suggests the incident involved abuse of a third-party application that had been granted OAuth access to a Vercel employee account, enabling unauthorized access to some internal resources. Certain customer‑related tokens, environment variables, or other access artifacts may have been exposed, though Vercel has not stated that password theft was part of the initial access path.
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netwrix

CUI protection: Handling controlled unclassified information securely

Apr 20, 2026 By Netwrix Team In Netwrix
Controlled unclassified information (CUI) protection requires consistent identification, marking, safeguarding, and access governance across every system that touches federal data. With CMMC Phase 1 underway and the FAR CUI rule in effect, compliance is now a contract prerequisite. Controlled unclassified information (CUI) is sensitive but unclassified information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls under federal law, regulation, or government-wide policy.
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teleport

NIST CSF 2.0 and Agentic AI: Building Profiles for Autonomous Systems

Apr 20, 2026 By Matthew Smith In Teleport
AI agents are likely already running inside your infrastructure. They triage alerts, remediate incidents, provision resources, and make decisions without waiting for a human to approve each step. For teams aligned to NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, this creates a problem: the framework assumes human actors, human-speed decisions, and human-readable audit trails. Autonomous systems break all three assumptions. The good news is that CSF 2.0 was designed to be adapted.
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vanta

Your auditor is about to ask about AI agents. 9 things they'll want to see

Apr 20, 2026 By Vanta In Vanta
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. Studies show that AI adoption outpaces understanding.
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keeper

Why Identity Security is Key To Managing Shadow AI

Apr 20, 2026 By Ashley D'Andrea In Keeper
Employees are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to enhance their productivity, but they rarely consider the security implications of doing so. When an employee pastes sensitive customer data into an unapproved AI tool, that data is processed by a third-party model outside the organization’s control, often leaving no audit trail for security teams to review.
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