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The Eskenzi IT Security Analyst & CISO Forum wasn’t a typical security event. This forum was a gathering of CISOs, analysts, and security leaders speaking candidly under Chatham House Rule about what’s actually breaking, what’s working, and where things are heading. Here are 5 key themes that came through loud and clear. None of them were surprising. But together, they paint a pretty stark picture of where security and AI are right now.

GitHub is hardening Actions with deterministic dependencies, scoped secrets, and policy controls. Teams still need immediate detection and remediation for today’s risk.

Secure by Design: Building cybersecurity into the foundation An explainer of why this philosophy matters and how it reduces attack surface from the inside Secure by Design is a software development philosophy that treats security as a foundational requirement rather than an afterthought.

It was a bold move, but our finance team was fully on board. They both approved and championed the approach. They wanted to see exactly how much value we could unlock for our customers. They didn't look at the resulting bill and ask us to slow down.

A VPN, or virtual private network, encrypts your internet traffic and routes it through a server in a location you choose. Your ISP, network operator, and the websites you visit see that server's IP address, not yours. That single mechanism covers every VPN use case: keeping your browsing history from your internet provider, securing a connection on public Wi-Fi, accessing a company network remotely, and reducing location-based tracking.

A CVE surfaces in the morning. By the time you are talking to that customer, you can tell them: we saw it, we checked your environment, you were not affected, and we deployed a rule that will catch it if it ever shows up. For MSSPs and MDR providers, detection engineering is among the most valuable services you can offer. It is also among the most expensive to deliver consistently and at scale.

The global technology sector loses approximately $16 billion annually to supply chain issues and logistics disruptions. For IT decision-makers and business leaders, this staggering figure represents delayed projects, compromised business continuity, and frustrated downstream customers. The hardware and components necessary to modernize and protect enterprise environments are increasingly vulnerable to all types of global friction.

Gartner published the inaugural Hype Cycle for Agentic AI last week (and yes, we’re included in two subcategories - Agentic AI Security and Guardian Agent). A few things worth noting. It's inaugural, Gartner publishes over 130 Hype Cycles a year, and standing up a new one signals that a space has earned its own map. And it dropped in April, months ahead of the June - August window when these things usually appear.

Zero trust is a cybersecurity framework built on the principle of “never trust, always verify,” meaning every user, device and session must be continuously verified for access to be granted and maintained. In federal environments, zero trust is especially critical because privileged accounts can provide access to sensitive systems, infrastructure and data.

CVE-2026-23869 is a denial of service vulnerability in React Server Components, caused by improper handling of cyclic data structures during deserialization of incoming HTTP requests. The vulnerability resides in the React Flight protocol's server-side reply handling, specifically in the createMap, createSet, and extractIterator functions within ReactFlightReplyServer.js. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (High). Exploitation requires no authentication and no user interaction.