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Over the past year, Bitsight TRACE has identified 14,220 unique internet-exposed Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) servers globally. Given OPC UA's critical role as a communication backbone for modern industrial control systems (ICS) across numerous sectors, this level of exposure warrants a closer look. Our analysis reveals that over half (51.74%) of these devices allow unauthenticated access, while 80.26% transmit data in plaintext without encryption or integrity protection.

The largest CCPA settlement in California history isn’t a story about a company that ignored privacy. It’s a story about what happens when doing the right things isn’t the same as making sure the right things have been done right.

Modern software development has a fundamental problem: we are writing code faster than we can secure it. This creates security debt, a quantifiable backlog of unaddressed vulnerabilities that lingers for over a year. Much like financial debt, it compounds interest over time, but the currency is risk. Despite increased investment in security tools, this backlog is growing, not shrinking. With security debt reaching a critical mass in 2026, organizations must shift their strategy.

Too many organizations today still rely on "legacy" retainer models. These traditional contracts are often rigid, opaque, and reactive, and designed for a world that no longer exists. That’s why LevelBlue is proud to announce the Resilience Retainer. This is a modern, flexible approach built on our experience of handling more than 9,000 cyber incidents worldwide. This up-to-date approach is a necessity, given the long-lasting impact an incident can have.

Organizations adopt multi-cloud architectures for many reasons, including compliance requirements, business strategy, and resiliency. Regardless of the cloud provider, the security challenges remain the same: Identify the most critical risks, prioritize them with business context, and remediate them before they are exploited by a bad actor.

Every cloud security vendor now has an AI-SPM dashboard. Strip away the branding, though, and most of these dashboards are doing the same thing: checking IAM configurations, scanning for misconfigured network access, inventorying AI models across cloud accounts, and flagging compliance gaps. It’s cloud security posture management with an AI label applied. That’s a problem, because AI workloads don’t behave like other cloud workloads.