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The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) enters its enforcement window in 2027, but preparations should start now. ENISA's Secure by Design and Default Playbook (v0.4, March 2026) translates the CRA's legal text into 22 actionable security playbooks, structured around architectural foundations, operational integrity, default hardening, and guided protection. Together, they represent the most prescriptive infrastructure security framework the EU has ever published.

Shopping for a web app pentest is confusing on purpose. Every vendor on your shortlist says the same things (“manual testing,” “OWASP coverage,” “audit-ready report”), yet what you get back ranges from a deep, exploit-driven engagement to a scanner export with a logo on it. If you are a CTO, founder, or security lead trying to compare web application penetration testing companies without a security background to lean on, the hard part is not finding providers.

One of the many interesting things we stumble across in the Black Hat NOC (Network Operations Center) is the various applications exhibiting poor security hygiene. Usually it’s something in the clear that makes us chuckle before we move on to more serious matters. Sometimes it’s something more serious that requires letting an attendee know they’re leaking sensitive information.

The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, has established a new privacy framework for organizations handling digital personal data, while the DPDP Rules, 2025, provide greater clarity on how businesses should implement these obligations in practice. For many organizations, however, translating legal requirements into day-to-day operational processes remains a significant challenge.

This is for compliance and security leaders who already know the EU AI Act applies to them and need a concrete control set for where the law actually stands today — not a summary written before the rules changed. Awareness is done; 2026 is the year of implementation, and the rules just moved. On 29 June 2026 the Council of the EU gave its final green light to the Digital Omnibus on AI — the package that resets several of the dates compliance teams have been building toward.

Android is a very popular and prolific operating system on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Most of the time, there is no practical reason to install Android on a physical computer, but there may be some cases when you need to run Android on a virtual machine (VM), for example, when developing applications for Android and testing them. Fortunately, you can install Android on VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ESXi, and VirtualBox.

Firewalls remain one of the most foundational controls in any security program. Nearly every organization has at least one, and in many cases, hundreds. Despite widespread deployment, firewalls are frequently a source of unintended exposure rather than protection. The reason is almost always in how firewall rules are maintained over time, not the technology itself.

UK railway cybersecurity spending is accelerating as ransomware, insider incidents, and IT/OT convergence expose the sector's growing attack surface. Part one of CYJAX's rail security series looks at the numbers behind the trend and what they mean for UK operators.