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Over the course of this series, I’ve laid out the case for a fundamentally different security operating model — one built around Outcome, Judgment, and Execution layers, where AI handles the execution at machine speed, and humans focus on the decisions that actually need them. I’ve argued that the CISO’s role is changing, that human-centric security no longer scales, and that the org chart needs to reflect where AI fits on the team.

In August 2026, Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers analyzed a malicious 64-bit Linux executable named timezone_check that was discovered on multiple compromised Cisco Firewall Management Center (FMC) devices. The sophisticated modular implant provides persistent remote access to a compromised Linux system.

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Access sprawl is quiet. For example, a contractor's admin rights outlive the project by eight months, or an account sits open for weeks after someone switches teams. And in most cases, nobody catches access sprawl until an audit or a breach forces the question. User access management (UAM) is the discipline that catches this. It decides who gets access to what, why they get it, how that access is approved, how it changes over time, and when it gets pulled.

When you read through the posts on the Ignyte blog focusing on CMMC, you'll see that just about everything we talk about, unless otherwise specified, refers to CMMC Level 2. This is because it's the impact level that the vast majority of DoD contractors are going to need. CMMC Level 1 is the lowest level, protecting the least sensitive of the sensitive information the government has to offer. If all you're handling is Federal Contract Information (FCI), Level 1 is enough for you.

Multi-site backup lets any location back up or copy data to any other location, replacing the fixed hub-and-spoke model where every site depends on one central repository.

This guide is written for controls and automation engineers, OT infrastructure owners and plant leaders responsible for recovering PC-based SCADA systems, including SCADA servers and clients, HMI and engineering workstations, and historians. It does not cover native backup of PLC or RTU logic and firmware; those assets remain within the automation vendor's engineering and lifecycle-management tools. A SCADA server, HMI or historian cannot be recovered like an ordinary IT workload.