Most organizations have mature processes for managing human identities. Onboarding, offboarding, access reviews, least privilege — these are established practices, even if execution is inconsistent. The problem is that human identities are no longer the majority of what’s accessing your systems. Service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, automation scripts, and now AI agents — non-human…
The AI governance conversation has been running in the background for most organizations — something to monitor, something to address eventually, something for legal to sort out. That posture has an expiration date, and for many businesses, it’s August 2026. The EU AI Act’s major provisions go fully into effect on August 2, 2026. Organizations…
The conflict between the United States and Iran that began on February 28, 2026 moved into the cyber domain almost immediately. If you’ve been watching it as a geopolitical story and not a security operations story, it’s time to adjust your perspective. This isn’t abstract nation-state activity happening at the edges of critical infrastructure. On…
Every year on March 31st, the security community celebrates World Backup Day. Vendors tweet reminders. IT teams run awareness campaigns. Someone in marketing makes a clever graphic about the 3-2-1 rule. And every year, organizations that had backups still lose everything to ransomware. That’s because we’ve been celebrating the wrong thing. We’ve been celebrating the…
It’s the end of Q1. You’ve spent three months firefighting, deploying patches, running tabletop exercises, and managing vendor assessments. You have mountains of data. Dashboards full of charts. Logs that could fill a library. And now someone says: “Can you put together a one-page summary for the Board?” One page. Three months of work. One…
Every spring, people get the urge to open the windows, clear out the garage, and finally deal with that closet they’ve been pretending doesn’t exist. There’s something satisfying about it — the act of knowing exactly what you have, where it is, and whether it still serves a purpose. Your network deserves the same treatment.…
By now, the dust has settled on the January 1, 2026 deadline. You likely updated your privacy policy to reference the new laws in Indiana, Kentucky, and Rhode Island. You might have even tweaked your cookie banner. But writing a policy is different from operationalizing it. As we close out Q1, legal teams are shifting…
Let’s start with a scenario that every GRC analyst has lived through. The Real-World Disconnect Imagine you are onboarding a new SaaS provider, “Vendor X.” You send them your standard SIG Core questionnaire (all 300 rows of Excel). Three weeks later, they reply. You mark them as “Compliant” and approve the contract. Two months later,…
There is a familiar scene that plays out in boardrooms every quarter. The CISO or Security Director stands up to present their report. They display a slide with impressive, large numbers: The security team feels proud of this work. But the Board of Directors looks confused, or worse, bored. Why? Because these are Vanity Metrics.…