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Hacker Summer Camp wrapped up last week. Black Hat USA 2026 ran August 1-6 at Mandalay Bay, DEF CON 34 followed August 6-9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and somewhere north of 50,000 security professionals spent the better part of two weeks in 105-degree heat talking about the things that are going to show… Read more: Hacker Summer Camp 2026: Black Hat & DEF CON Recap

August 2 came and went. If you spent the last several months building toward that deadline, here’s the update you may have missed: the EU AI Act’s high-risk AI system requirements are no longer due August 2, 2026. On May 7, 2026, EU lawmakers reached political agreement on revisions to the AI Act, pushing the… Read more: The EU AI Act Deadline Just Passed. Here’s What Actually Happened.

The 4th of July just wrapped up. Somewhere between the cookout and the fireworks show, your organization ran on skeleton crew coverage, half your security team was on PTO, and a meaningful chunk of your workforce was connecting from personal devices on home networks, hotel Wi-Fi, or wherever the holiday took them. That’s not a… Read more: Fireworks, Flags, and Firewalls: A Post-Holiday Security Gut Check

August 2 is five days from when this publishes. That’s the date the EU AI Act’s major provisions — including the full requirements for high-risk AI systems — become applicable. If you’ve been tracking it as an upcoming deadline, it’s no longer upcoming. We covered the strategic overview in April. This post is for the… Read more: EU AI Act: You Have Five Days

Six months in. It’s a reasonable moment to step back from the tactical and look at the rest of the year as a whole — what’s coming, what’s already behind schedule, and where security and GRC programs need to be positioned heading into Q3 and Q4. This isn’t a predictions post. It’s a planning post.… Read more: 2026 at the Halfway Point: What the Rest of the Year Looks Like