Most conversations about enterprise AI platforms start with features and price. The governance conversation should start somewhere else: who controls the data path, who owns the failure modes, and who gets the call when something goes wrong. Two approaches dominate right now. One is a managed assistant embedded in your existing productivity suite, with Microsoft…
Late September, Citrix disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, both scoring 9.5 on CVSS. One let an unauthenticated attacker run arbitrary commands on a default configuration, no special setup required. The other bypassed authentication and handed attackers root access. Both were exploited as zero-days, before any patch existed, and tens of…
We flagged this convergence back in July’s midyear review post. Q4 is when three things happen at once: the threat environment elevates, organizational attention and headcount contract for the holidays, and year-end compliance deadlines compete for the same stretched resources. The 2026 midterms land November 4, eight days after this post publishes, and Black Friday…
Private equity deal volume has been climbing, and a growing share of that activity runs through take-private transactions, roll-ups, and portfolio company add-ons where cybersecurity posture is no longer a due diligence afterthought. It’s a line item that can move valuation. If you work in GRC and haven’t been through an acquisition yet, it’s worth…
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. CISA’s 2026 theme is “Securing the Next 250,” tying the campaign to the country’s semiquincentennial and framing national cyber resilience as part of the broader infrastructure conversation. Most organizations will run their annual push this month: phishing simulations, an all-hands presentation, maybe a poster campaign. That’s useful, and it should…
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 was supposed to expire September 30. Again. This is now the fourth time in thirteen months that this law has approached its sunset date, and the fourth time Congress has resolved it with a short-term patch rather than a durable fix and this time extending the law through…
Every large organization is somewhere on the enterprise AI deployment curve right now. Some are running Copilot across tens of thousands of employees. Some are piloting internal models in controlled environments. Some have deployed AI agents into operational workflows. And a significant number have done all of the above, in different corners of the organization,…
SOC 2 Type 2 has become the de facto trust signal for technology and service organizations. Enterprise buyers require it before vendor onboarding. Investors reference it during due diligence. Boards treat it as assurance that their third-party security posture is managed. The problem is that most people requesting SOC 2 Type 2 reports — and…
There’s a version of board cybersecurity oversight that looks great on paper and doesn’t work at all in practice. The CISO presents to the board once a quarter. The slides have charts, metrics, and a risk heat map. The board nods, asks a few questions, and moves on to the next agenda item. Everyone checks…