Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For decades, compliance programs, audits, and certifications have operated on a foundational concept: reasonable assurance. Auditors review samples, evaluate controls periodically, and issue opinions based on limited visibility into a point in time. While this model served the analog era well, it is now insufficient for the speed, complexity, and interconnectedness of modern digital enterprises. Today’s organizations operate in real time. Threats emerge instantly. Vendors change continuously.

Building guardrails for AI agents sounds like a policy problem but it is actually a data problem. You cannot enforce boundaries on behavior you cannot see. And you cannot govern identity for actors you have not discovered. That dependency chain is what most enterprise security programs miss in 2026, and it is where exposure quietly accumulates. A human employee who mishandles sensitive data creates a containable event. An AI agent with the same permissions creates a different problem.

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) who either currently work with the federal government, are in the process of earning FedRAMP certification, or are considering seeking it, all have a serious choice to make. FedRAMP is changing. If you haven't been watching the world of government compliance, or if you've been putting off making a decision until a deadline gets closer, it's here. As a CSP, what do you need to know, what decision do you need to make, and how will it affect your path with government contracts?

For public sector organizations and other highly regulated industries, the balance between cutting-edge innovation and strict compliance has often felt like a trade-off. You want the latest features, but security and authorization come first. Today, we’re closing that gap. We’re excited to share that, following our FedRAMP Moderate authorization earlier this year, Splunk Victoria Experience has now officially achieved FedRAMP High authorization as well.

A phishing campaign is targeting small businesses across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States with emails that impersonate Interpol’s cybercrime investigation unit, researchers at Bitdefender report.

Boxers will often say, the punches that hurt the most aren’t the ones which are thrown with the most force, but the ones they didn’t see coming. I think the same is true in cybersecurity. It’s not the most advanced technically efficient, 0-day utilizing attacks that have the biggest impact, but rather those quiet ones. With no malware or suspicious login at three in the morning from an IP address in a country your company has never done business with. No alert fires.

Threat actors are abusing Shop, a legitimate app developed by Shopify, to launch phishing attacks, according to researchers at Gen Digital. Shop is used for making purchases and tracking orders, but threat actors are exploiting the platform to generate in-app notifications for phony invoices.