Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

A breach doesn't become expensive only when systems go down. It becomes expensive when an organization spends months discovering what happened, who needs to decide, what evidence was lost, and which business services can't wait. According to IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million in 2024, while the average time to identify a breach was 194 days.

Many organizations invest heavily in backup solutions but still face a critical gap: the absence of a well-defined backup retention policy. Without a structured retention policy, backups may either be stored longer than necessary, driving up costs, or deleted prematurely, increasing compliance risks and limiting recovery options. In critical scenarios like ransomware attacks or system failures, organizations may find that their backups are incomplete, outdated, or unusable.

Magento and Adobe Commerce environments often rely on third-party extensions to extend functionality and improve performance. However, these extensions can also introduce security risks that exist outside the core platform. CVE-2026-45247 is a recent example of how vulnerabilities in third-party Magento extensions can create severe security risks.

Generative AI has revolutionized productivity — but it has also introduced a massive, often invisible new vulnerability: AI data exfiltration. Whether it’s a well-meaning engineer pasting source code into an LLM for debugging, or a marketer feeding sensitive customer data into a prompt for analysis, your organization’s most valuable intellectual property is likely walking out the virtual front door.

Last June, we hosted the first EveryOps Day in Sydney – born from the convergence of DevOps, DevSecOps, and AI/MLOps we were witnessing across every industry in APAC. A year later, with AI’s proliferation across software delivery and security, we took EveryOps Day to Mumbai on May 15, then embarked on the EveryOps Tour: a series of invitation-only executive events across Canberra, Sydney, and Melbourne.

AI-generated fraud schemes are now the dominant type of fraud, according to a new report from AU10TIX. AI-assisted forgeries overtook physical manipulation for the first time, as these tools allow attackers to fool humans and technology with very little manual effort.

Email is one of the primary ways people share information, connect with customers and get work done. It is also one of the easiest channels for risk to slip in. A mistyped address, an exposed attachment, a missed opt-out, or a rushed response to a phishing message can all lead to serious problems. That is why email compliance matters. It helps define how your organization handles email, what is allowed and how to report on activity when something goes wrong.

Imagine you give an AI agent permission to triage support tickets. A few weeks later, it’s accessing a system no one intended it to reach, putting the data within at risk of exposure or misuse. Nothing dramatic happens at the moment. That’s what makes the risk tricky. AI agents don’t wait for approval the way traditional systems do, and they move faster than the controls you’ve set around them.

AI adoption in the DevOps field has been extensive. Developers use agents daily to broaden context, automate coding, prototype, etc., saving time and minimizing the footprint of mundane tasks. But it’s not all about gains. Agentic AI enables and introduces security threats that were unknown just a few years ago. With machine speed and scale, these can impact your corporate repos in a number of highly dangerous ways. The trend is on the rise, including at the level of popular DevOps platforms.