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This article addresses a core board-level question: How can CISOs prove account takeover fraud prevention to auditors and boards?

Vendor risk programs often scale faster than the teams that run them. Every new third-party relationship adds security questionnaires, evidence requests, and hours of manual follow-up. When a single vendor review can take 50+ hours, backlogs grow, reviews slow, and critical risks slip through. ‍ At the same time, vendor security postures change constantly.

For many security teams, data labels create more friction than clarity. Analysts are buried in alerts driven by labels they don’t fully trust. Files are marked “sensitive” with little explanation and important context is missing. As a result, investigations often turn into manual triage exercises, with teams jumping between logs and tools just to determine whether an alert reflects real risk or harmless activity.

On February 6, 2026, BeyondTrust released fixes for a critical vulnerability affecting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA), tracked as CVE‑2026‑1731. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote threat actors to execute operating system commands in the context of the site user via specially crafted requests.

On February 6, 2026, Fortinet released fixes for a critical vulnerability in FortiClientEMS, tracked as CVE-2026-21643. The flaw arises from improper neutralization of special elements used in SQL commands in the FortiClientEMS GUI (web interface) that can allow an unauthenticated remote threat actor to execute unauthorized code or commands.

The International AI Safety Report 2026 is one of the most comprehensive overviews to date of the risks posed by general-purpose AI systems. It’s compiled by over 100 independent experts from more than 30 countries, and shows that while AI systems are performing at levels that seemed like science fiction only a few years ago, the risks of misuse, malfunction, and systematic and cross-border harms are clear. It makes a compelling case for better evaluation, transparency, and guardrails.

AI agents now operate as core identities in enterprise environments, authenticating, accessing data, and executing workflows at machine speed. Their flexibility and scale introduce a detection challenge traditional security models were never built to solve. Exabeam has seen this pattern before with insider threat and workload identities. AI agents accelerate the need for identity-centric detection.

Cryptographic failures have a knack for turning a quiet weekend into a chaotic, all-hands-on-deck emergency. Consider the SHA-1 to SHA-2 deprecation, sometimes referred to as “Shapocalypse,” which sent teams scrambling to reissue thousands of certificates and exposed how many legacy systems weren’t ready for stronger hash algorithms. The major Certificate Authority (CA) distrust events involving DigiNotar in 2011, Symantec in 2017-18, and Entrust in 2024-25 created similar disruption.

Growth is the ultimate goal for almost every business. For many long-established organizations, the quickest path to that goal is through acquisition. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) open doors to new markets, new capabilities, and new revenue streams. However, for the IT teams responsible for integrating these new entities, the reality is often less about celebration and more about survival.

We are excited to announce the release of BDRShield v9.0.0, a milestone update that fundamentally changes how organizations manage virtualized, distributed, and multi-geo backup environments from the BDRShield Cloud management...