You know your servers need hardening. Getting leadership to prioritise, fund, and support the effort is the harder challenge. Here’s our experts’ best advice for how to talk to the C-suite and board about the need for automated server hardening. You already know the servers are drifting. Configurations change. Exceptions pile up. Standards slip over time. The hard part is not identifying the problem.

Editing IAM policies cannot fix the most common architectural mistake in shipping AI agents on Kubernetes. It happens in thirty seconds: a platform engineer reuses an existing ServiceAccount with an IRSA annotation for Bedrock access because creating a new one takes thirty minutes plus a Terraform pull request. The new agent ships under the existing identity.

Setting up and managing client environments often involves repetitive, manual work. Each new managed company requires policy setup, access configuration, and ongoing oversight. Repeating this across environments slows onboarding, introduces inconsistencies, and makes it harder to maintain control.

World Password Day is no longer just a nudge to pick stronger passwords, it’s a moment to rethink identity. Attackers rarely “hack” systems today; they log in as you. Combine expert guidance on phishing, MFA, password managers, behavioral defenses, and new threats from AI and quantum computing to better secure your accounts now and for the future.

Understanding the difference between penetration testing and vulnerability assessment is an important part of building an effective security programme. While the terms are often used interchangeably, they serve distinct purposes and provide different types of insight into an organisation’s risk profile. For technology-led organisations, particularly those operating complex SaaS platforms or cloud environments, both approaches have a role to play.

Your risk committee meets Thursday. The agenda has a new item: AI agent risk posture. You open the register. The fraud detection agent shipped in March is on it. So is the customer service agent. Neither row is useful — “likelihood: medium, impact: high, control: service account scoped via IAM.” Three months ago that was approximately right. Last week the platform team added two MCP connections, the model was upgraded, and the agent now touches data classes the entry never anticipated.

The proliferation of credentials outside centralized visibility and control is known as “credential sprawl,” and attackers are eager to take advantage of it. Unfortunately, credential management is a broad problem that only grows in complexity as organizations add new tools, employees, and partners.

By the time a major championship begins, almost everything that can be controlled has already been decided. The course is set. Infrastructure is locked in. Staff, vendors, broadcasters, ticketing platforms, and payment systems are all live. Millions of transactions, digital and physical, will occur in a matter of days, under global scrutiny, with no margin for error. From a cybersecurity perspective, this is not a theoretical exercise. It is an operational one.