If you stand behind almost any modern checkout today and inspect the network tab, you will rarely see a tidy, controlled set of assets. Instead, you will see 15 to 30 different scripts, ranging from payment orchestration and fraud tools to analytics and session replay, all the way to tag managers, experimentation, consent logic, and accessibility widgets, with many loading from domains your security team has never directly vetted.

As organizations develop modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategies to defend against advanced cyber threats, it’s essential to implement both Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) as part of a defense-in-depth approach. PAM provides granular control and monitoring of privileged accounts at runtime, while IGA ensures appropriate access is approved, governed and reviewed throughout the identity lifecycle.

January 28 marks Data Protection Day, a date rooted in one of the earliest milestones of the digital age: the anniversary of the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty for data protection. What began as a European initiative has since evolved into a global observance recognized across North America, parts of the Middle East, and beyond.

With organizations collecting and storing massive amounts of personal data these days, much of which people share freely, we need to become better at protecting data on both the storing and sharing side of things. Organizations must have strong data protection measures in place and everyone should start being more digitally mindful when sharing their own personal data. Ultimately, being careful of what we put out there is the best way to reduce cyberattacks and data breaches.

Kubernetes networking offers incredible power, but scaling that power often transforms a clean architecture into a tangled web of complexity. Managing traffic flow between hundreds of microservices across dozens of namespaces presents a challenge that touches every layer of the organization, from engineers debugging connections to the architects designing for compliance. The solution to these diverging challenges lies in bringing structure and validation to standard Kubernetes networking.

AI adoption in security has soared. But for many teams, manual work and burnout remain stubbornly high. To understand why, and what security teams must do next, we partnered with Sapio research to survey more than 1,800 security leaders and practitioners worldwide for our Voice of Security 2026 report. We wanted to learn how teams are using AI and automation, how the role of security is evolving, and how professionals believe AI will impact their careers. The data is revealing.

As Winter Storm Fern made its way across the US this weekend, children across the country were glued to phones, computers, or televisions as they tried to guess how long they would be out of school this week. Little do they know, however, the data, science, and lack thereof, that goes into that decision. School closures are the very public end of a complex and fast-changing dataset that is highly dependent on locality and can be wildly different on either side of a district line.