Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this week's edition, we will discuss how the concept of identity fabric has evolved and what it holds for the future. Securing digital identities is no longer a one-man show; it is everyone's game now.

Earlier this year, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released its annual review for 2025. The report reveals the troubling reality of the modern threat landscape and, crucially, how the NCSC recommends organizations and the wider security ecosystem shield themselves from it. Let’s dive in.

This blog post is adapted from a recent episode of The Cloudcast podcast featuring Rohan Sathe, CEO and co-founder of Nightfall AI. Listen to the full conversation here. Your employees are uploading company documents to ChatGPT. Your healthcare teams are transcribing sensitive call recordings and feeding them into LLMs. Your finance department is pasting confidential spreadsheets into publicly accessible AI tools. And unless you have visibility into these workflows, you have no idea it's happening.

Clickhouse is an incredible database. Here at Certkit, we’ve long worked in the world of “No SQL” databases like Elasticsearch precisely for their ability to query large amounts of data. But for every database, there’s an amount of data that’s “Too big”. Too big to query quickly or too big to store affordably. Clickhouse manages to thread the needle by efficiently storing truly ridiculous amounts of data while still providing impressive query performance.

Secure Web Gateways (SWGs) and Firewalls both protect your business, but they defend at different layers. One protects your web traffic and cloud apps the other secures your network perimeter. Let’s explore how they differ and how to use both for maximum protection.

On the eve of KubeCon 2025, experts from companies like Uber, AWS, and Block shared how SPIRE and workload identity fabrics reduce risk in complex, cloud-native systems.

A new report from Entrust warns of an increase in deepfake attacks, which now account for one in five biometric fraud attempts. Additionally, instances of deepfaked selfies have increased by 58% over the past year. “This rise in deepfakes is part of a broader trend of increasingly sophisticated attacks driven by injection attacks, which surged 40% year-over-year,” Entrust says.

This article is part of a monthly LevelBlue series that explores the evolving world of AI governance, trust, and responsibility. Each month, we look at how organizations can use artificial intelligence safely, thoughtfully, and with lasting impact. Artificial intelligence has moved from being an experiment to becoming an expectation. It now shapes how decisions are made, how customers are supported, and how innovation happens. As AI grows in influence, so does the need to manage it wisely.