Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Being recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms for the third consecutive year is an important milestone for Cato Networks. We believe it reflects more than consistent execution. It comes at a time when enterprise networking and security are entering another architectural transition, one driven by AI.

On August 17, 2026 at 13:40 UTC, GitHub first publicly logged that it was investigating elevated errors and latency issues, later reporting broad impact across web and API traffic, Git operations, Actions, Pull Requests, Issues, Pages, Webhooks, and identity-related services. The outage had significant implications for development teams. When GitHub degrades, developer workflows can stop quickly.

ChainDrop hijacked 444 npm packages and 2B monthly downloads via a Claude Code hook. AI agents have collapsed the gap between credential theft and abuse.

Annual testing secures a moment. Your app keeps changing. Here is how to cover the interval between assessments. An annual penetration test answers a precise question. Was this version of this application secure when a skilled tester examined it? That answer has real value. It is independent, deep, and finds business logic flaws that no scanner will ever surface. It is also a photograph.

On August 20, we detected two popular Rust crates from the same maintainer, append-only-vec (4M downloads) and arrayref (244M downloads), were compromised. The attacker added a malicious dependency on a package called proc-macro1, which downloads a remote payload during the build and executes it on the developer's machine.

KEEP helps organisations large and small to achieve both Cyber Essentials (CE) and Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+), alongside some of the more stringent standards such as SOC2, though for this insight we will focus on how to ‘pass’ CE+. As you may be aware IASME introduced the Danzell v3.3 standard in mid 2026, which included a number of critical changes that aimed to set the bar ‘higher’ for an organisation who applied for a CE+ assessment.

GHE.com introduces migration, identity, and integration changes.– Some GitHub data may still be processed outside the chosen region.– ta residency still needs a separate backup and recovery strategy. For many enterprises, GitHub is now one of the most important parts of the DevOps ecosystem, where teams manage repositories, pull requests, issues, workflows, GitHub Actions, security alerts, project data, and other metadata that keeps software delivery moving.

MSPs are maturing endpoint security with patching, vulnerability remediation, and antivirus protection. But one high-impact risk still slips through in many client environments: unmanaged peripheral devices. A single unauthorized USB drive can copy sensitive client data in minutes and introduce malware into otherwise protected systems. This is why we've launched Device Control in MSP Central—an MSP-ready solution capable of governing every device that touches your client endpoints.

This executive intelligence briefing covers two distinct horizons: the past week (12–19 August 2026) and the past month (approximately 20 July–19 August 2026). It prioritizes AppSec, software supply chain, state-actor activity, cloud/IaC, identity, ransomware resilience, and regulatory developments with board-level implications. Analysis focuses on residual risk, control effectiveness, and business enablement rather than volume metrics alone.