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Has your organization been exposed? How can you act on the exposures that matter most? What’s the best way to demonstrate measurable risk reduction?

Between April and August 2026, at least six distinct AI-security efforts launched across North America, Europe, and Asia, several in the same week as one another and some for contradictory reasons. This piece maps 18 of them: what each says it's trying to achieve, who founded and backs it, and what it has actually shipped versus only announced.

A Reddit thread on r/activedirectory asking whether Active Directory is going away pulled in loads of comments, and the most upvoted answer compared AD to COBOL: still running, still critical, still not going anywhere. That comparison holds up when you check whether COBOL is still used today, since it runs core banking and government systems decades after its supposed retirement. The real risk for most IT teams isn't AD disappearing.

Most vault programs track a numerator without a denominator. See how vault coverage turns secrets management into a measurable, reportable control.

SpiderLabs’ technical review of the July attacks examines the affected technologies, observed activity, and broader threat landscape. The next question is practical: what can small utilities realistically do about it? At many small water and wastewater facilities, there is often no dedicated security team to understaff. A licensed operator may be responsible for sampling, maintenance, compliance, and after-hours callouts, perhaps with limited support from municipal IT.

It happened again. We blinked, and suddenly summer’s over and it’s time to register for classes. The horror!

AI agents have crossed an important line from making suggestions to taking actions. They can read a repository, call internal systems, change code, open a pull request, and keep working while the human moves on.

Welcome to the 25th edition of Cloudflare's DDoS Threat Report. This is the first half-year edition in the series: rather than publishing separate reports for the first and second quarters of 2026, we have combined our coverage of Q1 and Q2 into a single volume covering January through June 2026.

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