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Hybrid Network Security in 2026: Key Challenges, Risks, and Best Practices

Secure hybrid networks promise agility by blending on-premises data centers with public cloud platforms and private cloud environments—yet cross-cloud blind spots leave security teams racing to spot threats slipping through hybrid seams. Attackers chain exploits across multiple environments while visibility evaporates under tool sprawl, turning flexible hybrid network architectures into dangerous patchwork. In 2026, US organizations face $10.22 million average data breach costs amid this chaos.

When AI Can Act: Governing OpenClaw

Agentic AI burst into public consciousness this week with talk of Moltbook – a social network designed for AI agents built on OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot). The resulting conversations about identity, forming a new religion, social engineering humans, and more between bots have sparked alarms everywhere. For IT leaders, one thing is clear: AI crossed a meaningful threshold.

Modernizing Mission-Critical Networks Through Accurate, Non-Intrusive Surveys

Modern network surveys provide a structured, repeatable way to uncover the true state of complex environments without intrusive installs or prolonged approvals. This blog explains how Forward Enterprise enables fast, accurate baselining and why understanding actual network behavior is foundational to modernization and mission assurance.

Best ngrok Alternatives for Securely Exposing Localhost to the Internet

Exposing your localhost to the internet is convenient for webhook testing, client demos, and remote debugging. But every tunnel you create is a potential entry point into your development environment. This guide examines three localhost tunneling options through a security lens: LocalXpose, Serveo, and LocalTunnel. We'll cover what risks you're actually taking when you expose localhost and how to minimize them.

CVE-2026-24858: Fortinet Multiple Products Authentication Bypass Zero-Day Analysis

CVE-2026-24858 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability(CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel) in Fortinet products. It affects FortiOS, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, and potentially FortiProxy. An attacker with a FortiCloud account and registered device can log into devices registered to other accounts if FortiCloud SSO is enabled. Disclosed January 27, 2026, as actively exploited zero-day. CVSS 9.4 (some sources cite 9.8).

Episode 7 - Practical AI for Zeek, MITRE, and Security Docs

In Episode 7 of Corelight DefeNDRs, join me, Richard Bejtlich, as I sit down with Dr. Keith Jones, Corelight's principal security researcher, to discuss the practical applications of AI in enhancing network security. We delve into how large language models (LLMs) can assist in cleaning up documentation and generating Zeek scripts, sharing insights from our extensive experience in incident response and coding. Keith reveals the challenges and successes he has encountered using LLMs to streamline processes, including their role in analyzing MITRE techniques.

Introducing Forward AI

As enterprises move toward agentic operations, speed without data accuracy becomes a liability. At Forward Networks, we recognized this challenge and set out to deliver a solution: speed backed by mathematical accuracy. In networking, acting on incomplete or approximate data is not an inconvenience, it is a cause of outages, security exposure, and operational risk.