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Something significant is happening across enterprise IT right now — and I do not think it has been fully reckoned with yet. More than 5,000 organizations are actively evaluating or executing a migration away from VMware. The Broadcom acquisition changed the economics of VMware dramatically and abruptly. Licensing costs surged. Bundling decisions eliminated flexibility.

What you need to know: MCP bypasses traditional DLP, IAM, and SIEM controls because agent traffic looks like legitimate API calls, sensitive data is semantically transformed before it leaves, and exfiltration happens through tool calls rather than file transfers.

By the time a major championship begins, almost everything that can be controlled has already been decided. The course is set. Infrastructure is locked in. Staff, vendors, broadcasters, ticketing platforms, and payment systems are all live. Millions of transactions, digital and physical, will occur in a matter of days, under global scrutiny, with no margin for error. From a cybersecurity perspective, this is not a theoretical exercise. It is an operational one.

World Password Day is no longer just a nudge to pick stronger passwords, it’s a moment to rethink identity. Attackers rarely “hack” systems today; they log in as you. Combine expert guidance on phishing, MFA, password managers, behavioral defenses, and new threats from AI and quantum computing to better secure your accounts now and for the future.

You know your servers need hardening. Getting leadership to prioritise, fund, and support the effort is the harder challenge. Here’s our experts’ best advice for how to talk to the C-suite and board about the need for automated server hardening. You already know the servers are drifting. Configurations change. Exceptions pile up. Standards slip over time. The hard part is not identifying the problem.

There’s a growing wave of “AI SOC” startups promising autonomous everything. They’ll triage your alerts, investigate threats, and even run your playbooks. Push a button, let the machine handle the mess, and enjoy the magic. It sounds great until the moment something breaks. Then everyone, not just security, asks the same question: “What exactly did it do?” And that’s when these systems turn into a liability.

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Detect compromised devices before attackers act. CYJAX’s new alerting identifies stealer malware infections and exposed credentials in near real time. CYJAX today announced the launch of Compromised Device Alerting, a new capability designed to help organisations identify compromised devices within their environment before attackers can act on stolen credentials.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! Watch out for the phishing folks.

Whether it’s vendors diagnosing GPU driver failures or network technicians troubleshooting switch configurations, organizations are often ready to do whatever it takes to get their infrastructure back to normal. For some, that may mean defaulting to the fastest access path available for third-party access, such as shared SSH keys, VPN credentials, or screen-sharing sessions.