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CVE-2026-22769 is a hardcoded credential vulnerability affecting Dell RecoverPoint for VMs, a disaster recovery orchestration platform used to manage replication and failover of virtualized workloads. The issue stems from static authentication credentials embedded within a product component. Because these credentials are not uniquely generated per deployment and cannot be changed by administrators, they introduce a structural authentication weakness.

Security frameworks have always had a gap. They tell you to find vulnerabilities and fix them, but they’ve rarely provided a system to determine which ones actually matter before you tap into your most expensive resource: engineering time. CTEM changes the game by treating security as a continuous lifecycle rather than a series of silos.

Artificial intelligence is accelerating digital transformation at an unprecedented pace. New AI-driven applications, copilots, data pipelines, APIs, and cloud services are spinning up faster than ever before. But while innovation moves at machine speed, governance often lags behind. The result? A rapidly expanding external attack surface filled with forgotten assets, abandoned cloud resources, and misconfigured DNS records — many of them quietly waiting to be hijacked.

CVE-2026-1731 is a vulnerability disclosed in products developed by BeyondTrust. At the time of writing, publicly available technical details regarding the root cause, vulnerable code paths, and exploitation prerequisites remain limited. Based on initial advisory information, the issue affects components involved in privileged access or remote access workflows, which are typically deployed to manage high-value credentials, session brokering, or secure administrative access to enterprise systems.

For years, security programs reported progress using the same familiar metrics: number of vulnerabilities, patch rates, backlog size. These metrics became the default scorecard not because they reflected risk, but because they were easy to produce. The problem is that these metrics do not measure security improvement. They measure activity. Vulnerability counts rise and fall with scan cadence. Patch rates spike around maintenance windows. Backlogs grow when coverage improves.

Security teams need clear signals, fast investigations and enablement that fits into existing workflows. The latest CyCognito updates focus on improving posture visibility, expanding user learning in-app, and streamlining asset and issue review. Recent enhancements include a new beta Homepage, CyCognito Academy, list view improvements and expanded notification controls.

External attack surfaces are expanding faster than most organizations can track. Internet-facing cloud services, network devices, commercial AI tools, and third-party infrastructure are driving the growth of unintended exposure outside security teams’ control.

When Gartner introduced Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) in 2022, it formalized a problem security teams had been struggling with for years: patching large volumes of vulnerabilities was not translating into meaningful risk reduction. CTEM reframed the problem. Instead of measuring progress by the number of CVEs addressed, it shifted focus to whether attackers could actually reach and exploit assets that matter to the business. What Gartner did not provide was a concrete recipe for execution.

The modern internet-facing attack surface is dynamic, JavaScript-driven, and deeply interconnected with third-party services and identity providers. Accurately securing this environment requires more than passive discovery or lightweight crawling—it requires deep, active crawling that fully simulates real-world browser behavior.

CVE-2026-24858 is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting FortiCloud’s Single Sign-On (SSO) implementation. Under certain conditions, the flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass standard authentication checks and gain access to FortiCloud services without valid credentials. The root cause is tied to insufficient validation within the SSO authentication flow, where trust boundaries between identity assertions and session establishment are not enforced strictly enough.