Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Let’s be honest: in 2026, the traditional “firewall” is a bit of a relic. Having spent years analyzing how threat actors operate, I can tell you they aren’t banging on your front door anymore. Why would they? It’s much easier to build a pixel-perfect replica of your front door down the street and trick your customers into handing over their keys there.

The answer to whether WAF can see and prevent browser attacks that break PCI compliance depends on the lens you use. Through the lens of Requirement 6.4.2, the answer is mostly yes. But through the lens of 6.4.3 and 11.6.1, it gets a little blurry. Requirement 6.4.2 is about stopping web-based attacks at the application layer by inspecting outbound and inbound HTTP traffic at the server side.

In cloud service providers (CSPs) such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls who has access to which resources through roles, policies, and permissions. IAM is about who can do what, like letting a developer read from a Database, but not delete it. Misconfigured IAM, such as roles with unnecessary privileges, is the common cause of unauthorized access/exploit/ data breaches, and resource abuse.

Mobile security has always been complex, but LLM technology has added a whole new dimension to the field. Behind every popular generative AI (genAI) tool is a comprehensive large language model (LLM) that provides data and parses queries in natural language. When used responsibly, LLMs can be useful tools for ideation and content generation. In the wrong hands, though, LLMs can help threat actors supercharge their social engineering scams.

If your organization hasn’t encountered a vishing attack yet, it’s probably only a matter of time. Vishing, or voice phishing, is a sophisticated type of social engineering that adds a whole new dimension to common scams. Rather than emails or text messages, threat actors employ phone calls or online voice calls to carry out vishing schemes. Particularly savvy attackers can even copy a real person’s voice to deceive, coerce, or manipulate potential victims.

We’re excited to share the findings of our commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact (TEI) study, published in January 2026. This study examines the return on investment (ROI) that organizations realized by deploying a unified platform for managing and securing the software supply chain.

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