Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The problem with cybersecurity risk today? It won’t sit still. Modern risk is messy. It spreads across cloud workloads, third-party services, shadow assets, and developer pipelines. It evolves faster than most teams can keep up. And it rarely announces itself with a neat dashboard alert. Yet many organizations still rely on the old playbook: manual risk assessments, stitched together from siloed tools, delivered days or weeks after they’re already outdated.

Every construction project generates knowledge: lessons learned in the field, submittals and specifications worked through in design reviews, and RFIs that clarify how to build smarter. Yet, when a job is completed, much of that hard-earned wisdom vanishes—lost in inboxes, outdated folders, or disconnected drives. This phenomenon—what some call the knowledge drain—costs contractors more than just time. It leads to redundant work, missed insights, and costly rework.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is rapidly emerging as the next battleground in industrial cybersecurity. As connectivity increases in operational technology (OT) and IoT environments, the complexity of securing machine and human identities grows. Legacy systems, cultural resistance, and the tension between uptime and security controls make IAM adoption a major challenge for operators.

Already in 2025, more than 25% of our customer invoices at Fireblocks settle in stablecoins. To me, that’s a clear sign they’re becoming a mutually-convenient way to transact for both senders and receivers, particularly across borders. For CFOs, especially those with international operations or customers, it is time to start understanding what stablecoins can do for your business and your clients.

Cyberattacks on operational technology systems increased 87% in 2024 (Dragos 2024), with endpoint access emerging as THE top attack vector for OT and industrial control systems (ICS). This means the same connections vital to maintaining your critical systems, whether a vendor connecting remotely via VPN or an employee logging into a local workstation, represent a potential entry point into your environment.

There is a critical speed-control paradox in the healthcare DevOps landscape: while DevOps best practices dramatically cut software delivery cycles, a lack of confidence in Disaster Recovery readiness, noted by Gartner, opens up room for fragile operations despite increased deployment speed. This gap demands a solution that adds reliability, such as comprehensive backup strategies, to ensure that faster development doesn’t compromise mission-critical systems ignited through DevOps platforms.