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TISAX vs ISO 27001: What German Automotive Suppliers Need to Know

TISAX and ISO 27001 are related but not interchangeable. ISO 27001 is a general-purpose information security certification accepted across any industry; TISAX is the automotive industry’s mandatory, shared assessment framework, built on ISO 27001’s structure but adding prototype protection and data protection requirements that OEMs specifically demand. Most automotive suppliers need TISAX, and an existing ISO 27001 program is the fastest route to get there.

How to build a continuous feedback loop between risk management and control monitoring

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FedRAMP Boundary Diagrams: Mistakes to Avoid

There are a lot of reasons why organizations fail their FedRAMP audits and are denied the authorization they need to work on government contracts. We've even covered a lot of them here on the Ignyte blog in the past. One area that we haven't covered, in detail at least, is mistakes with the FedRAMP boundary. Not just the boundary, either, but with the diagrams that track and prove it.

Introducing AI Governance from Vanta

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NIS2 and DORA Compliance for Kubernetes Backup

EU regulations are putting real pressure on how organizations protect and recover their data. If you run Kubernetes workloads in financial services, insurance, healthcare, energy, telco, and public administration, your backup strategy is no longer just an IT concern. It is something regulators and auditors can examine directly. Most Kubernetes environments were set up for operational convenience rather than compliance.

EU CRA explained: requirements, timeline, and compliance

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a sweeping regulation that mandates security by design and uniform cybersecurity standards for all hardware and software products with digital elements sold in the European Union. The CRA officially entered into force in December 2024, with compliance enforcement phased in over the coming years.

Building the trust layer for AI, so you can go all in

AI adoption is moving faster than most organizations can govern it, and GRC teams need visibility into what AI exists, what it can access, and whether it's operating within company policy. In this demo, you'll get a first look at Vanta's vision for AI Governance. See how Vanta helps organizations discover AI across their environment, understand the risk and context behind every AI system and agent, and continuously demonstrate trustworthy AI practices.

How to Achieve NIST 800-171 Compliance in 2026

You're probably staring at a half-finished SSP, a pile of policy templates, and a subcontractor deadline that keeps moving closer. That's the normal shape of nist 800-171 compliance work in defense contracting, and a common mistake is pretending it's a documentation exercise instead of a control-implementation program tied to contract eligibility, evidence, and operational discipline.

DORA Compliance for Mobile Apps: Mapping Security Findings to Regulatory Requirements

DORA compliance for mobile applications is the process of identifying, testing, and documenting mobile ICT risks in line with Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, covering Articles 8, 9, 10, 24, and 25, through vulnerability assessments, security testing, and audit-ready evidence generation that financial institutions can present to regulators, auditors, and internal governance bodies.

Meet Ilma, our mascot. (She prefers Compliance Connoisseur.)

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Guide to measuring risk management performance with the right focus areas

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IAM Audit and Compliance Reporting: What to Track and Why

Most organizations can point to firewalls, MFA policies, and an access control list and say access is secured. Far fewer can prove it. When an auditor asks who has access to a system, why that access was granted, who approved it, what the user actually did with it, and whether it was reviewed and removed once it was no longer needed, "we have an IAM system" isn't an answer — evidence is.

Compliance Automation Software: A Practical Guide for 2026

You're staring at a spreadsheet full of screenshots, exported CSVs, and half-finished owner assignments, while the auditor wants one clean answer to a simple question, can you prove the control worked when it mattered? That's the gap compliance automation software is built to close in security programs that can't afford guesswork, especially when logs, cloud settings, identity events, and policy evidence all live in different places.

Engineering the Datadog Agent for FedRAMP High Certification

Software that runs inside customer-managed infrastructure creates a particular challenge at the FedRAMP High baseline. It still has to meet the applicable security and compliance requirements, even though the vendor does not control the surrounding operating system, libraries, network configuration, or maintenance practices. For Datadog, that challenge centers on the Datadog Agent, which runs directly on customer-managed hosts to collect logs, metrics, traces, and security signals.

Top 10 Log Aggregation Tools for 2026: SIEM & Compliance

You're staring at a growing pile of endpoint, cloud, firewall, and identity logs, and the question isn't whether the data is useful, it's whether you can turn it into evidence, detections, and a defensible audit trail. In regulated environments, HIPAA, PCI, and CMMC don't care that your team is busy, they care that logs are collected consistently, normalized correctly, retained properly, and searchable when an incident or audit hits.

How to create risk reports for operations, executives, and auditors

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Securing Your SaaS Payment Infrastructure

For any Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business, the payment system is what keeps revenue flowing. But its importance goes beyond just processing transactions. A secure and reliable payment system builds customer trust and protects your business's integrity. If you fail to protect this crucial part of your business, you risk not only financial losses but also lasting damage to your company's reputation.

How Emerging AI Regulations Impact Organizational Risk Governance

Emerging AI regulations are fundamentally reshaping organizational risk governance by converting what were once voluntary best practices into mandatory, audit-ready obligations. The most significant impact is the move from informal AI risk assessments and optional frameworks to documented, repeatable governance programs that regulators can inspect, penalize, and enforce.

Enterprise risk designations and multiple risk registers: when are they relevant?

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The AI governance confidence gap: Why trust in AI is running ahead of the capacity to govern it

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CMMC Due Diligence in M&A: Successor Liability

Let's posit a hypothetical situation for you to think about. Let's say that you're a large company already CMMC-compliant and working with the DoD. You've identified a smaller company that offers a service complementary to your own, and you've decided to acquire that company. That smaller company claims to be CMMC-compliant, and you move forward with the acquisition.

The 5 Biggest DORA Compliance Mistakes Financial Institutions Make

Are these common DORA compliance mistakes putting your financial organization at risk? The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requires financial entities to take a structured approach to ICT risk management and digital operational resilience. But organizations can still encounter gaps when translating regulatory requirements into day-to-day controls.

5 CISO lessons for leading security with less

Every CISO knows they need to do more with less. Fewer analysts, tighter budgets, more obligations. Matthew Martin has led security through all of it in two very different worlds: 20 years in financial services, and now in higher education at Western Carolina University. After two decades with enterprise budgets and every tool available, Matt made a deliberate choice to take on higher ed with different constraints and a decentralized structure.

Introducing your compliance co-founder

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How Vanta streamlines SOC 2 compliance for startups

See how Vanta helps your startup turn security into sales. A big customer is ready to buy, then they ask for your SOC 2 report, a live security dashboard, and a completed security questionnaire before they'll sign. That's getting SOC-blocked. Instead of pulling engineers off product for weeks of all-nighters, you use Vanta.

HIPAA Compliance Reporting: A Playbook for Security Teams

A healthcare security team rarely gets a clean warning before hipaa compliance reporting becomes real. One week it's a patient complaint about access, the next it's an OCR request for records, and the next it's a suspected breach that needs a defensible timeline, not a scramble for screenshots. In that environment, a SIEM is more than a detection tool, it's the system that turns logs, alerts, and evidence into a reporting record auditors can follow.

Compliance Stopped Being a Checkbox. Most Companies Haven't Caught Up.

For a long time, compliance meant paperwork. Fill out the right forms, pass the annual audit, file it away. Done. Now, your development pipeline is generating code at a pace no human team can review manually, your supply chain runs three layers deep into open-source packages and AI plugins you didn’t choose, and regulators are watching in real time. The old approach doesn’t just underperform; it creates a false sense of security.

What Are Auditors Looking for During a DORA Assessment

Are you prepared for a DORA assessment — and can you actually prove your organization is operationally resilient? Under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), having cybersecurity policies on paper isn't enough. Financial entities need to demonstrate how ICT risks are governed, monitored, tested, and managed in practice. In this video, we cover the key areas that assessors and regulators may review.

EU CRA Gap Assessment: Are You Ready for 2026?

Most compliance teams have filed the EU Cyber Resilience Act under “2027” — the date the regulation becomes fully applicable. That’s the wrong filing date. From 11 September 2026, manufacturers must already report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents affecting products with digital elements, more than a year before the rest of the regulation takes effect.

Jason Chan has 26 minutes to shut down a hacker hidden in plain sight (Live Tabletop Exercise)

What do you do when an attacker doesn’t break into your network, but simply walks in by turning your own multi-factor authentication against you? In this episode of The Tabletop, Jason Chan takes the hot seat and works the problem in real time.

Vanta's The Tabletop: Ep. 2 with Jason Chan

The attacker didn't break in. They logged in. In episode 2 of The Tabletop, Jason Chan (former VP of Security at Netflix) has 26 minutes to investigate an MFA fatigue attack that leads to a forgotten production script with hard-coded credentials... and no owner. His reaction says it all: "Archeology is part of our jobs… figuring out what this thing does.".

CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Helps Meet U.S. Government Mandates for CISA BOD-26-04

On June 10, 2026, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Binding Operational Directive 26-04, which transforms federal vulnerability management by shifting agencies from static CVSS-based patching to a dynamic, risk-based model. This supersedes BOD 19-02 and BOD 22-01. Agencies must now prioritize remediation using four key factors: public asset exposure, KEV catalog status, exploit automatability, and technical impact (partial vs. total control).

How to design a risk register: A guide for GRC practitioners

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Security Strategies That Help Minimize Data Breach Risks

Data compromises happen daily, creating massive headaches for companies of all sizes. Cyber criminals constantly find fresh entry points into modern networks. Smart business leaders focus on proactive defense methods to stay ahead of bad actors. Simple systemic upgrades can keep sensitive customer records safe from harm.

How to report risk to leadership and the board: A guide for security and GRC executives

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Beyond the Checkbox: How a Proactive Partnership Led to Turnkey Hazing Compliance

When we formed the global steering committee for our KnowBe4 Student Edition, our primary goal was to simply listen. That listening paid off during a pivotal conversation with a private research university in Florida. Their Chief Information Security Officer operates under a holistic mandate: to make the entire university ecosystem safer and more secure.

What Evidence Will Regulators Expect Under NIS2?

Being NIS2-ready is not just about implementing cybersecurity controls—you should also be prepared to demonstrate that appropriate cybersecurity risk-management measures are actually in place. In this video, we cover some of the key documentation and evidence organizations may need to maintain, including: Security policies and cybersecurity governance documentation Cybersecurity risk assessments and risk-management processes Incident response procedures Business continuity and crisis management plans Supply chain security practices Employee cybersecurity awareness and training activities.

How Professional IT Services Help Businesses Strengthen Security and Maintain Cybersecurity Compliance

Maintaining strong Cybersecurity Complianceis no longer something organizations can treat as an occasional task. Technology supports nearly every aspect of daily operations, from communication and collaboration to customer service and data management. When systems are not properly maintained, even a small security gap can lead to disruptions, data exposure, and unexpected costs. Taking a proactive approach to technology management helps reduce risk, improve reliability, and create a stronger foundation for long-term success.

What is cyber resilience? Why it matters and how to build it

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Does NIS2 Apply to Your Organization Ask These 5 Questions

Many organizations assume the NIS2 Directive only applies to large enterprises based in Europe. In reality, organizations with operations, customers, suppliers, or digital services connected to the EU may also have cybersecurity compliance obligations. In this short video, we cover five practical questions that can help determine whether your organization may fall within the scope of NIS2. You'll learn.

Security Starts at the Firmware Level: The Role of Embedded Development in IoT Protection

When a connected device is compromised, the headlines usually blame "the cloud" or "the network." But the most damaging IoT breaches often trace back to something far closer to the hardware: the firmware. The code running on the device itself - written, structured, and secured through embedded development - is where an attacker's job is either made hard or made easy.

Governance at the Speed of AI: How DevGovOps Closes the DORA Compliance Gap

What is DevGovOps? DevGovOps is a Software Supply Chain Engineering practice that integrates continuous governance and compliance into the DevOps software delivery lifecycle. Rather than treating compliance as a retrospective, manual hurdle, DevGovOps ensures that policy enforcement, continuous auditability, and cryptographic traceability are natural outputs of every release.

The new HIPAA security rule doesn't reward documentation. It rewards proof.

For twenty years, the HIPAA Security Rule has run on an honor system. “Addressable” specifications let organizations document their way around encryption and MFA. “Periodic” risk analysis meant whenever you got around to it. And when OCR came knocking after a breach, the defense was a binder: policies, attestations, and a risk assessment from eighteen months ago.

5 reasons why spreadsheets for risk management don't work (and what you can do instead)

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CMMC for MSPs and ESPs: Who Needs Certification?

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, CMMC, is currently the most important information security framework for thousands of businesses across the country. Businesses that wish to work with the Department of Defense, or a DoD subcontractor, are quite likely to need to earn their CMMC certification in order to win those contracts. For those businesses that haven't been paying attention, this can come as a significant surprise.

Building Customer Trust Through Strong Security and Compliance Practices

A software company had everything going for it. Its product solved a real problem, customer reviews were positive, and new demos were converting into paying clients. Then, during the procurement process with a large enterprise customer, the conversation changed. Instead of discussing features or pricing, the prospect sent a security questionnaire that stretched over dozens of pages. They wanted documentation, evidence of internal controls, and proof that customer data was being handled responsibly.

AI in risk management: Practical applications and considerations

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EU AI Act Readiness: 10 Controls Every Organization Should Implement in 2026

This is for compliance and security leaders who already know the EU AI Act applies to them and need a concrete control set for where the law actually stands today — not a summary written before the rules changed. Awareness is done; 2026 is the year of implementation, and the rules just moved. On 29 June 2026 the Council of the EU gave its final green light to the Digital Omnibus on AI — the package that resets several of the dates compliance teams have been building toward.

DPDP Compliance Checklist: Assess Your DPDPA Readiness

The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, has established a new privacy framework for organizations handling digital personal data, while the DPDP Rules, 2025, provide greater clarity on how businesses should implement these obligations in practice. For many organizations, however, translating legal requirements into day-to-day operational processes remains a significant challenge.

The background agent that outgrew me

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ISO 27001 vs ISO 42001 Do You Need Both

Already certified to ISO 27001 but wondering if your organization also needs ISO 42001? In this video, we explain the difference between ISO 27001 (Information Security Management) and ISO 42001 (AI Management Systems). If your organization uses AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, or develops AI-powered products, understanding AI governance is becoming increasingly important. Learn when ISO 42001 complements ISO 27001 and how both standards help organizations strengthen security, governance, and compliance.

Building a More Secure Workplace Technology Environment

One weak password. One rushed click. One laptop left in a rideshare. That's all it can take to create a very real problem for your business. Strong workplace technology security is no longer just about locking down computers. It protects payroll, customer records, employee privacy, contracts, financial data, and the trust you've worked hard to earn.

The best risk management software for enterprises

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8 Fleet Cybersecurity Metrics Worth Tracking

Running a modern fleet involves far more technology than it did a decade ago. Vehicles now connect with GPS devices, mobile apps, cloud platforms, maintenance software, and outside service providers. Those tools make routine work easier, but every connection also creates another place where credentials, equipment, or sensitive information could be exposed.

How Long Does ISO 42001 Certification Actually Take? A Realistic Timeline

ISO 42001 certification usually takes four to twelve months. This runs from the gap assessment to the certificate. For a 50 to 200-person organization, first-year costs are about $85,000 to $150,000. Businesses with an existing ISO 27001 system can often certify in three to four months. This guide is for compliance and AI leaders planning an ISO 42001 project. It gives a realistic timeline and budget, not a vendor’s best-case pitch.

Why iGaming operators choose Cloudflare Enterprise over bare-metal DDoS scrubbers

A slot machine that stalls for three seconds during a jackpot spin loses more than a session. It loses a customer - often for good. That's the brutal math behind DDoS defense in online gambling, where uptime isn't a metric, it's the product. And increasingly, operators are betting on cloud-native protection over the racks of scrubbing hardware that used to define this space.

NIS2 compliance for health care MSPs: what you need to know and do

Twenty of 27 EU member states had transposed the NIS2 Directive into national law by January 2026 (Wavestone, NIS2 transposition status, 2026). The remaining seven are under formal infringement proceedings from the European Commission. If you run an MSP serving health care clients in the European Union, NIS2 compliance is no longer a regulatory horizon problem. It is the operating environment.

The hidden cost of reasonable assurance

For decades, compliance programs, audits, and certifications have operated on a foundational concept: reasonable assurance. Auditors review samples, evaluate controls periodically, and issue opinions based on limited visibility into a point in time. While this model served the analog era well, it is now insufficient for the speed, complexity, and interconnectedness of modern digital enterprises. Today’s organizations operate in real time. Threats emerge instantly. Vendors change continuously.

FedRAMP Rev 5 vs. 20x: What CSPs Should Do Right Now

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) who either currently work with the federal government, are in the process of earning FedRAMP certification, or are considering seeking it, all have a serious choice to make. FedRAMP is changing. If you haven't been watching the world of government compliance, or if you've been putting off making a decision until a deadline gets closer, it's here. As a CSP, what do you need to know, what decision do you need to make, and how will it affect your path with government contracts?

Modernizing the Mission: Splunk Victoria Experience is Now Authorized at FedRAMP High

For public sector organizations and other highly regulated industries, the balance between cutting-edge innovation and strict compliance has often felt like a trade-off. You want the latest features, but security and authorization come first. Today, we’re closing that gap. We’re excited to share that, following our FedRAMP Moderate authorization earlier this year, Splunk Victoria Experience has now officially achieved FedRAMP High authorization as well.

The best third party risk management software solutions for enterprises

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Agentic Trust Controls

As organizations adopt agentic AI, we believe open collaboration is the fastest path to building trustworthy AI governance. Today, we're introducing a new open source project: Agentic Trust Controls. Agentic Trust Controls are designed to help the GRC community evaluate and govern AI agents with greater consistency and confidence. Explore the project and share your feedback at trustcontrols.ai.

Giving the Vanta Agent a computer

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EU AI Act vs ISO 42001: What's the Difference - and Do You Need Both?

If your business builds or uses artificial intelligence, two names often come up. They are the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001. They are easy to confuse, and getting the relationship wrong either wastes budget or leaves you exposed. This guide explains what each one requires, where they overlap, and how they work together.It shows how compliance leaders, CISOs, and AI product owners can use them without repeating work.It also helps you avoid gaps that could lead to an audit failure. Contents.

Identity Verification Software: Why It Matters for Secure Digital Onboarding

As more financial services, lenders, fintech firms, and digital businesses move customer journeys online, identity verification has become a critical part of building trust. Customers expect fast onboarding, but organisations also need to prevent fraud, meet compliance obligations, and protect sensitive data. This is where identity verification software plays an important role. It helps businesses confirm that customers are who they claim to be while keeping the process efficient, secure, and user-friendly.

Insignary Closes SBOM Accuracy Gap With Binary-Level Clarity for Regulatory Risk

Most software composition analysis tools read what developers declare. Insignary Clarity's patented binary-first platform analyzes what is actually built, shipped, and deployed - including the open-source components that never appear in any manifest.

Why third-party risk management is broken, according to CISOs and analysts

Independent journalists, analysts, and working CISOs are all reaching the same conclusion about questionnaire-based, point-in-time risk assessment: it’s no longer enough. Risk and vulnerabilities keep growing, compliance obligations keep stacking up, and AI adds an entirely new surface to account for. CISOs need something better: a continuous approach with visibility across their business, that actually reduces risk rather than just documenting it.

Your 10-Point SOC 2 Compliance Checklist for 2026

From Chaos to Compliance: Mastering Your SOC 2 Audit Preparing for a SOC 2 audit usually starts the same way. A customer asks for your report, sales says the deal is blocked without it, engineering already has half the controls in place, and nobody can prove any of it cleanly. The problem usually isn't a total lack of security. It's fragmented evidence, inconsistent ownership, and controls that exist in practice but not in auditor-ready form.

Manufacturing compliance for MSPs: A practical guide to audit-ready resilience

Quick answer: What is manufacturing cybersecurity compliance? Manufacturing cybersecurity compliance is the process of aligning a manufacturer’s security controls, documentation, backup practices, incident response workflows and reporting with relevant cybersecurity standards or client requirements. For MSPs, the goal is not to act as legal counsel.

GDPR Compliance for Small Businesses: The Complete Guide

GDPR compliance for small businesses means having a documented, evidence-based process for how you collect, use, store, and delete the personal data of EU residents — regardless of your company’s size, revenue, or location. This guide walks through all ten compliance domains regulators expect you to have covered: data mapping, lawful basis, privacy notices, data subject rights, privacy by design, retention, vendors, transfers, breach response, and governance.

NIST 800-53 Controls: Master Implementation in 2026

You're probably in one of two situations right now. Either an auditor has asked for proof that your controls operate, or your SOC is collecting plenty of telemetry but nobody can cleanly map that activity back to NIST 800-53 controls. Both problems usually come from the same gap. The framework lives in policy binders, while the evidence lives in scattered tools. That gap gets painful fast in FedRAMP, CMMC-aligned, and other regulated environments.

How to achieve 3-day compliance audits

At enterprise scale, the audit season never really ends. An enterprise security program carries responsibility for a growing number of compliance frameworks, across all business units and regions, with overlapping cycles. In essence, the team is always preparing for another one. Before an external auditor starts the clock, teams run internal readiness checks, which industry sources estimate take four to eight weeks. Why so long?

FCI vs CUI: What Determines Your CMMC Level

CMMC is increasingly important for the overall security of the government, and by extension, the people. Threats are continually evolving, so security standards have to rise to meet them. Programs like CMMC exist to enforce standards capable of resisting most common threats and protecting sensitive information. It's no surprise, then, that more and more businesses are finding CMMC to be mandatory for the government contracts they want to win.

DPO as a Service UK: Enhance Data Protection & Compliance

UK organisations need continuous UK GDPR and EU AI Act compliance, and most cannot justify the cost of a full-time hire to deliver it. Here is how DPO as a Service closes that gap — and what to look for in a provider. Contents hide What Is DPO as a Service? Why UK Organisations Need a Data Protection Officer The Cost of Getting This Wrong: Two 2025 Enforcement Cases Key Benefits of Outsourcing Your Data Protection Officer How DPO as a Service Ensures Ongoing Compliance.

Sleep Deprivation

Still sleeping on your AI app risk problem? Save yourself the insomnia-induced eye twitch. Without adopting a goat (you’ll understand once you watch this vid with @AlexisGay)... Vanta monitors all your vendors so you can track risky app usage. Even the AI apps that sneak past procurement. So don’t stress about who’s using AI apps and also has prod access. Just sleep well knowing you can review and approve every tool in one place.

7 risk management best practices as regulatory pressure intensifies in 2026

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Alex Stamos has 23 minutes to stop an AI chatbot leaking data (Live Tabletop Exercise)

What does a security leader actually do when an AI chatbot starts confidently revealing customer data that was never supposed to see the light of day? Alex has spent his career at the intersection of security and the hardest problems in tech—Chief Security Officer at Yahoo, Facebook, and SentinelOne, founder of the Stanford Internet Observatory, and now Chief Product Officer at Corridor, a startup focused on the security and safety of AI coding agents. If anyone knows what it looks like when AI ships faster than security can keep up, it’s him.

Selling to the Government? Here's What CMMC Means for You

CMMC Phase 2 enforcement lands in November 2026, and C3PAOs are already warning about assessment capacity. If your configuration management domain isn't audit-ready, this is the walkthrough to fix that. Roy Ludmir breaks down what changed in enforced CMMC as of November 2025, what auditors actually test versus what they just ask about, and where most organizations get stuck below full compliance — plus which security baselines to standardize on and how to build an evidence package that holds up under a real assessment.