Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

2026 is here, and cybersecurity is defined by a critical paradox: despite widespread MFA adoption, credential-based breaches continue to surge. Traditional multi-factor authentication, static, friction-heavy, and often disconnected, no longer stands up to sophisticated threats, such as AI-powered phishing, MFA fatigue attacks, and prompt bombing campaigns, which exploit user behavior rather than technical vulnerabilities.

APIs are one of the most important technologies in digital business ecosystems. And yet, the responsibility for their security often falls to AppSec teams – and that’s a problem. This organizational mismatch creates systemic risk: business teams assume APIs are “secured,” while attackers exploit logic flaws, authorization gaps, and automated attacks in production. As Tim Erlin noted recently, “These are not exploits of a specific vulnerability, but abuse of an API.”

Today’s IT leaders face a non-stop escalation of stealthy cyberattacks designed to hold organizations hostage. The dialogue has shifted from if you will be compromised to when. The financial stakes are incredibly high. According to a 2024 study by Splunk and Oxford Economics, “outages cost businesses over $400 billion in revenue each year.” For many Technology decision-makers, the instinct is to rely on traditional disaster recovery plans.

Cybersecurity tools and procedures were designed to provide full defence against predictable threats that followed patterns that would raise alarms. Familiar CAPTCHAs, IP blocks, browser checks, browser fingerprinting, and login restrictions would provide a protective layer for businesses to ensure only genuine users were using their website, or app, or API responsibly. This layer of cybersecurity used to distinguish human from bot.

In almost every major enterprise, Jira and Confluence are the default operating systems for innovation. They hold your organization's most vital intelligence, from product roadmaps to financial planning. Yet, while companies invest billions in fortress-like perimeter security, firewalls and VPNs, to keep external attackers out, they often ignore the fragility of their internal collaboration environments.

January 28 marks Data Protection Day, a date rooted in one of the earliest milestones of the digital age: the anniversary of the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty for data protection. What began as a European initiative has since evolved into a global observance recognized across North America, parts of the Middle East, and beyond.

As Winter Storm Fern made its way across the US this weekend, children across the country were glued to phones, computers, or televisions as they tried to guess how long they would be out of school this week. Little do they know, however, the data, science, and lack thereof, that goes into that decision. School closures are the very public end of a complex and fast-changing dataset that is highly dependent on locality and can be wildly different on either side of a district line.